Trump Watch

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Republicans not falling for the Drumpf.
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“I simply can’t put my name down as someone who voted for principles that suggest racism or xenophobia, misogyny, bigotry, [for someone] who’s been vulgar time and time again,” Romney,... told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I don’t want to be associated with that in any way, shape or form.” --Romney

Citing Trumpf’s recent racist remarks about U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is handling two lawsuits accusing the for-profit Drumpf University of fraud, the previous Republican presidential nominee said that even if Drumpf tones down his rhetoric, he’s already revealed his true colors. ...
“I don’t want to see trickle-down racism. I don’t want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following. Presidents have an impact on the nature of our nation,” Romney said. “And trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.” --Romney

"Former GOP senator endorses Clinton after Orlando shooting"
“This election is starting to sound like the German elections in [the late 1920s],” Pressler said. “This is a very dangerous national conversation we’re slipping into.”
http://www.thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief ... o-shooting

"High-Profile GOP Donor Meg Whitman Indicates She Is Likely to Support Hillary Clinton, Say Sources"
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/high-pro ... d=39774523

"REPUBLICAN SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS SAYS SHE MIGHT SUPPORT HILLARY CLINTON"
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk ... ry-clinton

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) took a not-so-subtle dig at the racism of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Drumpf in a tweet on Monday.
"Public Service Announcement:
Saying someone can't do a specific job because of his or her race is the literal definition of "racism."
wrote a lengthy Facebook post saying he won’t vote for Drumpf no matter the circumstance.
“A presidential candidate who boasts about what he’ll do during his ‘reign’ and refuses to condemn the KKK cannot lead a conservative movement in America,” Sasse wrote.
Last November, Sasse told his colleagues in his maiden speech on the Senate floor, “The people despise us all.“
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben ... 752dce5612

Hell Is Breaking Loose In The Republican Party As Sen. Mark Kirk Unendorses Drumpf
By Jason Easley on Tue, Jun 7th
There is a tidal wave of backlash building against Donald Drumpf within the Republican Party, as Sen. Mark Kirk became the first Republican Senator to unendorse Drumpf."
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/07/ ... trump.html

Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt: RNC Must Dump Drumpf
Hillary Clinton is “gonna be president unless Republicans change their nominee.”
"Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt said on Wednesday that the Republican National Committee should ask Donald Drumpf to withdraw his candidacy or change the convention rules to prevent his formal nomination.
The alternative, he said, is a guaranteed victory for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — and the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
“She’s gonna be president unless Republicans change their nominee,” Hewitt said. “When the dust clears we will have lost the House, we will have lost the Senate, we will have lost governorships.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hug ... to8e9ltyb9

"Lindsey Graham Wants Republicans To Unendorse Donald Drumpf"
“There are a lot of people who want to be loyal to the Republican Party, including me,” he said. “But there’ll come a point in time where we’re gonna have to understand that it’s not just about the 2016 race, it’s about the future of the party and I would like to support our nominee. I just can’t.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lin ... 5c7b5038c2

"Republican strategist Brian Walsh, a former spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, quickly took to social media after Drumpf’s remarks on Muslims on Sunday: “I don’t care if he’s the nominee — Republicans should loudly condemn this racist, nonsensical rhetoric by Drumpf,” Walsh tweeted.
Walsh, said... that Republican leaders should not hesitate to condemn comments that are “the definition of racism.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

"Rick Wilson, a longtime GOP operative..., penned a column to fellow Republicans this weekend warning that candidates up for election will be yoked to Drumpf: “You own his politics. You own his policies, even the ones that only last as long as the next contradiction. You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

“I disavow those comments. I regret those comments that he made,” Ryan said.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” Ryan said. “I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It’s absolutely unacceptable.” --Paul Ryan, third in line to president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pau ... 770p0kke29

"Enjoying the huge, steaming servings of conservative-world meltdown. Leading conservative blogger Matt Walsh: "Goodbye, Republican Party.
I mean that in more ways than one. I’m leaving. You’re dying. I could stick around while you gasp your last pitiful breaths, but what would be the point? I’m certainly more pro-life than you ever were, but when it comes to political parties that have been overtaken by some kind of unintelligible, socially liberal populism, I say pull the plug.
Good riddance. Your wounds are self-inflicted anyway. Clearly you have no desire to live. So goodbye. I am abandoning you on your deathbed, and I feel no shame in it."
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/g ... -riddance/

VIDEO: Republicans on Drumpf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a4-aPfBHnY

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Bunches of Trump roast.
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"Hillary Clinton guts Donald Drumpf, cuts remains into cubes, tosses what's left in trash"
Donald Drumpf’s ideas aren’t just different – they are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas – just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies.
He is not just unprepared – he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility.
This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Drumpf leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.
We cannot put the security of our children and grandchildren in Donald Drumpf’s hands. We cannot let him roll the dice with America.
This is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia.
This is someone who has threatened to abandon our allies in NATO – the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before they strike us at home.
He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008.
He has said that he would order our military to carry out torture and the murder of civilians who are related to suspected terrorists – even though those are war crimes.
He says he doesn’t have to listen to our generals or our admirals, our ambassadors and other high officials, because he has – quote – 'a very good brain.'
He also said, 'I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.' You know what? I don’t believe him.
He says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese, and he has the gall to say that prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes.
He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin and picks fights with our friends – including the British prime minister, the mayor of London, the German chancellor, the president of Mexico and the Pope. He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia.
And to top it off, he believes America is weak. An embarrassment. He called our military a disaster. He said we are – and I quote – a 'third-world country.' And he’s been saying things like that for decades.
Those are the words my friends of someone who doesn’t understand America or the world. And they’re the words of someone who would lead us in the wrong direction. Because if you really believe America is weak – with our military, our values, our capabilities that no other country comes close to matching – then you don’t know America. And you certainly don’t deserve to lead it."
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/ ... t-in-trash?

Trump said all of those things:
"Trump Literally Said All Those Things
Hillary Clinton just delivered a major national security address in which, among other things, she took aim at a wide-ranging catalogue of dangerous comments that Donald Trump has made. Some of the comments she referenced are so ignorant, incoherent or outrageous, it could be hard to believe they actually came out of the mouth of the GOP’s presidential nominee.
But they literally did. All of them. See for yourself -- check out the lines from Clinton’s speech, and the Trump quotes behind them"
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing ... se-things/

Trump, he "knows more than the generals." Can you imagine if Hillary said that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgWJRjA-nIY

"Trump Starts Summer Push With Crippling Money Deficit
"He has a staff of around 70 people — compared with nearly 700 for Mrs. Clinton — suggesting only the barest effort toward preparing to contest swing states this fall. And he fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, on Monday, after concerns among allies and donors about his ability to run a competitive race.
The Trump campaign has not aired a television advertisement since he effectively secured the nomination in May and has not booked any advertising for the summer or fall. Mrs. Clinton and her allies spent nearly $26 million on advertising in June alone, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group, pummeling Mr. Trump over his temperament, his statements and his mocking of a disabled reporter. The only sustained reply, aside from Mr. Trump’s gibes at rallies and on Twitter, has come from a pair of groups that spent less than $2 million combined.
Mr. Trump’s fund-raising for May reflects his lag in assembling the core of a national finance team. In the same month that he clinched the Republican nomination, Mr. Trump raised just $3.1 million and was forced to lend himself $2 million to meet costs. Some invitations to Trump fund-raising events have featured the same short list of national Republican finance volunteers regardless of what city the event is held in, suggesting Mr. Trump has had some trouble lining up local co-hosts."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/po ... .html?_r=0


