Here he is endorsing Mitt Romney, not Tea Party, Feb 2, 2012.
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KING: With troubled times like this for the average guy who may be foreclosing on his house, is this the time to think like a champion?
TRUMP: Well, this is a time to think like a champion. This is the best time to think like a champion. As an example, the house is being foreclosed. You go see your bank -- maybe you can make a deal, maybe you can't. But you can make a deal with a bank on another house, Larry, because -- and much better than the one you're living in. And they'll take back financing. They'll do any deal to get rid of their product.
They have houses by the thousands. And you go see that bank and you make a deal.
And this is a great time for a person to go out, make a deal, get a house bigger and better than the one you're living in now, except the bank will give you virtually 100 percent financing. They'll take back a mortgage and you'll be in better shape than you were before, if you know what you're doing.
And I discuss that very, very strongly, Larry, in the book.
KING: There are a lot of great topics. One of them is Barack Obama. In fact, the list at the back of the book on the topics, the number one is, "Barack Obama's election ushers in a different world."
How do you assess him?
TRUMP: Well, I really like him. I think that he's working very hard. He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world. I mean, we really have lost a lot of reputation in the world. The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe.
And, you know, the world looks at us differently than they used to. And I think he's trying to restore our reputation within the world. And he was handed a pretty bad deck of cards. I mean, he was given a pretty tough situation.
And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. I do agree with what they're doing with the banks. Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn't matter, but you have to keep the banks going.
Beyond that, I'm not so sure I agree with it, because I...I am worried, ultimately, about inflation. If you take this much money and keep pouring it into the economy, I worry about what's going to happen in two years with respect to not only interest rates, but inflation.
KING: Do you have any regrets about endorsing McCain?
TRUMP: No. I've known John for a long time. And I've never met our current president. And I look forward to doing it. But I've known John, really, for a long time. He's a good man. He's a quality man. So certainly I have no regrets about that.
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*Sigh* As predictable as the sun rising in the morning.
Trump is a lifelong liberal who suddenly pretends to be a conservative to win office. Nothing new in that.
You knocked this one outta the park!
GO TRUMP!
Things could get a lot worse for you Trump haters today.
Don’t forget to take your nerve pills.
I’m sure Cruz has already taken his pills.
Alas, this won’t phase the Trumpkins.
None so blind as those that will not see.
Obama sleeps with.....
Here he is endorsing Mitt Romney, not Tea Party, Feb 2, 2012.
Oh well. They should have secured that border.
I have admired Donald Trump for 35 years. Probably longer than most have known the name. And I knew the Trump Organization before Donald. I never considered him anything near conservative or even Republican.
Trump will not cry.
When you have millions, you can deal. When you are on the ropes, financially, you get told to pi$$ up one.
The problem is and has been and will be illustrated on this thread and all others, whatever Trump said that would normally be a negative indicator in 2009 (suddenly as far as Trump is concerned is ancient history) or whatever was said a month ago, a week ago or yesterday does not matter. What matters is the same glitter of the past HOPE AND CHANGE now the same glitter is called Make America Great Again, how can anybody dare to look beyond the surface of either slogan.
Trump is a chameleon.
Won’t matter. His fans have dug in their heels and are totally impervious to the evidence.
My family members are Tea Party, they are as Radical, or Revolutionary as Bran Muffins. I want to burn the house down, they want to serve punch and cookies.
Trump never appeared at Tea party rallies cause he was too busy donating to leftists
This dead horse will continue to get beaten indefinitely.
Communists, socialists and progressives view "evolving (changing)" as a good thing. But only for themselves.
If conditions change, only the subpar refuse to change and admit that that is not an error or hypocrisy, but new ways to solve new problems.
“KING: You’re not going to march with the tea party?
TRUMP: I don’t march with the tea party. But I’ll tell you what, they have a good point...”
Resulting headline
“Trump, April 15, 2009: ‘I Don’t March with the Tea Party’”