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Report: Donald Trump Officially Switches Party From Republican To ‘Unaffiliated’

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump has officially switched his party affiliation from Republican to “unaffiliated”, according to ABC News’s Michael Falcone; a move that will further fuel speculation he’ll soon announce a third-party presidential run.

According to Falcone’s source, he did so because he is “disgusted with the way Republicans are handling matters in Washington, including the recent payroll tax cut deal.”

Falcone reports:

The move also sets Trump up for a potential third-party run for president — a possibility he began talking about almost as soon as he told his fans in May he wasn’t running.

Trump has sought to reach out to the group, Americans Elect, an online, independent presidential nominating organization that has already made it on the ballot in several states, including California.

Michael Cohen, a political advisor for Trump said if the reality TV star was to secure a spot on the Americans Elect ticket, “the merger would be something that both parties sould become concerned about.”

(h/t ABC News)

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  • Gloves O. Donahue

    Bye.

    But, he’s the best Unaffiliated guy on the planet !

  • Anonymous

    Trump’s been the standard bearer for the Douchebag Party for years.

  • Henry Wood

    Yessss!   Trump might not get any support from “the blacks” but he has a good chance at the crazy birther teabag vote, which is about 80% of the republiklan party.

    Unfortunately he will still have to disclose his financials, which he won’t do, lest everyone find out just what a disastrous failure he really is.

  • Anonymous

    Birther says what?

  • Anonymous

    His hair has been unaffiliated with his head since the 80′s.

  • Anonymous

    Sadly, Republicans will take no lessons from this.  They will just sit and wait for the next candidate to step out of the clown car.

  • Anonymous

    It appears that he’s unaffiliated with reality.

    Donald, if I may say this as delicately and tactfully as I know how, and everyone who knows me, either personally, or online, is aware of just how greatly I’m imbued with those virtues:
    Shit or get off the pot. You’ve become a bore. Long ago, in fact.

    Let’s chat again. Soon.

  • Anonymous

    hmm. I’d like to see you supply facts to back up your vulgar little assertion.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you have to be a public figure to switch parties?  What office/position does he hold?  It would be bigger news to hear my mailman has switched parties.

  • Anonymous

    I think it was the Repubs who made him switch.

  • Anonymous

    We can be grateful now..”the Donald” is officially detached from the human race..come back with a new “do” and I may consider you for re entry to reality…

  • SouthernYankee

    He was with the party of $$$$$ Trump.    He could care less about anyoneelse.

  • SouthernYankee

    He holds the official Mouth of the Trump towers.  Thats all.  He really is a nothing.

  • News Of The World

    Funny how all the GOP/Baggers are suddenly bashing Donald Dump.  They were rolling around with him in the sack just a couple of months ago.  What happened, Baggers?  Find out his hair is fake?

  • Anonymous

    Which part of it could you possibly doubt?
    Or are defending him in the hope that he’ll refund your tuition from Trump University?

  • Anonymous

    Damn! That was my line.

  • Anonymous

    Officially, huh?
    Hmm. We’re going to have the paperwork on that. All of it.
    I’ve got a team of people in New York right now looking into this. You wouldn’t believe what they’ve found. It’s yoooge. Believe me. Yoooge.

  • Henry Wood

    Which assertion would you like me to support with facts? 

  • Anonymous

    Most or all of the Republican candidates had to go through the indignity of making an appointment to kiss his ring, and as it turns out, it was one of those novelty rings that squirt water in your face.

  • Anonymous

    Interestingly enough, he had Megyn Kelly, on Fox, actually touch it to prove that it was not only real, but not a combover, either. He has, it seems, a normal hairline. Sorta.

    Which begs the question, does he wear it that way because he has no taste or style at all, or is it part of some “Emperor’s New Clothes” thing, where he’s essentially daring anyone to call him on it, because no one ever did? Or both? 

    Btw, I saw it on a Lawrence O’Donnell segment titled, “Megyn Kelly touches something disgusting.”

  • Anonymous

    Unaffiliated with humility.

  • Anonymous

    OK, now right and left can agree on two things: we all loathe the Westboro Baptist Church, and The Donald….

  • 12voltman1

    Don’t you mean the most unqualified?

  • 12voltman1

    Merry Christmas!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Just a little dose of Reality.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    He gets all the douchebags to parade by him and kiss his a$$ and then bails.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    What a bunch of RUBES.

    Careful, Palin might stick out her hand now.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    RUBES.

