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Donald Trump: I Could 'Definitely' Beat Obama in 2012 ... and the Hair Is Real (VIDEO)

by Donald Deane, posted Mar 23rd 2011 3:30PM
Donald Trump Says He Could Beat Obama in 2012 on 'The View'Billionaire developer and 'Celebrity Apprentice' host Donald Trump plans to decide by June whether he'll run for president in 2012. On 'The View' (weekdays, syndicated), Trump said he thinks the country is in such bad shape that his several messy divorces wouldn't hinder a presidential bid. And he even thinks he could unseat incumbent Barack Obama.

"You've had three marriages, two sort of uncomfortable divorces," said Barbara Walters. "Do you think that ... would bother anybody?"

"I think the country is doing so badly they want somebody that's going to help it," replied Trump. "I think the country [has] never been in a position like it is right now."

Trump also said he's confident he could beat Obama for the presidency. "If I run and win and get the nomination, I definitely think I could beat Obama," he said. "We're doing very, very poorly as a country."

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taligarnett

Wow...so much racist sentiment on these boards. If one wants to know if there is in fact change in this country, one need only look online and on the news at "tea party" functions to see that many still think like it's the 1950s! I mean really...why not just take a picture in your klan hood? I'd probably respect you more! I can't believe the ignorance that breeds from a very bitter hatred of black people STILL (for some reason) in today's American society. What are you afraid of? Our president is HALF black...SO WHAT? What's your point? What's the problem? A conservative ignorant Republican told me on my job that President Obama was going to give money to "Blacks" as soon as he took office--that was the stupidest thing I had ever heard! Gee...if that was the case, my neighbor is STILL waiting for his check!!!! The last time I checked poor blacks and poor whites are very much still equally uninsured and equally unemployed--the numbers are astounding. Some of you want to talk about voting. Well gee...even if every black person within the voting age DID vote for President Obama he WOULDN'T have won! Why? Because a large percentage of WHITE people, other races, college students, and educated people VOTED him in together!!! I already know that there will be a LARGE percentage of ignorant, trashy Americans who vote AGAINST Obama this time JUST because he IS BLACK! It's disgusting, childish, ignorant and stupid. If you're a Republican...great, I'm not knocking it (though I don't understand it) but at least vote for someone who is smarter than you! Who actually READS congressional bills! If I were a Republican I'd probably vote for the smartest Republican running which is in my opinion Mitt Romney. But "conservative tea party shmucks" don't like him...he's too EDUCATED!?? Since when has education become the enemy? Donald Trump is rich trash. He could care less about poor people. He's a business man but he's a dirty business man, there's the difference--his whole career has been about exploiting! And he's taking advantage of hate sentiment, racism and the ignorant poor people of his party to get votes--because smart persons of the Republican persuasion and even sensible run of the mill, politically in tune Republicans, will not vote for him. Donald Trump is a joke. If Americans are dumb enough to elect a Reality TV star/crook/idiot to run their country that's sad. Really sad.

April 25 2011 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
deborahsnsc50

I'm ashamed that there are so many ignorant people in this country! Obama got into office because he was black..period ..end of statement. The majority of blacks couldn't tell you a thing he stands for..Obama is very ugly with big ears and has a very ugly wife..I don't think anyone has room to comment on Trumps hair..Just look at Nobama!. What the ignorant liberals seem to not realize is that the ONLY time in Bush's presidency that the economy went sour is when the democrats ruled the senate and house. That began in 2006..If you weren't so dumb you'd know that every time you blame BUSH..you only blaming your OWN party because YOU made the rules!..LOL...it's just o funny how dumb the dems and liberals are about everything! Anyway..I hope Trump wins the republican primary and doesn't run the independant ticket/...I think a really right wing conservative BLACK man should be the republican nominee..LOL..what a hoot...the blacks wouldn't have a clue who to vote for then!..LOL

April 25 2011 at 3:36 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
4Justice

For goodness sake! Wake up America! The man reads "Business" all over his body and that is what we need! Look at all he has accomplished in and out of this country and that can speak for itself!
I just saw his interview with David Letterman a couple of nights ago and he said EXACTLY what I have been saying to a lot of people for the longest time: the unemployment rates in America are escalating because a lot of our job opportunities are being given elsewhere! If you have a computer problem and call for assistance, who do you get? Someone in INDIA! You have a credit card issue and call customer service and who do you get? Someone in INDIA! Manufacturing and assembly jobs go to China! Mr. Trump even mentioned that cmpanies that do that have incentives from the government and tax write offs and in his own words "that is ridiculous, it has to stop!" We have been losing jobs to China, India and God knows where else!
I myself had a problem with my Chase credit card about a month ag and when I called a representative, she had a terrible accent, spke terrible English and I asked "where am I calling?" she said "India" I said "excuse me ma'm, no offense, but I really want to speak with someone in the United States!" and she transferred the call. That is definitely RIDICULOUS! Those people must be working for a small fraction of what our minimum wage is and our people are in the unemployment lines trying to get anything so they can continue to support their families and pay their BASIC bills! We need to keep the jobs HERE in America! Did everybody forget Monroe's Doctrine? Well, for those who did, here it goes: "America for the Americans"! That is it!
I really don't care how many marriages or divorces Donald Trump had, his personal life is none of my business, I don't pay for his bills! Everybody has a past anyway, and who cares? If the past does not affect the present it won't affect the future. Nobody is perfect. Perfection belongs to God only. Besides, some people tend to be so judgmental and moralistic about how many "marriages or divorces" someone had but they are ok with teenage or out-of-the wedlock pregnancy, gay marriage, sex change and all the immoral garbage, right? Very interesting!
If Donald Trump is good for the administration, which, based on his own personal successes, I THINK REALLY HE IS, so be it: he's got my vote! And when he wins, I'll be glad to join him in saying "Obama, you're fired! Leave!"

