Trump running for president

DES MOINES - Donald Trump is running for president.

The businessman and reality television star made it official with an announcement Tuesday from a New York City building that bears his name, followed by a trip to first-in-the-nation Iowa for a speech to hundreds at a Des Moines theater.

In both speeches, Trump said he will be able to 'make America great again” -his campaign theme - and is the best candidate because he is not a politician beholden to donors and special interests.

'Sadly, the American dream is dead,” Trump said in New York. 'But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great again.”

In Des Moines, Trump spoke for roughly a half-hour and then took a handful of questions from the crowd.

'It's terrible, what's happening,” Trump said in Des Moines. 'We have leadership that's incompetent. We have people that are incompetent.”

In Des Moines, Trump also laid out his strategy for defeating the terrorist group ISIS in the Middle East, a strategy he previously said he wished to keep secret until elected president. Trump said the U.S. military should destroy the oil fields in Iraq that are under ISIS control.

'You go in and take the oil. (The U.S.) should have never given it up,” Trump said. 'ISIS is wealthy. We can take that wealth away from them.”

Trump is the 12th Republican to officially announce a run for president, and more are expected to join in the coming weeks.

Recent polls in Iowa of Republican candidates placed Trump at 5 percent and 4 percent.

In New York, Trump extolled his business acumen. He said an accounting firm has determined he is worth $8.7 billion.

Trump also said he would repeal and place the new federal health care law, build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and repeal President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration, and rebuild the nation's transportation infrastructure.

'I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” Trump said in New York. 'I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, and so many places. I'll bring back our jobs and our money.”

Trump was introduced by Iowa Republican activist Chuck Laudner. One of the pre-event speakers was Shay Doyle, a 10-year-old Trump fan from Waverly, Iowa; another was Tom Halterman, who spoke on behalf of holocaust survivor David Wolnerman, of Des Moines.