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    I’m convinced Tramp is a ‘secret’ Democrat who is really a ‘secret’ Socialist and is plotting with Obama and Soros to take over the world. Even though these traitors have the 2012 already sewed up, they’re taking no chances and will have the Tramp talk up a Third party candidacy. It’s brilliant. At the time of the ill-fated Tramp Debate, I realized that anyone who could handle the crazy gyrations that Tramp must have been going through had to be a ‘secret’ spy devoted to a higher purpose, i.e. to rule the world!

  • Anonymous

    Let me be the first to call Trump an UINO.

  • Anonymous

    It’s quite stunning just how much Republicans were prepared to back Donald ‘Birther’ Trump when they thought it was in their interest.

    Now he is an embarrassment, to himself and everyone else.

    If he runs as a Third Party Candidate they will have to deal with that as well…

    …How ironic.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    His douchebaggery and media whoring knows no bounds!

  • Anonymous

    Shhhh….

  • Anonymous

    What’s even funnier is all the teabaggers that got behind this buffoon and now Trump shafts them.  They deserve it.  Now if we can get them to piss off Ron Paul and run off and run as an independent.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    He claims he will take a fair amount of votes away from Obama as well if he runs as a 3rd party.  He definitely will get some traction with the younger set.  That is if they vote.

  • Anonymous

    … How fitting.

  • Anonymous

    Donald, if you are elected, promise me that picture will be your official portrait.

  • Anonymous

    Partisan sheep think backless lies made to support their childish rhetoric constitute as reality. Still doesn’t make it so. Just continue living in your prescribed delusions.

  • Anonymous

    Traitors?
    I agree.
    The way they outed Valerie Plame was treason for certain.

  • Smack80

    Hey Donald! GO AWAY!

  • Anonymous

    HAD to go kiss his ring?  No one made them, it was their own ridiculous decision.  Anyone who would show up on the t’Rump’s doorstep asking for handouts or a recommendation is not fit to be president, dogcatcher, or anything in between.  The only thing this nutjob t’Rump is good for, is culling the herd. 

  • Anonymous

    I took one for the team and looked back through several weeks’ worth of Trump Tweets.  He’s got all the maturity of a spoiled 7th grader.  How ANYONE can take this disgusting creature seriously, whether in business or for any other reason, is beyond me. 

    I’d like to SuperGlue a giant dildo shaped pacifier into that sloppy loose mouth of his.  Let THAT be his official picture. 

  • Anonymous

    who are you going to sign in  as next, son?

    Regardless of  the name ya use, they are all losers like YOU.

    LOL

  • 12voltman1

    The evidence that you are a insulting snail-skulled troll will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

  • Anonymous

    Just go away! Go away, go away, go away!

  • Anonymous

    I struck another nerve!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Says the King of the DBs.

  • Anonymous

    That sure describes ya, son!

  • 12voltman1

    Who Stonepark?

  • Anonymous

    I have an obsessed lib stalker!

    LMAO

    I do love it so!

  • 12voltman1

     But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space.

  • Anonymous

    I own 12voltman aka the ape man!

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    Dear, your drool cup is overflowing- ya better change it.

  • Anonymous

    son, No ONE is as big a failure as you are. No One!

  • Anonymous

    says the whack-job known as the sage to Mediaite libs!

    LOL

    Son, when you first started posting, we all found your
    meandering, incoherent and misguided ramblings quite amusing. But it soon
    became quite evident that your borderline personality had a quite tenuous hold
    on reality and that in fact it had given way to a full blow psychotic break
    with reality. The more time has passed, the more unhinged you have become.

  • 12voltman1

     Stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling is hardly effective.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, this is a story about Trump. Not Obama.

  • Anonymous

    I’m glad you are finally doing some self-reflection, son.

    You are quite the human tragedy.

     A very bad tragedy.

    Some babies were dropped on their heads but you were clearly thrown at a wall

  • Anonymous

    What gives you the idea that Trump would definitely get some traction with the younger set?

    There is nothing about Trump’s pandering that is directed at the youth, he is going after the older angry tea party crowd, do you really think the “younger set” is watching Fox and Friends in the morning?

  • Anonymous

    If he runs and wins will his Cabinet nominees have to got through whole “Apprentice” process?

  • Anonymous

    Ahh, where to begin.
    You really shouldn’t try to be smart. It’s just not you.
    Here you are, defending Trump, on the off chance that he’ll let you shine his shoes, and you’re calling someone else a douchebag? How ironic.
     
    Still, it was a brilliant variation on the beloved Pee Wee Herman favorite, “I know you are, but what am I?” with a touch of the old playground standby, “So are you”.

    Who says you”ve never had an original thought in your life?

