Posted on 04/14/2011 9:17:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Listening to and watching Donald Trump talk with Fox News’s Sean Hannity about how rich he is and how smart he is was truly a vomit-inducing moment. The notion that this extremely successful egomaniac would ever be President of the United States is surreal. It’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington on steroids.
Now we learn that he is going to announce whether he is going to run on the season finale of “The Apprentice.” The show is scheduled to air on May 15. Reportedly he will hold a press conference to announce the decision about being a candidate in the Trump Tower in New York “a few days after” the finale.
This is such a naked sham for the purpose of getting lots of viewers for his show that it should be embarrassing to everyone who has, even momentarily, taken his phony “campaign” to gain the Republican Party’s nomination seriously. Hannity was snookered or, more likely, he was using Trump to hype his show’s ratings and vice versa. In a similar fashion, Fox’s Greta Van Susteren has of late used Trump appearances for her show.
Just as I and others cautioned voters in 2008 that Barack Obama was a completely unknown quantity with a totally fabricated life story, it behooves me to warn voters to GET SERIOUS about Trump.
Running the nation requires credentials that go well beyond being a successful businessman. America has coast-to-coast successful businessmen and women, but if a company’s CEO makes bad decisions, the Board of Directors can fire them. You can’t say “You’re fired!” to the President of the United States until the next election.
Let me get the formalities out of the way. I am not jealous of Donald Trump because he’s rich. Much of the population is richer than me and I could not care less. I understand that Trump has exhibited considerable business acumen, but that is not the same as political acumen, nor does it suggest that it prepares him to deal with heads of state and the nasty events that occur; frequently unexpectedly.
Nor has everything Trump has put his name to been a great success. He gambled on gambling in Atlantic City and that was a bad bet. Fortunately he owed the banks so much money he could write his own ticket. In fairness, all the casinos took a bath. Instead of gambling, the few people visiting Atlantic City these days are there to buy its famous salt water taffy.
Trump is a strident self-promoter. He is bombast. He lacks subtlety which, for his line of work may be a good thing, but for someone to whom we would have to trust the future of the nation, what he lacks most is the experience that a professional politician acquires over time. I hate to admit this, but it is true. The lack of this experience and judgment is blindingly apparent in the current White House resident.
Trump wants to win—all the time. Politicians want to survive with their principles reasonably intact and a fat government pension. It is a whole different mindset. The ones the voters reject tend to become lobbyists.
We have a history of presidents who just stunk up the job because they came to it as engineers like Hoover and Carter or Ivory Tower scholars like Wilson. For a long time, Americans elected a succession of generals because the president’s job was mostly about expanding the size of the nation, generally by shooting our way to the West Coast, or fending off Barbary Pirates, yet another of Thomas Jefferson’s many achievements.
Presidents become celebrities AFTER they’ve been in the office. Few are celebrities going in unless, like Obama, their celebrity is totally manufactured by skilled public relations professionals. After two years in the job, the only things we know for sure about Obama is that he’s a moron, probably a Muslim, and definitely a Marxist.
If you want business acumen, Mitt Romney has it to spare. True, he’s a bit of a RINO, but it’s hard to find a Republican these days who isn’t. Gov. Pawlenty is a politician and that is not a bad thing. Gov. Huckabee was a politician, but is now a successful anchor of his own show on Fox News. He is going to stay put. Rep. Bachman is the political equivalent of your ex-wife, smart and, like Trump, impossible to shut up. There’s a reason we haven’t heard from Sarah Palin lately and that’s because she’s smart enough to not want the job.
I guarantee you that, within one month of his inaugural, you would be kicking yourself for voting for Trump. His incessant need to demonstrate he knows best and is the greatest president ever would be the mirror image of Barack Obama’s crazed ideology.
Right now Trump is a novelty, a distraction, a false hope. There’s plenty of time for the campaign process to sort out who will be the Republican choice. My bet is that Trump will announce he’s not running. If I am wrong, the happiest man in America will be Barack Obama.
Your report on Trump’s statement: “We go to Iraq. We spend $1.5 trillion. Our senior citizens are dying all over the place. They don’t have any money.”
What I heard: “We go to Iraq. We spend $1.5 trillion. Our CITIES are dying all over the place. They don’t have any money.”
He then goes on to say that if HE took us into Iraq he’d damned well take oil to at least pay us back the $1.5T.
He did earlier say we have to do something about Medicare, but that we have to be careful and should not give Schumer and the Dems a target to use vs. the GOP so they can win elections.
