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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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.jjkleprechaun | Jun 12, 2012, 01:21 PM EDT
Don't be too sure the whole Nation is laughing. A great number think he would do well.
Mousemess | Jun 01, 2012, 04:33 PM EDT
Trump as VP! Endless fodder for cartoonists and comedians!
Bythebay | May 28, 2012, 05:27 PM EDT
Mittzy is meeting with the Donald this week, maybe the VP candidate!
BrianO | May 28, 2012, 09:32 AM EDT
Ephraim, I'm sure that's one stategy your side would like to implement, It work for Deval Patrick in Massachusetts. I'm hoping for a run by Al Gore.
seanfer7 | May 28, 2012, 09:11 AM EDT
He would be a great VP remember hos Spiro would castigate everyone for Tricky
PatriciaMarya | May 27, 2012, 07:27 PM EDT
Trying to find out if this is fact: In Australia, supposedly, you are fined if you DON'T vote. Since 95% of the country gets out to vote, the candidates have to be ready to represent the country and not just the $pecial Intere$t$. In addition, supporting Manamara31's point, the recent Supreme Court decision to allow First Amendment protection rights to corporations, etc. as though they were private citizens, has done the hideous by sending more and more dollars into secret campaigning. As Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS-TV put it, "These Special Interest Pac monies might be bad for the country, but they sure are great for us!" The networks are making financial killings on campaign ads and they should be forced to carry political advertising for FREE with the final candidates being given equal air time. (I notice that newspapers no longer seem to be in the mix.) Also remember when the Debates were sponsored by the League of Women Voters? They never broke for commercials then, did they? The questions also made good sense.
Bythebay | May 27, 2012, 07:20 PM EDT
The Donald could invite members of the US Government to his new golf course north of Aberdeen, Scotland, his contribution to his Scots heritage. That would be a learning experience for them!
greensod | May 27, 2012, 07:15 PM EDT
Not just is the nation laughing,the whole world is laughing out loud
Bythebay | May 27, 2012, 07:12 PM EDT
Mitt didn't run for re-election in Massachusetts because he knew there was no way he'd win!
McNamara31 | May 27, 2012, 06:51 PM EDT
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if America got rid of the opportunists (like Trump) got rid of the corporate money that buys our elections, and had people interested in running for public office for what they could do, and not for what they could get...then magically, the economy would work again, the middle class would have some security again, and kids getting out of college could get job, the food wouldn’t be modified, the air filthy, and our rails and airports wouldn’t look like third world countries, and finally… we wouldn’t have to rely on China to pay America’s bills.
seanomelbourne | May 27, 2012, 06:15 PM EDT
Poor old Donald duck he surrounds himself with sycophants who repeatedly tell him "how great you are" He!HE!HE! LOL'S.
garbo55 | May 27, 2012, 06:10 PM EDT
Mitt didn't get re-elected in Massachusetts because he didn't run for re-election..
tundish45 | May 27, 2012, 05:58 PM EDT
That pic of Trump that accompanies the article. Wasn't that one taken at the April 30, 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner? The dinner at which President Obama congratulated Trump for the tough decision he'd recently made to fire Meatloaf? ...and that same night didn't Obama go back to the situation room and make his own decision which finished bin Laden a few hours later?
ProudCanadian | May 27, 2012, 05:35 PM EDT
I hope that is all the American people do is laugh and not allow the idiot to become VP or anything else. Hell they would be better off with Murph. What do you say Murph there is a plug for you.
Bythebay | May 27, 2012, 05:13 PM EDT
The Donald has enough money, he can certainly buy the VP slot like Mitt bought top of the ticket. He and Mitt could then discuss their strategic investments and the country could run itself. Note Mitt didn't get re-elected in Massachusetts!!
tundish45 | May 27, 2012, 05:11 PM EDT
So, Murph46, you're wantin' Trump a heartbeat away, is that it?
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!
peterson | May 27, 2012, 03:34 PM EDT
Trump would be better than Clueless Biden !!
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!)
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.