Trump loves Hillary:
On Hillary Clinton: In 2007, Trump said of Hillary Clinton, “I hope [she gets] the nomination.” In 2012, Trump said, “Hillary Clinton I think is a terrific woman. I am biased because I have known her for years. I live in New York. She lives in New York. I really like her and her husband both a lot. I think she really works hard. And I think, again, she’s given an agenda, it is not all of her, but I think she really works hard and I think she does a good job. I like her.” http://www.dailywire.com/news/2906/here ... en-shapiro

Trump loves Obama:
On Barack Obama: In 2009, Trump said of Obama, “I think he’s doing a really good job…He’s totally a champion.” He added:
Well, I think he’s sort of a guy that has a wonderful personality, a good speaker, somebody that people trust…And I also think that the comparison with his predecessor is so different — it’s so huge that it really has made a great impact on people. I think that he’s really doing a nice job in terms of representation of this country. And he represents such a large part of the country. I mean, to think that a black man was going to be elected president — I watched television for years where the great political analysts were saying maybe in 50, maybe in 100 years. Here’s a man that not only got elected, I think he’s doing a really good job….he’s just done something that’s amazing."
http://www.dailywire.com/news/2906/here ... en-shapiro


"Today in ‘Donald Trump’s Campaign Is a Garbage Fire’"
"...Bloomberg reports that Trump mistakenly identified the perpetrator of the mass shooting in Orlando as foreign-born because “Staffers had accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the speech into the teleprompters.” Also, “Trump doesn't carry a mobile phone or use e-mail, giving staff in close proximity—most often Lewandowsi—greater influence.” It’s probably helpful for Trump that a rank amateur like Lewandowski is gone. But when the candidate is also a rank amateur and can be manipulated by whichever staffer happens to be in close physical proximity, and fails to use modern communications tools, then you have a garbage fire that is going to keep burning for a while." http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... -fire.html

"Trump dominated the Republican primary because he mastered one weird trick. The trick was to constantly spout wild and offensive comments, frequently targeted at women or people of other races or nationalities, generating a constant stream of news coverage focused on Trump’s latest outrage. Since most Republican voters really like outrageous comments, especially when they’re directed at women and people of other races or nationalities, this technique worked well enough to overcome Trump’s massive strategic and organizational liabilities as a candidate. But since most voters in the electorate as a whole feel differently, Trump’s outrageousness is now compounding rather than hiding his technical incompetence." --ibid

Saudi Prince Reminds Donald Trump: I Bailed You Out – Twice
"Prince Alwaleed (who only has a one percent stake in Fox News — hardly a co-owner) included news snippets in his tweets. One news story was the fact he had to buy Drumpf’s yacht, which had recently been turned over to creditors when it fell a staggering $900 million in debt.
Alwaleed also included the story of how he bought Drumpf Plaza Hotel in New York after promising to erase the mogul’s debt. Calling it a “defeat for the real estate developer,” The New York Times reports that the outstanding debt accumulated form the hotel around $300 million, yet the Prince was able to buy it down to roughly $25 million.
Two questions everyone should be asking.
One, how did Drumpf run up $900 million in debt over a yacht, and how did he acquire $300 million of debt from a world famous hotel?
Second, how can anymore expect Drumpf to be “tough” on the Saudis and the Royal Family when he owes them millions of dollars?"
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/06/15 ... out-twice/

Party ranking:
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"A Washington Post/ABC survey released Wednesday shows seven in 10 Americans view the presumptive GOP nominee unfavorably, up 10 points since he announced his candidacy for president.
Even more striking is Trump’s standing with people who are black and Latino — growing voting blocks whose support is crucial to cobbling together a winning coalition. A staggering 94 percent of black voters view the real estate mogul negatively, as do 89 percent of Latinos, despite his predictions that he will “win the Hispanic vote” in November."
"He’s gone on a racist tirade against a federal judge of Mexican heritage, and his outreach to Latinos entails posing for a picture on Cinco de Mayo with a taco salad bowl. He initially refused to disavow former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, before later doing so. And he has significant backing from white supremacists, especially online, where they harass his critics with vile and racist attacks."
http://new.www.huffingtonpost.com/entry ... 4d586ea70d


>>@Marc Schaeffer - Here are some facts: Trump earned about 13.5 million votes in the primary process. President Obama won the 2012 election with just under 66 million votes. Trump is confusing the rabid primary voters with the centrist general election electorate. He also wrongly calculates that there are enough white men to counter his enormous deficits with women, African-American and Latino/a voters. Math matters.<<

Morning Joe is discussing Donald Trump's numerous comments yesterday that the president of the United States might be culpable or part of Islamic Terror. Donald is back to his conspiracy theories again, implied but undefined.
The Republican party now led by a man who implied all day Monday that the president of the United States is complicit in Terror. This is probably why not one of the five living presidents, and the last republican candidate for president, will not vote for Trump.

And morons
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57C3A8B1

"Donald Trump took to social media on Sunday to congratulate himself just hours after a gunman attacked a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
With reports swirling that suspected shooter Omar Mateen may have had ties to Islamic extremism, Trump wanted to make clear the significance of that development: He was right."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 9a28addbe6

Meme: https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57C6A8D0

"The GOP must be proud: When your party’s nominee is the darling of white supremacists
Racists are heavily lobbying to put Donald Drumpf in the White House — as the Republican Party looks the other way"
http://www.salon.com/2016/06/11/the_gop ... remacists/

"Trump Isn’t Winning Enough White Voters"
"Trump has trailed Hillary Clinton in every national poll for roughly the last three weeks. He’s led in only three of 34 polls since knocking Ted Cruz and John Kasich from the race in early May. In fact, the only two pollsters who had Drumpf ahead and have released a more recent poll (Fox News and Rasmussen Reports) now show him trailing by 3 and 4 percentage points, respectively.
One big reason Drumpf is trailing — by an average of 4 to 6 percentage points, depending on which aggregator you use — is because, despite all the bluster, he isn’t doing any better than Romney did among white voters."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tru ... te-voters/

"How Bad Are the Charges Against Trump University? Really Bad"
"...after nearly six years of litigation, with discovery now complete, the charges have withstood several rounds of the dismissal motions that typically weed out frivolous claims. (In addition to the class action I’m referring to, in San Diego federal court, there are two other pending suits which aren’t as far along: a second class action in San Diego federal court, making civil racketeering charges, and an action filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, alleging fraud, false advertising, and other violations, and seeking $40 million in restitution.)"
http://fortune.com/2016/03/08/trump-uni ... e-charges/

