# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 121
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2402 "2016-07-11T20:12:48Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I came across this Trump quote: _“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth. Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in.”_ > > I’ve seen it enough places to feel it’s authentic but I can’t find the context in which Trump said it. Can anyone help? > > Is Trump really saying we should send American troops back into Iraq? This seems like a policy that would be … let’s say controversial. Especially when it’s coupled with the explicit goal of fighting so Mobil can gain access to oil fields. I don’t know about that specific quote, but Trump has said in a number of different contexts that he wanted to defeat ISIS and take their oil. His first TV ad, way back in January, had this ominous voiceover (my bold): > [@](#): > > That’s why he’s calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until we can figure out what’s going on. \*\*He’ll quickly cut the head off ISIS and take their oil. \*\*And he’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for. source: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trumps-provocative-first-tv-ad-raises-the-temperature-of-gop-race/2016/01/03/873cceb8-b243-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trumps-provocative-first-tv-ad-raises-the-temperature-of-gop-race/2016/01/03/873cceb8-b243-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html) ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2403 "2016-07-11T20:19:21Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I came across this Trump quote: _“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth. Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in.”_ > > I’ve seen it enough places to feel it’s authentic but I can’t find the context in which Trump said it. Can anyone help? > > Is Trump really saying we should send American troops back into Iraq? This seems like a policy that would be … let’s say controversial. Especially when it’s coupled with the explicit goal of fighting so Mobil can gain access to oil fields. [Interview with Bill O’Reilly.](http://www.billoreilly.com/video?chartID=323&pid=19620) ---
**Author:** ![Flyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyer/32/7298_2.png) [@Flyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyer)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2404 "2016-07-11T20:21:03Z")
Trump has evidently realized that he needed to get serious about his campaign. > [@](#): > > Donald Trump raised more than $26 million through online and mail solicitations in June and another $25 million at events with the Republican National Committee, his campaign announced Wednesday, a hefty haul that his allies hope will put to rest anxieties in the party about his fundraising prowess. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/) That’s a pretty dramatic turnaround from having just $1.3 million on hand at the beginning of June. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2405 "2016-07-11T20:21:14Z")
It seems to be from an interview he did last year on the O’Reilly Factor. Not really any context other than the obvious. He was answering “how do we defeat ISIS?”. This seems the interview, though not working great on my phone when I play it: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLxgqE_XsxE) Eta: quadruple ninja’d’ but onLy once ninja’d with the video! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2406 "2016-07-11T20:45:51Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > Trump has evidently realized that he needed to get serious about his campaign. > > [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/06/trump-raises-51-million-with-gop-in-june-including-26-million-for-his-campaign/) > > That’s a pretty dramatic turnaround from having just $1.3 million on hand at the beginning of June. True, but the one figure they didn’t release (as is common) was cash on hand, which gives a better idea as to how effectively they have utilized (or saved) that cash. Note that HRC did say how much cash they have on hand ($44mil) when they released the same story: [http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-june-fundraising-haul-225033](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/clinton-june-fundraising-haul-225033) At the beginning of June she had $42 million. Raised $40 million. Ended June with $44 million, meaning she spent $38m of that $40m. That’s a more effective use of cash, by the way. Trump will likely show a better job at growing his cash haul, but the money is there to be spent, not saved. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2407 "2016-07-11T20:46:33Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I came across this Trump quote: _“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth. Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in.”_… > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > On Twitter, I proposed a Talk Like Trump Day - like Talk Like a Pirate Day, but yuuuuger, believe me. Sounds as though Trump has heard of your idea and likes it–even going so far as to combine the two. “Pirate” is the _least_ of what we’d be called, if we tried to take possession of assets of a sovereign nation. (Presumably that oil still belongs to the nations from which ISIS has ‘liberated’ the land in which it reposes.) