Donald Trump Trashes Ron Paul at CPAC: "Ron Paul cannot get elected, I’m sorry to tell you.”
It looks like Donald Trump wants to run for President because he viciously attacked Obama during his CPAC speech today and listed his creds for the job, but then cluelessly threw Ron Paul under the bus.
Boos were showered upon him at the 10:30 mark.
Trump fired off a series of tough talking points including declaring that “the world is treating us without respect,” we are “missing quality leadership” and that the “United States is the laughingstock of the world.” Additionally he had some harsh words for President Obama, who Trump declared “came out of nowhere” and didn’t even make an impression on any of his classmates when he went to school, because nobody ever heard of him.
Most humorous was watching a large amount of supporters for Republican Congressman Ron Paul who chanted Paul’s name get smacked down by Trump who, with his trademark candor, broke the news to them that “Ron Paul cannot get elected, I’m sorry to tell you.” Instead, Trump was eager to inform everyone “if I ran and if I win, this country will be respected again.” He declared he was pro-life, against gun control, and would fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that won’t bankrupt the country.
I say clueless because if Trump had done his homework he would have known that Paul won CPAC's straw poll just last year which was news to people who actually follow the news.
Mr. Paul, a Republican Congressman from Texas who inspired an intense following for president in 2008, swept the 2012 presidential straw poll Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
He won with 31 percent of the nearly 2,400 votes at the conference, edging out Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, who won the straw poll last year and who captured 22 percent of the vote. When Mr. Paul’s name was announced in the packed ballroom of a Washington hotel, it elicited hoots and boos along with applause. Although Mr. Romney won fewer votes, he seemed to draw stronger applause.
As for The Hair, when he talks about going bankrupt, well that's something he knows all too well.
How Does Trump repeatedly file for Bankruptcy and still stay on top?
And there's this article: How Many Times Has Donald Trump Filed For Bankruptcy?
For legendary tycoons, Donald Trump tops the list, but how many times has Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy? The 90’s recession wasn’t picky about who it affected. Donald Trump felt the pinch as well. His decision to use high interest bonds to finance the assembly of the Taj Mahal casino caused life to get very stressful for the tycoon.
In 1991, unable to pay a $3.5 billion loan, he declared business bankruptcy. He also came close to filing personal ruin. At the time, his personal debt was estimated to be around $900 million. Due to the bankruptcy, banks and bondholders lost millions. They came to a compromise with Donald Trump. The banks gave him lower interest rates and a longer time frame to repay the debt and Donald Trump gave the investors half the ownership of the Taj Mahal. In mere months the casino was back in business.
Not even a year later, Trump Plaza Hotel folded and Donald had to declare bankruptcy. Again, he worked out a deal where he’d give up 49 percent of the hotel to Citibank and the other lenders and he’d get more time to pay the loan back. It took him two years to repay most of his debt with many sacrifices. He had to give up the Trump Shuttle.
The bankruptcy saga didn’t stop there. In 2004, Donald filed for bankruptcy protection and restructured his debt. He reduced his ownership of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts to 27 percent and gave bondholders stocks to help lower his debt and then stepped down as CEO. In 2005, things settled down and Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts came out of bankruptcy with a new name, Trump Entertainment Resort Holdings. Unfortunately the reemergence didn’t last long. On February 17th 2009, Donald Trump filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with a debt ratio of $50 million in assets to his $500 million in debt. This filing made the third bankruptcy for Trump Enterprises.
Trump had all the required right wing talking points down like hating on HCR, gun control and being pro-life, but as for CPAC goes, not so much.
Garbage collectors make a lot of moolah.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
'WAR CRIMINAL!’: Ron Paul backers crash Cheney-Rumsfeld reunion [VIDEO]
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I hope the words of that heckler are burned into Cheney's mind forever.
No amount of money can change the fact that Trump is a chump. Sorry 'Donald'.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
...kick a**.
I can't believe Eric Holder lets Darth walk free.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
Obama lets Darth walk free. It starts at the top with Mr. "Let's Move Forward".
NOBODY 2012
Roadkill Comb Over: "America is becoming the laughing stock of the world".
Becoming? Where was Roadkill Comb Over the prior 8 years?
If a majority of Americans cast a vote for this guy?
is intended to be a factual statement
thing in a sea of Ron Paul supporters proves that HE cannot get elected. Sorry Donald.
Not only did Ron Paul win the straw poll last year, the word is that he is destined to win it again THIS year as well.
