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Say What? Now Trump Hints At Prez Run
New York Post ^ | Jan, 3, 2006

Posted on 01/03/2006 6:50:23 AM PST by Hadean

ALBANY — Megabuilder and late-blooming TV star Donald Trump yesterday flatly ruled out running for governor this year — but hinted he may go for president in 2008. Trump, in a phone call to The Post from his oceanside Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, declared, "I'm not going to run for governor because I'm having too much fun doing what I'm doing now.

"I'm the largest builder in New York, I'm building things all over the country, I have one of the top shows on television. It's a little hard to leave all of that."

Trump, a Republican, said he had been "inundated with calls" from GOP leaders since state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno (R-Rensselaer) suggested last week that "The Apprentice" star might run for governor.

Trump, 59, called Bruno "a great guy" and a "longtime friend," and said Bruno's hint was "a great honor."

But while The Donald repeatedly ruled out a race for statewide office, he strongly suggested he was interested in entering the national political arena in 2008...

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; badcombover; donaldchump; election; imanattentionwhore; luke12; parableoftherichfool; presidential; thedonald; trump; trump2008; weaselwig; yourefired
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To: Hadean

He needs to get rid of that croissant growing out of his head to be taken seriously.


21 posted on 01/03/2006 7:05:04 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Hadean

He should run, if he wants to, better him than half the republicans...


22 posted on 01/03/2006 7:05:46 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: fooman
How do we fire him from the party?

If he ran, he'd be the Republican Al Sharpton; good for entertainment, but not much else.

23 posted on 01/03/2006 7:06:08 AM PST by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: buffyt

what is his stand on the open border stuff...


24 posted on 01/03/2006 7:06:26 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: RexBeach

HE is a PT BArnum. The chicago hotel deal in The art of the deal was largely a sham.


25 posted on 01/03/2006 7:08:12 AM PST by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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To: atomicpossum
"Exactly the same as Clinton, but with less class."

WHAT!

How in hell could anyone have less class than Clinton?

Clinton is the baseline for a "no class" whore hopping, traitorous, corrupt sonuvabitch that ranks as one of he worst men to have ever "served" in public office...

Semper Fi

26 posted on 01/03/2006 7:08:41 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Alberta's Child
I saw a documentary on him a while back, and he was described by a former executive in one of his companies as nothing more than a con artist.

That's the way he has always struck me.

27 posted on 01/03/2006 7:09:08 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: Hadean
I have no idea what you're talking about

...So here's Donald Trump with a raccoon on his head.

28 posted on 01/03/2006 7:09:44 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: RexBeach

I don't admire his business acumen at all. His "success" has involved multiple bankruptcy filings (he doesn't even own his casino empire anymore, since his creditors acquired controlling interest as part of his last re-organization), and his self-promotion act is very similar to that stupid "Beardstown Ladies" con game from a few years back.


29 posted on 01/03/2006 7:11:48 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Said the night wind to the little lamb . . . "Do you see what I see?")
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
"Enough with this pompous twit."

This pompous twit has a lot of greenbucks and backing! He could easy run as a third party candidate, spoiling the out come in 08'...can you say Clinton Redux...ugh! Nightmarish thought!
30 posted on 01/03/2006 7:14:20 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: atomicpossum

31 posted on 01/03/2006 7:15:37 AM PST by Hadean
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To: Hadean

That's the 'winter' version.


32 posted on 01/03/2006 7:17:59 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: atomicpossum
I'm not just a Jim Trafficant Hair Club spokesman...

I'm a foster head until Jim gets out of jail.

33 posted on 01/03/2006 7:19:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (What is the most obscene gesture to a Democrat? An Iraqi voter showing him a stained finger.)
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To: atomicpossum
We need the Trump-Traficant Presidential ticket:


34 posted on 01/03/2006 7:21:42 AM PST by AZLiberty (America is the hope of all men who believe in the principle of freedom and justice. - A. Einstein)
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To: garyhope
He's just another greedy, ego-manical, narcissistic, self obsessed, "short fingered vulgarian"

Sounds like he would fit right in with our current batch of office holders.

36 posted on 01/03/2006 7:24:33 AM PST by WhiteGuy (Vote for gridlock)
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To: Hadean

Trump as Prez? Bwaaa haaaa.


37 posted on 01/03/2006 7:25:39 AM PST by FeeinTennessee (http://hometown.aol.com/feereports/feepolitics.html)
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To: OldFriend

"His casinos are just out of bankruptcy. He has a wandering eye, and is generally a loud mouthed phony."

He inherited his wealth in real estate from his father. My step-mother once rented a place from his father years ago in Staten Island. Young Donald would come around to collect the rent. He was a brat back then too. He's done some good things for NYC, but a genius he's not.


38 posted on 01/03/2006 7:30:18 AM PST by takbodan (.)
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To: AZLiberty

39 posted on 01/03/2006 7:32:17 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: Hadean
"I'm the largest builder in New York, I'm building things all over the country, I have one of the top shows on television. It's a little hard to leave all of that."

Ah, man can this guy play the press like a fiddle.. you have to love that.

40 posted on 01/03/2006 7:33:26 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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