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Donald Trump Hits Back: Charles Krauthammer, George Will And Karl Rove Are ‘Political Hacks’

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Man of the moment Donald Trump sat down with the folks at Fox & Friends Tuesday morning to discuss his recent meeting with GOP presidential hopeful – and early RSVP to this month Trump-moderated debate – Newt Gingrich.

“He’s like a rocket ship. What can you say?” observed Trump, referring to Gingrich’s rise to the top of the polls. “The way he’s going up, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

RELATED: Karl Rove Has Had It With The Donald Trump Debate: ‘This Is Not A Newsman’

Trump said he and Gingrich discussed China, OPEC and “what other countries are doing to our country” for about an hour and fifteen minutes. He says he got the feeling that Gingrich was seeking an endorsement from him because the business man and TV host “represents millions of people” in the U.S. The show’s hosts showed Trump a recent Fox News poll showing that only 6 percent of viewers would be more likely to vote for a candidate he endorses, with 62 percent saying they wouldn’t care at all.

Trump then ripped into those criticizing his role in the GOP election, calling candidate Jon Huntsman – who has made it clear that he does not appreciate Trump’s “manipulation” of the campaign process and will not be participating in his debate – sore because his “ratings are low” and referring to Charles Krauthammer, George Will and Karl Rove “political hacks.”

He then echoed the defense he’s been giving since his moderating gig was first announced: “We will get, probably, the highest ratings of any debate that they’ve had because of this controversy.”

He added that he doesn’t like Rove, but, rather, people who don’t have an agenda.

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  • Henry Wood

    I absolutely agree with Donald Trump that Carl Rove, George Will and Chuckie Krauthammer are political hacks.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    A terribly mature individual, isn’t he?

  • Hout Bosques

    Can haz Trump as kink? Republicats luv kinks.

  • Anonymous

    Donald is really a progressive pulling a fast one.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, and at the risk of sounding immature, it takes a hack to know a hack.

  • Anonymous

    It’s the hair.

  • Anonymous

    “He added that he doesn’t like Rove, but, rather, people who don’t have an agenda”

    Yeah I’m sure this clown doesn’t have any agenda of his own. Donald Trump has become a bad joke. I really hope more republicans will join Paul and Huntsman.

  • Anonymous

    newt and the don –birds of a feather…

    attack anyone who disagrees with them…

    they will cut off the legs of their own party….
    GO NEWT~

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    Good job Trump, they are political hacks. However you are an overall hack.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican Party should be embarrassed that they have allowed themselves to be highjacked by Trump and turned into a circus. What a joke.

  • Anonymous

    What is he going to do to China? Really.

  • Anonymous

    He reminds me of Jimmy Hart the wrestling manager.

  • Anonymous

    Donald Trump…the new spokesman for the GOP.    pssst…..::whisphers::  The guy voted for Obama.

  • Anonymous

    So many people watch someone rapping about me. People like watching car crashes, too. What a moron.

  • Anonymous

    When you make Karl Rove seem sympathetic, you’ve really gone off the rails.

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    The mainstream, lifelong GOPers: political hacks!

    A guy who runs casinos into bankruptcies and believes in Bircher/birther theories: a political mastermind!

    When is F&F just going to give Trump a seat on the couch? He’s one of them, after all. 

  • Anonymous

    Get comfortable, we’re going to here a while… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcYP00b2FI

  • Anonymous

    Yes Charles Krauthammer and George Will are not to the liking of the current republican base and Mr. Comb Over.  Why, because they use intelligence in their thinking process and evaluate events with thought as opposed to knee jerk populism.  This is not the kind of process that is in vogue right now with the clown show called the republican primary process.  Charles Krauthammer, no matter your politics, is a brilliant man and yet this awful media whore continues to go along debasing the primary process. 

  • Anonymous

    I agree with The Donald.

  • Anonymous

    Enjoy the show! We’re going to be here a while…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcYP00b2FI

  • Anonymous

    Donald Trump calling Charles Krauthammer, George Will and Karl Rove political hacks is very ironic.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think Trump understands the concept of an endorsement.

    It’s supposed to help.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a walking sour grapes factory, isn’t he?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. I tell ya’ what….watching Fox & Friends is like entering an alternate reality.

  • Anonymous

    “We will get, probably, the highest ratings of any debate that they’ve had because of this controversy.”  I have no idea what station this debate is on? Anybody?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    A possum headed bankrupt who’s too big to fail
    Thinks the electoral process is for sale
    He want to moderate
    His own personal debate
    So the candidates can kiss under his tail!
    ________________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney 

  • Anonymous

    Rick Perry used to be a Democrat, but would never be able to “pull a fast one.” 

