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Tiger Woods has been making headlines for the past several days, not for his golf prowess, but for his alleged affairs. Donald Trump has a lot to say in regard to the scandal, but ultimately doesn't think any real backlash will occur. Trump told Extra: “Tiger’s a great athlete… one of the greatest athletes in the world. He’s had a very interesting and traumatic couple of weeks [but] he’s a wonderful guy.” He adds: "Tiger is going to be hotter than ever before — mark my words. He is a really talented person, and a really good person.” When asked...

[Live interview with Donald Trump] "Obama should force the banks to loan (sic) money. That is the key thing. He has to force them to loan money."

Carrie Prejean confessed that she has a sex tape, but said she regrets it. The former Miss California, who caused controversy during the Miss USA pageant when she said she didn't support same-sex marriage, appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show Monday night to address the rumor. "It was the biggest mistake of my life," Prejean told Hannity. "I was all by myself. I was sending a boyfriend at the time, who I loved and cared about, a video of me. "I was a teenager at the time," she told Hannity. "Never did I think it would ever come...

Carrie Prejean demanded more than a million dollars during her settlement negotiations with Miss California USA Pageant officials -- that is, until the lawyer for the Pageant showed Carrie an XXX home video of her handiwork. The video the lawyer showed Carrie is extremely graphic and has never been released publicly. We know that, because TMZ obtained the video months ago but decided not to post it because it was so racy. Let's just say, Carrie has a promising solo career. We're told it took about 15 seconds for Carrie to jettison her demand and essentially walk away with nothing....

Ivanka Trump says 'I do' As She Weds Publisher Fiancé In Lavish U.S. Ceremony Daily Mail Reporter 27th October 2009 American socialite Ivanka Trump has married her publisher fiancé in a lavish U.S. ceremony attended by a host of Hollywood stars. The daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump married Jared Kushner at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey on Sunday. Trump, 27, is the co-host of the U.S. Celebrity Apprentice, a vice president at her father's real estate company, and has a jewellery company, the Ivanka Trump Collection. [Pics in URL] Newlyweds: Ivanka Trump married her fiancé Jared Kushner...

Donald Trump Aide Accuses Scottish Councillor Of Racism An aide to tycoon Donald Trump has accused Scottish councillor Sam Coull of making a racist remark after he was sent a letter mocking his New Jersey accent. Ian Johnston 03 Oct 2009 Mr Trump’s development director, George Sorial, said Mr Coull, a Peterhead councillor, had sent a letter on council-headed paper in which had written “Noo Joysee” instead of “New Jersey”. Mr Sorial, who was born in the UK, said he was “insulted personally” and claimed it was racist. The councillor also made the same jibe in an email sent to...

Here is a video report from New York that says a large "Party Tent" has been pitched on an estate owned by billionaire Donald Trump - a tent that may be used for Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi while he is in town for the United Nations Meeting. The Trump Organization says the property "may have been leased" by a Middle Eastern party associated with Gadhafi. They say they are "looking into it." . . . (VIDEO)

NY town orders stop to Gaddafi tent on Trump land Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:03pm EDT By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was having a tent pitched on property owned by Donald Trump in suburban New York on Tuesday until local officials stopped the work because it violated regulations, a town attorney said. Workers were erecting a tent and satellites on property in Bedford, New York, that belongs to the famed real estate developer Trump, said Bedford town attorney Joel Sachs. A famously eccentric figure, Gaddafi is known for pitching a large Bedouin tent on...

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The choreograpaher for the Miss Universe pageant, Michael Schwandt, said in an interview that Donald Trump hand picks six of the 15 Miss Universe finalists, and that the judges are only responsible for the final nine. "His reason for doing so, as he told me and he’s told the girls before, is that he left it all up to preliminary judging in the past and some of the most beautiful women, in his opinion, were not in the top fifteen and he was kind of upset about that," Schwandt told the website Guanabee.com. "And he decided that he would pick...

