Trumped!

[cavorting with nudists]

Now here's a dude we can all enjoy mocking, without even feeling soiled in the way that one does for even knowing about, say, Charlie Sheen.  And we know he'll be on Tom's mind, at least for the duration of Celebrity Apprentice's current season.

My favorite Trump item of the day so far--but it's still early--comes from his op-ed in today's USA Today:

My concern lies with people like the single mom who recently wrote to me that she now works a third job to pay for the gas to get to the other two.

He seems to have picked up that real politicians cite fictional letters from strangers all the time--but (1) who believes that this is where Donald Trump's concern lies? and (2) what single mother working three jobs writes to Donald Trump??

[Christina]

Trump's douchery is bottomless.

A link to Spy's Trump issue that I was talking about on the phone.

The other awesome thing was their monthly deathwatch:



Meanwhile the magazine lasted another 10 years or something.

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Spy was so magnificent.  Even if it had never done anything else, the coinage of the epithet "short-fingered vulgarian" would have earned them immortality. (Well, that and Walter Monheit, "The Movie Publicist's Friend"™)

[gravy boat]

He is a protective father though, got to give him that.  Wait, scratch that. I just realized his kids aren't in grade school.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailycaller/20110421/pl_dailycaller/trumpenragedafterjerryseinfeldcancelserictrumpfoundationappearance

[Christina]

Spy was so magnificent.  Even if it had never done anything else, the coinage of the epithet "short-fingered vulgarian" would have earned them immortality. (Well, that and Walter Monheit, "The Movie Publicist's Friend"™)

I also liked "bosomy dirty book writer" used for lady-book authors like Jackie Collins.

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I also liked "bosomy dirty book writer" used for lady-book authors like Jackie Collins.

Oh no, wait, that was some NY Times-connected writer who had written a novel or two.  She was married to the Times' batshit-loony Abe Rosenthal.

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Shirley Lord, wife of Abe "I'm Writing as Bad as I Can" Rosenthal.  Editor at Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.  It was funnier because unlike someone like Jackie Collins, she didn't think of herself as a dirty-book writer.

[Kormod]

Trump on global warming: "With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore."

Trump on Libya: TRUMP: Absolutely. I‘d take the oil. I’d give them plenty so they can live very happily. I would take the oil. You know, in the old days, Candy –
CROWLEY: Well, wait, we can’t go –
TRUMP: – Candy, Candy, in the old days, when you have a war and you win, that nation is yours.

Trump on Cosby: "He doesn't want me to run because he's obviously an Obama fan," Trump said. "He got more attention talking about me than he did on the merits of his own appearance - maybe he is not as dumb as I thought. I know that he has taken a lot of heat over the years in that he seems to be talking down to the people he's talking to and purportedly trying to help. Actually, based on the way he acted, things are not looking too good for Cosby."

[andrew in philadelphia]

Now here's a dude we can all enjoy mocking, without even feeling soiled in the way that one does for even knowing about, say, Charlie Sheen.  And we know he'll be on Tom's mind, at least for the duration of Celebrity Apprentice's current season.

My favorite Trump item of the day so far--but it's still early--comes from his op-ed in today's USA Today:

My concern lies with people like the single mom who recently wrote to me that she now works a third job to pay for the gas to get to the other two.

He seems to have picked up that real politicians cite fictional letters from strangers all the time--but (1) who believes that this is where Donald Trump's concern lies? and (2) what single mother working three jobs writes to Donald Trump??

I had a hard time getting past the idea that Trump actually reads concerned letters/fan mail (which, like you said, are entirely fictional.)

[Martin]

Oh how I hope he runs for prez! PLEASE RUN!

[HeaveHo]

Oh how I hope he runs for prez! PLEASE RUN!

Amen, brother! Maybe with Palin or Bachmann (Turner Overdone) as his running mate. Dream ticket.

[Steve of Bloomington]

I agree on the Trump presidential run. I can already see Busey giving a performance unlike any seen since Admiral Stockdale's in the 1992 Vice Presidential debate.

[Kormod]

Donald Trump explores another facet of Obama's mysterious Manchurian Candidate-y past:

POLITICO: Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools.

Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School.

“I heard he was a terrible student, terrible,” Trump told the Associated Press in an interview, a claim he’s made in the past but one he doubled down on by suggesting he’s probing that area of the president’s life.

“How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records,” he said, without providing backup for his claim.

Trump added, “I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can’t get into Harvard.”

“We don’t know a thing about this guy,” Trump said. “There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.”

We can only hope that hearsay continues to play an important role in Trump's presidential campaign. He's uncovering some mind-blowing stuff here.

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Donald Trump explores another facet of Obama's mysterious Manchurian Candidate-y past:

POLITICO: Donald Trump is upping the ante against President Barack Obama’s legitimacy, raising questions on Monday night about how the president was admitted to two Ivy League schools.

Trump openly questioned how Obama, who he said had been a “terrible student,” got accepted into Columbia University for undergraduate studies and then Harvard Law School.

“I heard he was a terrible student, terrible,” Trump told the Associated Press in an interview, a claim he’s made in the past but one he doubled down on by suggesting he’s probing that area of the president’s life.

“How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records,” he said, without providing backup for his claim.

Trump added, “I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can’t get into Harvard.”

“We don’t know a thing about this guy,” Trump said. “There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.”

We can only hope that hearsay continues to play an important role in Trump's presidential campaign. He's uncovering some mind-blowing stuff here.

Your garden-variety racist would just hint that this looks like an example of undeserved affirmative action or something (ignoring that graduating magna cum laude thing).  It takes a Trump-scale douchebag to intimate that there must have been some kind of dark conspiracy at work.

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Today the President called Donald Trump a "carnival barker."  Trump's response: "I'm really honored."

In other Trump news, the excellent political blogger Betty Cracker posted: "It’s not Obama’s nature, but I wish he would demand to see a rabies shot certificate for that critter that lives on Trump’s bald pate."