Donald Trump for President
By: Ed Farnan | Published Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 10:20 AM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 10:03 PM
Don't you want to hear Donald Trump tell the establishment in Washington: You're fired!!!
He's already President of corporations, employs thousands and who knows better than the Donald just what it's like to go beyond broke and still parlay that into success?
I don't know about you, but I am tired of the tassle shoed, glib, silver tongued harvard/princeton/Rhodes Scholar type graduates telling us how to live. They never held an honest job in their life besides working as chronic politicians, community organizers, or in some government policy making job somewhere. With all of their purported knowledge, they have steered our nations ship onto the shoals of bankruptcy.
I want someone in there who has had to meet a payroll and knows what it is like to deal in the real world and has had to labor under the same laws that the politicians in Washington subject us to. Give us someone who has had to work in the sausage factory of the private sector and knows the sometimes ugly, sometimes trying process it takes to get that slickly wrapped (USDA inspected I might add) package of sausages to the market...and make a profit.
Donald Trump has noted in a recent interview with Newsmax:" My friends from China said to me just recently — they didn’t know that I might be thinking about running for president — we cannot believe how stupid your politicians are to allow us to get away with what we’re getting away with".
The main stream media probably won't annoint Mr. Trump with the presidency, they'll go after him and his public/private life history and try to stifle him or anyone else that dares to come out of the non approved woodwork to take the helm of our ship, but the moment is coming for a captain of the private sector to climb into the bridge and take charge.
Because as sure as when ToTo pulled the curtain aside to expose who was the real wizard of Oz, we are now seeing, courtesy of the new media, who is behind the curtain in Washington DC.... and frankly my fellow Americans, we can do much much better.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.maloney | Feb 03, 2011, 07:30 PM EST
We need a two pronged solution, foreign-John Bolton, domestic- The Donald. The coming Islamic caliphate is more than The Donald could handle alone.
McNamara31 | Feb 03, 2011, 09:39 AM EST
Donald Trump has the same mentality as the bankers and financial houses that brought on the crash in 2008. He's one of them, not one of us. He's playing the same game as Palin, putting his name out there just for the personal payoff to his TV shows hotels and business.
DennisQ | Feb 03, 2011, 02:56 AM EST
Trump can't get elected to high office because he treats women badly. The first thing any political opponent will do would be to drive up Trump's negatives. And the way he treated Ivana was shameful.
One of Trump's other drawbacks is that he's politically tin-eared. He doesn't know when to get into a controversy and when to get out. His unwelcome entry into the Central Park jogger case backfired when the suspects Trump wanted executed turned out to be innocent. He also fumbled the Carrie Prejean case, first praising her as a loyal Christian woman and then observing that pictures of her naked breasts were lovely to look at.
Trump is strictly for laughs. A vulgarian of his own choosing, he'll get the same rowdy crowd of supporters as Howard Stern. The presidential ambitions are simply an ego trip. Trump couldn't get elected to the local city council.
Monsoonman | Feb 02, 2011, 09:34 PM EST
Donald Trump is an extremely bright captain of the private sector, who can outsmart the current crop we have in the whitehouse.. Many a privileged child never amounts to a hill of beans, Donald Trump turned his modest grusbstake into a multi billion dollar empire. You should be celbrating him he is championing Miss ireland and turning her into a super international modeling sensation. He knows talent when he sees it. Donald Trump for President!!!
DennisQ | Feb 02, 2011, 05:09 PM EST
If you're looking to get away from "Harvard and Princeton types," you might want to avoid Donald Trump as well. He is as much an Ivy League graduate as anyone you might name.
Talk about glib! Trump grew up in a wealthy family and attended all the finest schools. His blunt, working class manner is as much an affectation as an English accent would be.
