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.”
I can’t wait for the first prestitute act the comb over how he can be expected to run against Hillary when he donated money to her Political ventures?
What say you Donald? Did you want political favors or do you believe in Hillary’s Political mindset?
Correction:
I can’t wait for the first prestitute to ask the comb over how he can be expected to run against Hillary when he donated money to her Political ventures?
What say you Donald? Did you want political favors or do you believe in Hillary’s Political mindset?
If he were alive you could ask Richard Nixon how sweating on camera helped him lose to John Kennedy.
Imagine.
A man running for President of the United States, using his own money, declaring himself for himself, wishing the acceptance of neither party, and speaking words not run through the stutterometer or the grand PC machine!
Sounds good to me.
The left side AND the right side of the American political machine has failed the country.
Maybe he thinks he can out-ego her.
My chief fear is that instead of “AMERICAN pride” it would turn out to be “american PRIDE.”
LOL! This is the guy that claims he gets sent so many unsolicited Bibles that he has a special place designated for them:
Donald Trump: I believe in God. I am Christian. I think The Bible is certainly, it is THE book. It is the thing. I was raised and I gave you a picture just now and perhaps you'll use that picture I found it from a long time ago. First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica Queens is where I went to church. I'm a protestant, I'm a Presbyterian. And you know I've had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.
David Brody, CBN: I understand a lot of people send you Bibles. Is that true?
Donald Trump: Well I get sent Bibles by a lot of people.
David Brody, CBN: Where are all those Bibles?
Donald Trump: Actually, we keep them at a certain place. A very nice place. But people send me Bibles. And you know it's very interesting. I get so much mail and because I'm in this incredible location in Manhattan you can't keep most of the mail you get. There's no way I would ever throw anything, to do anything negative to a Bible, so what we do is we keep all of the Bibles. I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive so actually I store them and keep them and sometimes give them away to other people but I do get sent a lot of Bibles and I like that. I think that's great.
But that’s because Nixon did not know how to capitalize on the hard working redneck meme... so he bore his sweat looking silly
Well, we're not talking about a nationally televised presidential debate here.
Take all the money sent to Mexico every Friday night from illegals at every Western Union money gram station. It’s all cash and nobody is asking them if they paid tax on it. I go to my bank with a few thousand in cash and they get all crazy.
I watched Trumps’ speech. It was quite good and filled with something we don’t get from the politicians, the truth.
Directly after Faux News was snarking him with their little sneers and jabs. Stuart Varney I guess did the same. I’m thinking these idiots have no clue what the regular folks sitting at home out of work and sick of watching Obama destroy America think. I had hoped Trump would run in 2012. I would be happy to give him 4 years to try to get things going in the right direction.
On CSPAN on the Democrat caller line Democrats were calling in saying they would vote for Trump. A lot of Democrats voted for Ronald Reagan. I think Trump would kill Hillary in the general election.
I guess we will see how the polls move in a week or so.
This guy sounds like he could be dangerous.
In a good way or a bad way... not totally sure.
Maybe he didn’t know your screen name was Opinionated Blowhard. :-)
If Trump catches on I hope he catches on big enough to not just be a spoiler. The ever looming danger of spoilers is the downside of the two-party system.
Bttt
Professional respect.
Could he coax Cruz into being his veep?
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