Trump university: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0ei2h-0QDU

“I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it,” Drumpf told John R. O’Donnell, the former president of Drumpf Plaza Hotel & Casino, according O’Donnell’s account in his 1991 book “Trumped!” “The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.”
http://www.politico.eu/article/15-most- ... on-racism/

" Speaking to Time magazine for a profile published in January 1989, Drumpf was asked to give an estimate of his total wealth.
“Who the f knows? I mean, really, who knows how much the Japs will pay for Manhattan property these days?” he asked in response..."
http://www.politico.eu/article/15-most- ... on-racism/

"And Trump is already doing far better than Romney among white voters without a college degree, as Cohn noted. But in politics, as in physics, every action has a reaction. As Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report has pointed out, Drumpf is also doing considerably worse than Romney among white voters with a college degree. That makes sense, given Drumpf’s direct appeals to whites who do not have a high level of education, and his penchant for shunning intellectuals."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/tru ... te-voters/

Whites with a College Degree:
Clinton 51%, Trump 30%
Trump is truly the candidate of stupid people.
https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers

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Teeing up the Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaIyu9ze_lI

"Drumpf's five weeks as the presumptive nominee have been marked by several missteps: A refusal to release his tax returns, confusion among donors over which super-PAC to give money, audio of him using a pseudonym to act as his own publicist, failing to donate to veterans groups as promised until pressed by the media.
But the most incendiary controversy has been his handling of Drumpf University."
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... ournalists


"After Donald Trump suggested the immigrant parents of the Orlando gunman should have been banned from entering the country, a former strategist for Mitt Romney reminded him that four of his own kids have immigrant mothers."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... ndo-gunman

"Drumpf Claimed Orlando Shooting Suspect Was Foreign-Born. Actually They Were Born In The Same City."
"Donald Drumpf claimed that Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen was born in someplace called “Afghan.
Mateen wasn’t actually foreign-born. In fact, he was born in the same borough of New York City that Drumpf was."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... -shooting/

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee a "fraud" and "thin-skinned, racist bully."
"Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and serves nobody but himself," the Massachusetts Democrat told a receptive audience at the progressive American Constitution Society.
"Like all federal judges, Judge Curiel is bound by the federal code of judicial ethics not to respond to these attacks," Warren said. "Drumpf is picking on someone who is ethically bound not to defend himself, exactly what you would expect from a thin-skinned, racist bully."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/09/politics/ ... ge-curiel/

Beauty of Trump is he's really rich
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57D82F24

Trump is a fraud who rips people off.
Hundreds allege Donald Drumpf doesn’t pay his bills
"Donald Trump casts himself as a protector of workers and jobs, but a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation found hundreds of people – carpenters, dishwashers, painters, even his own lawyers – who say he didn’t pay them for their work.
During the Atlantic City casino boom in the 1980s, Philadelphia cabinet-builder Edward Friel Jr. landed a $400,000 contract to build the bases for slot machines, registration desks, bars and other cabinets at Harrah's at Trump Plaza.
The family cabinetry business, founded in the 1940s by Edward’s father, finished its work in 1984 and submitted its final bill to the general contractor for the Trump Organization, the resort’s builder.
Edward’s son, Paul, who was the firm’s accountant, still remembers the amount of that bill more than 30 years later: $83,600. The reason: the money never came. “That began the demise of the Edward J. Friel Company… which has been around since my grandfather,” he said.
Donald Trump often portrays himself as a savior of the working class who will "protect your job." But a USA TODAY NETWORK analysis found he has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans, like the Friels, who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... /85297274/

the review found more than 200 mechanic’s liens — filed by contractors and employees against Trump, his companies or his properties claiming they were owed money for their work — since the 1980s. The liens range from a $75,000 claim by a Plainview, N.Y., air conditioning and heating company to a $1 million claim from the president of a New York City real estate banking firm. On just one project, Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, records released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission in 1990 show that at least 253 subcontractors weren’t paid in full or on time, including workers who installed walls, chandeliers and plumbing."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... /85297274/


Trump stories about Trump university
http://mediamattersforamerica.tumblr.co ... eeds-to-be

"Donald Drumpf wants to disqualify a judge purely because of his ethnicity
He's not even trying not to be racist against Judge Gonzalo Curiel anymore. And by extension, he's questioning the patriotism of millions of Latinos."
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/2/11838858/tr ... dge-curiel

"Republican strategist Brian Walsh, a former spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, quickly took to social media after Trump’s remarks on Muslims on Sunday: “I don’t care if he’s the nominee — Republicans should loudly condemn this racist, nonsensical rhetoric by Drumpf,” Walsh tweeted.
Walsh, said... that Republican leaders should not hesitate to condemn comments that are “the definition of racism.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

"Rick Wilson, a longtime GOP operative..., penned a column to fellow Republicans this weekend warning that candidates up for election will be yoked to Trump: “You own his politics. You own his policies, even the ones that only last as long as the next contradiction. You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

“I disavow those comments. I regret those comments that he made,” Ryan said.
“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” Ryan said. “I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It’s absolutely unacceptable.” --Paul Ryan, third in line to president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pau ... 770p0kke29


"Trump’s veterans controversy goes from bad to worse"
"So where does that leave us? Drumpf said he’d raised $6 million for veterans, but that wasn’t true. He later claimed he never used the $6 million figure, but that wasn’t true. His campaign insisted Drumpf had contributed $1 million himself, but that wasn’t true. Drumpf said he “didn’t want to have credit” for the fundraising efforts, but that wasn’t true. He said he and his team were vetting groups they’d never heard of four months after the fact, but that wasn’t true.
And as of yesterday, all of this, the Republican candidate insisted, is the media’s fault. Indeed, Drumpf thinks journalists should be “ashamed” of themselves for scrutinizing his claims that turned out to be wrong.
Not to put too fine a point on this, but in a normal year, in a normal party, with a normal candidate, this is the sort of controversy that could end a campaign. Legitimate presidential hopefuls can get away with some dissembling and the occasional whopper, but Drumpf was caught telling obvious falsehoods about support for veterans’ charities."
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show ... -bad-worse

"Donald Trump sought to tout his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a black man in the crowd and calling him "my African-American."
"Oh, look at my African-American over here. Look at him," Trump said. "Are you the greatest?"
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/03/politics/ ... type=Email

Trump Responds To Accusations Of Racism With Fake Photo Of Black Supporters
"Look at my African-American over there." - Donald Trump
The only way this could be funnier would be if he added, "He's for sale if you want him."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... upporters/
The guy wasn't a supporter:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/ ... -supporter

"One of the major hurdles for Donald Drumpf to win the presidency is his deep unpopularity among non-white voters. A recent survey found Drumpf is viewed unfavorably by 86% of black voters and 75% of Latinos.
Drumpf’s comments about the African American man came after reiterating his belief that a federal judge should be disqualified from presiding over the Drumpf University fraud case because of his “Mexican heritage.” (The judge was born in Indiana.)"
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... upporters/

"Last year, Drumpf attracted controversy when he retweeted fake statistics claiming 81% of white murder victims were murdered by blacks. The actual figure is 14%."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/ ... upporters/

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More Trump roast
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"Trump Humiliates Himself By Claiming That There Is No Drought In California"
“We’re going to solve your water problem. You have a water problem that is so insane. It is so ridiculous where they’re taking the water and shoving it out to sea…They don’t understand — nobody understands it. There is no drought."
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/27/ ... ornia.html
California is as dry as it has been in 500 years. That's a drought.

