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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 recession and accuses large oil companies of "doing a major number" on everyone. Trump lauds the recent dips in the price of oil,...

YEKATERINBURG — Urals fertilizer billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev is the new owner of Florida's most expensive house after paying U.S. property tycoon Donald Trump $100 million for the waterfront property. Rybolovlev, whose fortune has soared by $10 billion in the last year on an unprecedented boom in demand for fertilizers, said through a spokesman that the purchase was an investment and that he had no plans to swap Moscow life for the Florida coast. Trump more than doubled his money on the sale of Maison de l'Amitie, a 3,000-square-meter mansion on Palm Beach bought for $41.4 million at a bankruptcy auction...

Over the years we've had our share of great British combovers - Arthur Scargill and Bobby Charlton to name but two. But both men would have to doff their cap to the astonishing coiffure of American billionaire Donald Trump. Rather than invest any of his considerable fortune in a transplant or wig, the 61-year-old property magnate insists on using a series of elaborate measures to plaster strands of hair across his balding pate. Occasionally, however, it comes unstuck - notably this week when faced with the insistent breeze on the Isle of Lewis, where he was visiting his mother's former...

The Donald to W: "You stink." Donald Trump trashed President Bush Tuesday as a "terrible" president who has destroyed the world economy - but insisted the global crunch wouldn't stall his planned $2 billion golf resort. "We have a president in the United States who's terrible. He stinks," Trump said. "Now the world is in chaos." Trump said he can't wait to see Bush head back to Texas after the November election is done. "Hopefully we'll have a good, new president, whoever he is," Trump said. He praised both major party candidates, but gushed over Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — In recent years, the Trump Marina Hotel Casino has been wasting away in Atlantic City's ultra-competitive casino market, searching for its lost shaker of salt, if you will. Now, it's about to be reborn with a tropical theme under new owners who are bringing singer Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" brand to the Northeast in hopes of reviving a property that had become as listless as the hero of Buffett's hit song. Coastal Marina LLC, an affiliate of Coastal Development LLC, said Thursday it is buying the casino from Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., the casino company founded...

MIAMI - Ivana Trump is getting hitched. The ex-wife of real estate mogul Donald Trump is tying the knot Saturday evening with Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi, her spokeswoman Catherine Saxton said. The wedding is taking place at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's opulent seaside mansion in Palm Beach. The estate also hosted the billionaire's wedding to Slovenian model Melania Knauss in 2005. Donald Trump, whom she divorced in 1990, is attending, as are their children. "Ivanka is the maid of honor and her two sons are giving her away," Saxton said. Also among the almost 600 guests expected are hotel heirs Rick...

Has Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" finally jumped the shark? For his new Apprentice entry-"Celebrity Apprentice"- might be too over the top and too far removed from the original apprentice premise to be remotely believable. Here a review and pics you'll find nowhere else on the Internet of this new reality series. A True Crime book review-"Missing Beauty" by Teresa Carpenter, tells the story of a very intelligent scientist who gets caught up in the world of prostitution, drugs...and murder.

Here's a Pop Culture post and we've got lots of great pics and video you'll find nowhere else on the Internet. Some Betty Boop trivia, the Ten Worst Jobs, Some "Do You Remember" pics, a hilarious dog video, intriguing new reality shows on the horizon, a Hairball story, literally, bizarre wills and I bet you didn't know that the American Association of Retired Persons gave out awards. Wait till you see who won the title of "trailblazing journalist".

A Scottish council on Thursday rejected a plan by Donald Trump to build a golf course on a stretch of remote and stunning coastline that is home to some of the country's rarest birds. "Mr. Trump is shocked, extremely disappointed and dismayed at this decision," said George Sorial, managing director of Trump International Golf Resorts. "This is certainly not something we expected." After a heated debate lasting 2 1/2 hours, Aberdeenshire Council's Infrastructure Committee rejected plans for the Trump International Golf Links after a tie-breaking vote from the committee chair. An initial vote was 7-7. Trump was now looking at...

Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Wednesday he has signed a deal to take over the Meadowlands EnCap golf and housing project, bailing out the struggling development. Trump promised a “spectacular” project that would be “the finest of its kind anywhere in the world.” “I’m a miracle worker,” Trump said. Trump's talks with a bank syndicate connected to the project were first reported in Wednesday’s editions of The Record. The deal, described as a “binding term sheet,” is subject to approval by the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission. It calls for a luxury golf course and a combination of housing, office,...

