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Trump: If Republicans ‘Pick A Loser, I May Run As An Independent’

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Here we go again: Donald Trump has been hinting for some time that, now that he has given up on the Republican nomination, he may rear his curiously-coiffed head in the general election as an independent candidate. But on tonight’s Hannity he solidified his disillusion with the Republicans and definitively declared that, yes, “if they pick a loser, I may run as an independent.”

Trump didn’t seem too impressed with last night’s debate, telling Sean Hannity that he’d “love for the Republicans to choose somebody who’s great,” but didn’t see them doing so well. While he did note that “Rep. Michele Bachmann looked very good” and that “Tim Pawlenty is a nice guy,” but botched the Mitt Romney question. He also noted that he had no idea whether Sarah Palin was running, but that “she hasn’t asked me [to support her] and we have a very good relationship.”

Ultimately, Trump admitted, he didn’t run because “having a hit show is cool,” and he couldn’t be both the host of The Apprentice and a presidential candidate. That said, there was still a year and a half between him and the elections, and “if [the Republicans] pick a loser, I may run as an independent.” Ultimately, it would depend on whether he disapproved of the Republican candidate and whether “the economy continues to do badly,” but Trump made it clear that, this time, he’s serious. Which means only one thing: ball’s in your court, Lawrence O’Donnell.

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  • Greg

    Please do…

  • Nacho

    I thought Trump was a main stream media distraction and he was finally out of the picture, it seems FoxNews doesn’t want to let it go…

    What’s the deal with FoxNews and The Donald Trump?

  • Bennybombom

    Ah…..Donald….Donald…..Donald……….eeessshhh…..
    That’s all I got to say really.

  • dougx

    He’s really an idiot. Totally jumped the shark.

  • Yoda002

    Trump you are not going to run! I know you want the attention, but give it up!!

  • catfishjuggling

    One sure way the Republicans could end up picking a loser if if Trump got back in the Republican race and they chose him.

  • Bennybombom

    You know…the more I look at him,the more I’m thinking this guy may be the ugliest SOB I’ve ever seen in my whole goddamn life….inside and out.
    Thumbs up if you agree.

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    Who? Is that Fred Trump’s son?

  • http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

    I don’t think anything more embodies the fallacy of Donald Trump than the first 30 seconds of this video from his roast.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5tNrv0zqRY

  • Bennybombom

    Publius219 said:
    I don’t think anything more embodies the fallacy of Donald Trump than the first 30 seconds of this video from his roast.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5tNrv0zqRY

    Holy s$%t…that was hilarious…thanks

  • slickerwick

    Talk about an attention whore.

  • Bennybombom

    well…a lotta Trump fans just came in to give some thumbs down….
    man you gotta love this place really
    it’s a doozy

  • http://constitutionallibertarian.co.cc DavidKramer

    Sun Tzu, read it and understand.

  • Yoda002

    Bennybombom said:
    well…a lotta Trump fans just came in to give some thumbs down….
    man you gotta love this place really
    it’s a doozy

    I have to say it looks rigged to me!!

  • Bennybombom

    Yoda002 said:
    I have to say it looks rigged to me!!

    yea it does right?
    MEDIAite trying to run off all the lefties in here or something?
    our clicks are not as good as the righties?
    I dunno wtf is up to be honest but way to make us feel like s$%t for no reason

  • Thelonious Funk

    Looks like Independents would also pick a loser then.

  • Jerps

    If you thought he was scraping the bottom of the barrel to get his last cast filled for Celebrity Apprentice before, now who does he expect to get when he keeps piping up like this?

  • Nature Freak

    Bennybombom said:
    Holy s$%t…that was hilarious…thanks

    The Donald Trump roast was an instant classic and I recommend it to almost anyone (unless your really sensitive).

    “The cast included Whitney Cummings, Lisa Lampanelli, Jeff Ross, Marlee Matlin (with surprise “assistance” from Gilbert Gottfried), Anthony Jeselnik, Larry King, Snoop Dogg, and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino.”

    The CC roast of William Shatner is still the best.

  • Nature Freak

    Bennybombom said:
    yea it does right?
    MEDIAite trying to run off all the lefties in here or something?
    our clicks are not as good as the righties?
    I dunno wtf is up to be honest but way to make us feel like s$%t for no reason

    I really like Mediaite but the teabag gang can be annoying though very humorous on occasion.

    Your right Benny, it’s weird. Personally at this point I am learning to ignore the whole thumbs thing. It’s just a tool of intimidation.