It’s official: Ivanka Trump is off the market! The 27-year-old real estate heiress announced her engagement to New York Observer owner Jared Kushner, 28, on Twitter Thursday. “I got engaged last night ... truly the happiest day of my life!!!” Trump tweeted. A rep for Kushner confirmed to Gawker that the Twitter post was real. The couple, who are both the offspring of wealthy real estate families, have been dating for two years, but split briefly early last year, reportedly because of Ivanka not being Jewish. But it seems the heiress is appeasing the Orthodox Kushners, and since the July...

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Miss California USA Pageant Director Keith Lewis explained the decision to fire then-Miss California Carrie Prejean in the following statement: “This was a decision based solely on contract violations including Ms. Prejean’s unwillingness to make appearances on behalf of the Miss California USA organization.” But In an exclusive interview with Big Hollywood, Ms. Prejean’s attorney, Charles S. LiMandri, who says that he and his client learned of the firing during a phone call from gossip site TMZ, vehemently denies those allegations. “She greeted troops, ‘Fox and Friends,’ she was lined up for the Special Olympics this weekend. It is pure...

I am in shock that K2 Productions and the Miss California USA Pageant have taken the steps to fire Carrie Prejean today. The claim that she has an unauthorized book contract is false. She does not. The claim that she is refusing to appear is false. Carrie has been in constant contact with pageant officials seeking to fulfill her obligations. I have emails in my possession tied to the pageant organization as recently as last Friday citing future appearance requests for Carrie. She represented the Pageant in Las Vegas the weekend before last, and is scheduled to appear at a...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CBS) ― There was a shooting inside the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City on Wednesday afternoon.

Trump is not having the best of weeks...... After being reminded his net worth is in question, now comes word the plug's been pulled on Trump's vanity mag.......aimed at affluent readers in major US markets.....it suffered from sagging ad sales during the recent recession.....but was never a big money maker. Publisher Lauren Bogage of Niche Media, confirmed the magazine's death to media blog inVocus media yesterday. Timothy O'Brien asked a judge to throw out Trump's defamation lawsuit against his book, "Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald" ...that pegs Trump's worth at a fraction of the $4-6B The...

Celebrity Apprentice and Hell's Kitchen 2009 are over now. We've got some memories with pics and video from throughout the contest. Along with my own fine rants about why the winner of each is not believable and how this will adversely affect future contests. Plus a review of BravoTV's newest reality show that leaves me giggling through the night. Not at the basis of the contest but at the contenders!

With all the California-centric beauty-queen action happening these days, it's been easy to forget that one young lovely was actually named Miss USA a couple weeks ago. But Kristen Dalton doesn't mind. The winner of the 2009 Miss USA Pageant told E! News that she thinks the Carrie Prejean hullabaloo has been good for the cause. "I really think that it's great for the Miss Universe Organization, because it's given us a lot of publicity," Dalton told E!'s Daily 10. "And there's gonna be a lot of people watching this Miss USA pageant next year." And as for Miss California,...

SHE was not stripped of her crown. But Miss California Carrie Prejean -- the beauty queen who had the gall to speak out against gay marriage -- was stripped of her innocence. There is no free speech in politically correct America. Carrie walked into Trump Tower yesterday, tall, blond and poised well beyond her years. She was woefully alone, save for her parents and enough TV and still cameras to cover a modern Normandy invasion. Since April, Carrie has become the victim of nothing less than a hate crime. Just don't ask Rosie O'Donnell to stand up for the beauty's...

Miss California keeps her crown thanks to Donald Trump (Miss USA pageant owner) who understands people have the right to an opinion -- PC police notwithstanding.... Sadly, principled opposition to same-sex marriage--shared by most Americans, including Pres Obama--- is all too often ascribed to bigotry. Carrie Prejean's response to a direct question from an agenda-driven Miss USA pageant judge -- sparked controversy even as Prejean went out of her way not to offend...... when she did not give the pro-gay-marriage answer that flamboyant gaydar Perez Hilton was looking for, she lost the contest......Hilton called Prejean a "dumb b**ch,".....saying he would...