Hopefully, Hannity (or someone) will post the actual transcript to see what he said and be able to read it in context.
Don't you mean immoral liberal? ; )
You know what wise guy? Sarah Palin resigned her position as Governor Of Alaska for what she believed to be the good of the State Of Alaska.
I have no doubt that if she were to ever resign The Presidency, it would be for the good of The United States Of America.
Now enough with the redundant, hackneyed left-wing talking points. I swallow enough bilge accidentally wading through the pond scum at MSNBC.
One of the things he said on Hennety, when asked about his donations to Schumer, Rahm Emmanuel and other democrats, is that he “gets along with everybody”. If you think McCain reaches “across the isle”, wait till Trump gets in there.
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We live in a Mobocracy, and he is a business man who does business in bastion of liberal politicians who are in practical terms gangsters. With so many rules and regulations business has to make tributes (aka donations) to these political gangsters in office if they ever hope to accomplish anything. The whole damned place is run out of Tammany Hall.
“Riddle me this, would you prefer Obama or Trump to negotiate defense treaties with our adversaries?”
I’ll take Trump over Obama any day. My point, though, was that if people think he’s a reliable conservative, they will be sorely disappointed.
Did you notice during the interview how every question ended up with how great he was? I like confidence, but that’s obsessive self love!
‘You mean strong military, pro-life, deal with China & OPEC, and expand the economy is not conservative?’
Sounds like FDR.
Yes he is an ego maniac, yes he is arrogant, but if he can bring down the bambi fraud machine when all the other pubbies are wetting their beds and crying, he has my support.
But, he has to actually do it and not just talk about it. If he just blows smoke and nothing happens than he is worse than the crying bedwetters and he can gfh. I give him three months to do severe damage to bambi, if he cannot put out by then then he is toast as far as I am concerned.
“I want to vote for Governor Palin or someone similar. It looks like the media and DNC are working their hardest to make that impossible.”
I don’t think the media and the DNC will succeed with this.
What is appealing and refreshing about Trump is, assuming he can be conservative, is that unlike the Repub leadership folks like McCain, Trump has a spine and even guts. Quite the contrast to the splineless “mug me please” Repub leadership we see who talk a good fight but bend over and spread them, when push comes to shove.
If only we had Repubs who were even half as tough street fighters as the Dem Gangste..er..Leadership.
I won’t waste my time with a response. (Been there, done that)
Stiff arm the lame Palin fetishists they are behind the curve. It’s all Bachman now. Trump will be fun to watch . he will be so far up Princess O’s backside she won’t be able to sit down . I hope he runs , the debates will be historic. Besides , the other chumps have been in hiding since the crap hit the fan. What a bunch of weenies. I saw Huck tonite . all of a sudden he’s all about the Donald.
True....Liberals do not believe in an absolute God....they believe in moral relativism—earth gods/pagan gods or atheism or pantheism....
They make up their own right and wrong....you can kill babies....old folks....etc. It all boils down to Whittaker Chamber’s book, Witness.....it is either God or man.......can’t be both. There are no morals for those who reject the Judeo/Christian Bible and Objective Truth. Nietzsche said it best when he declared God is Dead.
Then why does Trump not have the guts to explain that he favors government run universal healthcare because he knows nothing about our constitution or about macroeconomics?
We don’t elect House members to the White House and all an opponent has to do to finish off Gomer Huckleberry is do an ad about the four murdered police officers. Case closed.
Not only is Trump a liberal, he's a political neophyte. I wouldn't want TheDonald anywhere near the US military. Trump's remarks on Red China and OPEC are off the wall. Granted, it gets him attention.
John Kerry, who Trump supported over Bush wants to see an expanding economy. Even Obama, who Trump thought would make a good potus just 2 years ago, wants to see an expanding economy. On top of that, Trump doesn't support the 2012 conservative budget proposal put out by Cong Paul Ryan this week.
No, Trump is not a conservative. Trump is a lifelong liberal.
Read Trump's book, "The America We Deserve". His politics are all laid out. If you want to believe his last minute political conversions, his flip-flops, I would have to question your conservatism.
Let’s just hope Trump doesn’t pull a Ross Perot and give us the Bam again. Then we will really all join that ‘crazy aunt in the beasement’. BTW—where is the ‘Little General’ these days?
"2008 seems like such a long time ago, but 2012 is just around the corner. There is a leadership vacuum in the White House right now, but that’s nothing that another good old-fashioned election can’t fix."
~SARAH PALIN, April, 8, 2011
WOO-HOO! RUN SARAH RUN!
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