But the media will figure out a way to gloss over this win, even though Ron Paul has not announced that he is even running yet.
Just as Sean Hannity practically messed his pants when the Fox "text poll" came in as to who won one of the first presidential debates and the winner was hands down Ron Paul. Poor Sean. All he could do was make excuses, "Oh, his followers are internet/text savvy all right! And they are just more organized than Romney's or McCain's people. Humina, humina, humina".
I can't wait to see the results of the CPAC straw poll. I hope Ron Paul wins overwhelmingly.
I'm sure it's making his fellow Republicans CRINGE at the fact that he went on the House floor January 26th of this year and read his indictment of George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush as war criminals.
Heh.
"The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams
Ron Paul's economic Rx: a Southern secessionist
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
No he was smart to say it here. It got them all thinking, and got them to see the replacement, him. He knows what he was doing. I saw a few walk out, but most stayed in that room. He could win these rubes over. He said what they wanted to hear, and he is younger than Ron Paul.
He was brave enough to tackle Ron Paul in his home turf. They will support him for showing that kind of bravery.
Ron Paul is a bonafide nutcase, and a rabid racist. If anything, he is a good sourse of entertainment, as are his fellow libertarian cult members.
...Ben Burnbanke's worst nightmare.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
(I don't care who you are)
I'm pro-choice and Ron Paul is not, and I don't agree with him on a few other things,
but I think we need him.
Dennis Kuchinich is fucked up sometimes too but we need him also.
there are only a few folks in Congress left who will speak truth to power.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
food. No thank you.
I've never seen change without a fire
He's a nut who reminds me of Ross Perrot. Just a crazy old man with no filter and Kucinich is also a bit of a loon. He's losing his district and is now losing his mind. Good riddance. We don't firegagger wingnuts on our side.
indication, he would be terrible for Latinos, the African-American community, women, people with disabilities, just to name a few...
I've never seen change without a fire
JFC! I hate this toxic asshole and that swirling toilet of degenerates!
Where do these animated piles of fecal matter come from? This nation is going down!
Conservatives are the enemy of progress and civilization. Plain and simple.
Well, if there is anyone who should know about clueless losers, it is Donald Trump.
"That's a lie! Donald Trump is a hero. He saved the money of every investor in that casino".
"Donald didn't save their money, John, because you weren't there to save Donald".
"Huh"?
"You were never born. Every investor in that casino was wiped out".
"You're crazy! Mary! Mary!".
not sure where he was speaking, think it was an interview, but he said something to the effect of:
"i know china... china is the enemy... i deal with china all the time... just sold them a building last month..."
crazy.
Trump just figures because he is/was a super rich CEO a**hole, that all republicans would automatically like him if he had the talking points down.
It's a sense of entightlement these "criminals in suits" have, who make up the republican "upper crust."
As a self centered, greedy, evil, egomaniacal sociopath, Trump would definitely fit the personality type of a GOP president. Plus, he's a total prick too!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
run rampant is a sad, but amusing thing to watch. WTF was The Donald doing there anyway? Did he crash, or who invited him? Curiouser and curiouser.
either.
I've never seen change without a fire
and all that goes along with it: gambling, addictions to gambling, hookers, obscenely ostentatious hotels.
Most conservatives don't "gamble" unless it's pretty much a sure thing....like the stock market.
Heh.
Trump (and his stupid pompadour) is a joke.
"The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams
but it would be amusing to see him in the primaries.
And, it's fun to think of what sort of ticket the Repukes could have with him involved:
- Bachmann & the Donald - they'd be fighting over mirror space to do the hair;
-same if it was Mitt and the Donald - fighting over the Brylcream;
-Palin & the Donald - they could make beautiful babies together, ugh;
-the Donald & the Newt - fun to watch them fight to get thru the door first...and get stuck
+ they could wife swap
-etc.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
There isn't enough brain bleach on this planet that could... :S
I've never seen change without a fire
Hey, don't bogart the brain bleach, dear --- use what you need and pass it on, stat!
*grin*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
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Continuously looking for a bailout when he gets in over his head financially - Trump sounds like the perfect Republican.
just love Donald's latest wife. What's her name? Melanoma? Melania? She speaks the perfect broken English that wingnuts just love! They'll probably paint her as being part of some communist, sleeper cell, plot! Fuck off Trump! You'd have to look up to even see the soles of Obama's shoes you wig wearing freak!
harder to see the souls of any of the republicans. They don't have any.
