# 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:** 185
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3683 "2016-08-05T01:31:56Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > I vie you leave off the Slavic part of the filter and just set it for hot models. Male or female of course, equal opportunity for the female and LGBT populations. Yeah, but what about all those hot Mexican models? We need to draw a line somewhere. They could steal jobs from our homegrown Midwestern blonde corn-fed American models. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3684 "2016-08-05T01:45:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > But I’d rather keep Donald out of the White House by exposing his skumbaggery at every turn, even if it hurts your delicate nobility, than to look back on Fat Don’s inauguration day and wonder why we pulled our punches with this unhinged piece of shit. I agree with Ravenman that the official campaign or Clinton or her direct surrogates shouldn’t attack Trump over Melania’s immigration status. But if people do it on a grassroots level, like posting it on forums, or the media independently choosing to write about it, that’s completely fine. And yes, it is relevant, because it’s yet one piece of evidence about what a hypocritical opportunist Trump is. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2016, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3685 "2016-08-05T02:35:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This would sink the candidate in any normal campaign… I’ve been saying this since February. Dubya, McCain or Romney would all have cratered overnight if they’d said just a couple of the brain-dead comments, mistaken remarks or flat-out lies that the Trumptanic regularly spews. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3686 "2016-08-05T02:38:48Z")
[Sean Hannity](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sean-hannity-goes-off-paul-ryan-john-mccain), of all people, is going off on the Republican party both for creating Trump _and_ for not supporting him hard enough; > [@](#): > > On his Wednesday radio show, Hannity named and shamed House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), along with former primary candidates Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), as the parties he’ll blame if Trump loses to Hillary Clinton, but called the election “completely winnable.” > > “I have watched these Republicans be more harsh towards Donald Trump than they’ve ever been in standing up to Barack Obama and his radical agenda,” he said. “They did nothing, nothing – all these phony votes to repeal and replace ObamaCare, show votes so they can go back and keep their power and get reelected.” > > "Sorry, you created Donald Trump, all of you because of your ineffectiveness, because of your weakness, your spinelessness, your lack of vision, your inability to fight Obama,” Hannity continued. “I’m getting a little sick and tired of all of you. Honestly, I am tempted to just say I don’t support any of you people ever.” I really do wonder if the Republican party will still exist by 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3687 "2016-08-05T02:44:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Yeah, but what about all those hot Mexican models? We need to draw a line somewhere. They could steal jobs from our homegrown Midwestern blonde corn-fed American models. I’m going to have to stick with my liberal biases and say the hot Mexican models should still be allowed in. Very PC of me I know, but what can I say, I’m for equal opportunity for all hot models, no matter where they’re from. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3688 "2016-08-05T02:56:54Z")
> [@Lok](#): > > I’m for equal opportunity for all hot models, no matter where they’re from. I’m willing to start a collection to have that carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3689 "2016-08-05T03:17:50Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m willing to start a collection to have that carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty. Or the Great Wall of Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3690 "2016-08-05T04:05:24Z")
Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be campaigning in Wisconsin tomorrow. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan and Wisconsin RNC chair Rience Priebus will not be there. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3691 "2016-08-05T04:20:23Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Are you the “what your debate opponent is allowed to talk about” police? That’s hilarious, Officer Pot. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3692 "2016-08-05T04:20:33Z")
Scott Walker already made a joke of himself by dropping out, urging everyone else to drop out to consolidate opposition to Trump, and then endorsing Trump at the convention. He might as well go for broke and show up at the rally. Funny thing is, last summer I thought Walker would be one of the guys to beat during the primary. Instead he was pure junior varsity trying to play in the pros and it came out big time. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3693 "2016-08-05T04:43:47Z")