A Scottish fisherman has turned down an offer worth £1million from Donald Trump to move. Michael Forbes, 52, owns a small farm on the estate where the billionaire wants to build a £500million golf resort. Mr Trump has described the home as an "eyesore" and wants Mr Forbes, his wife and elderly mother to leave. However, Mr Forbes is digging his heels in. His determination to stay put forced Trump Corporation to offer him £350,000 and a £50,000-ayear job for life on the proposed development. But it failed to impress. Mr Forbes said: "I told them from the start the...

The never-ending battle of words between boisterous billionaires Donald Trump and Mark Cuban has shifted from the topic of Dan Rather to Internet spam. Ooooh, burn! The feud began this week when Trump called Dan Rather "a loser." Rather, who is currently suing former employer CBS, now works for Cuban's HDNet. Cuban didn't take too kindly to that, telling "Access Hollywood" that Trump "is a first-class idiot!" To which Trump retorted to Page Six, "Mark is a total loser." Now Cuban is firing back, telling TMZ, "Has [Trump] ever hired anyone who went to Trump University, or is Trump University...

Donald Trump has some advice for President Bush if he wants a Republican to win the White House: Hide... "I think President Bush has to go into a corner and hide if a Republican is going to get elected," he said... But Trump and the president agree on who will likely win the Democratic nomination: New York Sen. Hillary Clinton. "I know her very well. She's very talented, and she has a husband I also like very much," he said... Trump also called former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani a "good man" and said he expects Giuliani to win the...

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Donald Trump has some advice for President Bush if he wants a Republican to win the White House: Hide. The business mogul and vocal critic of the Bush administration told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Monday that he thinks the president is a "huge liability" for any Republican seeking the White House. Trump went on to say the best thing Bush can do for his party is to go into "hiding." "I think President Bush has to go into a corner and hide if a Republican is going to get elected," he said. "There is no way he is...

The South Carolina beauty queen who suffered a geographic meltdown over "U.S. Americans" during last month's Miss Teen USA pageant can now have the last laugh, with the chance to make up to $25,000 a day as a model for Donald Trump. Lauren Caitlin Upton, 18, of Lexington, S.C., reportedly flew to New York City today to begin employment for Trump Model Management. "My lifelong dream has been to travel the world and pursue my modeling career," Upton told WIS-TV. "Randomly, [my mistake] has offered me that opportunity." The station says she'll live in the Trump Apartments in Manhattan, with...

The buyer of a $6.15 million Trump Tower Tampa penthouse, slated to be an 8,000-square-foot masterpiece, says the $1.2 million he had in escrow can't be found and now he's ready for a fight. "This was going to be the place among places," said Alan Bridges, CEO of GotRack.com warehouse supply superstores in Tampa and Orlando. Bridges has been reluctant to go public with details about his experience as an upper-echelon buyer in the now-failed Trump Tower Tampa project -- until now. When news hit this week that Donald Trump himself was suing Tampa developer SimDag in federal court and...

MIDI - HELLO DOLLY Goodbye, Rosie...big fat pig, Rosie...how do you feel about my combover now I'm feeling swell, Rosie...go to hell, Rosie You do mess with the Donald, you disgusting cow We had a big battle, we heard you prattle You embarrassed yourself each and every day Say goodbye, Rosie...go eat another pie, Rosie Rosie, we're glad you're finally on your way Goodbye, Rosie...don't you cry, Rosie...we will not miss your great big posterior I'm feeling great, Rosie...meet your fate, Rosie You kept shooting off your mouth and lasted just a year We had a big battle, we...

