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Donald Trump may be running as a third-party candidate
By Kristin HuntDecember 26th, 2011, 10:00 pmComments (17)
GOP, it's time to bid farewell to your favorite nutso tycoon. Donald Trump switched his voter registration from Republican to unaffiliated on Thursday, making him next year's likely oddball independent candidate for president.
Trump's spokesman Michael Cohen told the press that Trump would consider his position in earnest after the finale of The Apprentice in May 2012. (Because, like any good presidential candidate, he places a reality show on the lowest-rated broadcast network before actually planning a campaign.) He's also sticking to his strategy of jumping in the race only if the Republicans fail to nominate someone whom he believes can defeat Barack Obama. In that case, Cohen says Trump would use his bags of cash and gold bars to "even the playing field" with Obama's re-election campaign.
All this news comes less than two weeks after Trump canceled his debate moderation gig, since he only got RSVPs from Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Which basically makes Trump the smelly third grader none of the GOP elite likes. So his exit from the Republican Party may make sense, but I am still neither mentally, physically, or spiritually prepared for a Donald Trump campaign ad. Sigh. Guess it's time to start readying myself. Where's my "Obama, you're fired" T-shirt?
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Commentarium (17 Comments)
Bunch of jokers these old white men in suits.
Fight the 1%
Vote Obama 2012.
was Obama's party that led to most of the economic fuck-up ery that the 99% are bitching about.
Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans will bring about what Occupy protesters want. To truly fix the economy, we need structural reformation, and neither party is willing to do that.
want to scrap the constitution or is it the free-market system?
Duh. Libertarianism, you commie fag.
I'll just get this in before that bastard imposter does.
Ah! Pre-emptive trolling. Excellent. Welcome to the dark side.
Remember me? I live. Like a parasite. In your screen names.
Why would he want to embarass himself further? He already has done considerable damage to his "brand." The only people who find him in the least bit enticing are desperate parveneu's who don't realize what a joke he is--and Uzbekian developers who buy his name to slpa on their slapdash "luxury" resorts.
Trump has made an industry out of embarrassing himself. Why stop now?
Technically The CW is the lowest-rated broadcast network. You could also count Univision, although that's cable-only in a small but significant portion of the United States.
This is guy who had the spotlight on his alleged presidential bid and chose to focus 98% of the time on the birther issue. He's a clown.
By the way, what's the point of "Captcha" words that are impossible to read?
We hear you guys about the occasional difficulty of the Captcha -- if you click "submit" without entering anything in the field, it will re-load a new set that may be easier to read. That said, let's all take a minute and rejoice in the massive drop-off in spam!
Damn, I was hoping to find a No. A-1 rated dating site in the comments.
BTW (and not to pimp for Nerve), but if you do register, in addition to owning your own user name, you also don't have to deal with the Captcha business.
Well, we've all seen how effective owning your own user name is. Alex - the Captcha ain't all that bad. Pay no mind to the whiners.
Just like Palin, Trump is an attention whore. He's not running, nor is he going to run. All he wants is some headlines and viewers for his "reality" show.
Unlike Palin, Trump positively bleeds money and has no sense of when to leave the media wanting more. I wouldn't put it past him.