  • Anonymous

    Poor Steve- crying like the whiny little lib he is.

    Steve if there is anyone who is not smart it is you- you should have a  tee shirt that says “Steve is not smart.”

    Calling someone a DB is obvious the extent of your meager intellect and it is reflected in the  puerile comment ya posted.

    “Here you are, defending Trump, ”

    Nice lie.

    as I said :”I think it was the Repubs who made him switch.”

    “you’re calling someone else a douchebag.”

    LMAO!

    Son, WHO posted :

    “Trump’s been the standard bearer for the Douchebag Party for years.”

    And son who posted in response to that comment:

    “Damn! That was my line.”

    Son it was Knut and YOU calling someone a DB- not me!

    AS I said, YOU are not smart, son.

    Now get me my coffee, son!

  • Anonymous

    wonderful, goodbye, stay away, this make our GOP a lot cleaner

  • Anonymous

    This make your GOP a lot less interesting Tonto. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    K

  • Anonymous

    We did not requested your opinion Did we?

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    cept you “GRAMPS”

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You are correct
    ANY of the idiots who paraded themselves past him are not fit.

    ps
    Nice of you to use the PROPER ENGLISH spelling of t’Rump.

  • Anonymous

    Oh my apologies, may I comment now?  Or do I have to send that requested in writing?  Please let me know quickly as I need to go potty.

  • 12voltman1

    Just trying to wish you a merry Christmas, degenerate!

  • 12voltman1

    Going away for the holiday soon.
     Merry Christmas!

  • Anonymous

    Says the Trump victim.

  • Anonymous

    Interesting in a ludicrous way.

  • Anonymous

    Was that really worth the effort?

  • Anonymous

    What’s with “son” in all your posts? Do you have any idea just how stupid you start off sounding? What a yokel? And then you multiply it from there. I guess you think that it gives you a sense of superiority over the rest of us. In reality, it…well what do you know of reality, anyway?
    And who’s crying, slob? I welcome the chance to dump on you every chance I get. Or is there an example of my crying somewhere in my post? Didn’t think so.
    By attacking me for attacking Trump, you were defending him, despite what you posted elsewhere. It’s not like I have people doing research on your postings.
    As for who’s smart and who isn’t, let me know when you want to match IQs for a grand a point.

    Now wash my car, slob.

  • Hout Bosques

    I think there is a little opening for him to serve humanity here: all he has to do is spend the next 6 to 8 months flirting with that truly ridiculous America Elects organization. That should be more than enough to pound their nutty conceited brains into Trumpy mush & keep America Elects from screwing up this next election. 

  • Anonymous

    He switched parties to punish the Republicans for not showing up for his debate! 

  • Anonymous

    His hair is not fake.  Both Barbara Walters and Megyn Kelley ran their fingers throuh it during recent interviews.

  • Anonymous

    Oh man, can you imagine a Trump White House? It would make Liberace’s place look like an Amish farmhouse. The Oval Office redone in marble and gold, on the ceiling a portrait of Trump as a centaur surrounded by cherubs. On the roof of the White House a huge lit up letter “T.” 

  • Anonymous

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!  OH! I do not want to offend the libs!  Happy Hollidays!

  • Anonymous

    Steve- YOU called someone a DB- Not me- You lied!

  • Anonymous

    “The Donald” wanted Megyn Kelly to touch his scalp at which time he probably had an orgasm!.  She is hot!  She can run her fingers through my hair any hour of the day or night!

  • Hout Bosques

    He’ll be ‘uge with the Blacks.

  • Anonymous

    If  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann wins the nomination, I wonder if “The Donald” will want to see her birth certificate?

  • Hout Bosques

    Well YEAH!

  • Anonymous

    Is that you Jesse Ventura?

  • Anonymous

    hey ape man, I liked what ya said here:

    “Every female I see, watch or talk to does not have to have sex appeal.

    I wouldn’t say Rachael was pretty but I wouldn’t call her
    ugly.”

    I agree son, she isn’t pretty nor ugly- she’s in between- she is “pretty-ugly.”

    Just like YOU!

  • Anonymous

    stonecolddead
    “”Steve- YOU called someone a DB- Not me- You lied!”

    Actually, if that were correct, which it isn’t, it would be an error, not a lie. Except on Planet Paranoia, from whence you hail. And the exclamation point doesn’t make it less incorrect.
    “That sure describes ya, son! “, your line, referred to my indirectly calling Trump a douchebag. And you, in your pathetic way, turned it on me.
    I see that you didn’t take my advice with the ‘son’ thing. That’s good, it will allow everyone to appreciate your well-honed sense of literary style.
    Such as it is.