DONALD Trump has unleashed a secret weapon in his feud with Rosie O'Donnell - a gigantic black undergarment she wore in the movie "Exit to Eden," which Trump sent to Barbara Walters on Monday to hang on the office wall at "The View." The girdle-like outfit - variously described as "a bustier" and "a giant pair of panties" - was bought at a charity auction by a fan, who then had the relic framed under glass and delivered to Trump. "I sent it to Barbara to hang in her office because I didn't want it in mine. It was

We've caught Hillary Clinton in another lie, this time involving the Imus firestorm. Several days after the controversy broke out, Clinton decided it was safe for her to weigh in on the I-man's comments. Clinton was quoted in the New York Daily News and on her website as saying, "I've never wanted to go on his show and I certainly don't ever intend to go on his show, and I felt that way before his latest outrageous, hateful, hurtful comments." But hold on. She never wanted to go on Imus? After all, her hubby Bill has Imus to thank for...

Yes, it's former NYC mayor Rody Giuliani in drag having his "breasts" shamelessly violated by "Apprentice" tycoon Donald Trump. Clip from new doc GIULIANI TIME, by Kevin Keating, opens May 12 at Landmark Theatres' Sunshine Cinema in NYC. More at www.giulianitime.com. Yahoo Group at http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/... ... (more) (less)

Catching up on Trump's "The Apprentice", we review TWO tasks gone by. We've got pics and details on the great GNC task as well as the Soap Opera and "webcast". Also, a review of Foxnews' "Half Hour News Hour". It's hip, cool, hilarious and has been picked up for another few weeks. Check out just why all of America needs to watch this show.

Donald Trump goes off on President Bush in a scathing attack during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on the Friday edition of CNN's 'Situation Room. Everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction, it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which he thought was going to be easy and it turned out to be the exact opposite of easy. He reads 60 books a year. He reads a book a week. Do you think the president reads a book a week? I don't think so. He doesn't watch television. Now, one thing...

TRUMP: BUSH 'PROBABLY THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES' Fri Mar 16 2007 16:12:53 ET Donald Trump goes off on President Bush in a scathing attack during an interview with Wolf Blitzer on the Friday edition of CNN's 'Situation Room. "Well, I think Bush is probably the worst president in the history of the United States. And I just don't understand how [the Democrats] could have lost that election." MORE... "Everything in Washington has been a lie. Weapons of mass destruction, it was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which he thought...

In this Blog post we've got a review of Apprentice LA which we're keeping up with diligently folks. Also, Kaitlyn Mae goes to church. She meets Jesus and the choir. I was worried but Kaitlyn loved every minute of it. I pay for my youthful liberal mistakes.

We've got three reviews of TV shows that premiered this past week. First, this "Grease" thing, can this rival to American Idol get any traction? And than there's The Donald's "Apprentice LA". With his feud with Rosie adding fuel, can Trump's series survive? Also, how Ivanka impresses. Finally, those "People Choice" awards...I simply do not believe they chose Ellen over Oprah as fave talk show host. Pics of all the above you'll not find anywhere else.

Rosie O'Donnell — quite rightly, I believe — has had enough of Barbara Walters and "The View." I am told that she is not likely to renew her one-year contract when it ends in June and will leave the crazy talk show after boosting its ratings higher than ever. Sources say that Rosie feels that the backstage antics at "The View" "are completely dysfunctional." O'Donnell, who's got plenty of money and lots of outside interests, simply doesn't need to be there. I am told that her contract was for "one school year" and that ends in June. But ABC might...

In this first Pop Culture post of 2007 we've got updates on the Rosie/Trump feud and how the Steve Irwin family is cashing in on his untimely death. Also, "Atlas Shrugged" a movie? And Michael Jackson sues everybody while the Beach Boys also in some legal jeopardy, some Media Nuggets and hey, Bono a KNIGHT?

BEDFORD -- Here's a hairy case for investigators. A woman shoplifted two hairpieces worth $110 on Dec. 18 from Armstrong-McCall Beauty Supply. The theft was uncovered when an employee found two empty packages at the business in the 4100 block of Airport Freeway. The employee went into an office and reviewed videotape from a surveillance camera to determine what had happened to the packages. On the surveillance tape, a woman is shown opening the packages and placing the hairpieces in a sales catalog that she was carrying. She then left the business and drove away in a white car. No...

It was a close race between O.J. and Britney for Oblivion of the Year, but after all the votes were tallied, the classless, aging football anti-hero beat out the booty-flashing, aging pop tart. Simpson won with 41 percent of the vote, eking out a victory over Spears, who tallied 39 percent. Madonna was third with 13 percent, while Mel Gibson and Michael Richards barely registered, with just 3 percent and 4 percent respectively. It seems anti-Semitism (Gibson) and racism (Richards) aren't as Grrr'ing as trying to profit from your wife's gruesome murder (that you may or may not have committed...

