# Donald Trump's big Obama announcement **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686 "2012-10-24T01:41:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/1 "2012-10-24T01:41:13Z")
Donald Trump has [announced](http://now.msn.com/donald-trump-says-he-has-very-very-big-news-about-obama?ocid=ansnow11)that he’ll make an announcement about Barack Obama tomorrow (Wednesday 10/24). Nobody’s entirely sure what it is, but Trump, in an effort to put himself in the spotlight, has assured us that it will be “very, very big.” The only [speculation](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222070/Donald-Trump-reveal-divorce-papers-Michelle-Barack-Obama--claims-respected-financial-pundit.html)I could find is that Trump dug up some divorce papers from the first couple. If true, color me unimpressed. The only way that “very, very big” news has even a tiny impact is if there is evidence that Michelle claimed abuse or something. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/2 "2012-10-24T01:50:36Z")
I’ve seen reports that Trump is going to announce that he talked to someone who says Obama sold cocaine in college. This is a story that Romney’s people wouldn’t touch. Maybe someone can ask Trump at the announcement what his investigators found in Hawaii? He made a big deal about sending them and we never heard about all the fascinating things they were digging up! ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/3 "2012-10-24T01:51:25Z")
They found out that spam musubi is ono, brah! ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/4 "2012-10-24T01:53:42Z")
Please proceed, Mr. Trump… ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/5 "2012-10-24T02:24:40Z")
Actually to hear that Obama sold to a friend / classmate as a go between / favour (rather than actually dealt) wouldn’t particularly surprise me. he has admitted to using already. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaBear32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@AlohaBear32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaBear32)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/6 "2012-10-24T02:39:56Z")
Yea I posted about this in the “October Suprise” thread. Apparently Trump denied that it will be about The cocaine use/dealing. Current speculation is either about The Obamas almost getting divorced (or filing for it) Or that The Pres got scholarship money apply for finicial aid as a “Foreign Student”, thereby either saying birthers were correct or the President Lied and used Scholarship funds for education (he mentioned this back in August as well) My moneys on that one. Don’t see how it will affect the election much or why they waited 30 years to “reveal” it. VTrump’s credibility is crap anyway, and it will only manage to make those who already hate Pres.Obama based on rac…uh…“whatever”…will only make them hate him more. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/7 "2012-10-24T03:15:25Z")
Also posted about this in the other thread - The Boston Globe is going to court tomorrow to try and get the papers unsealed on divorce between Tom Stemburg and his first wife Maureen. Romney was somehow “heavily involved” in their divorce proceedings but there’s a gag order and the papers are sealed. So we might get competing big announcements tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/8 "2012-10-24T03:16:41Z")
Ooooerrrr - Romney cited as “the other man” in a divorce? How would that play to his base? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/9 "2012-10-24T03:22:55Z")
We already worked this out in the “October Surprise” thread. Obama is a foreign divorced cocaine snorting socialist Antichrist. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/10 "2012-10-24T03:38:11Z")
Anyone willing to place odds against Trumpster now endorsing Obama? Get 'em high enough and I’ll bet a nickel. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/11 "2012-10-24T03:48:14Z")
He’s found out that Obama started smoking again. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/12 "2012-10-24T04:10:42Z")
Now it’s getting interesting, Obama is going to reveal what animal crawled on Trump’s head and died. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/13 "2012-10-24T04:22:57Z")
> [@AlohaBear32](#): > > used Scholarship funds for education I realize that I should not try to understand teh Trump crazy, but what is this one about? ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/14 "2012-10-24T04:26:02Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Ooooerrrr - Romney cited as “the other man” in a divorce? > > How would that play to his base? I’m not sure but I just hope, if that turns out to be the case - I just hope the Dems have the good sense to stay the hell away from it. I don’t see how gloating about something like that would do anything but backfire. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/15 "2012-10-24T04:44:19Z")
Being the other man is pretty sleazy on two fronts, that of cheating on your own wife, and that of “targeting” a woman who has made a promise to others. I don’t think Obama would go near it, but if it is really true, it’s not going to play very well for him. The gossip would be pretty salacious ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/16 "2012-10-24T04:53:13Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > I don’t see how gloating about something like that would do anything but backfire. Yikes. Because Dems just aren’t allowed to question their opponents’ morals, but Republicans can do it all day. ETA: And of course Dems can attack other Dems. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/17 "2012-10-24T04:58:28Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Ooooerrrr - Romney cited as “the other man” in a divorce? > > How would that play to his base? They wouldn’t care. For all the bluster about family values, conservatives will forgive all for someone who promises to reduce their taxes. There has only been one divorced president; that darling of the right, Ronald Reagan. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaBear32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@AlohaBear32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaBear32)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/18 "2012-10-24T05:11:14Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > I realize that I should not try to understand teh Trump crazy, but what is this one about? Sorry might have worded it wrong. But basically Trump is saying Obama got scholarships in college by applying as a foreign citizen.You know…a Kenyan…:rolleyes: I was discussing about that on another message board. If Obama indeed was eligible for scholarships as a “international” student due to the years he lived in Indonesia, though I don’t remember him holding dual citizenship… But apparently he now has “proof” of it… ---
**Author:** ![blindboyard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blindboyard/32/2833_2.png) [@blindboyard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blindboyard)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/19 "2012-10-24T06:15:20Z")
> [@bengangmo](#): > > Being the other man is pretty sleazy on two fronts, that of cheating on your own wife, and that of “targeting” a woman who has made a promise to others. Worse than Bill Clinton! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/20 "2012-10-24T06:23:58Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Obama is a foreign divorced cocaine snorting socialist Antichrist. I already suspected as much. What’s more, it’s why I voted for him. Twice now! > [@AlohaBear32](#): > > But basically Trump is saying Obama got scholarships in college by applying as a foreign citizen.You know…a Kenyan…:rolleyes: > > I was discussing about that on another message board. If Obama indeed was eligible for scholarships as a “international” student due to the years he lived in Indonesia, though I don’t remember him holding dual citizenship… > > But apparently he now has “proof” of it… I have an American friend here who has two young daughters who hold US and Thai passports. The oldest one, high-school age, is now in the US for a year as a foreign-exchange student. There was some question about if she’s eligible for the program considering her American citizenship, but it was finally decided she was. This could be something similar with Obama. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686.md?page=2)