It’s been a rather slow news week, so the media elites and pretty much everyone else have decided it’s time to unleash the research that will ruin Donald Trump’s shot at the Republican presidential nomination. (Not like it was hard to uncover or anything.) 2012′s cartoon rich man frontrunner won’t even make it to his “before June” announcement date — his own books already prove that he’s in favor of universal health care, against abortion, and hates Ronald Reagan. And his beautiful orange-tanned mouth is not helping. Here’s Trump’s answer on whether there’s a right to privacy in the Constitution: “I guess there is, I guess there is.”
This will be an interesting debate when Trump appoints three of his children to the Supreme Court.
Yesterday, the Club for Growth said Trump abused eminent domain laws and “tried to evict an elderly widow” to build a “limousine waiting area” at one of his constantly bankrupt casinos. “What is the Club for Growth and who are they supporting?” Trump said when asked about it. “I had heard that they have a favored candidate, whoever that may be.” He seems to be really good at this politics thing! Very knowledgeable! A++++ strategy! [Think Progress/TPM/Club for Growth/Politico]
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Must be the "Club for Hair Growth."
In that case, wouldn't Trump be not only their candidate, but also their client?
“tried to evict an elderly widow” to build a “limousine waiting area”
Well, yeah, that sounds like the bona fides the would put him at the top of their list.
One long, lonely strand of hair…
Don't you mean the Hair Club for Growth?
I was reading this week's edition of Time magazine last night and they had a diagram of Trump's hair-do in there. It was in four parts and I actually worked it out in my head how to do it. That's how much of a joke this Trump crap has become. They called him "tornado-headed"
Reading the near-death Time is bad for your head.
You mean a magazine built on the twin pillars of Joe Klein & Joel Stein (with the occasional Nancy Gibbs feature) is not built-to-last?
(Of course, I'll admit to getting a chuckle out of both Stein & Klein, but, come on…)
Hey, don't go grouping Stein with Klein. Stein is purposefully trying to be humerous.
Fine, I will stop reading it. Now it is your job to call me every night and talk to me until I fall asleep. You try being an insomniac. Brush up on the following topics:
mascara, who the hell named that veggie "squash" and any other girlie topic I should know about. Bonus points if you talk about the Stanley Cup race.
Insomnia cure: C – Span.
Girlie topic: Greige is *so* over.
Stanley Cup: Go Pens!
I could talk to you about the Stanley Cup. How about the Kings blowing a four-goal lead last night, eh? And the Hawks scoring 7 to stay alive? The WIngs play at ten-thirty if you are in the east–that should be fodder for discussion amirite? I think Washington, Boston, Montreal and perhaps some others are also in said playoffs, although of this I am not 100% certain.
I'm rooting for the Flyers at this time. That could change at any second, depending on if they start to suck too much.
Hockey is life!
Hockey = a bunch of dudes named Gilles and Jacques hacking at each other with bent sticks while chasing a thingie you can't see on the teevee.
Is "mascara" the stuff women put on their eyelashes to make them look longer or darker or something?
Despite their best efforts, no one has ever been able to make squash edible except by dosing it up with sugar, like "pumpkin" pie.
I got nothing. Keep sending Henry Luce his money until Time merges with "Jalopnik" or whatever.
I read that as "I actually worked it out on my head" so I was envisioning you with some insane Trump coiffure.
We should do that Lizzie. We both coif it up and roam the streets of N.Y. and speak in baby talk, like Donald. We have to be careful not to point to any working gals and say "you're hired" or we could get busted for that.
Best business name in The Simpsons: a salon called "Turn Your Head and Coif"
Oh darlng, I am currently sportng a Jean Seberg/Judi Dench cut, it's about 1/4 inch long so no coiffing a la Donald for me, however if you ever get to NYC we are having dinner and a few cocktails.
Hold it!!!! The Club for Growth CRITICIZED him for evicting an old lady to create a limousine waiting area??? Why? Are they claiming he stole the idea from them?
The elderly lady was probably white/non-poor.
American politics is already too much like bad reality TV. There's no need to have actual bad reality TV stars involved.
Since a certain quitter (and her teen mom abstinent daughter) moved from bad politician to bad reality star, the bad reality star must have figured he can do the reverse.
Will no one rid us of this odious hair weevil?
I guess his usefullness to the media as a side show geek has reached the point of expiration.
That's showbiz.
Paying attention for the Media is really hard and stuff. Don'tcha have anything new?
This can only mean one thing SHES BACK!!!!!
