Donald Trump: Should We Take Him Seriously? (Now leads 2012 GOP Field by 9%)

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Trump has to be the thinnest-skinned alleged billionaire on the planet. Or at least the USA.


http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/04/donald-trump-letter-201104

 

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Yep, my bad.

 

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Trump is fantastic at what he has chosen to be for the time being: a sideshow clown. He knows how to pander (politically), and he knows how to play to the ADD and OCD of the popular culture.

Anyone who doesn't "understand" what he is doing... I don't know what to say. Is he a serious candidate for POTUS? No, because he doesn't even carry himself like a serious person.

 

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What's weird about Trump's "candidacy" is that there is a huge hole - right in the middle of the electorate, that he could have really exploited, and yet chose to veer right into the mosh pit of crazy.

 

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Appealing to the moderate would not have gotten Trump an eighth of the attention, nor is it something you do, anyway, before a primary.

Like with the love affair with Sarah Palin, that Trump is polling as well as he does with Republicans says a lot more about the paucity of worthwhile candidates. Someone may yet emerge, especially if the economy sinks in an oil-price-inspired funk. But I would think Republicans' best hope might be concentrating their resources toward making sure Obama has no state and local legislative coattails in 2012, rather than on beating Obama himself.

 

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I don't hate or disdain Obama, but I truly detest his policies and his actions. He ran as one think and has governed as another. He made all kinds of promises during his campaign that he has failed to keep, and some of his behavior has been sad and inexcusable. When he was running he railed on and on about how Bush and Cheany were terrible people because of Gitmo, that the prison was a symbol of everything that was wrong with the United States and that his first act as president, on the first day, would be to close it. Now, instead of saying something like "I was wrong," he just makes excuses. And what he did in Lybia as President Obama went against everything Candidate Obama stood for.
I think he has been a very poor president. He has wasted a lot of money and broke a lot of promises. We can agree to disagree. However, one thing I can agree with is your disdain for Bush. If not for him, President Obama would have never been a possibility.

 

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I think the News has a lot of nerve going with this cover considering that they and the Post made Trump:



When Donald was getting started, Howard Rubenstein & Dan Klores were two of the top PR guys in the City. They both had very New York centric practices. Rubenstein represented most of the big real estate developers.

Trump had both of them on his payroll. They made sure he was mentioned in Page Six and in Rush & Molloy.

Trump was never as big a player in New York real estate as the Rudins, the Fischers, the Le Fraks or the Dursts. But, as far as most New Yorkers were concerned he was the biggest thanks to the news coverage of him.

And now the News wants to say he's a clown.

 

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This is what is interesting to me, Trump is either too cheap or cash poor to make a $500 million bid for POTUS. (unlike Mayor Bloomie who would probably do it if he hadn't been so socially liberal)

 

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I am certain that Trump has always been cheap and has a lot less money than he pretends to have.

 

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In '05 the Times looked into it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/business/yourmoney/23trump.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

 

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Trump won't bankroll his own campaign. He's become rich by making other people put up the cash - he provides the name and publicity.

 

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True. Trump licenses his name, like Ralph Lauren. Or, in Real Estate the Four Seasons.

There's a Trump Tower in White Plains New York and a Trump Plaza in New Rochelle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_(White_Plains)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Plaza_(New_Rochelle)

In both cases, the buildings were built by Louis Cappelli. Trumps name helps sell units because people expect them to be luxury buildings that "meet the Trump Standards".

There was also supposed to be a Trump Tower in Tampa. Trump flew in for a press conference, but the local developers eventually abandoned the project.