"Donald Trump isn't rich because he's a great investor. He's rich because his dad was rich."
Excerpt:
" In an outstanding piece for National Journal, reporter S.V. Dáte notes that in 1974, the real estate empire of Drumpf's father, Fred, was worth about $200 million. Drumpf is one of five siblings, making his stake at that time worth about $40 million. If someone were to invest $40 million in a S&P 500 index in August 1974, reinvest all dividends, not cash out and have to pay capital gains, and pay nothing in investment fees, he'd wind up with about $3.4 billion come August 2015, according to Don't Quit Your Day Job's handy S&P calculator. If one factors in dividend taxes and a fee of 0.15 percent — which is triple Vanguard's actual fee for an exchange-traded S&P 500 fund — the total only falls to $2.3 billion. ...
It's hard to nail down Drumpf's precise net worth, but Bloomberg currently puts it at $2.9 billion, while Forbes puts it at $4 billion. So he's worth about as much as he would've been if he had taken $40 million from his dad and thrown it into an index fund. ...
Trump nonetheless has an investment record that at best roughly matches and at worst underperforms the market. He did only as well or possibly worse than a retiree with a Vanguard 401(k) did.
That's not really impressive. Worse, it suggests that his success is almost entirely the result of having inherited money from his father. His own actions might have even cost him money."
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9248963/don ... index-fund?


Trump followers: skulls.
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Trump, 2011:
"Qaddafi, in Libya, is killing thousands of people. Nobody knows how bad it is. And we’re sitting around, we have soldiers all over the Middle East, and we’re not bring them in to stop this horrible carnage. That’s what it is. Carnage. You talk about all the things that have happened in history, this could be one of the worst. Now, we should go in. We should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick."
Trump, 2016:
"On Libya? I never discussed that subject. I was in favor of Libya? We would be so much better off if Qaddafi were in charge right now. … You look at Libya right now, ISIS as we speak is taking over their oil. We would have been better off if the politicians took a day off instead of going into war.
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/05/20/ ... th-answers

"The latest CBS News/New York Times poll shows that sixty percent of women polled had an unfavorable impression of Trump. Only 21 percent view him favorably. This could well set up a scenario which will deliver the general election to Hillary Clinton in November."

Chimpanzee level of understanding foreign policy.
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57CFEA73

Republicans on Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a4-aPfBHnY

Trump now issues clarification of his mess regarding punishing women for abortions.
He told MSNBC’s Willie Geist:
"He was asking me a theoretical, or just a question in theory, and I talked about it only from that standpoint. Of course not. And that was done, he said, you know, I guess it was theoretically, but he was asking me a rhetorical question, and I gave an answer. And by the way, people thought from an academic standpoint, and asked rhetorically, people said that answer was an unbelievable academic answer. But of course not, and I said that afterwards. Everybody understands that."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... e9f0905153
He has the best words you know.

Enjoying the huge, steaming servings of conservative-world meltdown. Leading conservative blogger Matt Walsh: "Goodbye, Republican Party.
I mean that in more ways than one. I’m leaving. You’re dying. I could stick around while you gasp your last pitiful breaths, but what would be the point? I’m certainly more pro-life than you ever were, but when it comes to political parties that have been overtaken by some kind of unintelligible, socially liberal populism, I say pull the plug.
Good riddance. Your wounds are self-inflicted anyway. Clearly you have no desire to live. So goodbye. I am abandoning you on your deathbed, and I feel no shame in it."
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/g ... -riddance/

"A recent ABC/Washington Post poll showed Mr. Drumpf with just a 29 percent favorability rating among white women and 23 percent among white college graduates, while 68 percent and 74 percent had an unfavorable opinion." http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/up ... oogle.com/


"When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.
"Lucifer in the flesh," the former speaker said. "I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life."
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11526234/boehner-cruz

Of all the stupid things Trump has said, I think he really out did himself today. This is the worst, at least regarding women.
Along comes a woman who was voted one of the 100 most powerful attorneys in the nation, twice, she was Secretary of State a US senator, and the most admired and accomplished woman in American history (for 20 years). Her CV goes on forever.
Yet, Trump says the "only thing" she has going for her... is... she's a woman.
What a consummate misogynist toolbag.

"61% of Republican voters, and by that I mean actual, registered Republican voters, don’t want Donald Drumpf as their nominee." http://theresurgent.com/why-todays-romp ... nt-matter/

"If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she would get 5% of the vote." Drumpf said.
Good point Donald, people ALWAYS vote for women because they are women. That's why we've had so many female presidents in this country- female privilege.

Wankpuffin
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57B2C51C

"Combing through four-and-a-half hours of campaign speeches given during the first week in March, Politico found Drumpf averaged a misstatement once every five minutes."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/04/19 ... ton/209982

Chris Haze
Amazed longest running republican speaker of the house is a child molester isn't a bigger story.
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57BF06B6

Trump on Lincoln
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57733C53

"In his first 100 days, Trump said, he would cut taxes, “renegotiate trade deals and renegotiate military deals,” including altering the U.S. role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
"He insisted that he would be able to get rid of the nation’s more than $19 trillion national debt “over a period of eight years.”
"Most economists would consider this impossible because it could require taking more than $2 trillion a year out of the annual $4 trillion budget to pay off holders of the debt."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

Trump makes stuff up 71 times in one hour
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... f53aee9175

Trump: “I built an unbelievable, some of the greatest assets in the world, very little debt, tremendous cash flow, tremendous. ... Almost all of my businesses work.” (March 7 in Madison, Miss. and at least one other time)
Four of Trump’s companies have declared bankruptcy, meaning they could not repay their debts. For example, the Drumpf Plaza Hotel declared bankruptcy in 1992 with $550 million in debt. The Drumpf Hotels and Casinos Resorts filed for bankruptcy in 2004 carrying an estimated $1.8 billion in debt. In December 2008, Drumpf Entertainment Resorts couldn’t pay a $53.1 million interest payment for a bond.

Trump:
“It’s the largest winery on the East Coast. I own it 100 percent. No mortgage. No debt. You can all check. You have to go check the records, folks. In fact, the press, I’m asking you, please check.” (March 8 in Jupiter, Fla.)