  • WildMan

    Donld go the hell away! Everyone is so damned tired of you saying over and over how great you are, how great your TV show is, how great your book ‘The Art of the Deal’ is. None of that is true and you know it. Your book is not the best selling book of all time. Not even close. You are NOT great, Donald. In your little mind maybe but, nobody else thinks so nor cares. Why Sean and Greta keep having you on their shows is a mystery to me. You don’t even have the guts to run for President. You are afraid to get involved in any of the debates yet you slam everyone in them. You blast Paul Ryan’s plan to save America financially yet you ain’t got the guts to give us your plan. You are a small man Donald although your body size is now over 300 pounds. Leave both parties alone and let the American voter choose who they want as President. Just go away Donald and prepare for your next bankruptcy which you will either deny or blame on everyone else.

  • Nature Freak

    Bennybombom said:
    yea it does right?
    MEDIAite trying to run off all the lefties in here or something?
    our clicks are not as good as the righties?
    I dunno wtf is up to be honest but way to make us feel like s$%t for no reason

    Benny, I have it figured out to a certain extent. To bad there is no private communication on this site.

    I will say this, certain people need to get a life.

  • Jaurez

    Nature Freak said:
    Benny, I have it figured out to a certain extent.

    Really?

  • Nature Freak

    Jaurez said:
    Really?

    yes.

  • Jaurez

    Nature Freak said:
    yes.

    No life much?

  • Nature Freak

    1. “Donald Trump is still threatening to run for President. NBC said if Trump runs for President they will not renew ‘The Apprentice.’ So some good may still come out of all this.” –Conan O’Brien

    2. “Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations.” –Craig Ferguson

    3. “Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents — doesn’t work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He’s already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem. … This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. A President who’s not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.” –Lewis Black

    4. “Donald Trump insists that he is going to run for president. I guess he figures if he can pull off that hairstyle, he can do anything.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    5. “In an interview yesterday, Donald Trump said he has a good relationship with ‘the blacks.’ Well, not anymore.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    6. “Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: ‘Are you better off than you were four wives ago?’” —Bill Maher

    7. “If Trump does become president, I hope he puts a wig on his plane and calls it Hair Force One.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    8. “According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones.” –Conan O’Brien

    9. “Donald Trump is attacking President Obama’s background. And I said, ‘Wait a minute, Trump also is from a mixed background. He’s half jack and half ass.’” –David Letterman

    10. “Donald Trump said if President Obama releases his birth certificate, he will release his tax returns. The President said, ‘Well I promise not to run for a second term if you release that thing on your head.’” –Conan O’Brien

  • Jaurez

    rofl!

  • Bennybombom

    Nature Freak said:
    Benny, I have it figured out to a certain extent. To bad there is no private communication on this site.

    I will say this, certain people need to get a life.

    i hear ya….i was thinking something like that myself …..
    too bad cause like you i really like the site,,,could do without the bs though

  • http://www.facebook.com/miraclelurker MSNBC : We Proudly Pander to Weiner Lovers

    Jaurez said:
    Really?

    LulzSec is behind it all ……………..and that illuminaticonspiracy guy .

  • Nature Freak

    Jaurez said:
    Really?

    I think it is hilarious a small town boy like me can upset so many on one forum.
    As someone born and raised in middle America you tea baggers should be proud of me.

  • Jaurez

    Who’s upset?

  • Nature Freak

    Bennybombom said:
    i hear ya….i was thinking something like that myself …..
    too bad cause like you i really like the site,,,could do without the bs though

    Thank you Bennybombom
    Check out “Nature Freak” at the Huffington Post. I go by different names as well at other sites but I prefer not to mention them here.

    Something tells me my days are numbered here.

    It was fun while it lasted.

  • Bennybombom

    Nature Freak said:
    1. “Donald Trump is still threatening to run for President. NBC said if Trump runs for President they will not renew ‘The Apprentice.’ So some good may still come out of all this.” –Conan O’Brien

    2. “Donald Trump showed his birth certificate to reporters. Who cares about his birth certificate? I want to know if that thing on his head has had its vaccinations.” –Craig Ferguson

    3. “Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents — doesn’t work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And Donald Trump has what it takes to be that. He’s already got a plane with his name on it, solid gold buildings, a harem. … This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life. A President who’s not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.” –Lewis Black

    4. “Donald Trump insists that he is going to run for president. I guess he figures if he can pull off that hairstyle, he can do anything.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    5. “In an interview yesterday, Donald Trump said he has a good relationship with ‘the blacks.’ Well, not anymore.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    6. “Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: ‘Are you better off than you were four wives ago?’” —Bill Maher