The two trailer-park girls going 'round the outside?
You guessed it — Bristol & Willow.
Please, media, don't sink Trump yet; we want the GOP primary to be entertaining, which requires as many clowns as possible.
Don't bother, SorosBot, they're here.
SOmebody should ask him if Melania was raped and murdered if he'd support the death penalty for Bernard Shaw.
i read that as george bernard shaw and was very confused for a moment.
For the first time in my life (and probably the last time), I'm proud of our media.
That said, oh great and awful media, how's that screechy grizzly backstate driver thing workin' out for ya?
Apparently he said yesterday that his presidency would be 'fun.' And we thought that word had been debased in the case of David Vitter?
Hey, partying with Caligula was "fun." We all know how that worked out…
You called?
I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
I could probably post this comment for every story here, but, with the exception of Silvio Berlisconi; only in U.S. of America!
I dunno, I believe Italy once elected a real porn star to Parliment.
Hungary, also.
NEWS: Joke candidate revealed as joke. Details at 11.
Ah, who am I kidding? Real Americans don't care about facts and such.
I welcome our future tornado-headed overlord.
Paying it forward, I am going to name my next band "Tornado Head".
If you're sinking Trump now… why wait so long to pull the plug on Palin, media? fucking hell
The problem with Bible Spice is that they have tried, but the stupider she looks, the more her adoring fans love her. She's just like them, so they can relate.
The media wants to sink Trump only because they always have a finger on the scales for the GOP every election cycle.
I say let Trump be Try-Trump-al!
For great LULZ.
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But Krauthhammer loves Trump!
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/donald-trump...
Krauthammer is a real stand-up guy.
Jokes about cripples are always funny, but a true cheap shot would include the fact that Krauthammer is Canadian. Go for the gold.
If he was an American, he'd get up out of that chair and strangle a Mexican with his boot straps.
Then Palin is the Farrakhan of the Republican Party.
And T-Paw is the Herman Cain of the Republican Party.
I can't be the only one here thinking about this, so here ya are:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8AKPDzJsRAA/R1SEgShEl7I...
NBC! Do your patriotic duty and give this man an extra hour in prime time where he can lay into anyone and everyone representative of the enemies he has in and out of the GOP. If there's one thing America loves, it's semi-retarded people who are allowed media time to rant at their imagined enemies (see: Fox News, Charlie Sheen)
Also, I can't wait until Trump calls Mitch Daniels and T-Paw "boring" on stage at a debate. It's going to happen.
Let's put Trump, his buddy Gary Busy, Sheen and Randy Quaid and his wife in a reality show together; ratings gold there.
Watch out, or Busy will end up Secretary of Commerce or something.
Drug Czar or GTFO.
Ok, but Randy Quaid gets the FBI.
Let's not get rid of him too quickly. He's like Fred "Dipshit McGoo" Thompson: lazy, arrogant, but has a hot wife. Plus he's funnier cuz he's so stoopid.
Like, "Hire the Handicapped, They're Fun to Watch"?
Needs more Law & Order sound effects.
All this because he made Candy Crowley cry.
What a dumb ass. Really? How does privacy relate to abortion? I wonder what his position is on the Bush Doctrine? In what sense, Charlie?
Look, the media's occasional emphasis on "knowing stuff" is just more of the kind of "gotcha journalism" that Americans have grown sick of.
Ooh, I know! Let's ask him to name all 9 members of the Supreme Court!
Ivanna, Ivanka, Donald, Jr., Marla Maples, and I forget the other five.
Ivanna Tinkle & Amanda Huggankiss
Any one else schadenfreude-ing about the unhinged "base" of the Conservatives scaring the poopy out of what's left of so-called rational thinkers on the right? I mean, when Karl Rove or Kraphammer are the least hackish voices of reason, the clown car has left the big tent.
Oh yeah … the far-rational wing of the GOP is totally fucked. File under "reap what you sow". (That's in the bible, ain't it?)
We have come to the point in this country where all it takes to be considered a serious Republican candidate is that you're clearly an asshole.
Using history as a model its worked for them several times.
Worked for Richard Nixon.
I think Trumpy ought to milk this baby as long as he can – for ratings – because everyone has to know he can't be seriously considered as a candidate. Remember, the finale of his stupid show is coming up – so five minutes after that he will disappear.
so five minutes after that he will disappear.
Promise?
The way he treated Savannah Guthrie, the man needs to be tarred & feathered & put in the stockade.
Why don't you comfort her?