  • Anonymous

    Donald Trump’s hair makes his head look like a Notre Dame helmet. 

    Similary, Newt Gingrich’s make his look like Penn State’s. 

  • Anonymous

    So if you “know” Henry’s a hack, then you must be one too.  That WAS immature.

  • Anonymous

    I would tend to agree, but knowing the people whose favor they’re trying to win, I think Sarah Palin still has a better shot at the GOP nomination than Paul or Huntsman. 

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 Ilene K

    Have you ever noticed that anyone who disagrees with the Bigot is either a “hack,” or a “loser.”

  • http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

    This is just a show, they are making money and we are posting.

  • Anonymous

    Trump is under the impression that ratings equal quality, if that were true the Jersey shore would be considered better then The Sopranos

    Snooki may be well known but would anyone honestly want her to be president

  • Anonymous

    He wants to be the Don King of GOP Enterprises.

  • Tucsonense

    AGAIN!!!!! 
    1. the joke/circus that is the republican party!!!!!!!!!!

    2. The joke/circus that is fox and friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Who REALLY takes that all seriously???? Tell me who you are……it is just ridiculous!!!!

  • Anonymous

    That was about the only truthful claim he made in his entire rant. 

  • Anonymous

    After the debate, Donald Trump will endorse . . . Donald Trump.

  • Anonymous

    Tea Baggers….that’s who.

  • Anonymous

    I NEVER thought I would EVER be defending Karl Rove, but here I am. As a liberal, I should love it that Donald Trump is embarrassing the GOP and making it all the more easier for Obama to be re-elected. But another part of me just despises what Donald Trump is. He’s an ego maniac who thinks he’s God’s gift to mankind and I despise that trait in people. His ego is “UUUGE!” If his ego was tangible, we’d all be smothered to death. This debate is nothing more than a reality show designed to help Trump decide who he’s going to endorse (something that Newt really, really wants). If I was a Republican, I’d be outraged. The fact that Newt Gingrich is seeking Trump’s endorsement just shows how ridiculous Newt Gingrich really is. If Rush Limbaugh wants to complain about a “manchild”, he should look no furgher than Donald Trump.

    I agree with Karl Rove that Trump is making a mockery of the political process.

    By the way, five words I will surely never say again: I agree with Karl Rove.

  • http://profiles.google.com/lordhowardhurts Lord Howard Hurts

    Donald Trump gives the impression that he is a real Patriot, but my doubts are founded in his past. Seems that he has said and done this all before (mentioning in August of 2011, that he might reenter as a third party candidate). And if my memory doesn’t belie me, Donald Trump was a lifelong, registered, Democrat, even thought he seldom took the “time” to actually “mark” a ballot. No. My suspicion is that Trump is acting as a “Cat’s Paw” for Hillary Clinton. Hillary knows that should she challenge Obama in a Democratic primary, the black vote will be offended, and not support her (they will stay home on election day).  Trump,  by bringing up Obama’s birth certificate flaws, again, and the legality of him being a Natural Born Citizen, might just cause the Democratic planners and George Soros, to go to their “back up” Marxist, Hillary Clinton. And I assure the reader that in a Presidential election between Hillary Clinton and any of the current Republican “pretenders”, Hillary will win by a landslide. So it is my expressed opinion, that to further the possibility for a real Republican contender to “rise” to a position of believability, Donald Trump must be STOPPED from monitoring any Republican debates. Donald Trump is not to be trusted. And the Republican canidates have made fools of themselves already without further being “helped” by this “Trojan” with bad hair. 

    Lord Howard Hurts  freedomfiles.blogspot.com

  • Anonymous

    I can’t stand Trump, he’s a total schm*ck, but he is correct about one thing: Rove and Krauthammer are complete political hacks, every word they utter is for partisan political gain. Will at least has a modicum of independent thought.

  • Anonymous

    Wow- how many aliases have you HAD?

  • Anonymous

    This is my only account, but the number of times I’ve been asked that by TPers, it seems like its a normal thing for you guys to have multiple accounts.  Why would you do that though?

  • Anonymous

    Does anybody know where ION is on their cable box? How will people watch if they never heard of the channel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Melvin-Dean-Baker/1345608091 Melvin Dean Baker

    The most wonderful, encouraging thing I’ve watch this morning. The GOP bizarro party implodes all with the help of the propaganda channel that made the 2010 Tea Party sweep possible. Priceless!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    if he is, he is succeeding.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Jimmy Hart has hair

  • Anonymous

    Being popular vs. being unpopular are virtually the same thing.  [See: Snooki, Donald Trump, misleading headlines]

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Yeah! Those guys never hosted 2 Wrestlemania’s, Participated in one, or was bailed out of a bankruptcy by starring in their own reality show.

