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Donald Trump: Make Miss Universe contestants co-winners after Steve Harvey’s ‘terrible error’
New York Daily News ^ | 12/21/2015 | BY NICOLE LYN PESCE

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; donaldtrump; election2016; missuniverse; newyork; steveharvey; trump
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Karma is a bitch, just like Perez Hilton.


121 posted on 12/21/2015 8:59:05 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (Obama, unable to call a Spade a Spade...)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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.


122 posted on 12/21/2015 8:59:11 AM PST by varina davis (WHOEVER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS FOR 2016)
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To: JohnG45

Sure he did cupcake, he felt the need to pick winners and losers when the pageant already picked the winner...Miss Philippines.


123 posted on 12/21/2015 8:59:31 AM PST by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02
What's with the buttercup and cupcake?

Are you gay?

124 posted on 12/21/2015 9:02:33 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: MinuteGal

“... 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?


125 posted on 12/21/2015 9:03:27 AM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Somewhere this morning Bob Barker is kicking back in his easy chair and thinking “so....you thought this job was EASY, hey, America?”


126 posted on 12/21/2015 9:04:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: varina davis

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.


127 posted on 12/21/2015 9:04:28 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance./c5700.html)
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To: HamiltonJay

Commas are your friend!


128 posted on 12/21/2015 9:05:38 AM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

lol


129 posted on 12/21/2015 9:08:49 AM PST by dp0622 (..)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Somewhere this morning Bob Barker is kicking back in his easy chair and thinking "so....you thought this job was EASY, hey, America?"

Hey, I remember Bert Parks!

"There she is ... Miss America ... there she is my ideal ..."

130 posted on 12/21/2015 9:09:32 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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.


131 posted on 12/21/2015 9:12:59 AM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: SeekAndFind

uh...no.


132 posted on 12/21/2015 9:13:09 AM PST by stylin19a
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To: onyx

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.


133 posted on 12/21/2015 9:13:30 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: WTFOVR
Oh, give me a break, for cryin' out loud.

Leni

134 posted on 12/21/2015 9:13:36 AM PST by MinuteGal ("I will stand with the Muslims if the political winds shift in an ugly direction" - Barack ObaMao)
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To: gwgn02; All

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.


135 posted on 12/21/2015 9:13:44 AM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: RitaOK

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.


136 posted on 12/21/2015 9:17:33 AM PST by onyx
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To: SeekAndFind
Epic blunder. Not even close. How do you confuse Columbia and the Philippines. Can Harvey even read?
137 posted on 12/21/2015 9:17:35 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

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.


138 posted on 12/21/2015 9:21:03 AM PST by dmz
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To: Jane Long
The crazier thing, is that Perazz and Harvery had just mocked Trump (thankful he no longer owned the pageant), just minutes before. I guess Trump got the last laugh, on them :^/


OH WOW!

I didn't KNOW that!

I didn't watch the pageant!

HaHaHaHaHaHa!

Serves 'em right!


139 posted on 12/21/2015 9:23:50 AM PST by onyx
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To: MinuteGal

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?


140 posted on 12/21/2015 9:23:52 AM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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