    7. “If Trump does become president, I hope he puts a wig on his plane and calls it Hair Force One.” –Jimmy Kimmel

    8. “According to a CNN poll, Trump nearly doubled his support from March. Actually, he just combed his March numbers over his current ones.” –Conan O’Brien

    9. “Donald Trump is attacking President Obama’s background. And I said, ‘Wait a minute, Trump also is from a mixed background. He’s half jack and half ass.’” –David Letterman

    10. “Donald Trump said if President Obama releases his birth certificate, he will release his tax returns. The President said, ‘Well I promise not to run for a second term if you release that thing on your head.’” –Conan O’Brien

    nice top 10 dude…….well done

  • Jaurez

    Nature Freak said:
    I go by different names as well at other sites but I prefer not to mention them here.

    Not very proud of your comments?

  • Bennybombom

    Nature Freak said:
    Thank you Bennybombom
    Check out “Nature Freak” at the Huffington Post. I go by different names as well at other sites but I prefer not to mention them here.

    Something tells me my days are numbered here.

    It was fun while it lasted.

    allright…..me i pretty much always go by bennybombom everywhere so i’m easy to find…

  • Nature Freak

    Too early for the rainbow, too early for the dove
    These are the final days, this is the darkness, this is the flood
    And there is no man or woman who can’t be touched
    But you who come between them will be judged

    Leonard Cohen
    The Gypsy’s Wife

  • Nature Freak

    Jaurez said:
    Not very proud of your comments?

    A little bit of mystery is the spice of life.

    If you as an adult do not get it you are lost.

    I am enjoying myself way too much tonight.

  • Nature Freak

    Bennybombom said:
    allright…..me i pretty much always go by bennybombom everywhere so i’m easy to find…

    Cool!

  • Jaurez

    Nature Freak said:
    I am enjoying myself way too much tonight.

    You mean with your “life?”

  • Nature Freak

    Jaurez said:
    You mean with your “life?”

    yes
    yes indeed!

  • WillP

    Then we would have another loser in the race by the name of Donald Trump. Stick to making money and being a TV star.

  • Nature Freak

    Jaurez,

    I have been “voluntarily” locked in this Florida attic I live in for 3 years. Tonight I was really able to make some sort of human contact. Only 3 weeks ago I managed to find a way to get this old Pentium I in the attic corner running. Somehow the 56k modem worked and the telephone line was still hot.

    Jaurez, you are the first friend I have had in 3 years. I love you man! We are gonna be such good buddies. I know it brother!

    I here my father coming. I hope he does not touch me again. NO Daddy!

    Talk again real soon!

  • slickerwick

    Nature Freak said:
    Jaurez,

    I have been “voluntarily” locked in this Florida attic I live in for 3 years. Tonight I was really able to make some sort of human contact. Only 3 weeks ago I managed to find a way to get this old Pentium I in the attic corner running. Somehow the 56k modem worked and the telephone line was still hot.

    Jaurez, you are the first friend I have had in 3 years. I love you man! We are gonna be such good buddies. I know it brother!

    I here my father coming. I hope he does not touch me again. NO Daddy!

    Talk again real soon!

    Fascinating reading your posts–in a morbid kind of way. Let us all know the next time you’re back on planet Earth.

  • Nature Freak

    slickerwick said:
    Fascinating reading your posts–in a morbid kind of way. Let us all know the next time you’re back on planet Earth.

    Earth?

  • Nature Freak

    Let me end this short June night (less than 6 days from the equinox) by this my friends:

    “If ignorance is bliss, the tea baggers have attained complete enlightenment. Siddhartha Gautama is proud of you conservatives..”

    I love you tea baggers…
    Not really.

  • Just4thefax

    Nature Freak said:
    Nature Freak says:
    June 15, 2011 at 2:00 am Nature Freak(Quote)
    1 4
    Bennybombom said:
    allright…..me i pretty much always go by bennybombom everywhere so i’m easy to find…
    Cool!

    Fact: Use behind the scene messaging and send each other some shirtless photos’ are something like your hero happy pants did to the little under aged women.

  • Hugo Daun

    Trump said:
    “…if they pick a loser, I may run as an independent.”

    Considering the GOP hopefuls, this is as good as confirmation of a Trump run.

