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I'll watch later; thanks. I'm surprised we haven't seen any Apprentice-based advertising from the Clinton camp. There has to be a fukkin gold mine of Trumpisms behind the scenes in unaired footage. I mean, Clinton attacked him for calling Miss Universe fat and a housekeeper, and how has he responded? By saying, "No really, I was right; she ate so much it disgusted me." He has no power to resist taking the bait.





kleinbl00  ·  2736 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Everyone I know who worked on the Apprentice (about a half-dozen people) firmly believe this whole "Trump thing" is an act. They think he's playing a persona because on set, he was always professional if a little eccentric.

The Frontline thing is kind of amazing in that about three different people from the Trump camp (as in, actively working with Trump right now) insinuate that Donald Trump is running for President to get back at Obama for embarrassing him at the Washington Correspondent's Dinner.

user-inactivated  ·  2736 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The Frontline thing is kind of amazing in that about three different people from the Trump camp (as in, actively working with Trump right now) insinuate that Donald Trump is running for President to get back at Obama for embarrassing him at the Washington Correspondent's Dinner.

He wanted to run with the Reform party in 2000.

wasoxygen  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    He wanted to run with the Reform party in 2000.

I learned this from a music video while ironing a shirt.

Supporters of third-party candidates in potential swing states can consider swapping votes with people in nonswing states.

user-inactivated  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hipster RAtM, occupying Wall St. before it was cool.

For a while I was seeing polls that put Gary Johnson as close to Trump as Trump to Clinton, and was implausibly hoping he'd come in second. I wouldn't want to see him win, but if you lean right this election your choices are libertarian or pants on head crazy and I'd be much more at ease if the other half of the country stated a clear preference for guns, drugs and capitalism.

wasoxygen  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, we can do you capitalism and guns without the drugs, and we can do you capitalism and drugs without the guns, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you guns and drugs without the capitalism. Capitalism is compulsory.

Apologies to Tom Stoppard

kleinbl00  ·  2736 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He toyed with running with the Reform party in 2000. I think as soon as it was obvious he'd be seen as "yet another Pat Buchanan" he was all done with that.

user-inactivated  ·  2735 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough, though if he was worried about how he'd be seen then he must have gotten over it, but it's still not like running for President came out of nowhere because he got snubbed.

b_b  ·  2736 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wow, talk about a vendetta. NPR ran a story last year about how Obama spurned him back in 09. Apparently, Trump offered to donate $100M to redesign the banquet hall at the White House. The Obama administration didn't even say no; they just never returned his calls. He might have an act, but when your grudge is so huge that you run for president, that's pretty damn pathological.