# Who could the Democrats nominate as a Trump equivalent? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 29, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611 "2016-01-29T20:58:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/1 "2016-01-29T20:58:38Z")
So, in your opinion, who could the Democrats nominate to run for President in 2016 as a mirror-image of Donald Trump? Michael Moore comes to mind, but he’s not popular enough, vulgar enough, or adequately divorced from reality. Maybe Daniel Tosh? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/2 "2016-01-29T21:00:29Z")
What would be the purpose? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/3 "2016-01-29T21:06:10Z")
Rosie O’Donnell ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/4 "2016-01-29T21:09:44Z")
Dems could nominate Trump. He’d say most of the same stupid things, but would probably say how great Obama has been. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/5 "2016-01-29T21:11:22Z")
Alec Baldwin seems to have an equivalent size ego and no filter when speaking. He can be pretty damned funny, is popular and while I don’t imagine he has the funds that DT has, I bet he could get a lot of donations from Hollywood. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/6 "2016-01-29T21:17:31Z")
I also think Alec Baldwin on his worst behavior. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/7 "2016-01-29T21:19:56Z")
Rich, opinionated, successful businessperson with a liberal bent and no political experience… Oprah. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/8 "2016-01-29T21:21:04Z")
Thirding Alec Baldwin. He would eat Trump for lunch in a debate. Not sure he has quite the lefty stances that he should, but he could just suddenly adopt them all like Trump did. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/9 "2016-01-29T21:21:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > What would be the purpose? No purpose. Just an exercise. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/10 "2016-01-29T21:22:37Z")
How about Sean Penn? ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/11 "2016-01-29T21:23:13Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Rich, opinionated, successful businessperson with a liberal bent and no political experience… Oprah. Successful? Amazing what you can do with only a $50,000,000 inheritance, free Ivy League education, Daddy’s Rolodex, and four bankruptcies, isn’t it? Read somewhere that he’d have come out ahead by just dumping the lot into an index fund and saving America the embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/12 "2016-01-29T21:24:10Z")
Rosie O’Donnell and Sean Penn would be no where near as fun as Trump has been. IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/13 "2016-01-29T21:24:25Z")
Penn and Baldwin are good, and adequately wacky. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/14 "2016-01-29T21:25:23Z")
Ben Affleck has that touch of the self important crazies. Bill Maher would make an entertaining third party candidate. He and Trump already have a history for disliking each other so there would be some great one liners for the media to report. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/15 "2016-01-29T21:29:15Z")
Hmmm. Bill Maher might be the better “equivalent”, he’d have that nasty twitter feed going a la Trump. Is he truly lefty though? Always struck me as a socially left Libertarian. I still vote Baldwin though because I would enjoy it more. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/16 "2016-01-29T21:29:22Z")
Martin Shkreli? ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/17 "2016-01-29T21:32:31Z")
Spongebob? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/18 "2016-01-29T21:33:02Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Martin Shkreli? Kind of a one hit wonder, no? also: Whaaaat? ---
**Author:** ![irae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f0a364/32.png) [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/19 "2016-01-29T21:33:34Z")
Wait, how did I not think of Charlie Sheen?! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2016, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-could-the-democrats-nominate-as-a-trump-equivalent/744611/20 "2016-01-29T21:41:16Z")
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