# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901
**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
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5343 "2016-08-29T13:44:19Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> Can’t tell. Some turds float, but most are sinkers.
You need more fiber. 😃
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5344 "2016-08-29T13:44:42Z")
Scottie Nell Hughes actually says Hillary is the bigot for noticing all the bigots. ["Bigotry, if you look at the definition, it’s about someone who’s small-minded and sits there and directs hate towards a certain group,” she explained. “Hillary Clinton’s speech [attacking alt-right conservatives] was all about hate towards a group that, while my fellow counterpart might consider them to be very racist, it’s the exact opposite.”](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/scottie-nell-hughes-hillary-is-the-definition-of-bigotry-because-shes-biased-against-racists/)
How do you even argue with that type of bullshit?
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### Author:  [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5345 "2016-08-29T13:45:26Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> I would love to see how much he is charging the campaign for the usage of his own plane. Instead of going from campaign stop to campaign stop he apparently flies back to NY after each event also increasing the costs. Does the Trump campaign have to publish expenses breakdowns on things like this? Is he breaking any laws if he charges the campaign 3 or 4 times the usual charter rate for a similar plane for using his Trump plane?
The campaigns are required to file monthly accounts of their disbursements. [Here](http://docquery.fec.gov/pres//2016/M8/C00580100/B_PAYEE_C00580100.html) is Trump’s latest. The biggest line item this time is $8.4 million to website designer Giles-Parscale, who claim to have 100 people working on the Trump contract. Past filings have included all kinds of interesting things, like a $13,000 order with Trump Winery (now owned by son Eric), and generally exorbitant spending at hotels and golf courses.
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### Author:  [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5346 "2016-08-29T13:48:49Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> I would love to see how much he is charging the campaign for the usage of his own plane. Instead of going from campaign stop to campaign stop he apparently flies back to NY after each event also increasing the costs. Does the Trump campaign have to publish expenses breakdowns on things like this? Is he breaking any laws if he charges the campaign 3 or 4 times the usual charter rate for a similar plane for using his Trump plane?
From something i read a month or so ago, the rate is set by the FEC. It is supposed to cover operating costs and a profit did the owner, so I’m sure Trump is really enjoying his flights.
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5347 "2016-08-29T13:56:26Z")
> [@peremensoe](#):
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> the campaigns are required to file monthly accounts of their disbursements. [here](http://docquery.fec.gov/pres//2016/m8/c00580100/b_payee_c00580100.html) is trump’s latest.
trump hotel soho 671.11
trump ice llc 428.53
trump international hotel and tower 1,936.98
trump national doral 3,596.01
trump national golf club - westchester 48,239.77
trump payroll corp 33,527.62
trump plaza llc 9,000.00
trump restaurants llc 1,003.27
trump tower commercial llc 180,056.05
Trump Ice is the greatest ice, believe me. The greatest ice. Believe me.
Some say it’s made in Mexico, Trumptanic Two Step…
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5348 "2016-08-29T14:00:26Z")
The New York Times has an article about the housing discrimination practiced by Trump and his father in the 60s and 70s.
> **[‘No Vacancies’ for Blacks: How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First...](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html)**
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> As Mr. Trump assumed an increasing role in his father’s business, the company’s practice of turning away potential black tenants was painstakingly documented.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5349 "2016-08-29T14:01:17Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> What else is her campaign going to say? That she’s working on some killer ways to emasculate him on live TV? She’s working on some one-liners that will set off his hair trigger? She’s practicing her needling? This is a presidential debate, so the fact that they say she’s devouring policy research and he isn’t already doesn’t make him look very presidential. She’s doing what she has to do even before the debate begins.
And, of course, doing what she has to do when she becomes President - devour policy, look at oppo research (State Department, NSA, DoD briefings), etc.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5350 "2016-08-29T14:05:14Z")
Oppo research is political opponent research, not international rival research.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5351 "2016-08-29T14:18:33Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#):
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> I expect she’s drilling on calm handling of rudeness and lunacy, as much as content…
I sure hope so. I don’t want her to come across as _too_ wonkish compared to a breezier, big-picture, more presidential Trump.
