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EarlG

(21,947 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 12:31 PM Jun 2015

Pic Of The Moment: 9 Trumptastically Insane Real Quotes From Yesterday's Big Announcement



Donald Trump Transcript: ‘Our Country Needs a Truly Great Leader’


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Pic Of The Moment: 9 Trumptastically Insane Real Quotes From Yesterday's Big Announcement (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2015 OP
Hmmmmmm..... AlbertCat Jun 2015 #1
such a ray of hope, that guy. n/t LittleGirl Jun 2015 #2
He sure is a charmer! Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #30
Jon Stewart did a great bit of him Tuesday evening n/t LittleGirl Jun 2015 #54
The Donald has taken performance art to a new level corkhead Jun 2015 #3
totally an ass irisblue Jun 2015 #4
All hail the man whose Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt! camelfan Jun 2015 #5
what is sad is DonCoquixote Jun 2015 #6
Wow, Trump confirms just how arrogant and nasty the billionaires are AZ Progressive Jun 2015 #7
Some more insane quotes from yesterday aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2015 #8
Thanks for those. geardaddy Jun 2015 #24
Maybe the University of Pennsylvania has better cheerleaders than Yale. Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #32
The quote that struck me, and one that I completely agree with is Fortinbras Armstrong Jun 2015 #62
I was going to post yesterday asking if anyone outside his family ever voted for him... C Moon Jun 2015 #9
I don't think he's ever actually run for anything before. Ineeda Jun 2015 #17
Oh. He'd talked about it so much in the past, I thought he had actually run before. C Moon Jun 2015 #23
I bet some of his family members won't even vote for him SummerSnow Jun 2015 #26
kick for the arrogant and ignorant humor. samsingh Jun 2015 #10
I don't know ejbr Jun 2015 #11
I can't wait for Bill Maher's response on Friday. Initech Jun 2015 #12
Well, I'm still laughing about Jon Stewart's response last night! calimary Jun 2015 #20
That was freaking Hilarious, calimary! I needed that and laughed so hard as promised! Cha Jun 2015 #58
So if you declare bankruptcy TNNurse Jun 2015 #13
Oh, stop being rational! Declaring bankruptcy is just his way of doing business.... erronis Jun 2015 #18
yes we shall RussBLib Jun 2015 #14
As DUer pinboy3niner would say - calimary Jun 2015 #21
How true! you'd think with all that $$$$$$$.. $8Billion! That he could afford Cha Jun 2015 #59
Holy hell... KatyaR Jun 2015 #15
Nah - he's just humping the media machine. (sorry) erronis Jun 2015 #19
What an idiot. DawgHouse Jun 2015 #16
he's like the anti-pat paulson. nt Javaman Jun 2015 #22
A bad reality show star... 63splitwindow Jun 2015 #25
Trump makes Louie Goehmert sound almost human. nt valerief Jun 2015 #27
Goehmert reminds of a Lemur hopped up on PCP. AngryDem001 Jun 2015 #46
Bwah! By George, I think you've got it. valerief Jun 2015 #48
Stupidity + Money = Donald Trump JDPriestly Jun 2015 #28
Ugly, ugly man!!! And it all comes from the INSIDE!!!!! MADem Jun 2015 #29
Paid the crowd? You mean his own employees. Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #33
No--he hired actors to fluff up the numbers.... MADem Jun 2015 #35
That's a BIG LOL! Elmer S. E. Dump Jun 2015 #41
Allowed in clown car because... chknltl Jun 2015 #31
thanks donald captainarizona Jun 2015 #34
"God is a liberal and a comedian, and he's given us Donald Trump" LongTomH Jun 2015 #36
How did you narrow it down to just 9? nxylas Jun 2015 #37
Well, it wouldn't be difficult for the Chinese (or any) leaders to be smarter than Trump! LeftishBrit Jun 2015 #38
Yes and they way he thinks he can tax Ford treestar Jun 2015 #47
The business Mongol father founding Jun 2015 #39
"Sadly the American dream is dead" Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #40
I believe the lobbyist claim nt LiberalElite Jun 2015 #42
What a stupid asshole. Tobin S. Jun 2015 #43
How much does this man hate America & Americans?.............eom mrmpa Jun 2015 #44
OFFS! BeanMusical Jun 2015 #45
that hair!! makes me want to take a flow-bee to it!! niyad Jun 2015 #49
Didn't he previously brag about 'standing up to the Chinese'? postatomic Jun 2015 #50
Probably hires some crooked company... 47of74 Jun 2015 #51
How in the world does he have so much credibility in the media? Laffy Kat Jun 2015 #52
He makes me want to vomit. SoapBox Jun 2015 #53
$3 for a website? Yeah keep telling yourself that. Initech Jun 2015 #55
I swear indivisibleman Jun 2015 #56
LIar and Insulter.. and I saw a sign in one article that said "Believe Trump".. LOLOLO ROFL! Cha Jun 2015 #57
Rumor control has it,,, Cryptoad Jun 2015 #60
Please let Trump go broke BlueMTexpat Jun 2015 #61
And now we pay for his Secret Service protection n/t Buenaventura Jun 2015 #63
"The American Dream is dead." d_legendary1 Jun 2015 #64
America is embarrassing IHateTheGOP Jun 2015 #65
yes the American dream is dead when Donald Trump pays someone in Bhutan $3.00 to do his web site lunasun Jun 2015 #66
 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
1. Hmmmmmm.....
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 12:41 PM
Jun 2015

