# Donald Trump announces presidential run **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 16, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679 "2015-06-16T16:35:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/41 "2015-06-16T20:51:18Z")
The Donald/Omarosa 2016 ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/42 "2015-06-16T22:20:34Z")
Well, at least he’s in this time. I don’t think he can beat Clinton, so he’s not someone I’m interested in. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/43 "2015-06-16T23:33:05Z")
Well, as a poster said, this should be refreshing; and indeed, after laughing for a while many do feel refreshed today. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/44 "2015-06-17T00:03:29Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#): > > He knows he not electable. He’s just there to pull the political discussion further to the right. Please. He doesn’t give a damn about any ideology. The only thing he’s trying to do is pull public attention trumpward. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/45 "2015-06-17T00:09:22Z")
Looking to be Cthulhu’s VP? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/46 "2015-06-17T01:57:37Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! I’m sorry, the quarry went down the rabbit hole. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/47 "2015-06-17T02:03:26Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Well, at least he’s in this time. I don’t think he can beat Clinton, so he’s not someone I’m interested in. What’s wrong with Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/48 "2015-06-17T02:28:04Z")
Don’t count out the Donald. Nobody ever lost money underestimating the craziness of the GOP primary voter. Current polling puts him ahead of Perry, Santorum, Fiorina, Kasich, Graham and Jindal. Just ahead of him are Bush, Walker, Rubio, Carson, Huckabee, Paul, Cruz and Christie. So he’s number 9. I find it hilarious that the GOP’s fiscal expert (Kasich) and foreign policy expert (Graham) are relegated to the farm team slot. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/49 "2015-06-17T02:29:24Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > What’s wrong with Clinton? SHe’s better than Obama, but I think we can do better. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/50 "2015-06-17T07:30:44Z")
Trump didn’t mince any words, and neither does this Reuters article (as re-published on Yahoo News): [With barbs and bluster, Trump barges into 2016 White House race](http://news.yahoo.com/real-estate-mogul-trump-says-running-president-2016-153025838.html) > [@](#): > > By Alana Wise > > NEW YORK (Reuters) - Real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump barged his way into the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Tuesday in a blitz of boasts, inflammatory comments and attacks on both fellow Republicans and President Barack Obama’s administration. > > Trump wallowed in political incorrectness as he insulted everyone from Mexican immigrants to Jeb Bush and U.S. ally > > Saudi Arabia in announcing his bid for the Republican nomination. > > “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” Trump predicted in a long, combative speech in the atrium of Trump Tower on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. > > [. . .] ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/51 "2015-06-17T08:15:30Z")
Let the mockery begin! Here’s some from last time: Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising because I just assumed he was running as a joke. Gary Busey said recently that Donald Trump would make a good president. Of course, he said the same thing about an old rusty birdcage he found. Donald Trump often appears on Fox, which is ironic, because a fox often appears on Donald Trump’s head. Trump recently said he has a great relationship with the Blacks, although unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I bet he’s mistaken. [SUB](All of these, incidentally, are from Seth Meyers’s speech at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where he also said: “CSPAN is one unpaid electric bill away from being a radio station. People think Bin Laden is hiding out out in the Hindu Kush, but did you know that everyday from 4 to 5 he hosts a show on CSPAN?” less than two days before Bin Laden’s death.)[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/52 "2015-06-17T11:26:22Z")
I’d vote for [The Todd](http://scrubs.wikia.com/wiki/Todd_Quinlan) before I’d vote for The Donald. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/53 "2015-06-17T11:30:30Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Other than Trump, who do you mean. Most of them are not my cup of tea, but with the exception of Fiorina, aren’t they all congressmen or governors? Oh, I guess there’s Carson, but he’ll be out in the first round. If you’re including those. Chafee has got to be the biggest joke. It boggles the mine that he ever got elected to anything. Maybe his mind has been deteriorating. At least that would explain his move from Rep to Dem. 😉 What’s wrong with Chafee? Certainly not a big name, but I haven’t heard him say anything that should mark him as “the biggest joke”. Despite his past Republican-hood, he seems like a mainstream Democrat to me. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/54 "2015-06-17T11:52:39Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > What’s wrong with Chafee? Certainly not a big name, but I haven’t heard him say anything that should mark him as “the biggest joke”. Despite his past Republican-hood, he seems like a mainstream Democrat to me. Well, party-jumpers will always suffer from an appearance of being opportunistic politicial carpetbaggers. Look at what happened to Arlen Specter. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/55 "2015-06-17T13:00:20Z")
I wonder if Jon Stewart is regretting, even slightly, his decision to retire. But I suspect that Trump may withdraw before Stewart retires (the last show is August 6). ---
**Author:** ![Donald\_Rump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Donald\_Rump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donald_Rump)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/56 "2015-06-17T13:29:36Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Other than Trump, who do you mean. Most of them are not my cup of tea, but with the exception of Fiorina, aren’t they all congressmen or governors? Oh, I guess there’s Carson, but he’ll be out in the first round. If you’re including those. Chafee has got to be the biggest joke. It boggles the mine that he ever got elected to anything. Maybe his mind has been deteriorating. At least that would explain his move from Rep to Dem. 😉 Besides Trump, I have in mind [Herman Cain](http://theweek.com/articles/480065/9-most-ridiculed-herman-cain-quotes) in 2012, Sarah Palin (who would have been taken more or less seriously by much of the party, had she chosen to run in 2012), and as you mentioned Ben Carson in this cycle. Not saying that joke candidates dominate the GOP field or anything, just that it seems to be more of a phenomenon than on the Democratic side. In 2008, the most ridiculous Dem candidate AFAICT was Mike Gravel, and he was a former senator. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/57 "2015-06-17T13:47:48Z")
Just seen on Twitter: “Trump 2016: We Shall Overcomb.” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/58 "2015-06-17T13:52:38Z")
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTz0zuhGeE8) is Jon Stewart’s reaction and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=381&v=OFVC3qYGYiE) is Stephen Colbert’s reaction. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/59 "2015-06-17T14:20:11Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > This is the exact same cheap shit stunt he pulled last time. All he’s looking for is buzz so his tv show won’t get cancelled. > > He cannot run for pres if he has a tv show. And the people reporting on this know he’s just looking for publicity. They may even know the deal, for next season, has already been inked, and he actually \*can’t \* run! > > They don’t care about that conflict of interest in reporting this news because they are shameless, and only care about ratings. > > Y’all are soooooo easy! NBC has already said that there would be no Apprentice now that he’s officially entered the race. He’s flirted with it before but this time he’s actually in for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679/60 "2015-06-17T14:30:45Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > NBC has already said that there would be no Apprentice now that he’s officially entered the race. He’s flirted with it before but this time he’s actually in for the first time. I thought they merely said they’re reevaluate his show’s status should it become necessary. He’ll drop out in the 120 day window he has before filing detailed financial data. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-announces-presidential-run/722679.md?page=4)