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 just emailed Barbara Walters and asked her why Rosie didn't have an email address.
"Isn't that a dead squirrel on his head?"
Looks like a pair of comatose ferrets. Dead ones shed too much, I guess.
Dead ferrets then because the only comatose ferret is a dead ferret.
I hope Donald pounds that big haystack into submission.
Yeah - I have read comments she has made about people and she seems nasty in a Paul Begala sort of way. And in the same way that a pipsqueak like Begala has no room to be making fun of others, a lardass like Rosie has no room making comments.
Yeach! The warranty on Boxer's face must have ran out recently.
Trafficant Hair Club for Men? I thought it was the Trafficant Ferret Club for Men. ;-)
I got into a discussion about the same thing 2 nights ago. I ended the conversation by asking what's the difference between Rosie O'Donnell and Rosanne Barr. I said "About 5 lbs" and we moved on.
"Trump is a complete ass."
Sometimes he can be but Rosie is lower than pig crap, in fact pig crap is more attractive than Rosie. Sad but many people hate Trump because of jealousy.
IMO, they are both arrogant, but Rosie is a mean spirited POS. Everything Trump said about her is true. She's as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside, and that's pretty doggone ugly!
what was that about?
I'm hoping for a Rosie Trump Smack down after all being thoroughly oiled up. It would make a great radio program because of all the sloppy sounds.
Trump is very good with the media. He has that whole "matter-of-factly" way of talking down pat. It's a very effective way of speaking and Rosie will lose this dogfight.
Leno said that Trump should sue his barber.
I miss that guy!
Yes, she does write like that. Out of idle curiosity, I checked her blog a few times a while back even though I don't particularly like her. My brain nearly exploded trying to process the lack of punctuation, grammar, and spelling. That post from Wikipedia is the most intelligent thing to ever be on her blog and she copied and pasted it. Add the fact that it actually supports The Donald's statement that he, personally, never filed bankruptcy, it shows you how unintelligent she is. As far as I know, his company (or companies) are not the same legal entity as he is. Isn't that the whole point of incorporating, to protect personal assets?
I've had my dose of Rosie for the year. Too much of her makes my brain hurt.
I'm not particularly fond of Trump, but I hope he lays the smackdown on Rosie. :)
What a waste of space and my share of oxygen.
FOX displayed a statement by Walters to the effect that she says she hopes this calms down soon. I thought, OH HELL NO, let it rip, and pass the beer and popcorn. Oh man, let them both loose and stand back!
That was about Rosie O'Donnell recently commenting on "The View" about Kelly Ripa and Clay Aiken. She said Kelly was "homophobic".
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