The Future President, Donald Trump

Mike Pence's Daughter is a vampire.


https://twitter.com/Independent/status/754625472017813504
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/this-optical-illusion-with-donald-trumps-running-mate-is-really-freaking-people-out--ZJGTlbtIk8b

Yeah, he's an idiot, but so are voters.

I overheard a couple guys at a coffee shop talking about how they were voting for Trump because they didn't like political correctness.

They don't care what his views are!

He is actually full of it.

Donald Trump Has Long Benefited From Trade Practices he now scorns.

There was a woman on the news the other day who said she'd voted Brexit because of a fear that Turkey would be joining. The abortive coup has put paid to that particular lie.

Wonder of wonders. Who hasn't heard of Trump's use of Mexico and China to produce his products?

DONALD TRUMP’S GHOSTWRITER TELLS ALL
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had declared his candidacy for President. As Schwartz watched a video of the speech, he began to feel personally implicated.



Trump, facing a crowd that had gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue, laid out his qualifications, saying, “We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ” If that was so, Schwartz thought, then he, not Trump, should be running. Schwartz dashed off a tweet: “Many thanks Donald Trump for suggesting I run for President, based on the fact that I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’ ”

Schwartz had ghostwritten Trump’s 1987 breakthrough memoir, earning a joint byline on the cover, half of the book’s five-hundred-thousand-dollar advance, and half of the royalties. The book was a phenomenal success, spending forty-eight weeks on the Times best-seller list, thirteen of them at No. 1. More than a million copies have been bought, generating several million dollars in royalties. The book expanded Trump’s renown far beyond New York City, making him an emblem of the successful tycoon. Edward Kosner, the former editor and publisher of New York, where Schwartz worked as a writer at the time, says, “Tony created Trump. He’s Dr. Frankenstein.”

Starting in late 1985, Schwartz spent eighteen months with Trump—camping out in his office, joining him on his helicopter, tagging along at meetings, and spending weekends with him at his Manhattan apartment and his Florida estate. During that period, Schwartz felt, he had got to know him better than almost anyone else outside the Trump family. Until Schwartz posted the tweet, though, he had not spoken publicly about Trump for decades. It had never been his ambition to be a ghostwriter, and he had been glad to move on. But, as he watched a replay of the new candidate holding forth for forty-five minutes, he noticed something strange: over the decades, Trump appeared to have convinced himself that he had written the book. Schwartz recalls thinking, “If he could lie about that on Day One—when it was so easily refuted—he is likely to lie about anything.”



“I put lipstick on a pig,” he said. “I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is.” He went on, “I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization.”

If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”

Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump resume Twitter brawl after she blasts VP pick Mike Pence

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2016/07/17/elizabeth-warren-donald-trump-rekindle-twitter-brawl-blasts-vp-pick-mike-pence

"Is that really all you got?" the Massachusetts senator tweeted Sunday.
Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump resuscitated their ongoing Twitter fight over the weekend Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump resuscitated their ongoing Twitter fight over the weekend –Gary Cameron / Reuters, Evan Vucci / AP
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Nik DeCosta-Klipa
5:09 PM

After a solid month break, Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump are back at it again on Twitter.

The two rekindled their social media spat over the weekend after Warren ripped into Mike Pence, who Trump introduced as his vice presidential pick Saturday, for the Indiana governor’s record on LGBT rights and women’s health.

Referring to Trump’s history of making degrading remarks toward women, the Massachusetts senator tweeted, in all caps, “OF COURSE,” he would pick a running mate “who is famous for trying to control women’s bodies.”

Warren went on to say that Trump and Pence’s “sexism” was “in line” with the party’s platform.
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She also blasted Pence for the “religious freedom” law he signed in Indiana, which he later revised amid national scrutiny, that critics said allowed businesses to discriminate against the LGBT community.

Trump fired back just after midnight Sunday, calling Warren the “the least productive” member of the U.S. Senate and said she “must prove she is not a fraud,” alluding to allegations that she used claims of Native American heritage to gain a career advantage.

He continued down that path later Sunday morning and goaded Hillary Clinton to pick Warren, reportedly on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s VP shortlist, as her running mate.

Not to be outdone, Warren responded in turn Sunday in a tirade of tweets, lambasting Trump for reusing the same taunts and turning the real estate mogul’s “fraud” attack line back at him.

Citing previous employers who say Warren was hired based on her merits, the former Harvard Law School professor argued that it was instead Trump who was a fraud.

“Or this,” Warren continued with a succession of tweets, linking to news articles about alleged tax fraud involving Trump’s real estate projects, his dubious charity claims, and multiple stories regarding lawsuits accusing the defunct Trump University of fraud.
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“Seriously, I could do this all day,” she concluded.

The ongoing feud likely won’t end anytime soon. Warren is set to appear on a live broadcast of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Thursday night, just after Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Clinton will reportedly announce her vice presidential pick Friday in Florida.

Only 113 days to go until election day.
TOPICS: Politics Donald Trump Elizabeth Warren 2016 Election

Donald Trump’s most enduring — and unbefitting — trait - Allan Sloan

I’ve been covering Donald Trump off and on for more than 25 years, and what has always struck me is his lack of impulse control. It was his biggest problem when I first started dealing with him in the 1980s, and it’s his biggest problem now.

Plenty of financial and real estate players got carried away in the go-go 1980s. But Trump was in a class by himself.

He ended up presiding over six — count ’em, six — bankruptcies because he kept making business decisions with his gut rather than with his brain.

Trump’s less-than-stellar business history has been well documented by The Washington Post and other newspapers, magazines and online publications, as has his lack of self-control in his personal life. But what has not been fully explored is the impulsiveness — actually, total recklessness — that was at the root of the pivotal decisions that tanked his businesses.That same impulsiveness is at the root of Trump’s self-inflicted political and business problems today.


Whole article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/donald-trumps-most-enduring--and-unbefitting--trait/2016/07/15/f5684848-488b-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html

Chris Christie "livid" that he wasn't picked as Trump VP

(I so hope this is true.)

While Gingrich seems to have been a good sport about Trump’s ultimate decision to go with Pence, according to the Weekly Standard, Christie was “livid.”

While minding my own business at the Starbucks inside the Westin hotel this morning, I saw a man engage Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in conversation about the VP selection process. The man, whom I couldn't identify, suggested that Pence was a smart pick and Gingrich would've been a disaster.

"Christie was livid, right?" the man said at one point. "Yeah," Manafort replied.

In an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, Christie did say he would be upset if he didn’t end up getting picked.

"I mean, obviously, I'm a competitive person. So I'm not going to say it won't bother me, if I'm not selected. Of course it bothers you a little bit. 'Cause if you're a competitive person, like I am, and you're used to winning, like I am — again, you don't like coming in second, ever," the governor told Nicolle Wallace.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2016/07/18/christie-reportedly-livid-he-wasnt-chosen-as-trumps-vp-n2194114

Donald Trump’s answer on Mike Pence’s Iraq vote is really something

LOL!

Situational ethics will get one every time. After a while it looks like one has no values or ethics at all. We'll be lucky if he doesn't call on Jebus when he has to face the music live and on camera.

Them two just do not get it.

My very first thought.

Question: for those of you who live in the United States and apparently hate Trump what are you going to do when he wins?

What do you care? You aren't voting and either way you have a big excuse to get drunk. Again.

Actually, Trump doesn't have a prayer, because he has lost the votes of minorities and women. Probably many whites who hate racial bigots and xenophobes like Trump. He can't win with the 30% of whites who thinks like him.

The Washington Post:

Ain't no way Trump is getting it. Think of all the teabilly Congressmen who will go with him!!!