Indeed. Trust me when I say they’re all the same to your average Texan. I knew one who, in the wake of 9/11, sent me a rabid e-mail regarding how “Ay-rabs could sneak across the border disguised among all the other wetbacks.”
That was “1,000 percent on purpose” according to Trump’s campaign manager.
And the truly scary/disturbing/entertaining part:
I don’t recall that. What neo-conservatives said it, and when?
Agreed. Extremely atypical.
I did just think of something he could do, if elected (don’t think it will happen, but there must be at least a one percent chance), to get Mexico to pay for the wall. Order the Marines to steal their gold from the New York Federal Reserve.
Impeachable offense? Yes. That’s one of the best things about my modest proposal.
When the reporter pointed out that the footage was from Morocco, Trump’s campaign manager said “No shit.” That’s the kind of class we expect from a major political campaign!
Trump fans: “In your face, reporter!” Followed by high fives all around and telling each other how he’s so politically incorrect. His base eats this up.
And that is Trump in a nutshell. The rest of us marvel at how brazen an asshole he is and wonder why people would like such an asshole. But they WANT an asshole. They don’t care about anything else. They want to elect a gigantic, douchebaggy, obnoxious, irrational asshole. They think that’s a good thing.
“Nice candidate you got there. Be a real shame if someone… sued him.”
Trump’s said a lot of stuff, but this really crosses a line. Our Northern friends have done absolutely nothing to warrant foisting Cruz on them - they’ve already got their hands full with Bieber, for heaven’s sake!
The headline of your link is misleading. Wolfowitz said that Iraq could “finance its own reconstruction.” I’d take the statement at face value. Perhaps some Wolfowitz detractors would think I’m naive, and he meant for the US to steal Iraq’s oil revenue. But that’s not what Wolfowitz said.
By contrast, here’s Trump:
I think you’re splitting hairs. I think if we had done what Wolfowitz (and Fleischer) suggested, Trump would not have the same complaint–but the lefty antiwar crowd would be howling for sure.
That’s actually quite reserved of Trump, considering that he declared Obama to be automatically, definitely, undoubtedly unqualified to be President because he thought he wasn’t born in the U.S. Now he’s willing to let a court decide on Cruz, and he’s not even sure Cruz would lose.
A couple unrelated Trump items I came across this morning:
(1) A Facebook friend described him in the following way, which I found very witty and apropos:
“I believe Donald Trump to be an imbecilic pile of hair animated solely by malice and ignorance.”
(2) “The Don” is now in a Twitter fight with Samuel L. Jackson. He won’t, of course, pay any price for his obvious lies, but it’s just remarkable how petty he gets when you’d think he would have bigger fish to fry less than a month before the Iowa caucuses.
Huh. I never knew that Jackson is the highest grossing actor of all time. I probably wouldn’t have gotten that if you gave me five guesses.
The Donald tweets:
That Paris, Germany sounds like a dangerous place to be.
Being in both Marvel and Star Wars movies is probably a huge bump.
Macy’s lays off 4,500, Macy’s employees lose jobs, Trump gloats.
Let’s have more Americans lose their jobs to satisfy his ego. That’s real Presidential material right there.
“Very disloyal company”?!