Drumpf Winery in Charlottesville is not the largest vineyard or winery on the East Coast, according to the National Association of American Wineries.
And the winery’s own website denies that Drumpf owns it. “Drumpf Winery is a registered trade name of Eric Drumpf Wine Manufacturing LLC, which is not owned, managed or affiliated with Donald J. Drumpf, The Drumpf Organization or any of their affiliates.”
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... ods-213730

"We have Drumpf Steaks," he said, pointing to a platter full of steaks that had been brought out for the occasion. But Drumpf Steaks have been off the market for a decade; the steaks at the press conference were still in wrappers indicating they came from a meat company called Bush Brothers."
http://theweek.com/articles/611581/why- ... helm-press

Trump's very good brain on foreign policy
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57874887


"I'm starting to believe that Trump could destroy ISIS when I see what he's done to the Republican Party." --Borwitz

Trump doesn't know David Duke, they were both wearing hoods.
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5763EBEF

Trump has to do more research before condemning the KKK
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57585B57

Three wives, 4 bankruptcies, 5 time draft dodger creates fake university
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=575963A1

Make Donald Drumpf Again.
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=576AB764

"Clock is ticking...who's gonna be your "mystery date" Republicans? Is it gonna be the xenophobic billionaire narcissist, the greasy faux evangelical madman or the dehydrated teenage robot?" --RR

"Lindsey Graham: Better for a Democrat to win the White House than Donald Trump"
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=575D3B20
http://www.examiner.com/article/lindsey ... nald-trump

"Robert Gates, a Republican stalwart and former US defence secretary who served under eight presidents, has derided the party’s election candidates for a grasp of national security issues that “would embarrass a middle schooler”.
“The level of dialogue on national security issues would embarrass a middle schooler,” Gates said of the Republican contenders at a Politico Playbook event in Washington on Monday. “People are out there making threats and promises that are totally unrealistic, totally unattainable. Either they really believe what they’re saying or they’re cynical and opportunistic and, in a way, you hope it’s the latter, because God forbid they actually believe some of the things that they’re saying.”
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... are_btn_fb

"After years of pandering to uneducated, racist, gun-loving, women hating, born again and again and again asshats, the Republican Party is finally reaping their reward – Donald Trump. And they don’t seem very happy with their harvest." --Helen Philpot

Trump front row, teeth
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 6925_n.jpg

"...author Bill James, who is known as one of the pioneers of the analysis of baseball and in-game statistics, broke down his reasoning in [this way].
"I don’t think that Trump can win, frankly, because I don’t think there are enough morons to elect him. A certain percentage of the American public is just morons; that’s the way it is," James wrote in one section. "When you divide the public in two then divide the voters in one of those halves among five candidates or more, a candidate can win by dominating the moron vote because it only takes about one-seventh of the total population to take the 'lead' under those circumstances."
But in a general election situation, James posited, "when you’re talking about needing 51 percent of the whole population, rather than needing 30 percent of half of the population, you run out of morons."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop- ... z4199s6bwh

The self-funding claim is, and has always been, just another Trump lie.
---
"...the majority of his campaign funding comes from donors. This quarter, the campaign received 73,942 “unsolicited donations” totaling about $3.7 million, according to a release from the campaign. That accounts for most of the $5.8 million the campaign has taken in to date."
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/d ... z413uIK2Zr

There is a difference between being self-funded and having the vast majority of your campaign be not self-funded, that is, paid for by donations. Since Trump's case is the latter, when he says otherwise, he's blatantly lying. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTgN7kfXIAAG60y.jpg

"Donald Trump is a serial liar[1], rampant xenophobe[2], racist[3], misogynist[4], birther[5] and bully[6] who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S."
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[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 945feb7326
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/9-o ... 18f618904b
[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... e9d1c7252b
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/18- ... ddcb442023
[5] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 10edf92f7a
[6] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru ... 8edb31dd7e

“For his part, Obama said he’s just focused on winning the nomination, although at least one member of his team said Clinton would make a good vice-president. (I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president or vice-president.)” --Donald Trump
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski ... ucyYeQoaRg

Trump loves him some Hillary!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5A02pNcGHs

Trump loves Hillary (one minute vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OGAqKQ3OdQ

"Trump is the weakest frontrunner in modern GOP history. There are substantial swaths of GOP voters, activists, and elected officials who will not accept him as the nominee, and wouldn't even vote for him in a general election. From where we are right now, I have no idea how he gets substantially more than 33% of voters to support him."

"...Trump is the most unpopular of all. His favorability rating is 33 percent, as compared with an unfavorable rating of 58 percent, for a net rating of -25 percentage points. By comparison Hillary Clinton, whose favorability ratings are notoriously poor, has a 42 percent favorable rating against a 50 percent unfavorable rating, for a net of -8 points. Those are bad numbers, but nowhere near as bad as Trump’s."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/don ... on-voters/
Chart: https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordp ... =575&h=383


"Say what you will about Trump, he is not stupid. He is a smart man with a deep understanding of what stupid people want." --Andy Borowitz
https://scontent.fmci1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=57D31F1E

Trump & Hitler
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... e=5743F848

"...GOP strategist Rick Wilson dismissed the "childless single men" who support Trump's presidential bid.
"The fact of the matter is, most of them are childless single men who [tug it] to anime. They’re not real political players. These are not people who matter in the overall course of humanity," Wilson said of Trump supporters..."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/r ... single-men

"The saddest thing in American politics is seeing poor people line up to vote for republicans to give billionaires a better life."

"Two Corinthians, right? Two Corinthians 3:17. That’s the whole ballgame. . . . Is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that’s the one you like." --Trump, pretending to care what evangelicals think

" We want to see win, win, win, constant winning. And you’ll see if I’m president, and you’ll say, “Please, Mr. President. We’re winning too much. We can’t stand it anymore. Can we have a loss?” And I’ll say, “No, we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning.” --Trump

"Donald Trump as the Republican nominee would be catastrophic for Republican hopes to win the White House and maintain control of the Senate and would damage the party and the conservative cause for years to come. His having the legitimacy that comes with the nomination of a major political party would cause greater instability throughout the world at a time when the world looks to America for leadership that is serious and sober.
As a longtime conservative Republican campaign and Congressional aide, and former official of the Republican National Committee, not voting for the Republican nominee is an unimaginable scenario. But for the sake of my party and indeed, my country, while I will certainly vote for some Republican in November, if Trump is the nominee, I cannot vote for my party’s nominee."
http://journal.ijreview.com/2016/01/251 ... e-nominee/

"Trump is a trainwreck of a human being who is not fit to be president. The fact that he is attracting such a high level of support in the GOP primary speaks volumes about the collective insanity of a large segment of Republican primary voters." Jason Easley
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hp ... e=5703BEF0

"Donald Trump talks at a fourth-grade level. Maybe that’s why the Fox News audience loves him
The culture of anti-intellectualism in America is fueling hateful, racist demagogues -- in politics and on TV"
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/10/donald_ ... loves_him/

Or worse: "Donald Trump Talks Like a Third-Grader"
"Flattening the English language whenever he speaks without a script, Trump relies heavily on words such as “very” and “great,” and the pronouns “we” and “I,” which is his favorite word. As any news observer can observe, he lives to diminish his foes by calling them “losers,” “total losers,” “haters,” “dumb,” “idiots,” “morons,” “stupid,” “dummy” and “ disgusting.” He can’t open his mouth without bragging about getting the Clintons to attend his wedding, about how smart he is, the excellence of his real estate projects, the brilliance of his TV show, his generous donations to other political campaigns and so on. In a freakish way, Trump resembles that of Muhammad Ali at his prime—except the champ was always kidding (even when he was right) while Trump seems to believe his claims (and often is wrong). "
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... der-121340


"Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring “some type of renewed scandal or health problem.”
“I could see Bernie Sanders winning a few states,” Silver said of the Vermont independent. “New Hampshire is still very close. But [Clinton’s] chances have to be in the range of 90 to 95 percent. Trump has more of a chance than Bernie.”
Silver also said that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s chances of winning his party’s nomination are extremely low despite the amount of media coverage he has received.
“I don’t think his chances are zero. You have to be very careful about saying they’re zero, but I think they’re lower than 20 or 25 percent,” Silver said. “Maybe they’re 10 percent. Maybe they’re 8 percent. I’m not sure, somewhere in that range."
http://www.jta.org/2016/01/05/news-opin ... nders-does


"Beneath every narcissist is a scared kid.
You don't have to be a psychologist to understand what's really going on with Trump. His entire career, like his campaign, has been about declaring his awesomeness and forcing others to acknowledge it. He has surrounded himself with trophy wives, sycophants, and his own name, everywhere he looks. He built a whole TV show premised on the idea that he's a savvy, decisive business executive, harvesting obeisance from the rotating cast of supplicants. It is overcompensation on a world-historical scale.
At the root of this kind of narcissism is always the same thing: a vast, yawning chasm of need, a hunger for approval and validation that is never sated. Down there in the lizard brain, it's fear: fear of being left out, laughed at, or looked down on, fear of never belonging, never being accepted, no matter how many towers you build."
Trump's enormous ego is, like the ego of every blowhard, incredibly tender. He legendarily never forgets a slight.
Even today, Trump's rallies have become long, discursive rambles in which he addresses and rebuts every single accusation cast at him by his detractors. (Responding to criticisms of his rhetoric: "I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words.") He can't let go of any slight. His whole life has been devoted to refuting those who doubt the awesomeness of Trump."
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/8/10732496/do ... mp-implode

"GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump late Monday mocked Hillary Clinton for visiting the bathroom during last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate, saying it was “disgusting.”
“What happened to her?” he asked during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich.
“I’m watching the debate and she disappeared,” Trump continued. “Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? I thought she quit. I thought she gave up.
“I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it,” Trump added of Clinton’s unplanned delay last weekend. “No, it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting, let’s not talk.”
Trump also crudely taunted Clinton for coming up short against then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during the 2008 presidential election.
“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” he said."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... during-dem

"Former KKK Leader Says Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Might Be A Little Too Radical"
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/ ... interview/


"Trump wrote in his 1987 best-seller The Art of the Deal. "People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion."
"PolitiFact has been documenting Trump’s statements on our Truth-O-Meter, where we’ve rated 76 percent of them Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire, out of 77 statements checked. No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on the dial."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

• June 16: "The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It’s never below zero." Pants on Fire. The gross domestic product was not "zero," and the growth in the gross domestic product has been below zero 42 times over 68 years.
• Sept. 28: The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent." Pants on Fire. The highest alternative unemployment-rate measure we could come up with that had any credibility was 14.8 percent.
• Nov. 17: The federal government is sending Syrian refugees to states with governors who are "Republicans, not to the Democrats." Pants on Fire. Refugees are in fact sent to states with Democratic governors.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

Trump, lying about golf:
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was attacking the president during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan for how much time he spends on the links.
"It was reported today he played 250 rounds of golf and he's going to be in Hawaii, I think did they say for three weeks?" Trump said of Obama. "Two hundred and fifty rounds, that's more than a guy who plays in the PGA Tour plays. He played more golf last year than Tiger Woods."
While Obama is definitely an avid golfer, Trump's statement is misleading for two important reasons.
First, CNN reported that Obama has played 247 rounds of golf since taking office in 2008 -- which averages to about 35 games a year. And while there are around 47 events in the PGA Tour, it should be noted that, at his peak, Tiger Woods' daily golf practice sessions last seven to eight hours in length."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oba ... 58f6584686

"The Clinton campaign has also highlighted comments from the SITE Intelligence Group's Rita Katz, who told NBC News earlier this month that across ISIS's social media, which SITE tracks, "They love [Trump] from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric ... They follow everything Donald Trump says. When he says, 'No Muslims should be allowed in America,' they tell people, 'We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.'" Katz then subsequently confirmed to the Washington Post that "ISIS didn't feature Trump in a video, but ISIS supporters and recruiters have used Trump's rhetoric to promote ISIS' ideas and agenda." [New York Magazine, 12/20/15]
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... claim.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/1 ... ent/207635

"The Republican presidential candidate’s controversial proposal for barring all Muslims from entering the United States is being used by the head-chopping fanatics and other terrorist groups like al Qaeda to attract recruits by painting the land of the free as opposed to Islam, experts told NBC News on Tuesday.
“They love him from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric,” said Rita Katz with the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the social media activities of Islamic terrorist groups.
“They follow everything Donald Trump says,” she noted. “When he says, ‘No Muslims should be allowed in America,’ they tell people, ‘We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.'”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dear-med ... ign=buffer

Hillary was right:
"A clip of Donald Trump is featured in a purported new recruitment video released by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group based in Somalia.
The GOP presidential candidate is shown discussing his plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
Before Trump's appearance in the nearly 52-minute video, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike, is shown lecturing: "Muslims of the West, take heed and learn from the lessons of history. There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon. Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan. And tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 58f65bd383


HALF OF U.S. VOTERS EMBARRASSED WITH TRUMP AS PRESIDENT
"...50 percent of American voters say they would be embarrassed to have Trump as president,
according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today."
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/pollin ... hkm63g.pdf

Fun game, replace Muslim with Jew:
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 0578_o.jpg

Trump wants to make sure we kill the families:
"The billionaire businessman was asked... how to fight ISIS but also minimize civilian causalities when terrorists often use human shields.
"...with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families," Trump said."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/ ... -families/
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"I think we need somebody, absolutely, that we can trust, who is totally responsible, who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important," Trump said, before touting [lying] his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game," he added.
Hewitt followed up by asking which "of the three legs of the triad" was Trump's priority.
"For me, nuclear, the power, the devastation, is very important to me," Trump replied.
But "nuclear," "the power" and "the devastation" aren't the three legs of the U.S.'s nuclear triad."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/ ... op-debate/

[Dardedar]

More Trump roast
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"Donald Trump talks at a fourth-grade level. Maybe that’s why the Fox News audience loves him
The culture of anti-intellectualism in America is fueling hateful, racist demagogues -- in politics and on TV"
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/10/donald_ ... loves_him/