    Oh wait, Palin did the last one…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TJWORRMMUK4ZMTEEZPQ4NNVO4M Beatrice

    @readers:disqus my friend’s half-sister makes $79 hourly on the laptop. and llast month her paycheck was $7242  ,  only learned Kelly Richard’s ways in “Online income solutions”… View More 

  • Anonymous

    trump is a cartoon character so full of ego and phony hair, its laughable.  Any gop candidate who entertains this idiot deserves not to win the election. . . . I hope the debate does go on. . I might need a joke. . . .

  • Anonymous

    File this under “Wishful Thinking”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TJWORRMMUK4ZMTEEZPQ4NNVO4M Beatrice

    @readers:disqus my friend’s half-sister makes $79 hourly on the laptop. and llast month her paycheck was $7242  ,  only learned Kelly Richard’s ways in “Online income solutions”… View More 

  • http://twitter.com/Decamped The Dude

    They’re going full retard. You never go full retard.

  • Anonymous

    Best primary ever!  I’m buying popcorn futures.  Thank you Donald!

  • AMP2020

    OMG. Here we go!

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

    This is all too much. We’re watching the Republican Party falling apart. Aren’t there any adults in the room asides from Krauthammer, Will and Rove, who, themselves are hardly adults for its their ideology that has led up to this implosion. The Republican/Tea Party candidates are going to get trounced. Now it’s time to go after the low level yellow dog Democrats who have aided and abetted the Republicans. It will probably take 4 years of one party rule to even begin to straighten out the mess the American people have allowed themselves to get into. Hopefully, that will be sufficient time for the Republicans to resurrect and cleanse themselves of their current leadership.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Donald Trump made his fortune the same way

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    No more then 4

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LXT3XUHYC4UCPM5ATGGIXB2ZMA larry w

    You forgot to mention the donald as a hack.

  • Anonymous

    They are part of the establishment….they have written Newt off long ago and now don’t know what to do now that it looks like he might get the nomination!

  • Katechon Phosphene

    Meeting of the minds! They might be able to muster a braincell in that case! Or a human hairstyle.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Walrus-Kookookachoo/100002139363841 Walrus Kookookachoo

    LOL…you do realized that this all happened because of the Tea Party don’t you? The republican party attended a Tea Party and then went off into the Looking Glass searching for Alice. (The Donald smoking a hookah)

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    More like “read only after donning tinfoil hat”.

  • Anonymous

    “I have a great relationship with the blacks”- Donald trump, the true intellectual force behind the conservative movement. 

  • Anonymous

    “I have a great relationship with the blacks”- Donald trump, the true intellectual force behind the conservative movement. 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    I know you are, but what am I?

  • Anonymous

    what is ion again?

  • http://www.dregstudios.com Brandt Hardin

    Trump is a windbag and full of hot air… all that fuss and
    guffaw will drop like his blood pressure after a double-tap shotgun blast to
    the head.  Watch him get his and see if
    that hair is even real when the guns come out on the Zombie Walk of Fame at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/10/07-countdown-to-halloween-donald-trump.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Trump et al, the current GOP candidate clowns, and the teabaggers have made America the laughingstock of the world.

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII
  • Anonymous

    how can Donald Trump call anyone a hack when he kept floating around that he was going to run for president when everyone knew he wouldnt, sent people to hawaii to investigate President Obama’s birth certificate which failed, and is still talking about running as a third party candidate if the right person is not chosen to represent the GOP. Donald Trump is the biggest political hack of all. Even Trump’s so called good friends “The Blacks” know he is a hack.

  • Anonymous

    Here here! Where’s the birth certificate!!!?

  • Anonymous

    typical teabagger; one who attacks the person instead of the issue.

  • http://profiles.google.com/anonymoususr . .

    deleted

  • Anonymous

    Once you go full retard there’s no turning back.

  • Anonymous

     As goofy as Trump is, from my point of view although it comes out of him from a strange way his candid comments can sometimes be refreshing. I like George Will in some respects, but not a fan of Krauthammer. But lets be honest I have been reading editorials from both of them for years. Ive listened to them on the radio and watched them on tv. They may be more articulate than the average hack, but they are pretty much hacks.

  • Anonymous

    So this misguided carrot, wearing a weasel skin cap, is going to moderate a republican debate?
    Now that’s entertainment!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MPPK2CTPRQYEYSXVOFVUJRX3SQ ken

    “Elitist” is foxspeak for “educated”. Is that what you meant ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    From a guy who in the 80s & 90s was larger than life to guy who’s become a joke and a punch line, and the asskissing candidates treated him like a kingmaker.

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