Talk Elections

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51855.html

This makes me think he's actually running; Trump wouldn't be pandering so horribly if this was just a publicity thing or whatever.

Yeah, I seriously doubt Donald Trump could possibly care about another human being long enough to question his birthright citizenship.

I tell you folks, the Republican Presidential Primary of 2012 will be known forever as the greatest reality show of all times.

wow, this does make it look like he is running. Should make the debates more interesting.

Yeah, this was part of an interview with a TV babe on his jet that I saw.......or is this another occurrence?

We haven't moved pass this yet?

He needs to release all his financial records to prove he doesn't commit fraud. If he's not committing fraud, then why doesn't he release his financial records for the public to see?

This was on "The View".  Whoopi wasn't happy.

It is slightly distressing, although not surprising, that coming out as birther-curious is a prerequisite for running for the Republican Nomination.

And Trump's probably a moron.

 Aahhh, a trust but verify moment but from a skeptics point a view...

 I heard a news blurb a couple weeks back, it may have been a month by now or just a nap ago, but that, Hawaiian officials seem to of misplaced the certificate. Lost, never happened, tweak the opposition or he just picked it up last time there - - - the whole thing is a rouse which then will turn into scandalous conspiracy where someone gets hurt, a political party or the constitution.   

Does anyone actually think that someone could file the paper-work to run for president... without a birth-certificate?!

Sweet merciful crap, this is complete and total BS - and anyone who actually gives this idea any credence need to be seriously medicated and/or get a hobby.

The same people who are talking about "the sanctity of the constitution" are the same people who sabre rattling about this nonsense.

forgot about financial disclosure, cant imagine he would ever do that

Yup, he's doing it for attention, but when it comes down to it... he won't run.

Really? After this I fail to see how he couldn't. If he doesn't he's going to fall into irrelevance in two years...Well, deeper into irrelevance.

Wow, YES YES YES, he will have the best "Reality Fake-Candidate" show of all time and it will be produced by Mark Burnett!!!  I want this show!  "You're Fired Obama" will be his catch-phrase!

Can you imagine someone in his position, with his business past... actually consenting to full disclosure of his financial records?

Ok, thanks, Mr. M.  He said nearly the same thing on his private jet interview.  I almost hope he runs just for the entertainment value.  ;)

Honestly, pretty much all of the questionable/iffy/stupid business decisions he's made were over a decade ago, and actually has the potential to make a good narrative- "I got myself out of debt; I can get the country out of debt."

And any recent financial issues can just become something like: "I've had to personally cope with our nation's recession; I'm the only candidate that's had the experience of being a business owner during this financial crisis so I know best how to lead our nation back to prosperity."

What's more likely to haunt him in a GOP primary is the fact that he's personally contributed to the campaigns of "evul libruls" like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel, Charlie Rangel, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.

  If I recall, pre & post election, the Donald was interviewed on CNBC more than once. The conversations were of the Donald & Obama on the same page with many of the issues and, I do not remember the Donald stating the president needed to provide a birth certificate... back then.

Sorry Fmr Gov& NE Speaker. Polnut,
these statements, I believe are his, Obama's intended purpose,

If Obama has a passport, then I trust he has a birth certificate.  Actually, it must be pretty easy to get his SSN since everyone's SSN is online these days. 

Trump is upset at the big-govt spending on Health Care and so are a lot of Fiscal Liberals.  These Fiscal liberals care about social issues, but also are conservative fiscally on big govt spending. 

I hope Trump and Mark Burnett have a reality show on the election.  It would be entertaining and I hope Burnett does it - it would be his tv pinnacle.

Trump releases his birth certificate!

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/donaldtrump-birthcertificate-newsmax/2011/03/28/id/390930 (http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/donaldtrump-birthcertificate-newsmax/2011/03/28/id/390930)

()

Trump says Hawaii Gov. Abercrombie should be "investigated" for saying that he remembers Obama's birth:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52064.html

Obviously a fake.

It's no secret that Donald Trump has the ressources at hand to produce credible forgeries that would pass any test.

He should be investigated by the FBI or something. There's something curious about this guy. :P

Must be the toupee.

