# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/161 "2012-10-25T19:37:49Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > It was not a sentence. It was lacking a verb. I demand tribute of one ball. This demand is nuts. Or at least half nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/162 "2012-10-25T20:21:04Z")
You know who ELSE only had one ball? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/163 "2012-10-25T20:25:45Z")
Well, yeah, but its a Mormon thing, along with the sacred underwear. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/164 "2012-10-25T21:12:10Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > You know who ELSE only had one ball? Yeah, Lance Armstrong. John Kruk, too, come to think of it. ---
**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:** [October 25, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/165 "2012-10-25T22:08:49Z")
Darn you people to Heck, now I have a variant of [this](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/881/did-hitler-have-only-one-testicle) rattling around in my brain pan:_Colbert has only got one ball, Donald has two but very small . . ._ ---
**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 25, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/166 "2012-10-25T22:39:41Z")
And thus the Goebbels-Coulter connection. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/167 "2012-10-25T23:06:02Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > And thus the Goebbels-Coulter connection. It sounds so much more innocent when Kermit is singing about it. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/168 "2012-10-26T16:01:28Z")
Egads, Trump is such a pathetic pile. Okay, I have watched the last couple of seasons of Celebrity Apprentice. I have gotten sucked in, and caught up in the drama and tension and nastiness and Trumpiness. But Trump has steadily been getting more annoying. When I started, all I knew about him was his PR - he’s that ultra-rich businessman who is really smart. Then I watched the show, and discovered that he’s really a blowhard with a huge ego and a thin skin. Then I saw links from here to news articles on how he really isn’t that great a businessman, he’s had more failures than successes. He’s found ways to escape his debts, usually by being such a recalcitrant obstructionist that his debtors give up so they don’t have to deal with him any more. And then he started all the birther shit. And kept at it. And now is still at it. _Sigh_ Okay, my big October Surprise announcement - I have decided I will not watch Celebrity Apprentice anymore. I’m tired of supporting this clown and contributing to the impression that he’s worthy of attention. He’s not. Now, if I can just keep this resolution. ---
**Author:** ![CannyDan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cannydan/32/548_2.png) [@CannyDan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CannyDan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/169 "2012-10-26T16:06:55Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Egads, Trump is such a pathetic pile. > > \ I have decided I will not watch Celebrity Apprentice anymore. I’m tired of supporting this clown and contributing to the impression that he’s worthy of attention. He’s not. > > Now, if I can just keep this resolution. Agreed. We could start a support group. You know, if you feel the uncontrollable urge to set the DVR you call me and I talk you down. And vice versa. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/170 "2012-10-26T16:13:31Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > You think it’s embarrassing to support giving 5 million to charity? Can you imagine the good that money can do for homeless shelters and food programs? > > Whats the downside for Obama? We all learn he made a C in Trigonometry? No one cares. There’s nothing there in those records that can hurt him. > > What does hurt Obama is this reluctance to release information. It raises questions and uncertainty. I don’t think he’s hiding anything bad, but it pisses me off that his foot dragging raises these questions. If you act evasive then people think you are untrustworthy. > > He could have shut down this birther nonsense 5 years ago. Instead he drags it out all those years before releasing his long form birth certificate. Thats just stupid. Release the college information, take Trumps check, and move on to more important things. This is the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a week 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/171 "2012-10-26T16:18:01Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > _Sigh_ Okay, my big October Surprise announcement - I have decided I will not watch Celebrity Apprentice anymore. I’m tired of supporting this clown and contributing to the impression that he’s worthy of attention. He’s not. > > Now, if I can just keep this resolution. I think it’s on opposite _ **Downton Abbey** _. Watch that instead. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/172 "2012-10-26T16:35:41Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Why to charity? Why not to Obama himself? Or to his campaign? He can’t give more than $2,300 to the campaign. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/173 "2012-10-26T16:38:51Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I think it’s on opposite _ **Downton Abbey** _. Watch that instead. Reports from the UK indicate that the Earl will continue to become more of an upper-class blowhard in the new series. But at least he’s got better hair… ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/174 "2012-10-26T16:40:44Z")
So what happens when the next billionaire comes along who wants Obama to do something humiliating? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/175 "2012-10-26T16:48:28Z")
He’ll be asked to run for POTUS in 2016, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/176 "2012-10-26T16:53:45Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Egads, Trump is such a pathetic pile. > > Okay, I have watched the last couple of seasons of Celebrity Apprentice. I have gotten sucked in, and caught up in the drama and tension and nastiness and Trumpiness. But Trump has steadily been getting more annoying. When I started, all I knew about him was his PR - he’s that ultra-rich businessman who is really smart. Then I watched the show, and discovered that he’s really a blowhard with a huge ego and a thin skin. Then I saw links from here to news articles on how he really isn’t that great a businessman, he’s had more failures than successes. He’s found ways to escape his debts, usually by being such a recalcitrant obstructionist that his debtors give up so they don’t have to deal with him any more. My wife’s observation about all this: you look around and see so many good and decent people, struggling to make a go of it and keep their heads above water. And here there’s a completely empty blowhard like Trump and look how successful he’s been. Sad, but that’s life. [What you write about his business career is true, and you also left out the fact that his father was a very wealthy real estate tycoon - The Donald is not a self-made man. Still it’s hard to argue that he has not had some measure of professional success in life.] ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/177 "2012-11-04T16:13:37Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > It would, however, point out what a hateful, vile human being Trump is. While I like his show, I would stop watching it over the dickitude that this would demonstrate. And I think a lot of Americans would do the same. The Obamas have two young daughters - it’s despicable to pull them into this. Note the difference between the Obama kids and say, the Palin offspring, who never met a camera they didn’t like. I don’t even know what they look or sound like, as I never see them! One of them is over [seven feet tall](http://www.theonion.com/articles/white-house-officials-confirm-malia-obama-now-seve,30033/). > [@dzeiger](#): > > And in related news, I just read that Linda McMahon and the WWE have made statements denying reports of large money donations to Donald Trump’s charity. So good job, Trump, your stunt is appearing to cause problems with at least one Senate race that is polling very close at the moment. I think it’s honorable that she’s trying to do something. Are we aware of precisely what it is Donald Trump is suffering from? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/178 "2012-11-04T16:35:56Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Balls’ actually. Ooh, are they making a sequel to _Love Actually_? Or would it be a prequel? ---
**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:** [November 4, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/179 "2012-11-04T18:13:22Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Are we aware of precisely what it is Donald Trump is suffering from? I’m not really sure but my best guess would be mange. I wish one of his kids would do the humane thing and have him put down. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686/180 "2012-11-04T19:03:06Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > [What you write about his business career is true, and you also left out the fact that his father was a very wealthy real estate tycoon - The Donald is not a self-made man. Still it’s hard to argue that he has not had some measure of professional success in life.] Money pays for awfully good advice… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-big-obama-announcement/638686.md?page=8)