Posted on 09/02/2019 10:48:27 AM PDT by Hostage
RB: You are a movement, you are a doer. If you could make America perfect, how would you do it?
DT: Well, I think that America is a country that has tremendous, tremendous potential. I think that much like the mind, I think that America is using very, very little of its potential. I feel that this country with the proper leadership can go on to become what it once was and I hope, and certainly hope that it does go in to be what it, what it should be.
RB: What should it be?
DT: Well, it should be a country, it should really be a country that gets the respect of other countries today that ...
RB: Is respect the most important thing in your opinion?
DT: Well, respect can lead to other things. When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do and you can create the right attitudes. The, the Iranian situation is a case in point that they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous that this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages to my way of thinking is a horror and I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries.
RB: Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops etc and brought our boys and back.
DT: I absolutely feel that yes. I don't think there's any question. There's no question in my mind. I think right now we'd be an oil-rich nation nation and I believe that we should have done it and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it and I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance, I don't think anybody would have been angry with us, and we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity.
RB: For some people the ultimate goal in life has been becoming the President of the United States, would you like to be the President of the United States?
DT: I really don't believe I would Rona but I would like to see somebody as the President who could do the job. There are very capable people in this country.
RB: Most people who are capable are not running for office. Most men are frightened of politics today
DT: It is a shame, isn't it?
RB: Yes.
DT: It is a shame. The most capable people are not necessarily running for political office and that is a very sad commentary on the country. They had major corporations, and they had this and that, but they are not running for political office.
RB: Why wouldn't someone like yourself run for political office? You have all the money that you possibly need. You've accomplished a great deal even though you are only 34. I know there's a lot of things that you possibly can do in the years ahead. Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
DT: Because I think it's a very mean life. I would love and I would, I would dedicate my life to this country but I see it as being a mean life, and I also see it that somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular which may be right but may be unpopular wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile, and that's a sad commentary for the political process.
RB: Television in a strange way has ruined that practice, hasn't it?
DT: It's hurt the process so much. I mean the Abraham Lincoln's of the world, Abraham Lincoln would probably not be electable today because of television. He was not a handsome man and he did not smile at all. He would not be considered to be a prime candidate for the presidency and that's a shame, isn't it?
RB: But if all the men are like you, then when are we going to get somebody who might be good?
DT: I don't know. I hope it's around the corner, but I don't know. I really don't know. What I would like to be involved in is trying to help choose somebody or working with a group of people whereby they put up a candidate who would be acceptable to be a presidential, you know to, to be the President. The country, if we had the one man, and it's really not that big a situation. You know people say well, what could anybody do as president? One man could turn this country around, one proper president could turn this country around. I firmly believe that.
RB: If you lost your fortune today what would you do tomorrow?
DT: Maybe I'd run for president. I don't know (smile).
You stole my description of Trump, but that’s ok because you are RIGHT ON :)!
That was a good read. Thanks for posting it.
Ha — look at that tie.
Trump looks practically like a kid but he was already a billionaire.
I think what is more important is that his form of intelligence is that of a real-world product producer, not a public-sector career politician or a private-sector vulture capitalist.
What a different world if President Trump had followed President Reagan in 1988.
As someone who never ran for political office before, it’s interesting how, prior to his political debut of successfully running for the highest political office in the world, he first mastered the arts of television and entertainment to great success.
And he did that after he had first successfully mastered the business arts of real estate and hospitality at the highest levels.
Love the man or hate him, I don’t care.
I say we are lucky to have such a very stable and high functioning genius as POTUS, as we do with President Donald J. Trump.
Consider what we almost got instead ...
BKMK!!!
BKMK.
I can’t wait til morning! Should be an interesting read.
Yes. When she wasn't sleeping with them, she was interviewing them.
Lol!
Good thing the Hildebeest didn't smile much during the campaign. :)
I read most of that interview. Thx for posting, by the way.
I was greatly impressed by at least two observations:
#1. Rona looked, spoke and acted like a professional at all times. She smiled pleasantly and listened well, but at no time did I think she was star struck, or sending Cougar-Flirt (”Come up & see me sometime after your next divorce.) messages to Donald. Rona’s approach was very respectful!
Nowadays, if you’re a super wealthy man, the typical reporter will ask Trap-Door “Gotcha!” questions, to try and humiliate their guest. Try to lower their stature just a bit.
I can’t think of any Lady reporter of today who could have done a better job without trying to become THE story herself.
#2. The Donald was a deep thinker already, at age 34.
A keen observer of his life and the lives of those in his orbit. He displayed a solid understanding of how personal motivation can guide and drive a person.
flr
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