I don't see anything more or less qualified about Trump than any other GOP candidate. They all sound this stupid.

camelfan

(130 posts)
5. All hail the man whose Atlantic City casinos went bankrupt!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:00 PM
Jun 2015

Maybe his famous negotiating skills didn't go over so well with the Mafia.

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
6. what is sad is
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:02 PM
Jun 2015

While i would never vote for trump, he at least does nto buy into some BS that Jeb does:

what you say?

"We’ve got nothing. We’ve got Social Security that’s going to be destroyed if somebody like me doesn’t bring money into the country. All these other people want to cut the hell out of it. I’m not going to cut it at all; I’m going to bring money in, and we’re going to save it."

"Now, Ford announces a few weeks ago that Ford is going to build a $2.5 billion car and truck and parts manufacturing plant in Mexico. $2.5 billion, it’s going to be one of the largest in the world. Ford. Good company.But I wouldn’t even waste my time with this one. I would call up the head of Ford, who I know. If I was president, I’d say, “Congratulations. I understand that you’re building a nice $2.5 billion car factory in Mexico and that you’re going to take your cars and sell them to the United States zero tax, just flow them across the border.”

And you say to yourself, “How does that help us,” right? “How does that help us? Where is that good”? It’s not.

So I would say, “Congratulations. That’s the good news. Let me give you the bad news. Every car and every truck and every part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, we’re going to charge you a 35-percent tax, and that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction, and that’s it."

In other words, how fucked are we when Donald F'n Trumpp is on the left wing of the GOP?!?

AZ Progressive

(3,411 posts)
7. Wow, Trump confirms just how arrogant and nasty the billionaires are
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:08 PM
Jun 2015

He has no problem with getting something for nothing even though he can afford to pay people (the quote: "Remember the $5 billion Website? .... I hire people, they do a Web site It costs me $3.&quot

He has no problem with being a disloyal and unpatriotic American (the quote: "I love China. Their leaders are much smarter than our leaders.&quot

He is not ashamed of using lobbyists to give him an ability to usurp laws that are supposed to control people like him (Quote: "I have lobbyists that can produce anything for me. They're great.&quot

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
8. Some more insane quotes from yesterday
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:11 PM
Jun 2015

"And I can tell you some of the candidates they went in, they didn't know the air conditioner didn't work. They sweated like dogs." (dogs' bodies don't sweat - they control their body heat by opening their mouths)


"when is the last time we beat Japan at anything?" (there was that little thing called World War II)


"This country needs a cheerleader, somebody with great enthusiasm," (we already tried a cheerleader, who royally fucked us up)







 

Elmer S. E. Dump

(5,751 posts)
32. Maybe the University of Pennsylvania has better cheerleaders than Yale.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 03:43 PM
Jun 2015

I say give him a BULL(shit)HORN and let him step in it!

Fortinbras Armstrong

(4,473 posts)
62. The quote that struck me, and one that I completely agree with is
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:51 AM
Jun 2015

"Our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now."

Very true. That leader is not Donald Trump, however.

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
9. I was going to post yesterday asking if anyone outside his family ever voted for him...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:13 PM
Jun 2015

then an associate of mine (I hasten to say that), who I'd always thought was a tad off kilter, tweeted that he thinks both parties have failed us and that he will be watching the Trump campaign going forward.