Carrie Prejean didn't lie to beauty pageant officials even though she'd appeared semi-nude in photos a few years back, so let's just get off that high Godiva horse right now. Here's the thing: Since the old pictures were of her real breasts, she never actually exposed the new breasts she's now using for contests. Those were the old, God-given breasts, see? So, technically speaking, the world has never actually gotten a look at her current breasts. No exposure, no violation of pageant rules. Case closed. I may not know this for a true fact because I'm not canonballing into the...

“Carrie is totally beautiful. And for that reason, her views took on more importance than they should have. But that's the way the press works. You people should be ashamed of yourselves,” Mr. Trump said.

Beauty queens are in the eye of the beholder. And for Donald Trump, Carrie Prejean will always be a beauty queen. Trump, the owner of the Miss Universe Organization and thus decider of Miss California's fate, resolved today to let the scandal-scarred and contract-violating titleholder keep her crown, over yesterday's urgings of Golden State pageant officials. "Carrie will remain Miss California," the Donald announced at a press conference this morning, adding that "we are in the 21st century." "We've really studied these photos," he said. "We've made a determination that everything we've seen to date that she's done—some were...

For some reason I had it on MSNBC during the news conference of Miss Ca. David Shuster absolutely went off on everyone in the pageant who decided her fate, saying it made him want to 'puke.' He was actually somewhat implying his co-anchor Tamron Hall should jump off of a cliff because she was defending Miss CA to some extent. He said a person who has breast implants and plastic surgery cannot be taken seriously--and that its so omg!superficial, those beauty pageants. The man needs to be taken off the air. He cannot be considered a serious daytime journalist and...

Trump on Prejean: Same as Obama By: Alexander Burns May 12, 2009 11:26 AM EST President Barack Obama ended up in the middle of an unlikely controversy this morning — the debate over Miss California’s position on gay marriage. At a press conference addressing Carrie Prejean’s disputed title in the Miss USA competition, pageant owner Donald Trump compared Prejean’s stated views on gay marriage to Obama’s. “It's the same answer that the president of the United States gave,” Trump said. “She gave an honorable answer. She gave an answer from her heart.” In her own remarks moments later, Prejean echoed...

MSNBC's David Shuster said he wanted to "vomit" after the conclusion of Donald Trump's announcement that Miss California USA, Carrie Prejean, will keep her title. Shuster said the decision represents "everything that is wrong with the superficial nature" of pageants. "Donald Trump seemed to be saying lying is okay," he added.

"It was an honest answer." "Same as Barack Obama." "Pictures were fine."

NEW YORK – Donald Trump plans to make an announcement regarding Miss California USA Carrie Prejean (pray-ZHAHN'). Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant, will make the announcement Tuesday at Trump Tower in New York City. The 21-year-old Prejean failed to reveal before last month's Miss USA pageant that she had posed in her underwear as a teenager.

In January of 2007 Tara Connor, the 2006 Miss USA winner, was under a firestorm of allegations. After she was titled Miss USA, Connor was witnessed “clubbing” around NYC. Then were rumors of drug use (in all fairness, unsubstantiated). Finally, it was also alleged by witnesses that Miss USA was partying with Miss Teen USA, and under age drinker. Drug abuse and kissing was also alleged. Link However, Mr. Trump search deep into his heart and found forgiveness for Ms. Connor. "I've always been a believer in second chances," SAID Trump. Link Now we all believe in second chances. We...

The Miss California organization took the self-described “bold step” of appointing a possible replacement for current titleholder Carrie Prejean, pending Donald Trump’s decision as to whether or not the outspoken beauty queen will retain her crown. Regardless of Trump’s decision, Miss California first runner up Tami Ferrell will serve as “an ambassador” for the state’s organization, appearing at events in Prejean’s absence or in situations where it would be “unwise” to send her, pageant co-directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler said at a Beverly Hills press conference Monday. A San Diego native, Prejean, 21, was named first runner-up in the...

It looks like Miss California Carrie Prejean's title is in jeopardy, as Miss California officials appointed first alternate Tami Farrell to attend all events on May 11 and Donald Trump set to announce the fate of Prejean Tuesday, May 12. The ostensible reason is the emergence of revealing pictures of her. But the publication of those photos was a clear attempt to smear Miss California for her defense of traditional marriage at the Miss USA competition in April. After weeks of controversy, CBS' "The Early Show" finally interviewed a guest on May 11 that defended Prejean and provided another view...