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2408 "2016-07-11T20:54:05Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Sounds as though Trump has heard of your idea and likes it–even going so far as to combine the two. “Pirate” is the _least_ of what we’d be called, if we tried to take possession of assets of a sovereign nation. (Presumably that oil still belongs to the nations from which ISIS has ‘liberated’ the land in which it reposes.) What will President Trump do when Austria lands its steamships at Eureka to harvest ancient sequoias for their mighty toothpick factories? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2409 "2016-07-11T21:33:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > What will President Trump do when Austria lands its steamships at Eureka to harvest ancient sequoias for their mighty toothpick factories? The Austrians are good people, very talented and brilliant people. I see where some really disgusting media people are saying ‘they’re stealing our trees,’ but I have to tell you that these people are losers, they are a total catastrophe, okay? I made a deal with the Austrians, the best deal. So great a deal you wouldn’t believe it. I’m telling you, there is no problem, I guarantee. The people who are saying the Austrians are giving me a very large and classy estate just outside Vienna are horrible people, horrible, very corrupt. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2410 "2016-07-11T21:46:03Z")
He’ll annex the Sudetenland. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2411 "2016-07-11T22:11:58Z")
wrong thread ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2413 "2016-07-12T02:18:21Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > He’ll annex the Sudetenland. He just wants a little peace in the world. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2414 "2016-07-12T02:59:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I came across this Trump quote: _“I say that you can defeat ISIS by taking their wealth. Take back the oil. Once you go over and take back that oil they have nothing. You bomb the hell out of them and then you encircle it, and then you go in. And you let Mobil go in, and you let our great oil companies go in.”_ If he actually did say that, he apparently is unaware that Mobil merged with Exxon quite some time ago. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2415 "2016-07-12T03:02:31Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > > [@elucidator](#): > > > > He’ll annex the Sudetenland. > > He just wants a little peace in the world. Funny what can trigger a Bored of the Rings flashback (emphasis obviously mine): > [@](#): > > Ve ist der merry, gay Roi-Tanners, > Who like der boots, salutes und banners. > Ve ride der scheeps in vind und vheather > Mit vhips und spurs und drawers of leather. > > Ve dance und sing und valse und two-step > Und never ever mach der goose-step. > **Peace is vhat ve vant und _do_ have, > Und a piece of anything _you_ have.** ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2416 "2016-07-12T04:00:48Z")
I was thinking of _To Be or Not To Be_, but that works as well! ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2417 "2016-07-12T04:25:49Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2418 "2016-07-12T12:29:22Z")
I am wearing my “Make Sudetenland Great Again” baseball cap. #OrangeLivesMatter ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2419 "2016-07-12T12:47:47Z")
We’ll liberate the Sudetenland and take their resources. The profits from sale of the resources will pay for the war. You never know. Maybe it’ll work this time. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2420 "2016-07-12T14:07:13Z")
[GOP Operatives Dread Trump Convention](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/republican-convention-trump-operatives-225393) > [@](#): > > “What’s there to celebrate?” asked Jay Zeidman, a Texas health care executive whose family has been a major benefactor of the Republican Party. “The party has hit rock bottom in terms of leadership.” > > “I don’t want anything close to the appearance of supporting Trump,” said Jason Roe, a veteran party strategist. “This ship can sink without me as a passenger.” > > … > > Dampening the mood, however, will be the decided lack of star power. While conventions typically attract the party’s leaders, many of the GOP’s biggest names — from rising stars like Kelly Ayotte and Ben Sasse, to past nominees like Mitt Romney and John McCain, to ex-presidents George W. and George H.W. Bush — won’t be in attendance. And many of the party’s most prominent figures have said they won’t be a part of the speaking program. **As of Monday evening, convention officials had yet to release a speaker’s program.** > > Plus, the parties are typically paid for by corporate sponsors, and a number of them, including Wells Fargo, Ford and Apple, have decided to pull funding for this year’s convention. > > … > > “Don’t use my name,” said one senior party strategist. “I don’t want anyone to know I’m there.” (A few days after the interview, the strategist got back in touch, having decided not to go, after all.) Emphasis mine. Less than a week and no speaking schedule? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2421 "2016-07-12T14:24:15Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Emphasis mine. Less than a week and no speaking schedule? They’re waiting to find out if Clint Eastwood’s chair has to wash its hair that week. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/2422 "2016-07-12T15:02:25Z")
I’m going to be waiting with bated breath to see if any of the speakers just get up and freak out. I mean, we have congressmen who have said they’d rather watch a dumpster fire- I can easily see cruz or someone just taking the podium and going off on the Orange one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=120) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=122)