Who will pick up the "unapologetic birther" mantle? The "I believe the President was born here, but there are a few questions" types are soooo boooring.
In his defense, the 4th Amendment is torturously difficult to understand:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.."
Donald Trump: ready to learn on the job!
He has standards. He has dignity.
Stop laughing.
A bankrupt fake billionaire who's sense of truth is as fradulant as his atomic combover?
If he just started banging rent boys two at a time on Fox TV he'd be the perfect Repug candidate. But he won't cause energetic sex makes the spray tan rub off.
Release the Donald!
Send in the assclowns…
…They're already here.
It's like Posh Moneybags and their wannabes are upset their favorite meat puppet/candidate might not win the GOPer 2012 Preznit nom.
Not shocking at all considering that much of the GOPer faithful are diabeetus 2 infested dipshits whose enormity is only unmatched by their ignorance.
of all of his dumbfuckeries his capital offense is slighting Ronald Reagan ???
Well, Republican fuckwitx, you sow the wind your reap the tornado-headed hamster brain leading the ticket. Once the "Obama not born in Amerikkka" genie was out of the bottle it was only a matter of time before an asshole decided to use it for his own advantage.
Friends, Libruls, Wokette scum, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Donald, not to praise him!
The idiocy that men do lives after them (on youtube)
Their hairpieces are often interred with their political careers
So let it be with Donald. The noble Karl Rove
Hath told you that Donald was a circus act;
As it is so, it is a grievous fault
And grievously hath the media answered it
NEXT QUESTION, GEORGE!!!
On to Plan B
American Psycho II
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Charlie Sheen as Donald Trump!
For more laughs: Ask him if he supports Griswold v. Connecticut.
That top photo reminds me of Charlie Sheen. Maybe it's a portent for the future CS? Matching egos, you bet. If Charlie can just survive himself, things are looking good for Sheen/Lohan 2042!
From the CFG
Eminent domain abuse is an assault on freedom, pure and simple
Yeah…that's pretty bad. Much worse than fucking over an elderly lady so you can get her land to park your limos.
Have I mentioned just how much I hate these people?
We'll see how well that "no real conservative would use eminent domain to seize private property" thingy holds up in Benton Harbor.
Geez, he is disgusting. He should comb those eyebrows up to give an assist to that varmit on his head.
There's still enough teabagger-leader wannabes out there for the "Moon Landing Never Happened" bunch to find a compatible leader.
The local rag here in Arkansas just ran an editorial noting the startling similarities between Huckabee and Trump: morbid obesity/infidelity, zeppelin-sized ego, comical love for all that is garish*, etc.
They called (in jest) for a Huckatrump ticket, but noted that since neither of the two (and we could throw in Palin too) has the slightest interest in actually governing.
*The squirrel-eater is making a strong play for this year's Tackiest Monument to Greed & Self-Importance Award (the coveted Tacky!) with his "hotel-sized" manse on the Redneck Riviera, look hither…
http://www.arktimes.com/images/blogimages/2011/04...
JFC, when did The Donald decide to get into an orangeface competition with Boneheader? Is orange the new red for the Reeps now?
Donald's confusion about the right to privacy is understandable, given that he's never actually exercised that right himself.
That Lady Liberty on Club for Growth's site, is she modeled after Liberty Island Lady Liberty or Las Vegas Lady Liberty?
Ah, reading is for chumps, I tells ya! I gots no need for that book larnin'!
Look, what do you have to know about law to be president? That's what you hire lawyers for!
"We are not a respected nation anymore. The world is laughing at us."
Trump said it. With a straight face. The man needs to get his irony detectors replaced.
I was so impressed with Michael Isikoff this morning. Did you know his casinos have had multiple bankruptcies? Did you know he's a profiteering scumbag and a bit of a con artist when it comes to his real estate dealings? Did you know TRUMP UNIVERSITY ISN'T A REAL UNIVERSITY!!!!!!!!! We might have to rethink his birther stance, even though Palin kind of backs it too.
Really, the best part was was watching Pat Buchanan carry water for him. Poor senile old bastard.
Maybe he's still a Democrat, and this is a selfless, suicide mission! The Donald is a hero!
Here is a little gossip. I know someone who knows someone who works for Trump. The other night I asked why he was doing all this and they said it was because he owes so much money to certain people and they told him to do this. Then they said, no, they *required* him to do it. Sounded about right to me.
Two years ago I went to look at the apartment/hotel he recently built in Lower Manhattan. It was basically a beige dorm room with a mini bar for over a million plus and you can't stay there for longer than a few weeks in any given year. This is a much better idea than McCain's 7 or 12 I can't remember how many exactly homes for America. You don't own anything, you can't live there, and you pay through the nose forever.