  • LOGICandREASON

    For now the only thing I admire about Donald Trump politically, is the aggressive manner by which he challenges Obama and his cronies in the Liberal media. All the Republican candidates have to campaign against Oba-Mao with such an aggressive demeanor, if actually they want to defeat him come 2012. They all have to understand that the Media is fully working 24 hours a day to have him re-elected by any possible means.

    Apart from that, I am quite suspicious of Trump’s unpredictable motives.

  • Skippy

    YES! YES! YEEEEEEEES!

    GO DONALDS!

    Like wreck the gNOpigs chances!

    YEEEEEEEES!

  • Nacho

    LOGICandREASON said:
    For now the only thing I admire about Donald Trump politically, is the aggressive manner by which he challenges Obama and his cronies in the Liberal media. All the Republican candidates have to campaign against Oba-Mao with such an aggressive demeanor, if actually they want to defeat him come 2012. They all have to understand that the Media is fully working 24 hours a day to have him re-elected by any possible means.

    Apart from that, I am quite suspicious of Trump’s unpredictable motives.

    Now there is a prime example of “logic and reason” in full effect.

    Lowest common denominator dipshit.

  • LAPhil

    Trump has got to be the world’s biggest schmuck! He can’t be stupid enough not to realize he can’t possibly win and in all likelihood will insure Obama’s re-election if he runs as an independent. I’m really starting to hate this guy!

  • LAPhil

    LOGICandREASON said:
    For now the only thing I admire about Donald Trump politically, is the aggressive manner by which he challenges Obama and his cronies in the Liberal media. All the Republican candidates have to campaign against Oba-Mao with such an aggressive demeanor, if actually they want to defeat him come 2012. They all have to understand that the Media is fully working 24 hours a day to have him re-elected by any possible means. Apart from that, I am quite suspicious of Trump’s unpredictable motives.

    It’s almost as if Trump wants Obama to win with this third party crap. He can’t possibly believe he can beat Obama. Oh, I forgot, we’re talking about Donald Trump, the world’s biggest egomaniac.

  • david r

    He’ll run so he can split the loser vote.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tom-Bennett/660327155 Tom Bennett

    Gawd, a suck-up-moron interviewing a side-show barker.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce Kennedy

    Well, there you have it. Trump is running for President. The Republicans only have “losers” to choose from.

  • Nature Freak

    THE INTERNATIONALE

    Stand up, all victims of oppression
    For the tyrants fear your might
    Don’t cling so hard to your possessions
    For you have nothing, if you have no rights
    Let racist ignorance be ended
    For respect makes the empires fall
    Freedom is merely privilege extended
    Unless enjoyed by one and all

    Chorus:
    So come brothers and sisters
    For the struggle carries on
    The internationale
    Unites the world in song
    So comrades come rally
    For this is the time and place
    The international ideal
    Unites the human race

    Let no one build walls to divide us
    Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
    Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
    We’ll live together or we’ll die alone
    In our world poisoned by exploitation
    Those who have taken, now they must give
    And end the vanity of nations
    We’ve but one earth on which to live

    And so begins the final drama
    In the streets and in the fields
    We stand unbowed before their armour
    We defy their guns and shields
    When we fight, provoked by their aggression
    Let us be inspired by like and love
    For though they offer us concessions
    Change will not come from above

    Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bruce-Kennedy/1439463341 Bruce Kennedy

    Nature Freak said:
    THE INTERNATIONALE

    Stand up, all victims of oppression
    For the tyrants fear your might
    Don’t cling so hard to your possessions
    For you have nothing, if you have no rights
    Let racist ignorance be ended
    For respect makes the empires fall
    Freedom is merely privilege extended
    Unless enjoyed by one and all

    Chorus:
    So come brothers and sisters
    For the struggle carries on
    The internationale
    Unites the world in song
    So comrades come rally
    For this is the time and place
    The international ideal
    Unites the human race

    Let no one build walls to divide us
    Walls of hatred nor walls of stone
    Come greet the dawn and stand beside us
    We’ll live together or we’ll die alone
    In our world poisoned by exploitation
    Those who have taken, now they must give
    And end the vanity of nations
    We’ve but one earth on which to live

    And so begins the final drama
    In the streets and in the fields
    We stand unbowed before their armour
    We defy their guns and shields
    When we fight, provoked by their aggression
    Let us be inspired by like and love
    For though they offer us concessions
    Change will not come from above

    Words: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter

    Nature my man, you are very musically inclined. I on the other hand, I don’t have a creative bone in my body. But I do like the lyrics. Could you do “Baba O’Riley” sometime?

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