Reasons to Vote for Trump
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
April 27, 2011 5:56pm CST
apart from getting the obama adminstration to show something they planned to show anyway. no, there are lots more reasons to vote for this fine gentlemen and i'd love people to share them.
[i}Disclaimer: this has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that i wish the trumpet would stop bullying my country and start on yours[/i]
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@keshia2007r (2880)
• United States
28 Apr 11
I came to this disucssion expecting that you would have the list of reason why we should vote for Trumb, because to be frank I do not see any. He has lately been acting out and putting on a big sceen all over the Presidents birth certificate. He is not a man for the politial office, but the business office welomes him. Now what are your reasons we should vote for him?
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@dark_joev (3034)
• United States
28 Apr 11
Well Trump might have to go up against the Unelected Ron Paul that he said was unelectable a few months back. Ron Paul just started an Exploratory Committee which pretty much means he is running for President in 2012.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
29 Apr 11
don't worry blue bunny, he'll give you plenty to rant about.
@peavey (16936)
• United States
28 Apr 11
Honestly, you have to give the man kudos for his courage. At least he made Obama produce the birth certificate. He's a character and entertaining. Umm... like someone else said, he's not Obama. He does have a business head of sorts, but I'm not sure how that would play out in a political office.
The pity of it is that Republicans don't have a strong person to run, at least none that I'm aware of. Somebody has to run who has something to stand on.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
28 Apr 11
oh my gosh really Donald Trump of the god awful hair yucky. well he is one smart business man. Oh my g imagine him as president and some
journalist will go bananas over him losing that silly hair piece when
he gets to close to the Presidential helicopter, assuming the Pres. has one.lol.Well he would run the country like a business and we would all be in deep doggy do do as he would cut out all unnecessary spending for
sure. I do not know who his current squeeze is bu t would she make
a good president's wife? I know I will not vote for him as I cannot abide looking at that weird hair of his. lol lol
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@jb78000 (15139)
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28 Apr 11
i am not going to mention that he is good at making businesses go bankrupt. irrelevent. he'd be a brilliant or at least hilarious president. and you must realise just how much the rest of the world has missed bush - obama is not so good at making everybody feel smug. all those anti-america jokes fall flat without an obvious idiot at the helm. donald will fill that gap perfectly.
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@gloriousa (8)
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28 Apr 11
Trump swears that rabid weasel on his head is his own. It's true- when it makes growly noises, it looks like it's all fiercy on its own, but you can kind of see his lips move. He claims he will never change his comb-over. Just one more reason to like him. He's vain AND stubborn. And, he has his fingertips firmly on the pulse of whatever generation it was he grew up in. In other words, really relevant!
No doubt his wife would be an asset in the White House. That place hasn't had a tacky overhaul since Nancy Reagan. And, I doubt the place has gold plated bidets. We don't want our leaders doing their business in cheap ceramic flushers, do we? What would the rest of the world think of us?
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@inedible (768)
• Singapore
28 Apr 11
First orange president! 2016, get a Hispanic. After that, a woman.
2024? All of the above.
Seriously though, he seems like a publicity-seeking troll. So, I'm hoping he gets voted into office. Guaranteed quality entertainment for the next four years!
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@jb78000 (15139)
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28 Apr 11
can i run? i am female. i am definitely born outside the us but can be fudged. nobody is going to know where "paisley" is anyway, we'll tell them suburb of illinois. i can pass for hispanic given enough beauty products/sunshine but i never go orange. and i have excellent hair. it is real.
qualified!
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If this were my discussion I'd give you BR!
Annie
@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
28 Apr 11
Two thumbs up! Raves some guy on the internet...
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@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
28 Apr 11
I am open to suggestions, but I also want to see who else will be running. I do think that the US needs better business minds in office.
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@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
28 Apr 11
I do not really regard many of our politicians as being good business persons. If they were we would not be in such a mess.
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@GardenGerty (160626)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I do not want services for people in need discontinued, and never said I did. I am more of a mind of not propping up companies that turn around and bleed us dry. I would really like to see our country better able to take care of its most vulnerable citizens. I have worked with at risk children, elderly who cannot even get dental care or hearing aids because they are poor, and adult disabled and mentally ill who are looked at as "freaks" often. Of those three groups, the elderly are the most neglected and taken advantage of. No one person can really change the way the country runs.
@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
28 Apr 11
He's obviously got California's vote. Isn't that reason enough?
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@sierras236 (2739)
• United States
28 Apr 11
That was sarcastic based on the fact they put Arnold in as governor.