March 26 2011 at 6:08 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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Stekka

Trump has relied on bankruptcy protection FOUR times to protect his businesses, the last in 2009. That's not the kind of business acumen I look for in a President.
His obnoxious personality would make international relations a nightmare.
Cheating on your wife is almost a national sport in America, so I understand your not being impressed. I can't help but feel that someone who was so indiscreet that he took his mistress with his family on the trip is likely to make the same kind of public scandal with all the attention that the press gives every word and gesture of the President. His treatment of both his first and second wives does not show anything about how he would do politically, but it shows his character. I, for one, think we've had enough characters in the White House.

May 01 2011 at 7:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bzbev

Donald Trump is a bad joke; he could not get the women's vote if he held guns to all of our heads and it has nothing to do with his divorces! It has to do with his pathetic HAIR. He cannot manage a bad hair day; how in the hell can he have fooled himself into thinking he could manage the US? His ego far outweighs the national debt! It's fools just like him who got us into the mess that this president is trying to bail us out of before we drown in their quicksand! Dump Frumpy Trumpy

March 24 2011 at 10:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Richard Clark Ryder

Steve... said he's a shameless promoter and couldn't get 1% of the vote... Hmmmmmm why couldn't he win? Look at what we got? America voted for a man just for the color of his skin and most did not and still could not tell you his views and policies. What a shame. Anybody at this point would do a better job than Obama Soetoro!! Get this clown out of office!! or the Mayans may be right about 2012!!!!

March 24 2011 at 5:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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4Justice

I agree with you! I often ask myself if people elected the president to make a "change" in the destinations of America or just to make a "change" in History electing the very first Afro-American president. During election time I often asked myself: will he be elected because of his capabilities or because of his heritage? I had questions...and doubts. Nevertheless, I gave him my vote to get the country back in the hands of democrats. Not because he was a better candidate, but because he was not with the Republican party. My first choice was definitely Hillary Clinton, but for the disappointment of a lot of us, she backed off and as a voter, I felt sort of "cornered".

March 26 2011 at 6:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

What a shameless promoter. He couldn't get 1% of the vote.

March 24 2011 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
carolyn

Even just saying how sexy Mrs. Walters is; is just not Presidential, this guy brags about his ills, ripping folks off, he is gross and to think he can take charge of this country when his own reality has become nothing more than a reality TV show is a JOKE!!!!

His own finances are in question, several of the skyscraper buildings he owns are 50 percent empty, and that number will climb with this economy. And the economy has been a world structure for a while, and as the world has burdens so will the US, it is inevitable, so to pretend that Obama is the creator of the mess this country is in is also a joke, and is becoming exhausting for those of us that were awake during the Bush admin, as well as the Clinton admin when he outsourced jobs and didn't think this day would come.

March 24 2011 at 10:23 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
pechusncream

Having loads of money does NOT qualify anyone to be President of the United States!! The fact that some of you are endorsing this man merely on that basis just goes to show you how lack of education has breeded pure ignorance & stupidity in this country. There is NO WAY Trump could ever beat President Obama in an election. Although we have very stupid people in this country who have the right to vote (gag), most people are NOT that darn stupid, to vote for a low-life sleeze like Donald Trump!! But, by all means, I hope he does run, along with Palin & all the other nitwits you can find out there. It will be an entertaining election!! :-)

March 24 2011 at 10:14 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
pbc444

GBO a bit for indeed dear Donald may indeed BE the GFOPs best shot come the 2012 election cycle ,certainly provacative during this warm up season but WHO TRULY BELIEVES "HE" would be "BEST" for our countrys greater common good overall ? Lots of malarky frothing about and way too little of tending to many details that NEED tending in order to get this country on track. The Donald is NOT the answer to our woefuls but does offer up trvial entertainment that HE continues to mine !! These days seems the collective "we's" admire whatever squirms around and about no matter how devastating to the country as a whole !! Time for all to get a true grip on reality and while at it, BOTHER to fact check just the who/what/hows and how comes of WHY we are mired in the present day quagmire and just who is truly on the side of the mere ordinary who have been the acceptable collateral damagees expected to continue to bear the brunt of whatever hardship the maestros have to inflict while they skate without being held accountable OR responsible while they stuff THEIR coffers at OUR expense !! The CORPORATION of the United States is repulsive ...and they have strangled OUR rights for THEIR profiteering...ENUFF IS ENUFF !!!

March 24 2011 at 10:00 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
jerseybobby1

WHY DO PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT HAIR WHEN THE COUNTRY IS SO BAD OFF. THEY EVEN CUT SS COST OF LIVING AND THEN BAIL OUT BANKS, WOW AND NOW THERE OUT THERE IN ANOTHER MISSION - WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NEXT YEAR TAKE AWAY TWO MORE YEARS ON US DONT THEY EVEN NO THE SENIORS ARE THE ONES THAT GIVE,GIVE,AND GIVE MORE

March 24 2011 at 7:23 AM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply

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