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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 02:49 PM Oct 2012

Trump hits a new low after Sandy


As New York recovers from the hurricane, the Donald renews his Obama vendetta

BY MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS


When, last week, Donald Trump’s overblown, much-ballyhooed “October Surprise” turned out to be a Doctor Evil–style offer of 5 millllliooooon dollars to Barack Obama — if the president were to release his passport and college transcript by 5 p.m. on Oct. 31 — it seemed just another desperate stunt by a sorry clown. But a few days later, the most irrelevant man in America has managed to add a new twist to the story to make it downright reprehensible.

As we know all too painfully well, on Monday, Hurricane Sandy battered much of the eastern United States. Mr. Trump’s home of New York City was especially hard hit. Here’s just a small snapshot: NYU Hospital had to be evacuated when a backup generator failed, causing rescue workers to shepherd patients “in the areas of adult critical care, pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care and obstetrics” down several flights of stairs to other hospitals. In Queens, a six-alarm fire decimated an entire neighborhood. On Tuesday morning, MTA chairman Joseph Lhota declared, “This by far has been the most devastating disaster that the MTA has ever experienced.” Ten New Yorkers so far have been confirmed dead in the storm. City Meals on Wheels is trying to deliver food to shut-in elderly New Yorkers. A still uncalculated number of people are now homeless, and the financial and long-term emotional damage to the city is only beginning to be felt. The mayor’s office is currently being flooded with offers from would-be volunteers who want to assist in the recovery effort.

Obviously, Donald Trump is upset about this. Because it’s taking attention away from Donald Trump. And his Twitter stream, always a torrent of thought diarrhea, has, since Sandy wreaked her havoc, become especially absurdist. The day after one of the most disastrous events in New York City history, Trump has been busy bragging that “people are having a great time in the Trump Tower atrium” and that ”I am the best builder but if that were my building with the crane mishap, I would have been lambasted from coast to coast.”

More significantly, though, for Trump, Sandy is problematic because clearly it’s just one big sympathy ploy from Obama. “Hurricane is good luck for Obama again – he will buy the election by handing out billions of dollars. Not only giving out money, but Obama will be seen today standing in water and rain like he is a real president —don’t fall for it.” Yes, neonatal care babies being evacuated in the midst of a storm — what a windfall for the president.

more:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/trump_hits_a_new_low_after_sandy/
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Trump hits a new low after Sandy (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2012 OP
Keep flapping those lips Mr. Combover Happyhippychick Oct 2012 #1
I have to admit blue_heron Oct 2012 #16
He is a circus side show. JRLeft Oct 2012 #2
Funny how Trump can have such an artifically orange face but also be a racist at the same time. Democratopia Oct 2012 #3
Trump was on CNBC this morning talking about his doc03 Oct 2012 #4
yuuuuggge juba Oct 2012 #5
It's fun to amuse bouche Oct 2012 #6
He hates that. someone has his twitter account down thread.. here it is.. Cha Oct 2012 #20
Except for Rmoney, Brewinblue Oct 2012 #7
I used to not have a strong opinion of the man NCLefty Oct 2012 #8
Disgusting does not begin to describe it Inuca Oct 2012 #9
He's an embarrassment to himself and his family graywarrior Oct 2012 #10
That alien on the trump head has eaten his brain Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #11
That boom is just waiting salinen Oct 2012 #12
Ok, that made me laugh out loud, salinin n/t condoleeza Oct 2012 #14
If no one will report his coming and going question everything Oct 2012 #13
Trump's twitter acct condoleeza Oct 2012 #15
and Romney will denounce his surrogate a week from never Adenoid_Hynkel Oct 2012 #17
Quack's always hitting a new low. As usual he just needs to get Cha Oct 2012 #18
I actually wish an Obama staffer would take a camera OldHippieChick Oct 2012 #19
Hey, Squirrel Head! powergirl Oct 2012 #21
Barbara Walters told trump he was acting like an idiot for Cha Oct 2012 #22
Did you hear what Trump is going to do next? hogwyld Oct 2012 #23
Tomorrow--- Always Randy Oct 2012 #24
So speaking of this Fool... SoapBox Oct 2012 #25
That would be giving to moochers OldHippieChick Oct 2012 #26

doc03

(35,340 posts)
4. Trump was on CNBC this morning talking about his
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 02:54 PM
Oct 2012

$5 million offer and he claims it is catching fire, it's huuuuge huuuuge.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
8. I used to not have a strong opinion of the man
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 02:59 PM
Oct 2012

and maybe even would have gone into his casinos.

That day is past.

question everything

(47,485 posts)
13. If no one will report his coming and going
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 03:13 PM
Oct 2012

and farting. Will he just disappear and shrivel?

Sadly, the 24 hour news channels, blogs and message boards have to fill their time so we are bombarded with his inane farts.

Just leave him alone. Let Fox handle him until they, too, will get tired of him.

Cha

(297,274 posts)
18. Quack's always hitting a new low. As usual he just needs to get
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:53 PM
Oct 2012

with the dick cheney program and go fuck himself.

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
19. I actually wish an Obama staffer would take a camera
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 05:53 PM
Oct 2012

crew with him/her and deliver copies of transcripts, admission papers and passport and demand Trump write a check NOW to the Red Cross. What would that low-life do? Eh??

Cha

(297,274 posts)
22. Barbara Walters told trump he was acting like an idiot for
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:02 PM
Oct 2012

the $5 million scam..(paraphrasing) what category does this put him in now?

hogwyld

(3,436 posts)
23. Did you hear what Trump is going to do next?
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 06:18 PM
Oct 2012

He's going to be making Robocalls for Romney.

Can you make Robocalls for a Robot?

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
25. So speaking of this Fool...
Tue Oct 30, 2012, 08:23 PM
Oct 2012

What the fuck has Trump the Idiot, the KKKoch Brothers, TurdBlossom Rove, Unelected Norquist and the rest of the
Pukes, Baggers and Haters...given in the Sandy rescue efforts?

Those f*ing KKKoch Brothers could donate MILLIONS (of chump change to them) to the Red Cross! Are they
and those other assholes doing such????

I'll lay odds...hell no.

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