Posted on 01/26/2016 7:27:15 AM PST by AT7Saluki
Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale got more than 600 retweets for beaming out this Trump quote on Saturday, although when I googled it, I came up empty.
Trump acknowledging the act: "When I'm president, I'm a different person. I can be the most politically correct person you've ever seen."
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Ouch that’ll leave a mark.
This article is very telling:
Mr. Trump memorably told Mr. D’Antonio that “when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same.â€
“The temperament is not that different,†he said.
“The little boy that still wants attention,†said Marla Maples, his second wife.
“He wants to be noticed,†said Ivana Trump, wife No. 1, who recalled sending him into a fit of rage by skiing past him on a hill in Aspen, Colo. Mr. Trump stopped, took off his skis and walked off the trail. “He could not take it, that I could do something better than he did,†she said.
On his publicity seeking: “The show is ‘Trump,’ and it is sold-out performances everywhere,†he told Playboy.
On his feelings of superiority: “For the most part, you can’t respect people because most people aren’t worthy of respect,†he told Mr. D’Antonio.
Perhaps his most revealing statement applies to the time-honored virtue of self-reflection. Mr. Trump is not in favor of it.
“When you start studying yourself too deeply, you start seeing things that maybe you don’t want to see,†Mr. Trump once told Time. “And if there’s a rhyme and reason,†he continued, “people can figure you out, and once they can figure you out, you’re in big trouble.â€
I’d bet he means that he can be diplomatic, which is a form of political correctness in terms of relations with foreign nations.
Doesn’t mean he’ll not be tough and America first.
I agree. That’s why I’ve started ignoring the ‘gotcha ted’ threads.
When we’re getting down to this petty crap, we’ve all run out of ammo and now we’re flinging poo.
Just another week until Iowa. Whether or not it goes to Cruz or Trump really doesn’t matter in the scheme of things. Honestly, I think that Iowa’s importance is way over inflated. Their caucus system is ridiculous.
I think your interpretation of the quip is the correct one. I actually believe that is his sentiment and what I would anticipate. It is how I read it and Trump is my second choice or lower.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/MOKi5YeNtRI
OK, good point. I stand corrected.
One could argue that it is already too late - would Cruz right the ship? I do not for one moment doubt his Conservative credentials. What I DO doubt, is that he will do anything different than any other perfectly polished pol (say that 5 times fast!), and I seriously doubt he will.
I know, he talks a fabulous game, but in the end, he will remain beholden to the business and other special interests that helped him get elected. This is what every single politician does, every single time, regardless of party - they know where their bread is buttered, and they will protect that. This is just one reason Donald is so enticing - he ain't a politician, and he really has nothing to gain, and everything to lose.
I hope the anti-Donald crowd is wrong, because for better or worse, I'll be supporting him in the CO caucus on March 1st. If Cruz gets the nod, then I will vote for him. If any of the others make it, my vote will go 3rd party for the reasons stated above. I don't trust politicians anymore, and I'm done voting for the "lesser evil". That has only pushed the GOP further to the left, and I am ashamed for my part in that.
One thing I know beyond a shadow of a doubt: this is indeed THE MOST IMPORTANT election in our history. The very survival of the Republic hangs on this very election. We either make it happen and bring America back from the brink, or we fall apart. Trump & Cruz each hold the ability to bring us back. Whether either actually will, against all odds, remains to be seen.
More like cow chips, if you ask me.
Pizzachip is the mexican word of the day.
That’s a stretch, but okay. In my day it was more like ‘you put sheet on my bed and I keel you’.
Mrs. Clinton gets away with stuff, why not Trump?
I always thought we were more mature than the democraps but lately it appears not.
Glenn Beck, a Cruz supporter, called that sentiment "dangerous" this weekend. Trump obviously meant it as a joke, an exaggerated statement of how loyal his fans are. But it's striking even as a joke because it proves that not only is he aware of the cult of personality around him, he's counting on it to increase his freedom of political movement -- and that is a little dangerous.Try to imagine the reaction among Cruz fans if he went out onstage today in Iowa and promised he'd be a "different person" as president with forays into political correctness as circumstances require. They'd be mortified. If you like Cruz, you like him because of what he stands for and the fact that he's not afraid to piss off the right people in doing so. The instant he ceases to fill that role, he's disposable.
What Trump's telling you in these two quotes is that those rules don't apply to him. Barring some truly core betrayal, like signing a new amnesty into law, he thinks he can count on his fans to follow him anywhere. And if he decides that he needs to dispense with the tone, or the policies, that he's been pushing on the trail and become the most politically correct person you've ever seen as president, then he, in his wisdom, must have his reasons.
(Relatedly, Obama cultists started off as anti-war and anti-drone and anti-"unitary executive" in 2008 and have been shrugging at Obama's deviations from that line ever since.) The amazing thing about the "Fifth Avenue" quote is that it's a joke at his own followers' expense. A friend called it his "Lonesome Rhodes moment," in which a populist hero ends up laughing at the devotion of his own fan base.
Judging from Twitter this weekend, the reaction to it from fans actually proves Trump's point: Even though they're the butt of the joke, they defended him on grounds that he was kidding, it's hyperbole, and so on.
Meanwhile, if Obama had made the same joke in 2008 at the height of his own cult of personality, conservative media would have needed smelling salts. It would have been treated as an ominous sign of arrogance and intoxication with power in a would-be commander-in-chief. But I guess we're already past any illusions about that double standard.
[ And that’s what I’m afraid of...once in office, Trump betraying most of what he said he stood for. It’s happened before...I pray it doesn’t happen one final time before the Republic is irretrievably lost. ]
One silver lining on the cloud is that IF Trump did this it could possibly destroy the Republican party, the bad is that it could drag the whole country down with it as well...
Could this mean he is pro abortion when he is President? That everything he told us along the way is a lie?
I agree the candidate Trump will be different than president Trump. Running for president is much different than being president.
don’t forget this one -
it’s because i wouldn’t give them money
Trumpites making excuses for stupid stuff Trump says. How do they know what he meant? After all, the Trumpites claim he is a conservative who will fight WAshington D.C. yet he can’t help from telling us he can make deals with the Democrats.
And, If he can’t handle questions from Megan Kelly, how can he handle dealing with Putin?
All tyrants and socialists believe those systems of government haven't worked in the past only because they weren't in charge.
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