    Are you now through with beating this dead horse?

  • Anonymous

    Wouldn’t America Elects split the repugnantan vote, and serve humanity that way?

  • Anonymous

    I think you meant, “…find out that he really is NOT a billionaire.”

  • Anonymous

    In general, that’s correct, but in Sarah Palin’s case, she got some free  pizza. Which made it all worthwhile.
    For me, that is. Seeing her humiliated by not being seen with him in a nice restaurant.

  • Anonymous

    If he wins will he establish a new department of “Hell Frozen Over”?

  • Anonymous

    Here are your new orders:
    1) Proceed directly to the nearest mall.
    2) Remove all articles of clothing
    3) Wait patiently for the mother ship to take you home to Ganymede.

  • Anonymous

    You love being dumped on?
    That explains a lot.

  • Anonymous

    “There is nothing about Trump’s pandering that is directed at the youth..”

    His hairdo?

  • Anonymous

    Donald Trump and Ron Paul should be running for commedians of the year. Both should just go away and let America get on with its business.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    yup. they made him. he’s their mess. they own him.
    kinda like George W. Boosh, their ‘true conservative,’ ‘chosen by God’ idol, who they all try to pretend they neve rliked now.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    awwwww….poor baggers are trying to disown him now. 
    I see Drudge is breaking out the tinfoil, running this story with an asinine “Chicagoland” headline, and trying to insinuate that Trump’s antics are part of some Rahm Emmanuel master plan. The baggers made Trump in politics by signing onto his birther crusade – now they have to live with the Frankenstein’s monster they unleashed.

  • Anonymous

    Here we go again…the media taking the bait from this attention seeking huckster yet again.

    That said, I hope he DOES run as an independent…because after the whole birther thing, you can bet that he will get almost ZERO Democratic votes.

  • Anonymous

    I obviously struck a nerve in ya Steve!

  • Anonymous

    Going back to your sewer I bet!

  • Anonymous

    Poor steve has become my #103 stalker.

    Steve, I caught ya in a lie- take it like a man, ya troll.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for proving me right Steve.

    “”That sure describes ya, son! “, your line, referred to my indirectly calling Trump a douchebag.”

    See, I said YOU were calling Trump a DB and now ya finally admit it. Son, let it out- your lib lies have to be exposed sooner or later and it is better if it is sooner.

    I’m glad we could have this “come to Jesus moment” together, son.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Good!  Now take all these stupid red necked idiot tea baggers with you as well as every republican you can get to kiss your ring.

  • Anonymous

    I would vote for Paul before I voted for the Illegal Marxist-Muslim and I would vote for Trump before I voted for the looney tunes Paul.
    Newt…..2012

  • Joan Kelly

    From hair to money – does any of it qualify or disqualify Donald Trump to run for President of the United States of America?  I think not.  None of it matters.  And the fact that the man made money does not qualify him for the office of leader of the United States!

    My God, go back and look at what this country needs.  Certainly not hair nor money.  We need someone with smarts and understanding of what the issues are and knowledge of how best we, the government, can care for all of us.

    Good Lord, government is NOT the problem!  Government is all of US!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, right.
    I caught you in a psychosis.
    Take it any way you want.

  • Anonymous

    I never denied calling Trump a douchebag. In fact, I’ve done so many times..That wasn’t the issue. I said that you were calling me one, after defending him, which was ironic, because you’re obviously a douchebag.
    Which is borne out by the desperation that you display in needing to, and failing to, make some point here. That I’m a liar about something I proudly admit to doing. Long after is ceased to matter.
    This thread is pretty much dead. Just you and me. I just have an aversion to letting lunatics get the last word on me.
    I need to work on that.

  • Anonymous

    What’s obvious is your lack of mental stability, as well as the cowardice that you display in ignoring the many points that I’ve raised in this crusade that you’re on.
    Btw, is the Like on your post from you?
    I’m guessing yes.

  • Anonymous

    He’s had a brilliant year!

  • Matt Taylor

    Does Anybody take this ASS-CLOWN Trump Seriously? Who Gives A F*ck about anything that Barn Animal has to say???

  • Matt Taylor

    “Michael Cohen, a political advisor for Trump said if the reality TV star was to secure a spot on the Americans Elect ticket, “the merger would be something that both parties SOULD become concerned about.” Who’s spelling is this??? Does anyone at way-cool mediaite have somthing called spellcheck”?  Spellcheck this: UNPROFESSoNAL WEBSITE

  • Anonymous

    Yah, he is unaffiliated with the voters, well that too.

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