Posted on 09/02/2015 6:10:49 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Donald Trump says he has great affection for Ben Carson, but he’s not so sure Carson has the right experience to be president.
The billionaire businessman and Republican presidential frontrunner explained why in an extensive interview with The Daily Caller that covered a wide array of subjects. The interview will be published in sections over the coming days.
A Monmouth University poll of Iowa released Monday showed Trump tied with Carson for first place — though Trump is quick to note that it was just one poll and that he leads the field, including Carson, in all the other recent polls.
But despite the rising threat of Carson in Iowa, Trump has not yet attacked the world-renowned neurosurgeon. Asked by TheDC whether being a doctor provides the necessary experience to be president, Trump said while Carson is “a wonderful guy,” he thinks it would be “very tough” for someone who spent his life as a surgeon to handle the job.
“I think it’s a very difficult situation that he’d be placed in,” Trump elaborated. “He’s really a friend of mine, I just think it’s a very difficult situation that he puts himself into, to have a doctor who wasn’t creating jobs and would have a nurse or maybe two nurses. It’s such a different world. I’ve created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.”
In the past Trump has questioned whether Ted Cruz is eligible to be president because the Texas senator was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. Cruz and Trump have since become something like BFFs on the campaign trail, refusing to criticize each other and even scheduled to appear together at an upcoming rally in Washington against the nuclear deal with Iran. Asked whether he still thinks Cruz might not be eligible to be president, Trump said, “based on everything I see, there’s no problem.”
“Because other people have brought it up, and it seems like the legal scholars have all been satisfied,” he went on. “It was never a big point for me, but I have watched other people question him, and the legal scholars have been satisfied.”
President Barack Obama has been criticized by many Republicans, including Trump, for his regular golf outings. But would Trump, who is an avid golfer and owns many golf courses throughout the world, regularly hit the links if he makes it to the Oval Office?
“The problem with the president, he’s played more than people on the PGA tour,” Trump quipped. “He plays a lot. He’s like a touring professional in terms of the amount of play.”
“Golf can be a great tool for making deals, but you can’t play with your friends, you have to play with people that you’re looking to — for instance, playing with [House Speaker] John Boehner and playing with [Senate leader Mitch] McConnell and playing with people that you need to make deals with,” Trump argued. “It can be an amazing tool for getting things done and for making deals.”
“With that being said, you want to play it the proper number of times,” he went on. “If the president would use golf as a tool more than he does, I think it would be very positive.”
Trump often cites how rich he is as a sign of his success and, in turn, a qualification to be President of the United States. By that standard, would someone richer than him, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, be more qualified for the presidency?
“That’s different,” Trump replied. “Honestly, I don’t think I’d swap assets, to be honest with you. I’ve seen that stuff go up and down. I have very, very solid stuff. To me, I love real estate because you can feel it. A lot of people, they’ll make five hundred million dollars by doing some new computer game, but I don’t consider that — I consider that sort of different. I consider that paper.”
“I did it in real estate,” he explained, “and as real estate goes, this is about as high as you go.”
Carson is an open borders amnesty shill, who only recently repeated his wish to reward the illegal invasion of our homeland.
He’s Jeb Bush with a different look.
You’re probably right about that. Makes perfect sense.
“Doctors are necessary because people could get sick but society are better off without needing doctors at all”
Yes, but could luck with that.
Better to say that Carson was an extremely busy and successful as a neurosugeon. It would be great if he could work on some brains in Congress and the Executive Branch to improve their ability to be loyal to the US and work for our country’s best outcomes. Alas, no one would submit to brain surgery.
He had little time to keep up with current events outside his practice and hospital. Neurosurgeons are extremely busy and intense people. Their work is that of angels. It is a profession that is not full time; it is all the time.
He would be dependent upon Establishment advisers to tell him what to do as president and life would not improve for the American people. He’d be easily manipulated into the will of the Establishment without a clear understanding of the political history of what ails our government and the economy.
KRLA is at it again. Shapiro and Krauss going positively orgasmic calling this an ‘attack’ on Carson, and saying now Trump is in trouble. I turned on Beck and he and his folks were laughing about Chick fil A is now Ok for Denver Airport
My nephew is a neurosurgeon. He’s brilliant and would do anything to save someone from suffering paralysis or other brain damage. He’s excellent and in high demand.
But, even though he has a family, his life is brain surgery, thinking about brain surgery given his patients’ needs in current and past cases. He does not sit down with a cup of coffee and surf the net for the latest news. He’s also a researcher.
He’s the kind of man who is able to make things his patients need. I love him. I would have no one but him fix my brain if injured. But I would not elect him President.
All through med. school and through his practice, he has had no time to spend studying wacky Washington and what they have done and what the consequences have been for the people and the economy. When he’s not doing work, he is putting every minute he has into his wife and children. That is the life and mind of a brain surgeon.
Business men have to pay attention to local politics and to Washington because they can be run out of business with some stupid moves by politicians. This is true of not only our politicians but foreign politicians if their business is global. The rich ones buy off politicians, as you know.
Running a multi-billion dollar business and the jobs created can not be compared to running a doctor’s office. For one thing, the doctor hires a good, experienced supervisor for the staff and patient money and record business because he’s too busy doing medicine, plus most don’t like business...they are doctors and have enough on their plate healing patients. Triple that for a brain surgeon.
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