Palm Beach, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump is suing this oceanside town for $10 million after being cited for flying an oversized American flag over his Mar-a-Lago Club. Attorneys for the club filed a complaint Thursday, saying that flying the flag is a constitutionally protected expression of free speech — and that the large flag is a proper match for the size of the real-estate mogul's patriotism. "A smaller flag and pole on Mar-A-Lago's property would be lost given its massive size, look silly instead of make a statement, and most importantly would fail to appropriately express the magnitude of...

Whose side are you on? Team Rosie? Team Donald? Both should go away.

NEW YORK - Three months into the Reign of Rosie, "The View" has become must-see TV. But is it the type of viewing that series creator Barbara Walters was bargaining for? Rosie O'Donnell's inclusion in the daytime chat show's cast has boosted ratings but seemingly brought along a controversy du jour, the latest this week's verbal mudfight between O'Donnell and Donald Trump. O'Donnell said she wasn't talking about it on Thursday's show but couldn't help herself, saying she was afraid to leave home the night before "in case somebody with a comb-over came and stole" partner Kelli from her. Trump...

You've probably heard of this, but... Trump has called Rosie "unattractive", "fat", a "bully", a "loser", etc. Rosie has said similar things about Trump. And this is what Barbera Walters says: "Both Rosie and Donald are high-spirited, opinionated people." (AP) So's Katie Couric: (from People: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20004432,00.html) Couric points out that Esquire itself criticized her after her Sept. 5 debut. "You guys even take a shot at me," she tells the magazine. "You have something in the November issue, something about how since I've become an anchor, you don't know me anymore. You don't know me anymore? Bite me." These aren't...

Rosie O'Donnell had some fiery words for Donald Trump on The View Wednesday morning, calling him a "snake-oil salesman" following his announcement that he would not fire troubled Miss USA Tara Conner. After hearing about her comments, Trump fired back to PEOPLE, calling her "a woman out of control" and saying he planned to sue O'Donnell over her statements questioning his financial well-being. "You can't make false statements," Trump tells PEOPLE exclusively. "Rosie will rue the words she said. I'll most likely sue her for making those false statements – and it'll be fun. Rosie's a loser. A real loser....

Donald Trump Theatens To Sue Rosie O'Donnell POSTED: 6:58 am EST December 21, 2006 UPDATED: 7:41 am EST December 21, 2006 NEW YORK -- The Miss USA partying episode has led to a war of words between Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump. O'Donnell told her audience on ABC's "The View," Wednesday that Trump's news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner had annoyed her "on a multitude of levels." O'Donnell said Trump should not be the moral compass for 20-year-olds in America. She said he's divorced two times and had affairs. Trump lashed back at O'Donnell on the entertainment show "The...

Rosie, of all people, was making fun of The Donald on The View today, and Access Hollywood had both sides of the soon-to-be-interesting spat that is brewing between them. Apparently she thinks he’s no moral authority, but look who’s talking? And now, Mr. Trump says he will sue. Quite the entertainment. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!

Donald Trump is set to sue “The View” host Rosie O’Donnell, Access Hollywood can reveal. Earlier this afternoon Trump announced he is filing suit against the TV talk show host. “She says things that come to her mouth, she’s not smart, she’s crude, she’s ignorant and to be honest I look forward to suing Rosie,” he told our cameras. “I’m gonna sue her and I look forward to it. She’s really very dangerous for the show.” Trump declined to elaborate on the details of his proposed legal filings, but added O’Donnell will understand his reasoning. “Rosie will find out what...

Trump upbeat on Israel's economy Sharon Wrobel, THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 10, 2006 US real estate tycoon Donald Trump, who plans to erect the tallest building in Israel in Ramat Gan, has praised the country's strong economic potential. "Israel is one of my favorite places in the world, it is a great country," the billionaire said in a videophone interview at Saturday night's opening session of the annual Globes Israel Business Conference in Tel Aviv. "I am a good businessman and I have tremendous confidence in the strength and potential of the Israeli economy, although I know the country has...

