What do you think about Donald Trump running for president?

[Guest122922]

I've had mixed thoughts on this. Some good....some not so good.

He might could get our country to start making profits instead of losing them.
He also would make a great political cartoon character...lol.

I can't help but say it.....but would America just turn into a big TV reality show????



Torre

[PoppyToyota]

YOU'RE FIRED!!

[Guest082216-1]

Funny but not hobby related. Moving to Sandbox

[Guest122922]

Sorry....I should have headlined it....

Donald Trump is running for president! Do you think he will legalize prostitution?
He is obviously a PLAYER.....dontcha think?

yes?

TT

[cookie man]

His motto...
"A bad toupee on every head, and a hooker in every bed"
WTH he couldn't do much worse...lol.

[Zep]

I would rather see Ron Kirk run, he would make a great president

[TexTushHog]

I think it's a great idea, especially if he runs as an independent. Where can I go to encourage him? Or anyone else who will help split the Republican vote!!!!

[helen]

he'd be on the republican ticket. he'd definitely be a formidable opponent to run against obama. assuming sarah palin doesn't jump in the primary (i think the GOP can squash any possibility of this, although we have no real idea of her volatility these days), i think he'd pull a sizable portion of the swing vote, given his background in business.

however, if palin does jump in, you might see a more contested primary than we saw with clinton v. obama.

assuming trump does enter the primary and wins, obama is going to need to step up his game. trump is not a dumb man, i'm sure he's got rolodex upon rolodex of potential donors and would be smart enough to figure out the compliance loopholes, and could certainly afford to pay the best campaign minds in the country to flock to his team early on.

but political winds shift all the time, who knows what the national sentiment will be regarding the two parties when it counts.

[cookie man]

I have always thought the country would be better off if it was run like a business. Get religion out of it.

[Zep]

If it was ran like Cuba then we wouldn't be in this mess. They have 0 unemployment, free health care and no homelessness.

[Guest122922]

well hey, we voted in Ronald Regan didn't we? What a sweet 4 years that was ....

We are so honed in on fame.....that we sometimes think influence is more beneficial than intelligence. But who's to say? When you are fighting congress.....maybe influence is what it takes to overcome those knuckleheads!

Anyway....HELEN.....I have to say....you take this subject quite seriously....and I salute you.

I just think it will be comical, shocking and perhaps in the end an exciting ride if he does get elected.

He does have that "I don't take shit" personality, but he hasn't dealt with congress....and he will not be the man with the last word.
Not sure if he is ready for that.

my 2 cents....
xxxooo
Torre

[helen]

right, there is nothing like dealing with the politics of congress. campaigning is easy, but governing is hard-- the egos, the favors, etc. LBJ was a master at dazzling congressmen to advance his agenda, which no doubt was due in part to the fact that he passed through two houses and the VP before assuming the presidency.

[Guest122922]

Originally Posted by helen

LBJ was a master at dazzling congressmen to advance his agenda, which no doubt was due in part to the fact that he passed through two houses and the VP before assuming the presidency.

Kudos on that comment, Helen.

I truly wish we had more intelligent young female members on this board, having the whereabouts as you do to speak of such subjects with much logic.

Awesome.

TT

[Juan Pablo de Marco]

Originally Posted by helen

trump is not a dumb man.

yes he is... he is a complete idiot, and a failure at business.

http://graneyandthepig.wordpress.com...han-you-think/

DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump is a fraud. The man hailed on television shows like The Apprentice and throughout the media as one of America’s top entrepreneurs is about to pile up more major bankruptcies. He is, in reality, one of the biggest business failures in world history.
In fact, Trump may be the greatest fraud in American history. So far, Donald Trump’s sole and only successful enterpreneurial skill has been to outlive his father. When Fred Trump died he was worth $400 million. The death of Fred Trump was arguably the last successful business venture of “The Donald.” Fred Trump’s inheritance money was responsible for contributing a “significant amount to Donald Trump’s wealth.”
Since then it has been failure after failure for Trump. Most people already know that Trump bankrupted his casino empire in Atlantic City. TWICE. In 2005, The New York Times business section wrote that Trump was close to “shutting his doors” in the late ’90s. He was forced to borrow money from family members against the future inheritance of his dying father. Without his family loans “there would be no Donald Trump” as we know him today according to the Times. Trump then lied to the paper about the loans.

All of this is old news. Everybody knows how Trump re-invented himself and became America’s most famous celebrity rich guy. However, there are two seperate reports today that Trump is about to bite it again financially and he has taken hundreds of millions of investors’ dollars down with him.
First comes news in The Wall Street Journal that Trump Entertainment Resorts (Trump’s casino company) is going to miss a $53.1 million interest payment due today. Trump’s $53 million is just the INTEREST on $1.25 billion in outstanding notes. Trump can’t even pay the interest on the debt, let alone the principle on the loans. The company’s stock is now worth 31 cents a share due to Trump’s business genius. A year ago the stock was worth $6 a share. Once, the stock went for $24 a share.
Meanwhile, in a completely seperate financial Titanic, Trump’s other business, the Trump Organization (the real estate company he inherited from is father), is being sued over construction of the Trump International Hotel in Chicago. Donald Trump put up a “personal guarantee” of $40 million on the project which cost $640 million. Trump still owes over $334 million on the loan. Again, he can’t even pay the $40 million he PERSONALLY owes, let alone the $334 million owed to creditors.


Finally, anybody who has ever been to Atlantic City knows Trump’s properties (the Trump Plaza and the Trump Taj Mahal) are dumps. They are comparable to the most outdated Las Vegas facilities like the Tropicana or the Imperial Palace, filled with cigarette smoking, 70-year-old blue hairs. While builders in Vegas have spent the better part of the last two and a half decades building glimmering and opulent palaces in the desert, during times of record growth and profit, Trump COMPLETELY MISSED the gravy train. The famous tic-tac-toe playing chicken had more success and a better Las Vegas track record than Trump. You’d have been better off investing your money in the chicken.
By the time Trump got around to building in Las Vegas, the economy had tanked. Although sales were brisk for both of the Las Vegas Trump Tower projects, the resulting bank financing to Trump’s wealthy tenants was an unmitigated disaster. Months after its opening, Trump International had closed escrow on less than 20 percent of its buyers according to the Las Vegas Sun.
If you were an investor in any of Donald Trump’s casino or real estate projects, it’s far beyond time to tell the fake tycoon, “You’re fired.”

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anybody want to vote for this idiot now? i hate to ask the question as so many idoits voted for dubya and ronald raygun. and arnold. and sarah and the super old guy she was running with.

JPdM

[Hawkeye9]

Originally Posted by Torre Tames

well hey, we voted in Ronald Regan didn't we? What a sweet 4 years that was ....

Torre

All I have to say it was 8 years, not 4.