@jb78000 (15139)
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28 Apr 11
didn't arnold turn out to do a good job, despite looking like he has more muscle than brains? i seem to remember the guy working hard on highly unlikely issues such as conservation. there you go. you now have a chance of elected somebody with the world's most hilarious hairstyle who might do a brilliant job. he almost certainly won't but you might as well give him a chance.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
28 Apr 11
Donald Trump is popular now because:
a. he's nearly the only announced candidate
b. he's not Obama
c. he's gone out and asked the question most candidates wouldn't but people wanted the answer to (where's the birth certificate)
d. out of an empty field, he looks to be pretty much the best qualified.
However, I don't think Trump is the best candidate or would even be a good candidate. The only and best reason to vote for Trump would be if the only other choice were Obama. I assume that reason will go away soon enough as Republican contenders start to announce.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
28 Apr 11
Sorry can't take Trump seriously as a candidate. Ron Paul has announced he has formed an exploratory committee and it looks like he may make another run of it...so I am jumping into his campaign with both feet (and with bells on..lol). Even if RP was not going to run...I could not take DT seriously. Just look at the way he has behaved. This is all a publicity stunt to him.
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
8 May 11
sorry no can do. The job of president is not to provide comic relief to the rest of thw world. It is a serious job that needs a serious professional individual
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
28 Apr 11
Are you serious? Is Trump going to run for the Republicans for Presidency? where has my head been? This is a joke right? Well the rich will do okay in the USA and the rest of the people will continue to suffer and be overrun by the big oil companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I wonder why it is only the rest of the world that has the greatest respect of the president of the USA and sympathise with the affluent gangs who are out to get him at any cost. Please tell me this is a joke? I have so much respect for the USA and would not want their President to be regarded as a joke by the rest of the world.
Now I guess I have set myself up for being trolled.
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@cynthiann (18602)
• Jamaica
29 Apr 11
@ Astonish:I admit my response was poorly phrased. The big pharmaceuticas and oil companies do not want health care - in my humble opinion. They have been gunning for him from the beginning. Finis. No more
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@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Woohoo, fellow poor lazy welfare bum here, well no welfare check, but I'm broke right now. My lazy butt slept through a shift, never mind that they basically never let anyone sleep. We joked that anyone who had more than 8 continual hours off was on vacation time.
Despite having a bachelor's degree, another thing lazy loser do to avoid work. I would actually take a part time job flipping burgers just to get a few extra bucks and kill the boredom.
Your right, according to mylots, everyone who made millions started at the bottom. Few of them were born to upper middle class families and went to expensive schools on their parents money. Maybe one day you'll be able to save up enough money flipping burgers to invest in somethings. Just think if you can save up 10k/year out of your full time paycheck there, and get a 1,000% return every year you'd be a McMillionaire in just 3 years.
Yeah half the people on here would have a rude awakening if they suddenly had to find a job and support themselves in this economy.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
28 Apr 11
At this point in time, I'm still just laughing about a Trump presidency. I'm still not sure whether to take the guy seriously. I don't know if he's full up with shizznit or what.
But I have lived through the Obama admin for a while now, and I feel that I "know" them a bit better than Trumpy - or at least as it pertains to politics and their insistance on always trying to wear the white hat.
Anyway, there is no way in hell that the Obama administration was planning on showing this. No way. There wasn't even a candidate on the horizon to pressure him into it. So I can't buy that part of it.
Obama was never going to present it like he did. There simply wasn't any pressure to do so. Even his--and every other uberleftists'--most hated news network FOX was full up with people saying they thought he was a citizen and that the birther thing was silly.
Why would he have put it on display as he did without the pressure to do so? The people asking until yesterday have been asking for two years, all but Trump.
So I can't buy that. I don't see the whole big reveal deal going down without Trump in the picture.
Trump being a "bully" - I buy that.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I've little doubt President Obama was planning on putting off dignifying the birthers' silliness for as long as possible because what he HAD released three years ago is all that is legally necessary for natives of Hawaii so he chose to hold onto his trump card as long as possible...pun totally intended. However, I sure don't give Trump any "credit" nor am I "proud" of him like he is of himself because it was the media that gave him way more attention than he deserved, thus taking it away from the issues that matter.
Annie
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Really, I couldn't get a bank account without my long form. And my son couldn't get his drivers license without a long form. Homeland Security says you must prove who you are with a LONG FORM birth certificate. If I have to, and everyone else has to, so does Obama.
And I have never heard of a state refusing to pony up like Hawaii does, I've got family in two other states and they could get one, so could I in my state...that makes three states and I'm sure there are more that give out long forms if you can prove you have a legit interest in having it.
What issues didn't get tended to? I keep seeing that, since you all mouth the same platitudes our fearless leader does...just what issues?