Saddam hussien hated terrorists, he shot them, there wasn't any terrorists in Iraq before the war..anyone that supports this war should be voted out of office...we should leave now

According to Fox 35, Charlie Crist is the winner of the Republican Primary for Governor. Time for us to get behind him. SM

August 31, 2006 -- CAROLYN KEPCHER, Donald Trump's co-star on "The Apprentice," has heard him say "You're fired!" for the last time - because this time he said it to her, sources told The Post. The icy, 36-year-old blonde - who was running the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff in Westchester and helping supervise the Trump National in Bedminster, N.J. - was let go earlier this week. "She became a prima donna," said one insider. "Being on 'The Apprentice' went to her head. She was no longer focused on business. She was giving speeches for $25,000 and doing endorsements."...

Miss Universe pageant owner Donald Trump says he is considering a tribute to the newly crowned Miss Iraq, who has been hiding amid death threats. "She is very proud to have won, and now she is in a very tough position," Trump told Friday's New York Post. "She is extremely brave." Silvia Shahakian, 23, a Christian of Armenian ancestry, was crowned Sunday when the original winner stepped down after receiving threats from extremists. Shahakian told ABC's "Good Morning America" she was going into hiding, but the Post said it is believed she is still in Iraq. Trump said there may...

Here's what I believe to be true regarding some of the most important issues facing America today, and what most politicians apparently don't. IMMIGRATION LAW ENFORCEMENT I'm going to be as blunt as I can be with respect to the illegal alien problem in this country, while refraining from using the profane terms that routinely leap to my mind every time I think about our government's unrelenting failure to address this issue in any responsible way. To get right to the point, any person in this country who doesn't support (A) doing whatever is necessary to stop illegals from entering...

Oh, all right, his hair probably looks nothing like this - yet - but Barron William Trump can look forward to many good-heir days after being born yesterday to Donald and Melania Trump. Just three months shy of his 60th birthday, Trump yesterday became a daddy for the fifth time when his beautiful model wife delivered Barron - and the real-estate mogul said he's looking to have more. "It's great! It's just wonderful!" a beaming Trump told The Post just hours after the arrival of Barron William Trump, who weighed in at 8 1/2 pounds and measured 21 inches long....

NEW YORK -- Donald Trump 's wife gave birth to a boy Monday, the billionaire developer announced. "Everyone's perfect," Trump said in a telephone interview on MSNBC's "Imus in the Morning," about 20 minutes after the arrival of his fifth child. Trump said the new baby was already making him feel younger. "I continue to stay young, right? I produce children, I stay young," he said.

One 'Apprentice' Is Running for Office; Could There Be Another? By: Robert B. BlueyPosted 03/09/0602:20 PM Raj Bhakta, who was “fired� by Donald Trump on the second season of “The Apprentice,� will run on the Republican ticket this November against Democratic Rep. Allyson Schwartz in the suburban Philadelphia district, reports the Associated Press. “We offer voters legitimate change,� Bhakta told the AP. “I am not a politician. I am someone from a business background who wants to make a change.� Who knew Trump would breed an aspiring Republican lawmaker? The truth is, however, Bhakta isn’t the only cast member from...

Donald Trump has made his first entry into Israel sooner than expected and is planning to build a luxury apartment building in Ramat Gan within the next five years. Trump, in partnership with Miami-based property company Crescent Heights, has bought the original Elite chocolate plant building in Ramat Gan earmarked for the development. Food company Strauss-Elite Ltd. said Wednesday it sold the building to a foreign investor from the United States for $ 44 million, for which it expects to make a capital gain of NIS 120m. Crescent Heights representative in Israel, N.S. Tito Architects, confirmed that Crescent had signed...

Something that was useful at the MBA Association I would like to recreate here is a live thread (completely vanity) on The Apprentice. This is for only those who actually enjoy the business aspect of the program and would like to analize the actions of the members.

This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito. Chuck Schumer walked out before the judges started to speak. Teddy Kennedy showed up late, stayed for 10 minutes, then left. Pat Leahy put on a dour face for a short time, and also bailed... if Judge Barry were a screeching liberal moaning about Alito's threat to the female populace, the Dems would have been all ears--and...

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...