Posted on 12/21/2015 7:47:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump has a solution to the Miss Universe crown controversy: Share the wealth!
"What I would do is make them a co-winner, that would be very cool," the presidential candidate and former Miss Universe owner told Matt Lauer on the "Today" show Monday.
Pageant host Steve Harvey made an out-of-this-world blunder on Sunday night by mistakenly announcing Miss Colombia the winner -- before stripping her of the sash and tiara on live TV just minutes later to hand over the top prize to Miss Philippines, the true winner.
"What happened to the girl from Colombia is devastating," Trump told Lauer. "To give it to her for a couple of minutes and then take it away ... I would recommend that they go have a beautiful ceremony, which is good for the brand and good for Miss Universe, and do a co-winner. I think something like that could work."
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Karma is a bitch, just like Perez Hilton.
I would emphatically reject the offer of co-winner if I was Miss Columbia. It would be an honest and graceful gesture to not accept something that wasn’t rightfully won. I hope she does this.
Sure he did cupcake, he felt the need to pick winners and losers when the pageant already picked the winner...Miss Philippines.
Are you gay?
“... Pay Miss Columbia off handsomely to heal her hurt and send her on her way ...”
Sort of like Americans having to pay slave reparations, eh?
Somewhere this morning Bob Barker is kicking back in his easy chair and thinking “so....you thought this job was EASY, hey, America?”
I agree with that, as well.
But she should be co-awarded the prize just this year, there is no downside to that, from the pageant’s standpoint, from the actual winner’s standpoint (she won, everyone knows she won), but I would not say Miss Columbia absolutely has to turn it down for sure. Though I agree that would be the ultimate statement.
That should be her decision I think. That would probably be the absolute best solution.
Co-award it to both ladies, and Miss Columbia graciously turns it down.
Win-win.
Commas are your friend!
lol
Hey, I remember Bert Parks!
"There she is ... Miss America ... there she is my ideal ..."
No.
You (and trump) suffer liberal confusion common to Big Labor union liberals pretending to be conservative populists.
Both things cannot be simultaneously true.
Either they are made co-winners and Miss Phillipines is diminished, or the pageant is awarding a fake crown to Miss Columbia, thus further humiliating her with amounts to a pity prize.
uh...no.
I missed that TRUMP interview on NBC. Thanks for assessment!
What a heartbreaker for Miss Columbia. I even feel sorry for Harvey. I would have died on the spot! Probably Miss Columbia could feel not much worse than Harvey, from an emotional level, in the moment! Geeeez.
Leni
Not even close to liberal PC self-esteem BS ...
This was a ROYAL FK UP ... and it needs to be set right.
You do not make this kind of screw up to an international audience ... It was a PR disaster.
Putting the reaction of FReepers into the category of the standard liberal PC self-esteem practice is hogwash.
If you cannot discern the distinction between what happened here - and the exception that COULD be made as a gesture of good will - versus what liberals do, as a matter of habitual manipulative practice, then I think you to be either politically motivated by your animosity towards Mr. Trump (TDS) or else just plain intellectually dishonest.
I would have missed it, but for Willie Geist making mention on Morning Joe’s which is on earlier! LOL.
Turns out Willie was also on the TODAY show, so at 7:00AM I switched to NBC to watch TODAY and sure enough Donald Trump was their first guest. Matt Lauer conducted the interview ... *sigh* ... but he was respectful to Mr. Trump.
Trump is completely, 100% correct.
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LOL.
You would say that regardless of the circumstances.
In this case he is 0% correct. And you know it as well, you just can’t bring yourself to admit that the Donald can err.
Sucks to get caught in a web of your own making, doesn’t it?
Don’t resolve this by creating a public “co-winner” situation - but rather sneak around through the back door and “pay her off.”
Am I missing something?
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