Or worse: "Donald Trump Talks Like a Third-Grader"
"Flattening the English language whenever he speaks without a script, Trump relies heavily on words such as “very” and “great,” and the pronouns “we” and “I,” which is his favorite word. As any news observer can observe, he lives to diminish his foes by calling them “losers,” “total losers,” “haters,” “dumb,” “idiots,” “morons,” “stupid,” “dummy” and “ disgusting.” He can’t open his mouth without bragging about getting the Clintons to attend his wedding, about how smart he is, the excellence of his real estate projects, the brilliance of his TV show, his generous donations to other political campaigns and so on. In a freakish way, Trump resembles that of Muhammad Ali at his prime—except the champ was always kidding (even when he was right) while Trump seems to believe his claims (and often is wrong). "
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... der-121340


"Silver, the Jewish editor of the FiveThirtyEight blog who correctly predicted the election results of all 50 states in 2012, told Adweek on Monday that Hillary Clinton should win the Democratic nomination barring “some type of renewed scandal or health problem.”
“I could see Bernie Sanders winning a few states,” Silver said of the Vermont independent. “New Hampshire is still very close. But [Clinton’s] chances have to be in the range of 90 to 95 percent. Trump has more of a chance than Bernie.”
Silver also said that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s chances of winning his party’s nomination are extremely low despite the amount of media coverage he has received.
“I don’t think his chances are zero. You have to be very careful about saying they’re zero, but I think they’re lower than 20 or 25 percent,” Silver said. “Maybe they’re 10 percent. Maybe they’re 8 percent. I’m not sure, somewhere in that range."
http://www.jta.org/2016/01/05/news-opin ... nders-does


"Beneath every narcissist is a scared kid.
You don't have to be a psychologist to understand what's really going on with Trump. His entire career, like his campaign, has been about declaring his awesomeness and forcing others to acknowledge it. He has surrounded himself with trophy wives, sycophants, and his own name, everywhere he looks. He built a whole TV show premised on the idea that he's a savvy, decisive business executive, harvesting obeisance from the rotating cast of supplicants. It is overcompensation on a world-historical scale.
At the root of this kind of narcissism is always the same thing: a vast, yawning chasm of need, a hunger for approval and validation that is never sated. Down there in the lizard brain, it's fear: fear of being left out, laughed at, or looked down on, fear of never belonging, never being accepted, no matter how many towers you build."
Trump's enormous ego is, like the ego of every blowhard, incredibly tender. He legendarily never forgets a slight.
Even today, Trump's rallies have become long, discursive rambles in which he addresses and rebuts every single accusation cast at him by his detractors. (Responding to criticisms of his rhetoric: "I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words, I have the best words.") He can't let go of any slight. His whole life has been devoted to refuting those who doubt the awesomeness of Trump."
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/8/10732496/do ... mp-implode

"GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump late Monday mocked Hillary Clinton for visiting the bathroom during last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate, saying it was “disgusting.”
“What happened to her?” he asked during a rally in Grand Rapids, Mich.
“I’m watching the debate and she disappeared,” Trump continued. “Where did she go? Where did Hillary go? I thought she quit. I thought she gave up.
“I know where she went, it’s disgusting, I don’t want to talk about it,” Trump added of Clinton’s unplanned delay last weekend. “No, it’s too disgusting. Don’t say it, it’s disgusting, let’s not talk.”
Trump also crudely taunted Clinton for coming up short against then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during the 2008 presidential election.
“She was favored to win, and she got schlonged, she lost, I mean she lost,” he said."
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/pre ... during-dem

"Former KKK Leader Says Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Might Be A Little Too Radical"
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/ ... interview/


"Trump wrote in his 1987 best-seller The Art of the Deal. "People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration — and a very effective form of promotion."
"PolitiFact has been documenting Trump’s statements on our Truth-O-Meter, where we’ve rated 76 percent of them Mostly False, False or Pants on Fire, out of 77 statements checked. No other politician has as many statements rated so far down on the dial."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

• June 16: "The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It’s never below zero." Pants on Fire. The gross domestic product was not "zero," and the growth in the gross domestic product has been below zero 42 times over 68 years.
• Sept. 28: The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent." Pants on Fire. The highest alternative unemployment-rate measure we could come up with that had any credibility was 14.8 percent.
• Nov. 17: The federal government is sending Syrian refugees to states with governors who are "Republicans, not to the Democrats." Pants on Fire. Refugees are in fact sent to states with Democratic governors.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter ... tatements/

Trump, lying about golf:
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was attacking the president during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan for how much time he spends on the links.
"It was reported today he played 250 rounds of golf and he's going to be in Hawaii, I think did they say for three weeks?" Trump said of Obama. "Two hundred and fifty rounds, that's more than a guy who plays in the PGA Tour plays. He played more golf last year than Tiger Woods."
While Obama is definitely an avid golfer, Trump's statement is misleading for two important reasons.
First, CNN reported that Obama has played 247 rounds of golf since taking office in 2008 -- which averages to about 35 games a year. And while there are around 47 events in the PGA Tour, it should be noted that, at his peak, Tiger Woods' daily golf practice sessions last seven to eight hours in length."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oba ... 58f6584686

"The Clinton campaign has also highlighted comments from the SITE Intelligence Group's Rita Katz, who told NBC News earlier this month that across ISIS's social media, which SITE tracks, "They love [Trump] from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric ... They follow everything Donald Trump says. When he says, 'No Muslims should be allowed in America,' they tell people, 'We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.'" Katz then subsequently confirmed to the Washington Post that "ISIS didn't feature Trump in a video, but ISIS supporters and recruiters have used Trump's rhetoric to promote ISIS' ideas and agenda." [New York Magazine, 12/20/15]
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... claim.html
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/1 ... ent/207635

"The Republican presidential candidate’s controversial proposal for barring all Muslims from entering the United States is being used by the head-chopping fanatics and other terrorist groups like al Qaeda to attract recruits by painting the land of the free as opposed to Islam, experts told NBC News on Tuesday.
“They love him from the sense that he is supporting their rhetoric,” said Rita Katz with the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors the social media activities of Islamic terrorist groups.
“They follow everything Donald Trump says,” she noted. “When he says, ‘No Muslims should be allowed in America,’ they tell people, ‘We told you America hates Muslims and here is proof.'”
http://www.mediaite.com/online/dear-med ... ign=buffer

Hillary was right:
"A clip of Donald Trump is featured in a purported new recruitment video released by Al-Shabaab, the terrorist group based in Somalia.
The GOP presidential candidate is shown discussing his plan to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States.
Before Trump's appearance in the nearly 52-minute video, the al Qaeda-linked Islamic extremist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike, is shown lecturing: "Muslims of the West, take heed and learn from the lessons of history. There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon. Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching and Ku Klux Klan. And tomorrow, it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 58f65bd383


HALF OF U.S. VOTERS EMBARRASSED WITH TRUMP AS PRESIDENT
"...50 percent of American voters say they would be embarrassed to have Trump as president,
according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today."
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/pollin ... hkm63g.pdf

Fun game, replace Muslim with Jew:
https://scontent.fmci1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/ ... 0578_o.jpg

Trump wants to make sure we kill the families:
"The billionaire businessman was asked... how to fight ISIS but also minimize civilian causalities when terrorists often use human shields.
"...with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families," Trump said."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/02/politics/ ... -families/

rnot6 a day ago and half a dozen posts ago: "Enjoy the last word, I am done with you.">>