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Until this silly issue came up I never knew there was such a thing as a long form birth certificate. I know I don't have one and I've never needed one for bank accounts and the like. I needed my birth certificate which has the same information on it as the one the President had submitted three years ago, to apply for Social Security Disability. At any rate, nobody has to make their birth certificate public for any reason. Those who were supposed to and who had the right to see President Obama's already had ages ago.
I'd be much more interested in seeing Trump's financial records because I have a suspicion he's probably broken a law or two in his storied career. Anyway, as far as I'm concerned the BC matter is closed and I sure hope we start seeing coverage of important issues and that the people pay attention to the things that really matter, like the planned dismantling of Medicare for anyone younger than 55.
Annie
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
28 Apr 11
I won't vote for him unless he's the only choice besides Obama. He's got cajones for sure, to stand up to the man no one else would stand up to. But it takes more IMHO, to be a good president than cajones.
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@gloriousa (8)
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28 Apr 11
Hopefully it takes more than that, or chances of ever having a female president would be slim. Also, my children are 11 and 13, and they technically have 'cajones'. Hopefully it would take more than that to even be a bad president. Or, does that mean they stand a really good chance at becoming president?
Now that I think about it, cajones might be good. It would mean we had an Hispanic president.
But, I don't think anyone need worry. The chances of Trump being a choice of any political party for president are, well, there aren't any chances that will happen. I say "Ride that publicity train for all it's worth, Mr. Trump!". "Oh, and BTW, looking forward to looking at your taxes. You did promise to release copies of your taxes if Obama released his BC, right?"
In other news, important things probably happened somewhere today.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Let me see, what reasons are there to vote for Trump...hmm, this is REALLY a tough one. I'd say so we don't have to be bothered by his stupid reality show but it's easier to continue doing what I've been doing and changing the channel than to let him totally destroy our country! I know, it's already pretty messed up but instead of pulling us out of the ditch the Donald would certainly get us dug in so deep we'd never get out, not to mention once again making us the laughing stock of the rest of the world.
Oops, I forgot...the rest of the world isn't supposed to matter because we're number one, the only exceptional one!
Annie
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I didn't miss anything, Deb. There are some things I may wish I did miss but unfortunately I witnessed it all. We haven't been number one in a lot of categories for some time and it has nothing whatsoever to do with President Obama. We've been way down in access to health care, life expectancy and infant mortality for years and we've been losing ground in education for even longer.
Don't get me wrong, I love my country as much as the next person but in my view when you love someone or something you acknowledge his, her or its shortcomings and strive for improvement.
Annie
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
29 Apr 11
to late...Obama's already been there done that.
And we used to be # 1 annie. Sorry you missed it.
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@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
29 Apr 11
Nah, we treat our country like we treat our children, tell them they are the smartest, prettiest people in the world and pretend they are perfect. If something bad happens we just deny it.
If we stop denying problems we'd be obligated to fix them as anyone with any sense would do. America is like a car, it was great at one point. But instead of maintaining it and fixing little problems here and there. Were just gonna drive it till it won't go anymore. In the words of so many Americans. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
29 Apr 11
Because his wife, unlike Richard Lugner's, isn't called Mausi?
Apart from that, he'd probably run some kind of apprentice thingy in Congrss so that he'll get rid of most of them. That won't work for foreign affairs though, much as you'd like them to, countries don't go away even though you tell them they're fired.
@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
4 May 11
The scary thing is that he still wouldn't be the craziest politican around, there's a few. Won't mention names, not because I'm afraid to insult anyone, but because I'm not sure how to spell them and can't be bothered to search for them. And some are a bit too obvious really. That bloke from Lega Nord in Italy for example.
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@knoodleknight18 (917)
• United States
29 Apr 11
I don't know why everyone thinks Trump is so much better at business than everyone else in office. Yeah he made a little more. But it doesn't seem that anyone who has millions has much trouble making millions more. Especially if your a shady guy with no morals. Does anyone even like Trump as a person? He has the character and hair of a shady used car salesman.
Pretty much everyone who is running for president has many many millions of dollars, in case you missed out most candidates have several multi-million dollar homes and own successful businesses, you usually just don't hear so much about them. The cost of a presidential campaign is roughly $400,000,000. Trump may be good at making money but I think he lacks the bargaining skills to push a cup of coffee across a congressional desk. Much less any sort of legislation.
The only plus of Trump being President is the spinoff reality shows.
The Real World: White House Edition.
Who Wants to Marry the President.
You're Fired... For Real
Home Makeover: WHE
Gay Eye for the Strait Guy: Presidential Edition
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