They say a picture—or in this case, pictures—are worth a thousand words. Especially if Donald Trump is the person doing the talking. Never one to shy away from sharing his thoughts, the real estate mogul talked about the whole Miss California photo scandal during a call in to Ryan Seacrest's morning radio show on Wednesday… As the owner of the Miss USA franchise, Trump said the alleged racy shots of Carrie Prejean are heading his way so that he can review them and determine if they are grounds for her to lose the coveted sash. "They're sending me the photos...

Is Donald Trump angry at Miss California Carrie Prejean? Or is it just another trumped up charge from the liberal media? The April 22 episode of "Access Hollywood" teased viewers that Miss California was under a serious threat of losing her crown - since she was late for a meeting with Donald Trump, the organizer of the Miss USA pageant in which Prejean was the runner-up, and that her position on same-sex marriage somehow contradicted what Miss California's position was supposed to be. "New and serious trouble for Miss California you will only find out here," "Access Hollywood" co-host Nancy...

KING: We're back with Donald Trump. His book, "Think Like a Champion," ... TRUP: When the economy starts getting better, you will have an OPEC problem. They'll just start raising the price of oil again and destroy the economy... I also happen to think that $150 oil destroyed the world economically. And as soon as the world comes back, OPEC will raise its ugly head and destroy it again. So somebody better sit -- and I hope it's our president -- somebody better sit down with OPEC right now and say, "Listen, we're going to straighten this mess out, but...

Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are sending the same message to New York’s Governor David Paterson: Hike taxes for high-income earners and your major taxpayers will leave the state. Trump told FOX host Neil Cavuto that the “millionaire’s tax’ is going to be “total disaster” for the state and will consider leaving New York. Trump warned that he also spoke with 25 to 30 people “leaving or going to consider leaving.” Limbaugh went a step further on April 11 when he told Cavuto he will leave the high-tax state and is happy to “lead the way.” In Limbaugh’s interview with...

"...as I read this paper this morning {Obama's written plan for GM}, what immediately came to mind was a potential SNL sketch. We would probably be better off if Congress declared an emergency session of “The Apprentice.” They could just run GM by taking all of the winners of the past several seasons and make that the new board of GM. Just for fun they could bring in one “celebrity apprentice” for comic relief. I would suggest bringing in Rosy so we could all sit back and be treated to watching Trump make comments about what a “fat loser” she...

TRUMP OUT OF NYC? DONALD RANTS ON TAXES, GRANDPA AND ORIGINAL-FLAVOR 'APPRENTICE' WHAT would the Trump Tower be without the Trump? Or New York without The Donald, for that matter? More flat -- for one thing. But if New York's governor doesn't kill the proposed millionaires' tax, TV's toughest rich guy is going to take this town and shove it. Presumably, he won't take his show with him. But he is making noises. In fact, Donald Trump had just gotten off the phone with Gov. Paterson when we called -- and got an earful about the earful he'd laid on...

We catch up on Trump's rather lackluster 2009 Celebrity Apprentice. Tom Green goes home but we learn things about his testicles we'd didn't need to hear. Also, a review of the very odd copycat of every cooking show on TV, NBC's "Chopping Block".

EXCERPT: Donald Trump’s ratings-challenged Apprentice TV show has already been cancelled and brought back from the dead once. His real estate empire may not be so lucky. The partnership behind the Trump Ocean Resort Baja, a luxury hotel-condo project in Mexico, has gone belly up, costing scores of small investors more than $32 million. Investors have been told they won’t get a penny back. The Mexican problems couldn’t come at a worse time for Trump. ...

Trump Entertainment files for bankruptcy By Kyle Peterson CHICAGO (Reuters) – Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc, the casino operator named for Donald Trump, filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday as recession and declining gambling revenues battered the company and its rivals. The Chapter 11 filing marks the third plunge into bankruptcy for the company, which was created out of a restructuring in 2005. It also underscores the struggles facing the casino business as recession squeezes casino gambling. Trump Entertainment owns and operates three casino hotels in Atlantic City, New Jersey, including the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza and Trump Marina. The...

Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., real estate tycoon Donald Trump's casino group, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday morning, court documents show. The petition listed less than $50 million in assets and nearly $500 million in debt, according to a petition filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Camden, New Jersey. The company's board was scheduled to meet late Monday night to decide whether to authorize the filing. It is believed the casino operator would have otherwise been forced into bankruptcy involuntarily by creditors. The filing marked the third appearance in bankruptcy court for Trump Entertainment, which most recently emerged from...

AMERICAN tycoon Donald Trump has quit the board of debt-laden Trump Entertainment Resorts as the company he founded faces possible bankruptcy this week. "I have nothing to do with it. I'm not in it, I'm not on the board," said Mr Trump, who was chairman. The reality TV star said he had no idea if there would be a bankruptcy filing. Trump Entertainment faces a February 17 deadline to make a $US53 million ($81 million) bond payment, a target extended four times since the initial grace period ended on December 31.

Donald Trump blames Arab Oil for the world crisis   Trump: There's Too Much Oil newsmax.com ^ | July 29, 2008 | staff Real estate mogul Donald Trump says there is way too much oil in the world to justify the current high market prices. "Frankly, I hear there are tankers all over the world that are loaded up to the gills with oil," he told CNBC. "They have so much oil they don't know what to do with it. It's ridiculous what's going on with OPEC and all of that." Trump blames major oil producing countries for the current...

Donald Trump is suing Deutsche Bank and other finance houses for $3 billion (£1.9 billion) after they cut funding to his project to build America's second biggest tower. Mr Trump, a luxury hotel developer and star of the television show The Apprentice, claims the banks broke agreements over building and financing the 92-storey Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago. He had been trying to extend a $640 million (£415 million) construction loan from the group, which includes Merrill Lynch, Union Labour Life Insurance, a property investment trust called iStar Financial and a division of Highland Capital Management. The 1,361ft...

Billionaire developer Donald Trump says that the banks are a total disaster and warns that the United States could relive 1929 and the resulting economic collapse of the Depression if something isn’t done soon to restore normal lending. But, Trump told Fox News, he believes President-elect Barack Obama will do “no worse than Bush” in handling the aftermath of the credit crisis. The $700 billion bailout should be helping the banking system to recover, but there’s really no playbook for this kind of crisis, so the result is chaos, Trump says. “It's a very scary time. And people are doing...

NEW YORK - Judaism is getting a boost from a surprising direction – Ivanka Trump, daughter of business tycoon Donald Trump, has decided to convert to Judaism in honor of her engagement to her boyfriend Jewish businessman Jared Kushner. The 27-year-old former model and current vice president of real estate development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization, is considered to be her father's business heir. Trump has successfully joined her father's real estate empire and announced on Wednesday that she would be heading a project to build a Trump luxury hotel in the Israeli Red Sea city of Eilat. Trump...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Property mogul and diehard Republican Donald Trump told CNN on Wednesday that President George W. Bush misled the US into the Iraq War and should have been impeached when the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. "I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, referring to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "It ... just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a...

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Property mogul and diehard Republican Donald Trump told CNN on Wednesday that President George W. Bush misled the US into the Iraq War and should have been impeached when the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006. "I was surprised that she didn't do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush," Trump said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, referring to Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "It ... just seemed like she was going to really look to impeach Bush and get him out of office, which personally I think would have been a...

Financial legend Donald Trump, in an interview by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on the Oct. 15 “The Situation Room,” expressed his disappointment House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn’t move to impeach President George W. Bush.

While the global plan to recapitalize banks will probably be bad for his business, driving prices higher at a time when he has the cash to buy, it is necessary and smart, real estate developer Donald Trump said Tuesday. "We were headed for Great Depression No. 2," Trump told "Squawk Box." As a free-market capitalist, Trump admitted feeling uncomfortable at the "artificial" injection of cash into banks, but said it was a much better idea than the original plan just to buy up distressed assets."It's almost socialistic, but I like it, really like it," he said. (Video: Trumps full comments)Considering...