No, the fact that two of his three wives weren't even Americans tipped me off. If Trump's wives are foreign-born, he can be as well. Prove me wrong. :P

lol (especially Ben Smith snark at end):


http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Trump_fails_to_produce_birth_certificate.html

Quick get Trump over to snopes quick like so he can see this shocking bit of evidence!

http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg

Trump says he has people on the ground in Hawaii, investigating Obama's birth:

http://thepage.time.com/2011/04/06/trump’s-hawaii-investigation/


Also, there's this gem on Iraq:

Does trump write his responses before hand for maximum comedic effect?

No, for maximum media impact. That's the fundamental motivation for his candidacy; not politics or policy.

I am sure Trump is sitting back and laughing at all of this. As a pro-choice former Democrat supporter with three trophy wives all he had to do is spend a week saying Obama is a Kenyan and he grabbed 20% support of the GOP base.  This is all politics as performance art.

But I bet Tim Pawlenty is paying close attention. After Bachmann and Trump lapped him in the week after he announced, will he jump in the birther bandwagon to try and get some buzz too? It would probably work better than his recent references to Laday Gaga and Charlie Sheen.

If the GOP wants to nominate Trump, then good luck to them. 

I'm sure he'll get all the evangelical vote for a thrice married NYC liberal.

I think NBC should cancel his show, if Trump continues his craziness.  In fact, they probably are going to cancel it and this is a desperate action from a desperate man.

Palin weighs in:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52880.html

If it's 'perplexing' for you - then gravity is probably a nightmare, we already know they can't cope with evolution.

Of course we all know that the real issue is quite different. Where was Trump's 'hair' born? A Chinese prison? A Russian gulag - or whatever Putin Public Relations Inc calls them? An oil well? Hell itself?

Wow! Talk about going off the deep end. Then again this will give him perhaps a couple points more at the polls.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/trump-obamas-grandparents-put-in-the-birth-announcement-to-get-welfare-other-benefits.php (http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/trump-obamas-grandparents-put-in-the-birth-announcement-to-get-welfare-other-benefits.php)

Trump: Obama's Grandparents Put In The Birth Announcement To Get Benefits Like Welfare

Donald Trump has an explanation for why President Obama's birth would be announced in a Hawaii newspaper if he wasn't really born in the United States: His grandparents put it in as a ruse to make people think he was a U.S. citizen, "for hospitalization, for welfare, for this, for that, for all of the other assets you get from being a United States citizen."

On CNN's State Of The Union, Trump told Candy Crowley that he, and others, are not convinced by the birth announcement, published in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13, 1961, because "it was eight days later after the supposed birth."

"A lot of things happen in eight days," he said.

Trump continued:

 
Crowley, for her part, was not buying it: "I will tell you we've checked with both these papers early on" and "the fact is that the hospitals reported this information to the papers, and the papers printed it."

"Who knows?" Trump replied. "You're talking fifty years ago."

I don't think Birthers realize it doesn't matter where you were born as long as you are an American citizen. 
Maybe they don't consider Hawaii a real State.
Maybe they want both parents to be citizens.
Maybe they don't think Obama is half-white.

Do they realize that McCain was actually born outside of America, I don't hear any complaints about that!

I almost feel dirty for continuing to post this stuff, but this gold from Trump is too precious:

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/04/14/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.html

"I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks."--Donald Trump, after having called Obama's strong African-American support "frightening".

Reminds me a bit of this:  http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1014917.html

Also, here's a fun Palin-Trump crossover from 1993:

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/04/the-trump-palin-connection.html

Dammit, Morden, I wanted to post the Perot comparison.  >:(

Also, God bless Donald Trump for making American politics interesting again.

maybe they were waiting for the mohel.

Since this seems to be the main Trump thread, I'll repost this here. He's hiring a campaign manager.

Trump now says Obama was too dumb to get into Columbia and Harvard:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53694.html

Not exactly unbelievable, given that we had two unqualified Yale undergrads of middling intelligence running against each other in '04.

Well, duh! Obviously he was a product of affirmative action. It's well documented that that's the only way a ni**er can succeed academically.

Lord knows the editor of Harvard Law Review must be a total doofus...

The guy really is scraping the barrel.

He's excellent at getting attention though, isn't he? If only the media would ignore him...

If Donald Trump were Atlas poster, he'd be banned a long time ago.

Someone on SSP has a theory that Trump is getting his talking points from... wait for it... Facebook. Apparently people were saying this stuff about Obama on his Facebook page recently, and now Trump is talking about it.