They should get Rosie O'Donnell to heckle him.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
his mother was born in lewis, scotland and he wants to build a golf course in aberdeen. that's like compton and martha's vineyard. he's a bawbag.
his hair was born in Scotland to a fox which was killed and skinned and sewn to Trump's head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4WXown03c
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Go for it you ignorant blowhard, the first thing you will figure out is that egotistic political neophytes like you without any realistic ideas will bomb in the political arena.
As the saying goes Donnie, a thought without an action plan is called a hallucination. We need you about as much as a scorching case of herpes.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
I love his hair. What a nerd. But even more than that, this guy makes the ego of newt look like kid's play. This pompous jack off really thinks he is "hot". What a joke.
Funnier than those facts, there are several hundred fellow geeks and nerds that think he is "right on". What a nation of f*cking morons we live among.
I agree with them on a few points, but these libertarians mostly just scare the crap out of me.
Teapartiers are not going to like the idea of Trump being bailed out 3 times....
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
It must be a bitch for Barry Obama that he was editor of The Harvard Law Review and no students seem to remember him! It's a sad state of affairs that you can say something so assinine and they don't laugh you out of the room.
to insult the shit out of them! I hope HE know he could never be elected to anything either!
He sounds like Bachmann, Angle,Palin(the Elder),O'Donnnel
And he has had more than one wife a la Reagan,Gingrich,Guiliani,McCain,Limbaugh,Murdoch
Trump for President!
Alfie46
Healthcare will bankrupt us? Not the two wars we are spending four billion a week on? Not the health care for our servicemen, who have been maimed for life? Not the pentagon out of control spending? Not bailing out billionaires?
Just healthcare.
You idiot!
don smith
You forgot to add about the free health care all congress people and their families get for life. Considering most of these people are millionairs there is no reason for them to be getting free health care for life at all when many people can't afford to have health care at all.
There really needs to be much more said about Rand's contribution to the CPAC ho-down. He said the cuts the House nuts want to make are not even close to what the country needs, He said entitlements (read Social Security and Medicare) must be hacked up! The Repelicans have always dreamed of this but Rand said it loud and clear. This needs to be shoved down the throats of all those over 62 Tea Baggers who are in his sights.....oh yeah he might back off and say he only wants to fuck with their kids and grandkids but that is not what I read of his contribution so unless he backs off and says he only wants to screw future generations he needs to eat his words. And if he tries to weasel and say only the young will be screwed we have a nice little demographic war set up to exploit and contrary to what some yungins think many of us boomers are quite willing to take to the streets to fight for their rights, just give us the chance by getting your own team up for the prom!
the time has come the walrus said to talk of other things
Trump can't even get people to watch his crappy tv show...he thinks he can get them to vote for him?
well, actually, he sounds like a great candidate. 1. he's been bailed out by the system numerous times so he can rail against poor mothers getting $200 in food stamps while he gets billions in gov't backed loans. 2. he's been bailed out by the bankers, so he owes his nuts to them. 3. he's got that killer business savvy that everyone who watches tv loves.
Trump/Palin 2012
Palin/Trump 2012 (yeah, like The Donald would stand for that)
That's something the left should be prepared for, you may not like him, but Trump will win and he'll win huge. He's probably the only candidate who can come in and kick his opponents ass in a debate and get away with it because people already know how he is and expect it.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
They might prefer Bristol
Alfie46
I really doubt it, Trump will be the GOP's next Ronald Reagan.
Goodnight, Frau Blücher
"He declared he was pro-life, against gun control, and would fight to end Obamacare and replace it with something that won’t bankrupt the country."
Donald Trump, President of the United State. President Donald Trump. It DOES have a nice ring to it.
Smart man too. He didn't get where he is by being dumb. And he's honest as well. At least he won't pretend to be a Republican and then turn out to be a Democrat like the guy we're stuck with now has done in reverse.
President Donald Trump. One can always wish....
Trump is a chump
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Donald Chump thinks anyone who is antiwar cannot get elected. He's a freaking status quo, establishment guy! Eff him up his ass!
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein
Please, pleeeze, pleazzzzze, Gawd, let this happen . .
Trump/Palin 2012
If you let this happen Gawd, I promise never to inhale anything for the rest of my life!!!!
I'm sure Trump's best friends, THE CHINESE, would be thrilled if he were POTUS . .
Setting aside millionaire cheapskate Fred Trump, his slumlord father . .
Do you think Trump got to where he is by being 'honest'?
Silvio Berlusconi -- without the sex appeal!
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