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 hed 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, Trumpthen a newly eligible bachelortalked about how he asked women to agree to an AIDS test at his doctors office before he would take them out on a date.
Its 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. Its one way to be careful. There are a lot of ways. Im saying, take all of those ways and double them, because you will need them Its 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? NBCs 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.
Can’t blame him in the least.
So do I
Smart man. I wonder if Barry used to tell the guys he dated to swing by the doctor to be checked for AIDS.
Yup.
Dont blame him.
I think today if I ever had to date again I’d do that too.
In the 20 years after 1990, this was pretty common and it worked both ways.
At least the Donald had VERIFIABLE DATES!
Unlike Barry who has a past with more holes than Swiss cheese.
I want to hear Laz’s comments on this.
Hillary still has her husband checked regularly.
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.
Why? It's not like they are together.
Shades of Howard Hughes......
Not in the least!
BTW, IF we were talking about a DIM he'd be the smartest man in the universe.
So Trump was right. And he was paying for it.
You mean she has Huma checked don't ya?
what he did shows intelligence and maturity.
So this is how they are going to go after him? Really?!?!?
Is that the best they can do? Lame.
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