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Stay Classy: Trump Used To Test His Dates For AIDS
The Daily Beast ^ | July 25, 2015 | Asawin Suebsaeng

Posted on 07/24/2015 8:23:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In the early ‘90s, the Donald said he would ask his ladies to swing by the doctor for an AIDS test before he’d wine and dine them.

Future American President Donald J. Trump appears to be a tad germophobic.

“One of the curses of American society is the simple act of shaking hands, and the more successful and famous one becomes the worse this terrible custom seems to get,” the 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner wrote in his book The Art of the Comeback, published in 1997. “I happen to be a clean hands freak. I feel much better after I thoroughly wash my hands, which I do as much as possible.” (He has repeatedly described the custom of handshaking as “barbaric,” because of the germs.)

But his fear of disease goes well beyond his worries about catching a cold from glad handers. According to an early ‘90s Associated Press article, Trump—then a “newly eligible bachelor”—talked about how he asked women to agree to an AIDS test at his doctor’s office before he would take them out on a date.

“It’s one of the worst times in the history of the world to be dating,” he explained in late June 1991, roughly four months before Magic Johnson announced that he tested HIV-positive, and before Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died of AIDS.

Trump made his comments shortly after his divorce from Ivana Trump was finalized, and after he had been seen out on the town with TV personality Marla Maples and then model Carla Bruni.

“I have been known to say that to women,” the real estate mogul and notorious womanizer told Newsday when asked if he actually asked potential lovers to test for STDs. “It’s one way to be careful. There are a lot of ways. I’m saying, take all of those ways and double them, because you will need them…It’s very scary out there.”

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After some years of wooing and HIV-testing, Trump would settle down and remarry, twice. But along the way there was one famous woman he regretted never asking out: Princess Diana.

“Do you think you would have seriously had a shot?” NBC’s Stone Phillips asked Trump during a Dateline segment from November 1997. (Princess Diana had died that past August.) “I think so, yeah,” Trump replied. “I always have a shot.”

Trump claimed he never asked her out because he was always too busy. It is unclear if The Donald would have AIDS-tested the late Princess of Wales, had he not been so busy.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dating; disease; germs; trump
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Smart.
1 posted on 07/24/2015 8:23:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t blame him in the least.


2 posted on 07/24/2015 8:24:53 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So do I


3 posted on 07/24/2015 8:25:23 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Smart man. I wonder if Barry used to tell the guys he dated to swing by the doctor to be checked for AIDS.


4 posted on 07/24/2015 8:26:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! It's not a hate crime if the victim is white.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup.


5 posted on 07/24/2015 8:27:46 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the guy is a fag but not smart enough to have his butt buddies tested... Oh yeah, real class right there
6 posted on 07/24/2015 8:28:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dont blame him.

I think today if I ever had to date again I’d do that too.


7 posted on 07/24/2015 8:28:51 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In the 20 years after 1990, this was pretty common and it worked both ways.


8 posted on 07/24/2015 8:30:43 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

At least the Donald had VERIFIABLE DATES!

Unlike Barry who has a past with more holes than Swiss cheese.


9 posted on 07/24/2015 8:31:47 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want to hear Laz’s comments on this.


10 posted on 07/24/2015 8:32:39 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hillary still has her husband checked regularly.


11 posted on 07/24/2015 8:32:41 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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I don't think he was doing that just to be practical. He has his good and bad points, but one thing I know about him is that he's got some serious obsessive/compulsive personality traits.

There was a story going around among the major commercial contractors in New York City back when he was building one of his towers in Midtown Manhattan. The story is that the contractor's project superintendent got a call one morning from Donald Trump himself. The conversation went something like this:

Trump: "You have to rip out the second balcony from the left up on the 17th floor, and re-do it. I saw from across the street when I was walking past the site this morning, and it's not level."

Superintendent: "Of course it's level. But I'll go out there and check it out for you."

Trump: "I'm telling you -- it's not level. You have to rebuild that thing."

The guy went out there and eyed the balcony from street level, and it looked perfectly fine to him. He then went up to the 17th floor and examined it closely with a level, and it was out of the correct alignment by something like 1/4 of an inch on a balcony that was 20+ feet wide. If the balcony was made of glass and you put a marble on it, it wouldn't even have rolled a fraction of an inch in any direction.

WTF? LOL.

12 posted on 07/24/2015 8:36:08 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
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EXTREMELY typical of a liberal mouthpiece like the Daily Beast to infer that being careful is a bad thing.
13 posted on 07/24/2015 8:36:22 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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Hillary still has her husband checked regularly.

Why? It's not like they are together.

14 posted on 07/24/2015 8:36:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Hillary is as believable as Sharknado 3. Oh Hell No!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Shades of Howard Hughes......


15 posted on 07/24/2015 8:37:18 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Future American President Donald J. Trump appears to be a tad germophobic.

Not in the least!

BTW, IF we were talking about a DIM he'd be the smartest man in the universe.

16 posted on 07/24/2015 8:38:31 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own <blockqurisk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Alberta's Child
it was out of the correct alignment by something like 1/4 of an inch

So Trump was right. And he was paying for it.

17 posted on 07/24/2015 8:38:35 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Sasparilla
Hillary still has her husband checked regularly.

You mean she has Huma checked don't ya?

18 posted on 07/24/2015 8:39:44 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own <blockqurisk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

what he did shows intelligence and maturity.


19 posted on 07/24/2015 8:40:45 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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So this is how they are going to go after him? Really?!?!?

Is that the best they can do? Lame.


20 posted on 07/24/2015 8:41:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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