Jamie Dimon doesnt think hell run for president: You would have to anoint me

Jamie Dimon seemed to close the door finally on a presidential run.Or maybe not.The JPMorgan CEO, widely regarded as the king of banking because of his stellar record running the nation’s largest financial institution, appeared to leave the door open Wednesday morning, ever so slightly, that he might take a stab at the highest office in the land at some point, maybe soon.Speaking at a high-profile tech conference in San Francisco sponsored by AI powerhouse DataBricks, Dimon, clad in jeans and a black sweater, was asked by company CEO Ali Ghodsi, “would you run for president?”Dimon turned to the crowd of about 1,000 techies and asked: “How many of you would vote for me?”Amid the applause, and the significant show of hands, he quipped with a smile: “I get all the rich white people to vote for me.”He then gave his standard non-denial: “I am a banker, I am 69, I always say I would love to be president but you would have to anoint me.

I have never run for office.I think there’s a skill…I have never done that so I think the answer is no.

I will do anything to help the country though.”Dimon spent much of the conference talking about the power of AI, a need for a strong defense, the economic threat from China, but it was the “think” part of his answer on future political aspirations that had Wall Street buzzing that Dimon may look to run in three years when Donald Trump’s second term is over.So I asked one of Dimon’s JPMorgan handlers for an explanation.Dimon’s position hasn’t changed, he explained to me.Dimon would love to be president, but he’s too centrist on too many issues, including some of the divisive cultural issues, that he couldn’t win the nomination of either party.“He thinks he would do a great job, he just doesn’t think he could win,” the flack said.Notice the word “think.”Dimon has been notoriously fickle over the years both on the timing of his retirement, and what he would do after taking the toughest ...