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> …She’s working on some one-liners that will set off his hair trigger…
Heh.
> [@MacCat](#):
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> …Trump Ice is the greatest ice, believe me. The greatest ice. Believe me…
Nobody can mash together two hydrogen atoms together with an oxygen atom and freeze it like Trump Ice. Nobody. His covalent bonds are the _best_.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5352 "2016-08-29T14:23:05Z")
> [@CarnalK](#):
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> Oppo research is political opponent research, not international rival research.
So the president reviewing a threat assessment is not doing “opposition research” in this analogy?
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5353 "2016-08-29T14:24:05Z")
Anyway Trump has gone off on an epic Twitter rant which needs to be seen to be believed.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5354 "2016-08-29T14:29:44Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> So the president reviewing a threat assessment is not doing “opposition research” in this analogy?
Well, if you stretched maybe but not really. Imho
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5355 "2016-08-29T14:30:17Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Nobody can mash together two hydrogen atoms together with an oxygen atom and freeze it like Trump Ice. Nobody. His covalent bonds are the _best_.
This was confirmed in a letter from Dr. Harold Bornstein, the newly appointed chairman of the science department at the soon-to-be resurrected Trump University.
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### Author:  [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5356 "2016-08-29T14:48:28Z")
Trump’s dropping $10mil in battleground states on ads.
It’s a [curiously generic ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4obk0P2YCFg). Not a bad ad, just that you could switch out the names “Clinton” & “Trump” and replace them with any two random candidates for virtually any political office and they’d fit in a generic political ad sort of way. Nothing specific to either candidate, just “This person bad, me good, vote me”.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5357 "2016-08-29T14:59:32Z")
Well, that makes it one of the more politically normal things Trump has ever done, then.
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervetter]
What else is her campaign going to say? That she’s working on some killer ways to emasculate him on live TV? She’s working on some one-liners that will set off his hair trigger? She’s practicing her needling? This is a presidential debate, so the fact that they say she’s devouring policy research and he isn’t already doesn’t make him look very presidential. She’s doing what she has to do even before the debate begins.
[/QUOTE]
You are of course entirely correct, as is davidm, who wrote pretty much the same thing right after you had. What Clinton says she is doing to prepare for the debate is not necessarily what she is in fact doing, and I should have realized that.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5358 "2016-08-29T15:03:11Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> It was someone from NBC doing the interview. I don’t know if is just me, but the doctor looked stoned out of his gourd.
> Something else I haven’t seen an answer to - why get a gastroenterologist to give a general report on health?
Because when you need someone who can pass as some kind of doctor to write you an endorsement saying “best health ever … unbelievable health … would be the healthiest president in all history” etc. then you take what you can get.
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5359 "2016-08-29T15:04:52Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Anyway Trump has gone off on an epic Twitter rant which needs to be seen to be believed.
Is it Monday already?
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5360 "2016-08-29T15:11:32Z")
> [@coremelt](#):
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> So apparently Trump doesn’t think he needs to prepare for the Presidential debates. This should be interesting:
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> [Trump Will Wing Debates, While Clinton Does Her Homework](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/trump-will-wing-debates-while-clinton-does-her-homework.html)
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> Of course he hasn’t agreed to appear yet. Whats the bet he’s demanding being paid to be there?
My political junkie housemate’s birthday is two days after the first debate. He’s hoping for an outrageous spectacle as an early present. Looks like he’s going to get one. 🆒
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### Author:  [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5361 "2016-08-29T15:15:06Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Nobody can mash together two hydrogen atoms together with an oxygen atom and freeze it like Trump Ice. Nobody. His covalent bonds are the _best_.
Boy I’m glad I finished my coffee before reading that.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/5362 "2016-08-29T15:15:56Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Anyway Trump has gone off on an epic Twitter rant which needs to be seen to be believed.
Link?..
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