Posted on 06/16/2015 10:40:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Declaring to be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” billionaire Donald Trump entered the Republican presidential contest today as its 12th candidate.
Trump went way off script for the long announcement in New York, starting off with a dig at Rick Perry’s sweaty airplane hangar announcement.
“Some of the candidates, they went in. They didn’t know the air-conditioner didn’t work. They sweated like dogs… How are they going to beat ISIS? I don’t think it’s gonna happen,” he said.
Mexico, he said, is “laughing at us, at our stupidity” as they import drugs and “rapists” into the United States. “And some, I assume, are good people,” Trump added, vowing to build a wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it.
“Islamic terrorism is eating up large portions of the Middle East. They’ve become rich. I’m in competition with them. They just built a hotel in Syria. Can you believe this? They built a hotel. When I have to build a hotel, I pay interest. They don’t have to pay interest, because they took the oil that, when we left Iraq, I said we should’ve taken,” he said, referring to the hotel ISIS refurbished and opened in Mosul.
Trump called the other Republicans in the very wide field “wonderful people.”
“They all want me to support them. They don’t know how to bring it about. They come up to my office. I’m meeting with three of them in the next week. And they don’t know — ‘Are you running? Are you not running? Could we have your support? What do we do? How do we do it?’ I like them. And I hear their speeches. And they don’t talk jobs and they don’t talk China,” he said.
“We have to repeal Obamacare, and it can be replaced with something much better for everybody. Let it be for everybody. But much better and much less expensive for people and for the government. And we can do it.”
Trump said when Obama was elected he thought the young president “would be a great cheerleader.”
“But he wasn’t a cheerleader. He’s actually a negative force. He’s been a negative force. He wasn’t a cheerleader; he was the opposite,” he added.
Some of his platform points?
He advocated sending “real junk” military aid, since the U.S. is “always losing this gorgeous brand-new stuff” to groups like ISIS.
To fight ISIS, he vowed to “find the General Patton or I will find General MacArthur, I will find the right guy. I will find the guy that’s going to take that military and make it really work. Nobody, nobody will be pushing us around.”
“I will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. And we won’t be using a man like Secretary Kerry that has absolutely no concept of negotiation, who’s making a horrible and laughable deal, who’s just being tapped along as they make weapons right now, and then goes into a bicycle race at 72 years old, and falls and breaks his leg. I won’t be doing that. And I promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you.”
Trump also took a swipe at Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). “Then I looked at Rubio. He was unable to answer the question, is Iraq a good thing or bad thing? He didn’t know. He couldn’t answer the question,” he said. “How are these people gonna lead us? How are we gonna — how are we gonna go back and make it great again? We can’t. They don’t have a clue. They can’t lead us. They can’t. They can’t even answer simple questions. It was terrible.”
He also slammed Jeb Bush: “Bush is totally in favor of Common Core. I don’t see how he can possibly get the nomination. He’s weak on immigration. He’s in favor of Common Core. How the hell can you vote for this guy? You just can’t do it.”
“…This is going to be an election, in my opinion, that’s based on competence,” because “people are tired of these nice people.”
Apparently, he's had 4 businesses go bankrupt over the years, but he personally has never gone bankrupt. Makes me wonder if any of those 4 bankruptcies could have helped at all by company money going to augment his now $9 B personal fortune.
Politicians don’t create jobs. The greatest job stimulus would be the government getting out of our way. Remove all the things that smother business - OSHA, EPA, high taxes, labor laws, endless regulations, etc.
I wouldn't hold up his use of Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a business tactic as a positive thing. Also, (a) his bankruptcies were corporate, not personal, and (b) bankruptcy doesn't mean he had nothing - he had substantial wealth even while his companies were going through bankruptcy.
“True story: one time I was getting on an elevator in New York City. Two men in suits and sun glasses came up to me and told me to get off the elevator. I thought, by the looks of them, that some important government official was getting on and that I had to get off for security reasons so I did. But no, it was Donald Trump and his monumental ego who didn’t want to share the elevator with any peons like me.”
i believe i’ve read about that same sort of behaviour by our Hillary when she was a senator. i think she doesn’t even want to be looked in the eyes by those she wants to lead and help, but will gladly accept one [better yet, even more] dollars from them for her campaign to be their advocate and champion as she ascends the throne to the Casa Blanca.
LOL. That is a 100% true story from back in the 1990s. And Trump was a private citizen who had no security detail or right to kick anyone off of a public elevator. I know other people who have run into his ego and have stories about how bad it is. He may be a good real estate investor. He may be a good showman, but he has a monumental ego and a supreme sense of entitlement.
I will venture to guess that he will never be in a position to "find that running the government" is anything.
How, exactly, is he going to make Mexico pay for the wall?
It’s been done, Donald. His name was Washington, George Washington. Why? He didn’t want the job. But he did it with honor and distinction anyway. And after two terms, walked away and went home.
Great he will only help the country file bankruptcy! please no Trump for President - Trumps Motto should be - I know how to solve America’s Problems Structured Bankruptcy.
yep
This means absolutely nothing, but my cousin used to do work for him and says he’s the most corrupt, sleazy person he’s ever known. Even if that’s just hard feelings on my cousin’s part, Trump’s got a lot more skeletons in his closet than four traffic tickets. I’m paranoid enough to think the MSM lets him skate because he makes the GOP look stupid.
Especially that he historically gives a lot more to dims, including Hillary.
I welcome Trump! he will keep things stirred up to say the least! LOL
>> How, exactly, is he going to make Mexico pay for the wall?
He’s not. He’s just a windbag. Bla, bla, bla, Donald.
It could be fun watching him strut around and unload on everyone, though. He has useful work to do. But POTUS isn’t it.
Yeah, he could be a great attack dog for the GOP (and the GOP's eventual candidate) - from the outside.
Currently, in the absence of much of an impetus to embrace actual GODLINESS, job creation is about as plausible a proxy to redemption as can be had. Weak and fallible though it be.
It does read vaguely like the script of Idiocracy, but at least Trump would put skin in the game.
He was HILARIOUS.
Trump can talk the talk and walk the walk. president oreo can whine the whine and lie the lie.
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