# aw! poor wittle Donald had his feelings hurt by those mean jokes \[Trump out of 2012 race\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 12, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625 "2011-05-12T04:47:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/1 "2011-05-12T04:47:44Z")
Sounds like the Donald is pulling out, because he just can’t take the vicious [del]insults[/del] jokes that have been coming his way since he started inching towards a presidential run: [Trump says public scorn greater than he expected](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/05/11/18134966.html). > [@](#): > > Real estate magnate Donald Trump suggested Wednesday it’s not much fun flirting with the idea of running for president in the face of relentless attacks and ridicule. > > “Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I’ve been hammered the past few weeks,” Trump said in Nashua, New Hampshire. > … > Trump referred to the Sept. 30 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington, during which Obama and comedian Seth Myers mocked the tycoon mercilessly while Trump sat in the audience, stone-faced. > > Even Republicans have been taking shots, he noted. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/2 "2011-05-12T04:55:27Z")
Being in the media can be tough, but the White House Correspondents Dinner? Who doesn’t love a roast? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/3 "2011-05-12T05:01:58Z")
His poll numbers have been collapsing. I hope we won’t have to deal with him in the rest of the primaries. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/4 "2011-05-12T05:04:24Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Being in the media can be tough, but the White House Correspondents Dinner? Who doesn’t love a roast? 😃 Especially in retrospect, when the President was joshing Trump about choosing whether to fire Meatloaf or Gary Busey, and ended up firing Busey. Obama’s comment: “You know, those are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.” This from the man who had given the “go” order on the bin Laden hit, and knew it was going down in the next day or so. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/5 "2011-05-12T05:54:15Z")
I was going to start a thread asking “what excuse will Trump use for not running for President?”. I don’t think he ever intended to really run, but he’s talked about it enough now that he’ll have to come up with some half-assed reason why he isn’t taking the plunge. Looks like “Seth Meyers made fun of my hair” might be the excuse he chooses. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/6 "2011-05-12T05:57:02Z")
Donald Rump quit faster than Palin. Seems the Repubs want to dish out criticism but can not take it themselves. The opponents weren’t saying nice things to me. Wahhhhh ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/7 "2011-05-12T06:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=Trump] I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I’ve been hammered the past few weeks [/QUOTE] Thus showing how out of touch he is with the real world. No-one who paid the slightest attention could have been in any such doubt. Good riddance; imagine what he would have been like as president when the Chinese or Taliban came a-callin’ ? Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, you’re being unfaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaair to me! Mind you Obama’s put up with more of this in any given week of his presidency than the Trumplet has in his lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/8 "2011-05-12T06:54:09Z")
Wait… he’s honestly complaining about getting eaten at the White House Correspondent’s dinner? That’s practically what it’s MADE for. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/9 "2011-05-12T07:54:45Z")
I’d be surprised to hear that anyone didn’t expect this at some point. He never had any intention to run. Didn’t NBC just renew his show for next season? The joke is on us. Trump knew exactly what he was doing. Look, he’s in the news every single day. Free promotion. Mission accomplished. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/10 "2011-05-12T12:35:05Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > The joke is on us. Trump knew exactly what he was doing. Look, he’s in the news every single day. Free promotion. Mission accomplished. Absolutely. And our fine news media went right along with his plan, as they have all along. Sometime in the 80s his REAL line of business became about keeping the Trump name in the headlines (so then he can charge more for things with the Trump name on them). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/11 "2011-05-12T12:48:47Z")
> [@](#): > > “Nobody said it was going to be easy, but I had no idea I would get hammered in the way I’ve been hammered the past few weeks,” Trump said in Nashua, New Hampshire. Bullshit. If he expected adoration and is disappointed to find out nobody takes him seriously, good, but I expect he got just what he wanted out of this: the publicity that comes with running for president without any of the hard work like coming up with a platform or making any serious decisions. It’s not just that he was never going to run; he was never a serious candidate and by the end he was not even trying - that thing about gay marriage and newfangled putters? Come on. He was clearly not making an effort because he’d realized the news would cover any idiotic thing he said. He should never have received a fraction of the airtime he received. And none of this would have been possible if NBC han’t kept quiet about his Apprentice contract. They kept the status of the show quiet because if they’d been open about it, everybody would have understood he had no intention to leave the show and was just doing this to feed his ego and perhaps his ratings. To that end, it looks like he failed. He’s shameless, but just about everyone else involved with this disgraced themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/12 "2011-05-12T13:06:47Z")
Wait, he didn’t expect to get hammered so hard? By the guy who’s biggest campaign issue was questioning where the president was born? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/13 "2011-05-12T13:16:52Z")
I’d like to credit this to Seth Meyers and his nice work at the correspondents’ dinner, but the truth is that the bin Laden killing made it impossible for the press to pretend it could take Trump seriously. I was talking about this with somebody recently and compared Trump’s “candidacy” to the Chandra Levy story after September 11th. (Not to belittle her murder, but the salacious Gary Condit side of things, at least, is comparable.) There was just no way for major news programs to spend time every day on the killing of Osama bin Laden and everything that went with it, and then transition to coverage of Trump saying Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. or that his college grades were bad. So to that end, this is one of the minor benefits of Obama authorizing the bin Laden raid. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/14 "2011-05-12T13:40:54Z")
Nothing new here. Just another conservative playing the victim card. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/15 "2011-05-12T13:58:44Z")
If he gave a rat’s ass about public scorn he’d have gotton a haircut years ago. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/16 "2011-05-12T14:43:18Z")
Looks like he forgot Voltaire’s quote : _This animal is dangerous, when attacked it defends itself_ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/17 "2011-05-12T14:57:46Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Sounds like the Donald is pulling out, because he just can’t take the vicious [del]insults[/del] jokes that have been coming his way since he started inching towards a presidential run: [Trump says public scorn greater than he expected](http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/05/11/18134966.html). I remember how much crap Bill Clinton was getting in the late spring of 1992, after he’d locked up the nomination but was running behind both Bush Sr. and Perot in the polls. Clinton dealt with it, and won. Trump is obviously not ready for prime time, from a political perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/18 "2011-05-12T15:06:03Z")
So did the ratings for _The Apprentice_ actually go up after the Donald started making presidential bid noises? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/19 "2011-05-16T17:24:04Z")
[Post story here](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/donald-trump-wont-run-for-president-in-2012/2011/05/16/AF14G14G_blog.html). I will miss the comedy material. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625/20 "2011-05-16T17:26:25Z")
> [@](#): > > “I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election,” Trump said in a statement. Well at least he’s humble about it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aw-poor-wittle-donald-had-his-feelings-hurt-by-those-mean-jokes-trump-out-of-2012-race/581625.md?page=2)