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.”
“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”
For once you and I totally agree. I have a feeling Trump is going to put together a pretty good team or he wouldn’t bother. The is a businessman afterall. I he either has to go big or go home.
I think his Trump brand bottled water flopped but that was no big deal.
“Could he coax Cruz into being his veep?”
Not a bad idea. He could mentor Ted on the art of the deal of how to negotiate real free trade agreements. I like Ted I just think he’s too green for the job right now.
Where in the Constitution does it say that it is the President’s job to create jobs? (Apart, of course, from the officials appointed by the President—usually to replace a person who held the same position earlier.)
Trump strikes me as someone who's trying to close a deal that holds something good for him. As a deal maker, he's willing to say whatever (he thinks) the other side wants to hear, if it will convince them to close the deal.
As I wrote on another thread, I’d take Bozo the Clown over any of the corrupt thieves that work for the federal government. The ONLY way to fix Washington is to hire someone NOT FROM Washington. Good on Trump for stating his beliefs without a filter from the party establishment.
Oh Lord....Please take me and put me out of my misery if that is the ticket. Just send a bolt of lightening and end it. If that is the ticket, I’ve had enough. We certainly dig deep into the dregs of society when wanting a Presidential ticket. A three-time divorced adulterer to boot. A guy bankrupt twice. And then a guy with zero experience. Actually the entire ticket would me missing experience. Lord, we can’t get any worse then your wishful ticket that is for sure.
Where in the Constitution does it say that it is the President’s job to create jobs? (Apart, of course, from the officials appointed by the President—usually to replace a person who held the same position earlier.)
EACH branch of our government SHOULD be promoting and protecting the free market ideas our Founder’s believed in.
You are correct, “A three-time divorced adulterer” is actually much too honest to reside in DC.
A loose cannon running for president.
Great!!
We have had one divorced President in our entire history. That’s enough. We lucked out with that one but it could have ended badly. It was a risk and we won but risks do not always end up in our favor.
The biggest risk this country faces is to continue keep letting federal employees get promoted. Both parties have driven this country to the brink.
No you won’t Trump!
First, you’re not going to be nominated.
Second, Ronald Reagan already has that title.
Go away Mr. Ego.
“it was Donald Trump and his monumental ego who didn’t want to share the elevator with any peons like me.”
Met the guy a few times in my line of work and that sounds exactly right. He’s far more of an ***hole in real life than on TV.
Even uses those goons you saw to intimidate people at meetings.
“The ever looming danger of spoilers is the downside of the two-party system”
“spoilers” is a term normally applied to third party candidates.
I agree, and the guy is not dependent on anyone or any party. Looking forward to hearing more.
Dunno, if he’s learned his marital lesson so to speak from his wild oats... and as for the bankruptcies there is the bromide that if you never fail you never tried as hard as you could.
For business he wouldn’t be any WORSE than Mitt.
He’d probably also at least RESPECT “religion” which is better than our current _resident or Hillary! would do.
This does not look like an aspirant for Democrat or Republican. I see a Trump party forming.
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