[Once you have set up a recurring contribution on the Trump campaign website, there is no capability to stop the contributions.](http://uproxx.com/news/trump-campaign-cant-cancel-recurring-donations/) ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3694 "2016-08-05T05:02:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Once you have set up a recurring contribution on the Trump campaign website, there is no capability to stop the contributions.](http://uproxx.com/news/trump-campaign-cant-cancel-recurring-donations/) hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3695 "2016-08-05T05:05:41Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Once you have set up a recurring contribution on the Trump campaign website, there is no capability to stop the contributions.](http://uproxx.com/news/trump-campaign-cant-cancel-recurring-donations/) On the plus side, after 25 donations you get an honorary degree from Trump U. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3696 "2016-08-05T05:13:57Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > On the plus side, after 25 donations you get an honorary degree from Trump U. And after 50, a photo with cardboard cutout Trump. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3697 "2016-08-05T05:22:38Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It’s a quarter past three EST and I have not heard of anything Trump has said today that was despicable, appalling, or risible. He still has time, but maybe he’ll pull off a gaffeless day. I think he outsourced today to Clint Eastwood. ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3698 "2016-08-05T05:41:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Once you have set up a recurring contribution on the Trump campaign website, there is no capability to stop the contributions.](http://uproxx.com/news/trump-campaign-cant-cancel-recurring-donations/) Sure there is, send a notice in writing to their campaign that you withdraw permission for the recurring contributions, then call your bank and do a chargeback when they next try and take money from you. Chargebacks cost the merchant more money than the amount refunded, around a $25 US penalty. Once a few thousand people do that they’ll quickly fix it. Also, pretty sure that not having a way to cancel is against Visa and MasterCard’s terms and conditions, so I’d get a few dozen people to call them and complain. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3699 "2016-08-05T05:45:16Z")
This is Trump we’re dealing with. He won’t pass up an opportunity to trim the next mark. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3700 "2016-08-05T09:48:49Z")
The silent protests with pocket Constitutions were genius trolling. You have video now of a guy being escorted out by security, and the audio is someone yelling “get outta here, you traitor!” A _traitor_. For silently holding up the U.S. Constitution. :dubious: > [@Voyager](#): > > On the plus side, after 25 donations you get an honorary degree from Trump U. Ha, indeed…or a “special opportunity” to buy one at full price. 😃 I was impressed to see that Bill O’Reilly gave #whinylittlebitch Trump (who was really earning that hashtag, bitching and moaning about how he had been “viciously attacked”) some [advice](http://uproxx.com/news/oreilly-scolds-trump-for-attacking-captain-khan/) that was not only sensible but pretty funny: > [@](#): > > “You can fight me, you can come at me, but if there’s some little Muslim woman who loses a son, you can’t,” O’Reilly said. “You just can’t, no matter what she does. She could set you on fire, and you could say, ‘Thank you, I hated those trousers.’ You just got to let it go.” ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3701 "2016-08-05T10:09:09Z")
> [@coremelt](#): > > Sure there is, send a notice in writing to their campaign that you withdraw permission for the recurring contributions, then call your bank and do a chargeback when they next try and take money from you. Chargebacks cost the merchant more money than the amount refunded, around a $25 US penalty. Once a few thousand people do that they’ll quickly fix it. > > Also, pretty sure that not having a way to cancel is against Visa and MasterCard’s terms and conditions, so I’d get a few dozen people to call them and complain. The point is, you have to treat the Trump Campaign like a petty, two-bit chiseler breast-enlargement scam operation to get them to stop billing you. They’re acting like a common scam or semi-scam outfit, the kind of thing you’d see advertised in late-night TV commercials and flyers in the bad part of town. It’s a _pars pro toto_ for the whole Donald Trump Experience: Superficially glossy and classy, but underneath a rotten, grasping little con-job with no higher aspirations than separating the marks from their money. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2016, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/3702 "2016-08-05T10:48:21Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > The point is, you have to treat the Trump Campaign like a petty, two-bit chiseler breast-enlargement scam operation to get them to stop billing you. They’re acting like a common scam or semi-scam outfit, the kind of thing you’d see advertised in late-night TV commercials and flyers in the bad part of town. It’s a _pars pro toto_ for the whole Donald Trump Experience: Superficially glossy and classy, but underneath a rotten, grasping little con-job with no higher aspirations than separating the marks from their money. So, basically Trump University them, right? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=184) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=186)