If you're looking for somebody who's genuinely self-made, you'd have to go with somebody like Warren Buffett. Here's a guy who definitely grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. He became a billionaire on his own efforts, and remains a down-to-earth regular guy. Buffett for President! Warren, not Jimmy.
peterson | Feb 02, 2011, 01:49 PM EST
He definitely has more brain power than Obama.
susanna | Feb 02, 2011, 12:36 PM EST
George Dillon - Then he married an American and divorced her. Now he is married to someone from Slovenia who is young enough to be his granddaughter and when he divorces her (and he will) he will marry someone who will be young enough to be his great granddaughter, as long as his money doesn't run out.
susanna | Feb 02, 2011, 12:29 PM EST
Monsoonman said "When I look at the caliber of person who is in Washington today, it is plain that many Americans voted for a daddy, rather than a leader." Egads man, that is your projection and so plain that is what you do when you vote - who's your daddy?
susanna | Feb 02, 2011, 12:26 PM EST
Yikes!! Is this a joke or do you really think this way?
Monsoonman | Feb 01, 2011, 06:23 PM EST
Ah but the differences...Trump worked within the laws of the private sector and when he ran out of money, he took what steps were necessary to have his company survive. Our fearless leaders in DC, don't let budgets get in their way they just keep printing more money and mortgaging our futures out to the red chinese. Big difference.
seanomelbourne | Feb 01, 2011, 04:56 PM EST
There are enough monkeys in Washington.
Magdaleno | Feb 01, 2011, 04:54 PM EST
Are you kidding, the man can not pay his obligations and uses bankruptcy as a way of business. Must be the tea baggers on the march again with their out of vision idealogy. Soria Magdaleno
GeorgeDillon | Feb 01, 2011, 03:18 PM EST
Trump can't see Russia from Trump Tower, but he was married to a Russian. And divorced her.
Nicomax | Feb 01, 2011, 03:17 PM EST
Good thought since who else knows as much about defaulting on your debts.
Monsoonman | Feb 01, 2011, 12:41 PM EST
When I look at the caliber of person who is in Washington today, it is plain that many Americans voted for a daddy, rather than a leader.
azgirl4 | Feb 01, 2011, 12:12 PM EST
Trump has my VOTE!! He's a man of his WORD!! Calls a spade a spade and is a true red-blooded American!
peterquinn | Feb 01, 2011, 10:21 AM EST
Donald Trump, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha...Gimme me a break. He's the biggest gas bag on the planet. Toto for president...or Tojo...or Tito Puente...Anybody but that self-serving, pompous, real estate huckster.
colkelley | Feb 01, 2011, 09:41 AM EST
Two things to do to immediately fix the AMerican government - first, outaw "Professional Politicians" by instituting strict term limits - second, make it illegal for lawyers to hold any elected public office unless it is directly related to ENFORCING the law (Attorney General, local Prosecutors, etc.). Since more than 80% of all elected public offices are currently held by lawyers this would turn them out by the dumptruck load and clear the way for people with intelligence AND common sense to run for, win, and hold elected office.
Clancey | Feb 01, 2011, 09:17 AM EST
Did the author get the date wrong? It's February 1, not April Fools' Day! Turn off the TV and do some reading about the guy. Trump inherited his money and has teetered on the brink of bankruptcy for years. He is a buffoon. He's like the phony Wizard of Oz behind the curtain, all levers, smoke, mirrors and voice amplification. (Plus his suits are heavily padded and he has that dopey combover.)
CitizenWhy | Feb 01, 2011, 04:40 AM EST
Guess the real estate industry isn't that sexy anymore. Trump is just making anti-Obama noises because he wants a program on Fox News. A true Republican capitalist, he's making political pundit poses in order to make some big bucks off gullible devotees.
jamieLM | Jan 31, 2011, 06:25 PM EST
WoundedKnee, Hef would be our first "pajama-clad" pres. and he'd have a bed in the Oval office instead of a desk. Trump for president? Why not? We've had just about everyone else from a paranoid liar, a peanut farmer, a Hollywood actor, some oilmen, and several "philanderers," to name a few. Can Trump see Russia from his penthouse? LOL
WoundedKnee | Jan 31, 2011, 01:08 PM EST
Why not Hugh Hefner? And we'd have a whole series of First Ladies!