I think a fun Presidency is just what we need. Barry be more fun!
I, personally, would be really disappointed if this is true. I want Trump on the 2012 ticket. I really, really do. Comedy gold.
And, does anyone else here get the urge to grab a surf board when they see his gnarly wave of a do?
Trump/Palin 2012 – just don't get too close to the resulting smoldering crater.
Heh – like that other huge smoking crater, it could wipe out wingnuts as a species.
". . . I don't think it's the last we'll see of him."
Just when I had finally made up my mind to jump ship on the whole going-on-living thing, they give me the greatest reason of all to soldier on.
Moron clean-up on aisle 2.
We have a president who has executive experience. The bigger question now is do we want a president with gobs of "executive experience" who has gone bankrupt 3 times on casinos?
"I am not a Trump fan" – Yes you are. Romney has had executive experience. Why aren't you touting him to balance the budget and make a stronger economy?
What executive experience did Obama have before becoming President? Did he manage a company? NOPE! Was he a mayor? Nope. Was he a Governor? Nope. Being a college professor does not involve executive experience. Being a community organizer does not pass as executive experience.
So he drifted to the super far right when it became politically expedient to do so. This separates him from the field how?
Mr. Chump's mistake (among many, many others) was to answer the question first and then inquire "Why do you ask?"
Any married man with a clue to his name can tell you that order should be reversed.
While I do find this mildly entertaining, he clearly isn't RFPT (Ready For Prime Time)…
"whether there’s a right to privacy in the Constitution: “I guess there is, I guess there is.” "
So he's neck and neck with every other Republitard candidate then?
well maybe, but they were all pretty bad decisions.
so was electing Obama
We need advice on how to balance the budget from someone who's gone broke four times!
Hey, at this stage, that might be exactly the expertise we need. He told his creditors to stuff it … maybe he plans to do the same to the Chinese?
Samson slew a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. Trump will kill his own candidacy with the same weapon.
Beautiful!
I think they already have…the tea party. A LOT of paultards are also truthers, and yet they still vote for, and enthusiastically support Republicans…go figure, eh?
Even more important than the presidency is the Indy 500 where Trump is supposed to drive the Pace Car – an obvious affront to all America….
Go immediately to dumptrumpindy.blogspot.com and like their facebook page to put an end to this!!!
Since you went to the trouble of posting a serious comment here, allow me to retort—
Experience, by itself, is nothing. Experience can be teacher for those willing to learn, those humble enough or smart enough to realize that they don't know it all.
Does that sound like Trump?
Experience can improve performance and it can prevent the repetition of the same mistake time and again. Experience, properly experienced (so to speak), can enlighten and provide a measure of wisdom.
But it's not a guarantee.
I see little evidence that Donald Trump has learned anything from his vast experience except how to keep his name in the news.
I agree that experience by itself is nothing, and again, I would NEVER vote for Trump, but if you are applying for a job as CEO of GE, will they hire someone that has never been a CEO of anything? If you apply for a job that takes leadership skills, will you even consider the resume of someone that has no past leadership experience on their resume? Nope.
That is exactly what America did in 2008; we elected someone to our highest post that could give a good talk, but had nothing to back it up with. Now we are learning that Obama is VERY indecisive, stuggles to make difficult decisions, sometimes leans left on decisions, sometimes leans right, etc. He is NOT a leader and appears to have no real convictions which is apparent with his inability to make decisions quickly and decisively. What I am saying is that we can do better than Obama and Trump!!!
He's got a line of men's dress shirts and ties at Macy's. Probably suits too. Imagine people saying to themselves, "I want to look like Donald Trump." Who are those people? How many of them vote?
"Who are those people? How many of them vote?"
Google "Michele Bachmann"
I have said this before, as the child of a man who was bald from the age of 28, bald is a lovely thing if it is not hidden with a comb-over , just shave the whole head, chicks dig that.
And he praised Obama in his book. What more proof do you need? (And how exactly is that going to play with the real ameriKKKans he's trying to cater to?)
"We're increasingly of the mind that he's going to run," Club for Growth president Chris Chocola said. "I think it's important for people to understand who he is.
Don't I know you? …cereal box, right?
I don't know. The joke may very well be on us. Republicans have shown before they have a ridiculously high gag reflex when it comes to hypocrisy. Donald may be too entrenched in this bullshit, now, for the GOP to turn on him.
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