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...
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I'd vote for Jim Traficant over the cast of RINOS and Dems we're going to have shoved down our throats.
" a great sign of the decay of morals in our society."
Morals, ethics, standards, integrity, humility. Doesn't seem to be much of that sometimes.
Guys with massive comb-overs will unite and vote for this guy.
Actually, his new wife would be the hottest First Lady we've ever had.
Cowboyway in 2006: “President Trump?
LMFAO!”
Not so funny anymore is it?
Hope I’m not “causing trouble” by bumping this, some people who notice might get confused, or offended. Perhaps even you, forgive me if so.
Interesting to see this old thread (2006) from long before anyone got drunk on Trump’s koolaid. A couple people may have seen that coming, maybe one of the fellows I’m pinging. I didn’t, I hardly payed attention to his testing of the waters in 2012, I laughed and moved on as you did in 2006, part of me can still hardly believe it, he’s so obvious a phony.
Not to say that Ted Cruz is the second coming of Christ as Trumpers think Trump is, but he’s so clearly more conservative, more qualified, and more electable (according to all polling) than Trump, it’s such a ridiculously easy choice it boggles the mind that some slick propaganda and base appeals to emotion can cause people to think the exact opposite.
I longed to see more than an outnumbered handful of people speaking the truth about Trump and get attacked for it, had to travel back in time. 2006, when Trump was mocked as he deserved to be and conservative Senators weren’t savagely attacked with vicious lies for having the damnable gall to dare to run against him. “Anchor baby”. “Stole Iowa”. And now this tabloid garbage. Ugh.
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Even Mitt Romney is more Conservative than Donald Trump.
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