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Ineeda

(3,626 posts)
17. I don't think he's ever actually run for anything before.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:19 PM
Jun 2015

Not even a primary, though I've been known to be wrong about some things.

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
23. Oh. He'd talked about it so much in the past, I thought he had actually run before.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:50 PM
Jun 2015

The whole lot of them are such clowns, that I sometimes can't tell one from the other.
Thanks!

calimary

(81,267 posts)
20. Well, I'm still laughing about Jon Stewart's response last night!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:41 PM
Jun 2015
http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/gyhfub/democalypse-2016---white-house-don

I had to go find it this morning. My husband and I watched it last night and we laughed so hard and so loud and so long - all the way through the commercial break after that segment - that we missed most of it. We were almost convulsing! Be warned!

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
13. So if you declare bankruptcy
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 01:53 PM
Jun 2015

you do not have to pay all you owe...and he has declared business bankruptcy FIVE times. This is supposed to mean he is good with money.

calimary

(81,267 posts)
21. As DUer pinboy3niner would say -
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:44 PM
Jun 2015

"now there'll be hell toupee"!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6845883

GOD! It even rhymes!

Don't know about anybody else, but I'm having a ball with this!

Cha

(297,240 posts)
59. How true! you'd think with all that $$$$$$$.. $8Billion! That he could afford
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 04:38 AM
Jun 2015

a decent hair cut!

KatyaR

(3,445 posts)
15. Holy hell...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:00 PM
Jun 2015

Is he really that stupid? Oh, wait, he is....

If he thinks he's gonna ride to victory on the back of his rich buddies, he's got another thing coming. I wish someone would throw him the hell out of the country. He's worthless except to himself.

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
25. A bad reality show star...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 02:56 PM
Jun 2015

among other scams. Shouldn't be surprised, though, about folks whose saint is...
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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
28. Stupidity + Money = Donald Trump
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 03:10 PM
Jun 2015

He is the living proof that having money does not mean that you are intelligent or talented.

"You're Fired!" Donald Trump.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
29. Ugly, ugly man!!! And it all comes from the INSIDE!!!!!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 03:21 PM
Jun 2015

I wonder how much he paid the crowd? Is that the sort of thing one would put on their acting resume?

LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
36. "God is a liberal and a comedian, and he's given us Donald Trump"
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 04:58 PM
Jun 2015

Great quote from sexy liberal Stephanie Miller!!!!!

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)
38. Well, it wouldn't be difficult for the Chinese (or any) leaders to be smarter than Trump!
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:01 PM
Jun 2015

But on a more serious note - doesn't that more-or-less imply that he prefers a non-democratic system of government? A bit worrying!

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)
43. What a stupid asshole.
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:21 PM
Jun 2015

I'm not sure what it takes to get rich in America, but evidently it's not intelligence and compassion.

postatomic

(1,771 posts)
50. Didn't he previously brag about 'standing up to the Chinese'?
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:24 PM
Jun 2015

Now he loves them? WTF?!

I guess I really need to consider the source.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
51. Probably hires some crooked company...
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:56 PM
Jun 2015

...to build his websites that pays people pennies per hour or nothing at all. And it probably steals the information of anyone stupid to put their personal information on his websites.

Fuck you Donald.

Laffy Kat

(16,379 posts)
52. How in the world does he have so much credibility in the media?
Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:56 PM
Jun 2015

MSNBC is all over him. The man is obviously pathological (not sure with what), yet public figures still discuss "Trump's campaign", etc. He's one the biggest nut jobs of our time and we should be feeling sorry for his crazy ass instead of talking like he's a bona fide candidate. Geesh.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
55. $3 for a website? Yeah keep telling yourself that.
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 02:13 AM
Jun 2015

Remember, Trump, to quote George Constanza, it's only a lie if you believe it.

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
60. Rumor control has it,,,
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 06:50 AM
Jun 2015

that the Koch Bros are paying Trump to run so as to make the rest of the Clowns appear more sane!

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)
61. Please let Trump go broke
Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:03 AM
Jun 2015

funding his campaign.

In the meantime, I am loving how much he shows what a sham 2015 GOPers - and those from at least 1980 - are. Raygun was their first true stooge. But he was also an actor and many Americans believed in him when he played the role of President. I am one who never did.

Trump's candidacy shows the logical progression of GOPer stoogedom.

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