Posted on 12/21/2006 2:01:35 PM PST by John Jorsett
It's a slow news day, so here's a transcript of the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell, when Trump phoned in to Fox's Cavuto show today. Rosie's response on The View earlier today to Trump's calling her fat and unattractive yesterday was to say nothing and just make a face at the camera. The Fox host asked Trump for his reaction:
Trump: Well, it's typical of a bully. Rosie is a bully. SHe's bullied people for years. She hasn't been bery successful. Her magazine failed, her television show - the ratings were so bad they took her off the air. Rosie is a bully and I hit her between the eyes. She said lots of false things. For instance, that the Miss USA wasn't as big as the Miss America. Miss USA pageant is actually on network television, NBC. It's getting fantastic ratings, it's getting great ratings, as does Miss Universe. The Miss America pageant, as you know David [host substituting for Neil Cavuto], was relegated to cable, and Rosie's talking about how great the Miss America pageant - that that's the granddaddy, that that's the important one - well, she knows that's not true. But she also knows that I own the one so she wants to put it down. She said that Donald Trump went bankrupt. Now, you know better than anybody - you're informed - on the cover of your magazine a month ago, the Forbes 400 as being a very rich guy.Host: Personally - let's just straighten that out clearly here. You personally never went bankrupt.
Trump: I never went bankrupt.
Host: Well, where did all this come from ...
Trump: Excuse me David, she not only said I went bankrupt, she said I went bankrupt many times, bahbahbah, my father bailed me out ... my father was my greatest friend. My father was a Brooklyn builder, my father doesn't bail people out for billions of dollars etcetera. I never went bankrupt. All of your folks at Forbes will tell you that. They would love it if I would because it would make a rat story, but I never went bankrupt, it's just one of those things. But not only that, I'm on the cover of your magazine [Forbes] last month, the Forbes 400, and frankly you have me down at 2.9 billion, I've said it's much higher than that, but it's irrelevant, it's still a lot of money. Rosie is dishonest. Rosie doesn't play the game fair. Rosie is a bully. I hit her between the eyes. She's worried about being sued, which she probably will be, but she's worried about being sued, and her response today was nothing.
Host: You think she was told by her lawyer to keep her mouth shut?
Trump: Well, you can't say somebody went bankrupt many times, and somebody's father bailed him out - all untrue - and then expect not to be sued, or expect to do very well. I can tell you The View - which hasn't done very well - is a show that is very disappointed in me, because they always want me on The View - fortunately I get ratings - and they want me on The View - it's not a show that I'll be doing any more. It's not a vey good show, and they put Rosie on and I say she'll end up killing the show, because everything she touches turns to garbage.
Host: [says that a Fox News Business Poll found 83% agree with Trump that Rosie will bring down ratings]
Trump: Well I think she'll definitely bring them down, David. I mean, she's not a very smart person. If you look at her IQ, I guarantee you - you know, in all fairness, I was a good student at the Wharton School of Finance, I'm like a smart guy, maybe not as smart as you, David - Rosie, if you look at her IQ, I guarantee you it's not way up there.
Host: [notes that Trump is attacking her personally]
Trump: David, she did something with my hair - not that I mind, I mean obviously the hair is the butt of the jokes, I don't know why it's so bad. It's my hair, it's legitimately my hair. - she mocked my hair, she mocked the voice - and you know what this is all about, this is all about the fact that I gave a very wonderful young woman who has a problem a second chance. Rosie would have preferred that I fire her. I'm sure Rosie gives women lots of chances whenever she can. But Rosie woudl have preferred that I fire this woman, and what I said, I said I'm not going to fire her right before Christmas. I'm not going to destroy somebody's life. I'm going to send her away, we're going to work with her, were going to try to straighten her out, and I think we'll be successful and she'll be a great role model in a different way than we had anticipated. But Rosie wanted us to fire this young woman. Not very nice.
Host: [asks Trump if there was some history between him and O'Donnell prior to this]
Trump: Rosie's always knoown that I'm not a big fan of hers. I saw her at the theater not so long ago, and I said, "Congratulations on the failing of your magazine." I didn't like what she did. She was sued by the magazine, there were suits going ... she dropped like an open umbrella. She was not able to handle the pressure whatsoever. And if you looked at her on The View today, she's stumbling, she's fumbling, she was not the same Rosie that she was yesterday when she was full of vim and vigor. She was a stumbling buffoon today on The View. The only thing she did, she introduced her lovely girlfriend and that was it, and she probably needed her girlfriend for some strength. When her friend leaves her, it's going to be awfully hard for Rosie to find a new one, believe me.
[snip - I'm running out of time, so I'm skipping part of the interview]
Trump: I guarantee you, if I weren't married, I don't think I'd have a very hard time stealing her, so I'd have to use friends. What she did with Kelly Ripa, what she did with other people, she's a bully, but nobody ever hit back. I hit back, I mean that's just my life. She's a despicable person.
Trump continues on for a while in this vein, slamming The View's ratings and quality and Rosie herself.
I went down to the bottom first:
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loving the wiki
i use it
do u
i will let u know if the donald sues me
or if kelli leaves me for one of his pals
dont u find him charming
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Arg! Typing like a 12 year old on AIM. Is that really Rosie's Blog or someone pretending to be her?
got the popcorn, the iced beer and watching and listening....but seriously, I do agree with The Donald....IMHO I think Rosie is a very sad, sick person, and always has been, she loud, which is very unlady like, and she says whatever she wants....maybe she has a bi-polar problem, but anyway I support The Donald and hope he does sue her...and then maybe Barbara will fire her and make something out of the View again...it used to be a great morning show, but since they got rid of Star Jones-Reynolds, its gone in the trash can....
The whole thing is hilarious....and with Rosie on the View now, Baba Wawa's reputation is fast becoming that of the female Jerry Springer. I can't believe that Baba and ABC continue to defend her. If they want the Jerry Springer audience, they sure have gotten it, and what does that do to Baba Wawa's "stellar" reputation? She is now in the mud, thanks to Rosie.
Shall they wrestle for it in Vegas WWF-style?
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She actually writes like that? She's like a teenager on a text messaging high.
I followed that rosie link. She's pathetic. She leaves her assult up; but she refuses to stay up and take the debate.
It smacks of Donald King...not Trump.
Does that make her a "Bully Dyke"?
Trump: "I'm sure Rosie gives women lots of chances whenever she can."
I"m sure she does.
Barf.
bttt
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By today's standards, Trumps rhetoric constitutes a hate crime.
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That's hair? I've been waiting for that thing on his head to stand on its hind legs and beg for a peanut. I had no idea it was his hair. "
I'm still laughing at that one! lol
I don't watch the view, but it should not be hard to get a list of its sponsors.
Maybe not here. But I guarantee you that far too many welfare queens sitting on their couches working their way through their first box of powdered sugar donuts of the day while Rosie screeches away on the TV hang on every word that comes out of her sewer.
Rosie waxes her face!
Only in the short term. In the long term this is going to kill that show. The View has been treading the fine line between attracting viewers with its cattiness and disgusting its viewers. Donald Trump knows what he is doing--he is pushing the show over the line. I don't approve of the personal attacks he is making, but it is about time someone took Rosie down a notch. Trump is a very successful businessman and obviously knows how to chew someones a**. Rosie is completely out of her league here.
What can I say? The stupid shall be punished.
This is entertainment. These freaks need to keep re-inventing themselves. Some of them do it with controversy.
Tara Connor is Vanessa Williams revisited You haven't heard the end of her.
At the very least, Playboy will offer her $1Million tomorrow.
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