Donald Trump proposes himself for VP and a nation laughs

Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2012 at 09:03 AM

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Sometimes you have to wonder what is Donald Trump smoking. This week he has been heavily promoting himself as a likely vice-presidential candidate for Mitt Romney. Trump is taking it seriously if no one else quite is.

“Donald Trump would be the best bet” he told Newsmax magazine this week referring to himself in the third person.

Does his ignorance know no bounds?

On an appearance on ‘The View” last week, he said, “I was doing fantastically in the polls, but I really became friendly with Mitt Romney and liked what he was saying about China, about OPEC and all the other institutions around the world that are 'ripping us off.'"

He’s lying of course. Polls showed no such thing. They showed he had no hope of the GOP nomination, never mind the White House.

That has not stopped the perpetually self-obsessed Donald speaking out about his amazing attributes.

If Romney picked him it would be a worse bet than Sarah Palin in 2008 which destroyed John McCain.

He has several bankruptcies behind him, has three marriages, has a string of damaging self-aggrandizing claims the length of a Bible.

He would be destroyed and of course Romney knows that too.

But he will play along with the Queens clown, who was handed most of his fortune by his father Fred Trump in the first place and almost managed to lose it.

But it serves no one’s aims to dismiss Trump out of hand, which is why Romney would rather have him inside the tent rather than outside.

But vice president? He makes George McGovern’s pick from 1972, Thomas Eagleton, who later admitted psychiatric problems, look like a genius call.

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tundish45 | May 27, 2012, 05:11 PM EDT

So, Murph46, you're wantin' Trump a heartbeat away, is that it?

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Murph46 | May 27, 2012, 04:08 PM EDT

Funny think the same jealous liberals who castigated O'Leary from Ryanair for making $750Million profit are banging on Trump.I laugh when I see comments of these losers who have probably never achieved much themselves!

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peterson | May 27, 2012, 03:34 PM EDT

Trump would be better than Clueless Biden !!

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PatriciaMarya | May 27, 2012, 03:01 PM EDT

Do remember that picking a clueless Vice President really worked for George H.W. Bush - no one dared impeach him lest Dan Quayle show up in the Executive Suite! No one dared impeach George the Son lest the Dick "Dr. Strangelove" Cheney do the same - oh, but what difference - he was already calling the shots! (A pun, get it? Remember when he shot a friend in the face while Quail-hunting and then went out to dinner instead of to the hospital to express his concern! Oh wait, that was planned by hishandlers in order to get the alcohol count in his bloodstream down!)

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tundish45 | May 27, 2012, 02:05 PM EDT

Trump is a brilliant choice. Ticket is Mitt and Donald. Then following the Abe Lincoln lead, he'd had an Administration of Rivals under the Republican versionof the Big Tent. Grover Norquist as Secretary of Treasury. Michelle Bachman as Secretary of the combined Departments of Education/HHHS/ICE. Secretary of State Limbow. Pat Robertson Sec. Religion. You see the drift. What a fantastic time it would be.

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johhnyb | May 27, 2012, 01:18 PM EDT

Actually John McCain's ratings went up after Sarah Palin was picked as his running mate. This is simply a matter of record. However it may be that picking an utterly stupid VP can make an otherwise clueless candidate look good. After all it worked for President Obama.

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SeamusMor | May 27, 2012, 11:56 AM EDT

He ran a Casino into the ground, which proves he's got relavent experience for a top spot in the federal government. The Donald will shortly announce a "Trump Congress Casino" making use of the U.S. Capitol after hours as his latest gaming venture. "It's a fantastic, historic, incredible piece of property" boasted Trump, who asserted that turning this "underutilized asset" into a "huge money maker" would be a "no brainer" for "an astute businessman" with an "incredible, proven, consistant record of successes"

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EphraimKibbey | May 27, 2012, 11:41 AM EDT

I would like to see him run as an independent for the presidency! I wouldn't vote for him but I definitely think he should run.

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wjb1tex | May 27, 2012, 09:44 AM EDT

I agree completely and I would like to add that if one reads the mainstream media it seems many of the columnists there suffer the same dilusions.

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