The actual quote is something to see:
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"I think we need somebody, absolutely, that we can trust, who is totally responsible, who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important," Trump said, before touting [lying] his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game," he added.
Hewitt followed up by asking which "of the three legs of the triad" was Trump's priority.
"For me, nuclear, the power, the devastation, is very important to me," Trump replied.
But "nuclear," "the power" and "the devastation" aren't the three legs of the U.S.'s nuclear triad."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/politics/ ... op-debate/

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“OUR PRESIDENT wants to take in 250,000 from Syria,” says Donald Trump, falsely. “Think of it, 250,000 people. And we all have heart, and we all want people taken care of and all of that, but with the problems our country has, to take in 250,000 people — some of whom are going to have problems, big problems — is just insane.”
It is not insane. It is a lie. It is a lie that Mr. Trump repeats, even as fact checkers and reporters point out that it is wrong. Not just repeats, but embellishes. Last month, the number was lower: “Now I hear we want to take in 200,000,” he said on ABC News. “We don’t know where they’re coming from. We don’t know who they are. They could be ISIS. It could be the great Trojan horse.”
We have grown accustomed to politicians exaggerating, sometimes stretching the truth, sometimes fogging it up for effect. But it is disturbing on a different scale to see a U.S. politician repeating a big lie again and again, in a way that is calculated to inflame bigotry and fan fears."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

"Donald Trump Tweets A Wildly Inaccurate Graphic To Portray Black People As Murderers
It falsely claimed that 81 percent of murders involving white people were committed by black people, when only 14 percent were in 2014."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/don ... 9a5b0b6c10

Trump's bogus 9/11 celebration claim:
"There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey where you have large Arab populations," Trump said. "They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down. I know it might be not politically correct for you to talk about it, but there were people cheering as that building came down."
Both Politifact and The Washington Post's Fact Checker analyzed Trump's claim. Politifact rated it "pants on fire" and The Washington Post gave it "four Pinocchios."
Neither outlet could find any news reports that corroborate Trump's account of events....
A Sept. 17, 2001, an Associated Press story referred to "unfounded ... rumors of rooftop celebrations of the attack by Muslims" in Jersey City, New Jersey.
And in a Sept. 18, 2001, article, The Washington Post wrote that "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river." But there was no source for the information and there is no evidence of anything coming of the questioning.
"That is totally false. That is patently false," Jerry Speziale, the police commissioner of Paterson, New Jersey, told The Washington Post. "That never happened. There were no flags burning, no one was dancing. That is [barnyard epithet]."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/23/politics/ ... index.html

The evolution of Trump's 9/11 howler:
"At a Nov. 21 rally in Alabama, he told the crowd, “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering. So something’s going on. We’ve got to find out what it is.”
On “Meet the Press,” Trump changed the total number of people he claims to have seen celebrate: “Chuck, I saw it on television. So did many other people. And many --many people. I said hundreds.”
Trump then changed the location for his claim. “I heard Paterson. Excuse me. I've heard Jersey City. I've heard Paterson,” he said. “It was 14 years ago. But I saw it on television.”
As previously reported by Politifact, The Washington Post, The New York Times and FactCheck.org, there is no evidence that Trump’s remembered celebrations took place. The only footage of post-9/11 celebrations was a video of a small group of Palestinian teens seen celebrating in East Jerusalem."


Meltdown: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... story.html

Ron White on Trump:
"He... has no idea how good the Mexican people are at building tunnels. Anybody know where El Chapo is right now? No, you don't. You know how tall those walls were? Twenty-nine feet with razor wire at the top. Did they go over them? They went under them. You might as well build a net between here and Canada to keep the geese out. It makes as much sense." --Ron White

Most Trump supporters are Birthers who think Obama is a Muslim.
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"61 percent [of Trump supporters] don’t believe President Obama was born in America, 62 percent think he is a secret Muslim, and 63 percent want the U.S. Constitution amended to end birthright citizenship."
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... thers.html#

Why Trump carson and cruz can't win.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the ... -and-cruz/

Trump people have the worst grammar and vocab: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/ ... upporters/

Can't unsee:
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"I always felt like I was in the military. I got more training militarily than some guys who go in the miliary."
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hp ... 4593_o.jpg

"Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?! I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”
— Donald Trump, commenting on GOP rival Carly Fiorina Wednesday.

The next day:
"Probably I did say something like that about Carly," Trump said. "I'm talking about persona. I'm not talking about looks."

Fiorina whoppers, she responds:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/car ... f=politics


Trump, just no: http://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction ... us-nothing

"Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school.
"Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/po ... .html?_r=0

"Trump is the anti-LeBron — popularity is performance in politics, and Trump is the first candidate in modern presidential primary history to begin the campaign with a majority of his own party disliking him. A whopping 57 percent of Republicans have an unfavorable view of Trump,..."
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why- ... one-chart/

*hispanic
According to Romney's campaign manager, Trump needs to get 43% of the Hispanic vote in swing states to be viable. Romney got 23%. Trump will be lucky to get in the teens. Have fun with that.
“He had a crazy policy of self deportation which was maniacal. It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote. He lost the Asian vote. He lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country.”—Donald Trump on Willard Romney, November, 2012

GOP 2016 Win Will Need More Than 40 Percent Of Latino Vote, Says Study
"The Republican nominee selected to run for president in 2016 will need to get a higher share of Latino votes than in the past - as high as almost half in some key battleground states, according to a new analysis by Latino Decisions.
That's a high mountain to climb for the Republican Party considering it's twice the percentage that Mitt Romney received when he ran as the Republican presidential candidate in 2012. Back then, Romney received just 23 percent of the Latino vote."
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/gop- ... te-n394006

"The Hispanic Vote in 2016: Donald Trump's Struggle Among Latino Voters Growing, New Poll Finds 89 Percent Have Negative Image of Him"
"...new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that 89 percent of Latino voters have a negative view of Trump, the highest unfavorable rating he has registered among that group since he marked the launch of his campaign..."
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/12173 ... of-him.htm


Trump says, pull my finger:
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"I love Donald Trump because he exposes everything about the Republican Party that I have frankly come to hate. It is just filled with people who are crazy, and stupid, and have absolutely no idea of what they are taking about. And the candidates, no matter how intelligent they may be, just constantly have to keep pandering to this lowest common denominator in American politics."
--Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy adviser to Reagan and Treasury Sec. under GHW Bush
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/1 ... ican-Party

"The Trump phenomenon perfectly represents the culmination of populism and anti-intellectualism that became dominant in the Republican Party with the rise of the Tea Party. I think many Republican leaders have had deep misgivings about the Tea Party since the beginning, but the short-term benefits were too great to resist. A Trump rout is Republican moderates’ best chance to take back the GOP."
--Bruce Bartlett, domestic policy adviser to Reagan and Treasury Sec. under GHW Bush
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/1 ... ican-Party

“Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandizement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in extreme. The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally unqualified individual in the Oval Office shows how warped the party has become." --Paul Thomas..