Posted on 11/05/2015 8:13:49 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
Donald Trump is prepping for his upcoming role as host of “Saturday Night Live†the only way he knows how: by boasting about his ratings — and insulting his Republican opponents.
The real estate mogul, who was replaced as host of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice†following his controversial comments about Mexican immigrants, says it’s no surprise NBC asked him to host “SNL.â€
“You’re never at war when you get great ratings,†Trump said Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day.†“Nobody gets ratings like me.â€
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Marvelous idea!
Are you aware that Trump and Carson have been friends for decades. At the beginning Carson was on Cavuto discussing their relationship. Carson said that Trump was extremely considerate, generous and a great friend. Since then he has kept quiet about their relationship.
( Do you follow Sundance. It’s just possible the two are working together to keep the establishment from taking delegates in the early states. Dr Ben is spending money very fast. Not putting any back. ( that’s a clue )
They both worked on St Jude children hospital and are friends with the Thomas family. Eric Trump foundation who philothopic work is primarily with children’s research and hospitals Just as Carsons is
When Carson moved to Florida he moved into the same zip code as Trump
Dang, the ‘rump always smells like an ass.
That’s the problem with Trump. There never comes “at some point”.
He just piles on. His insults are unrelenting and I no longer believe or hope that it’s us he’s fighting for.
Time will tell.
Over and out.
Big deal. I know a lot of high IQ folks. None would stoop to take a test for Mensa.
Snot worry neither he or I have applied. That doesn’t mean we don’t qualify
I was invited to join, back in the day. Turned them down, as I thought them nerdy self-aggrandizing so ‘n sos.
I met a local chapter president once. Man, he was out there. Smart but lost, poor soul.
Do your research. Business magazines with objective methodologies peg him at less than half of his alleged $10 billion.. These are folks who evaluate large fortunes for a living. The thing is, his 2 - 4.5 billion is still a really impressively big pile of money. I’m not sure I understand his need to exaggerate. But exaggeration seems to be his life blood.
Your link on IQ is a joke.
First, the SAT isn’t sensitive enough to accurately measure an IQ that high. Even the old SAT.
Second undergraduate business programs don’t admit the smartest kids, not even to the Ivies.
Third, students admitted to Wharton scored on average lower than Harvard, Princeton m and Yale admits (though Wharton average scores are well above average for the population at large.) You can see this by the relative acceptance rates. Harvard and Stanford are hovering just over a 5% acceptance rate. Wharton is 12%. Harvard and Stanford have notoriously high admission standards. Even still, most kids at Harvard hover around 140, not 156. The average new 1600 SAT at Harvard is 100 points higher than penn, and roughly 35 points higher than Wharton, now that it’s a separate school within Penn.
As well the graduation program from his graduating class does not list trump as receiving honors with his degree, thus indicating that he was not one of the better students of his graduating class.
Fourth, there is anecdotal evidence that trump got in through a family friend. This sort of thing was much more common a half century ago when the Ivies were more old boy schools mostly for the scions of well-off kids with a sprinkling of financial aid cases who were really, really smart. trump clearly fell into the rich dude’s son category, not the really, really smart category. Today, the financial aid cases slightly outnumber the rich kids at most of these schools.. About 55% - 60% of Harvard undergrads get financial aid. But here’s a statist that will blow your mind: 40% of Harvard families have family income of $250,000 per year or more.c
It’s difficult to realize that relatively speaking, it’s much harder to get into these schools today than in the past. Even 20 years ago the acceptance rates were much higher, and the intellectual attainment of admitted students was, on average, still high, but not as high today.
GW Bush had an above average SAT score in his day, But likely wouldn’t be admitted to Yale today with his 1206, even taking into account the shifting of scores due to re-norming.
There is no real evidence of trump’s IQ based on his admission to Wharton, beyond saying, he was probably above average.
Other than a surmise, how would one know (or care to know) if one did not take their test?
Adios, indeed!
Conscience of a “Conservative” has left the building, amigos.
Amazingly, you don’t know, even .01 percent of those folks. Stooping is a whole other, matter of reference. Care to enjoin?
I don’t think I ever knew anyone in it. Oh wait, my father once knew a guy at work in it. But he was a bit of a laughing stock. Invested heavily in gold in the late seventies, early 80s, as it was peaking, shortly before a multi-decadal slide. He was sort of a mini-trump, always telling people how smart he was.
“Im a supporter but getting less so. Trumps big NYC mouth isnt doing him any good. Why attack allies? Trump has plenty of FOLLOWERS but getting fewer supporters. His big mouth will let a lot of decent folks down.”
It’s the Primaries. In the Primaries, your opponents are fellow Republicans. That’s the whole purpose of the Primaries, to weed out the winning candidate amongst them. In the General, you go after the Dems. Each in its place. We are looking to hire the strongest candidate amongst many. The idea that you can’t attack allies doesn’t hold true during Primaries because they are at this point opponents, not alllies.
They all can kiss and make up after the Primaries are over, and they generally do. The “losers” can get hired for positions in the new Admin, and all will be well with the world. If Gentle Ben can’t handle the attacks now, he isn’t Presidential material, is he. Most of us are very tired of kissy face. We are at the point of “go for the jugular”.
No more Mr. Nice Guy. We want a fighter. And then you knock Trump for not being nice enough? Geez, get a spine. We need spines right now more than anything else. No more linguine spines. We need warriors ready to knock the blocks off of the enemy. Practice in the Primaries, execute in the General Election.
alllies = allies, above. Typo.
CoC will have to get a new name, so it can continue to get paid for its anti Trump posts.
;-)
That is what they do, isn’t it?
You may remember Con CON would fly into the natural born citizen threads trolling for Obama.
Furthermore, “Conscience of a Conservative” aka CON-man over the years would consistently be on the liberal side of issues over several years. Possibly FR management looked over his posting history may have came to the same conclusion.
“Furthermore, “Conscience of a Conservative†aka CON-man over the years would consistently be on the liberal side of issues over several years.”
Maybe Sen McCONman will give him a job in D.C as a page.
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