Debate of the Century: Obama vs. Trump
This possible future presidential debate is based on segments from actual interview transcripts involving President Obama and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on April 14, 2011, and Donald Trump and Stephanopoulos on April 18, 2011.
The interview segments used in this “debate” have been repositioned slightly but without the altering of any real content. However, the questions from the moderator are fictionalized.
Moderator: Mr. President, do you believe America is on the decline?
Obama: You know countries used to look up to America as an example of a modern, well-functioning society, and now it seems like they have bigger plans then we do. That’s not the America I want to live in.
Moderator: And Mr. Trump, do you believe America is on the decline?
Trump: I look at what’s going on with our country. We’re like a third world nation.
This country is in such trouble. If you look at what China’s doing to us. If you look, I mean, look at what’s going on with gasoline prices. They’re going to go to $5, $6, $7 a gallon and we don’t have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, “Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it anymore.” They’re not our friends. They wouldn’t even be there if it wasn’t for us.
Moderator: President Obama, why should the people vote to re-elect you?
Obama: Ultimately the American people understand this is a serious, sober time. They want an optimistic vision. That’s what this election is going to be about.
Moderator: Mr. Trump, why should the American people vote to elect you and do you think you will win?
Trump: Oh, I’m sure I will. You know what they get with me?
They get a guy that’s not going to let the world rip off the United States.
The world is ripping us off. I hate it.
Moderator: Mr. President, are you concerned about the strength of your opponent on the other side?
Obama: Right now I have such a big day job that I am not yet focused on what’s happening on the other side.
Moderator: Mr. Trump, how would you describe the state of our nation?
Trump: Ripped off by everybody because we have poor leadership.
Because we have people that don’t know what they’re doing.
Moderator: Mr. President, how do you think the American people envision their ideal president?
Obama: They want one that unifies the country, and more important than anything else, they want some answers to how we’re going to get the economy moving.
Moderator: Isn’t that what you have been trying to do for almost 4 years?
Obama: My suspicion is that anybody who is not addressing those questions is going to be in trouble.
uh? yeah, debate of the centu… zzz…
We know what a thing is by what it does.
Obama kills babies, promotes sex perversion, spits on our constitution, weakens our defenses, spends us into bankruptcy.
Only a certifiable bozo would want him in charge of anything.
But I do know of a small town airport lacking a taxi service…
That is unbelievable! When you juxtapose those to each other, you can quite literally see how vapid, and moronic Obama’s answers are, or could be. In a real debate he will not be able to talk for 15 minutes a question. It is so clear that Mr. Trump is getting smoother as he progressing in the process to becoming our next president of the United States. I look forward to sober, intelligent, and real debate in this next election.
I’ve said it before, and I’m sayin’ it here: There will be no presidential debates in 2012, because Obama is going to refuse. This, from our column, foreshadows it:
Obama: Right now I have such a big day job that I am not yet focused on what’s happening on the other side.
Here’s the expanded version I imagine:
“In case y’all hadn’t noticed, I’ve been in the news from time to time during the last four years [appreciative laughter] — for holdin’ a job that has a lot of presidential-like responsibilities [laughter, applause]. And by now, I’m sure people know where I stand on the issues. I don’t see any need to go flying around, meetin’ these Republicans who use debates to snippet me and quote me out of context [chuckle of acknowledgment] just so we can draw more blood and divide the country further. And besides all that, it turns out this job keeps me busy [laughter]. For the past four years, I feel like I’ve had the job of two presidents — one to do a sort of Take Two of the eight years before me, and another to simply do the work I wanted to do for this country . . . [continues campaign speech to ongoing applause and laudatory press].”
You heard it here first — or second, if you read other conservative forums where I pipe up.
Debates would definitely cut into campaign speeches, dumbass media softball interviews, and golf time. We can expect this prez to be as prudent with how he budgets his time as he’s shown himself to be with America’s money.
Obama thinks the voters want to hear “an optimistic vision” for the country. Well, that apparently worked last time, but we’ve learned in the past couple of years that Obama will say whatever his audience wants to hear, AND HE LIES A LOT. In this subject discourse above, he has told many whoppers, especially like what he “wants” to do.
I have no hopes that Trump would be what this country needs to undo Obamaism, but I’d vote for him in the general election as the lesser of the 2 evils, as I did with McCain. The best thing Trump could do now is uncover the truth about Obama’s birth place, and his investigators to Hawaii should find something tangible. To see an Obama Birth certificate, go to http://www.catholicbook.com and scroll down to page 6, 7, and 8 to see what a Mombasa, Kenya, birth certificate and registration of birth look like with Obama’s name, footprint, and doctors’ names.
i think it is more a tactic of not saying anything and speaking in such generalities coupled with a noncommittal flavor that the audience is left to fill in the blanks with their own desires
thus, you get the “greatest speaker in the universe”
definitely a saul alinsky favorite
arhooley, you are a bloomin’ genius. Thanks.
That’s a good call. Since he has an opponent with an equal right to speak, he can’t control what happens.
Nah, Obama will just be on vaction during the debates.
Oblabla = a tongue-tied script-reading superannuated juvenile delinquent.
Trump = a glib, if ill-informed charlatan and bully.
Together they’d produce an epic Dialogue of the Arrogant Ignoramuses.
meanwhile…. Palin-West in ’12
I happen to agree with you but if all four of these people are in the debate then maybe , God help us, the voters will wake up for once and take an active roll in this election. As much of a tragedy as this President has been it is still nothing compared to the apathy that put him there. That really terrifies me.
If only Jack, if only, but it is not to be. The game is rigged and none of us rats know how to get out of the maze that corrupt two party politicians have put us in. Divided we go down and that’s the way it will be again in 2012. 1000 voices today equal victory for the communists.
Just ask Charles Krauthammer and Karl Rove, two masked members of the “Ruling Class” who pretend to represent conservative thinking.
Go Sarah Palin, the only chance for victory for the little people of the “Country Class.” She says drill baby drill, Obama is a liar and way too many pseudo republicans are a big part of the problem. That says a bunch about Governor Palin, a politician with principles and convictions. Perhaps the only one.
I’d love to see Palin run for two reasons. 1: I believe in many of the common sense approaches she has towards governing, and 2: It would be fun to watch all of the lefties doing their impersonation of the road company of the new broadway hit, Scanners.
DONALD TRUMP, BIRTHERISM AND THE $5 MILLION CHALLENGE
An April Fool’s Day joke on the internet had Donald Trump offering a handsome reward of $5 million to anyone who could produce a copy of Obama’s original long form birth certificate. This gave me the idea of Trump confronting Obama directly on the issue with a Five Million Dollar Challenge. What I mean is this: If Obama is being truthful and has nothing to hide then Trump should test him with an offer he can’t reasonably refuse. The offer will be the sum of $5 million (or more) as a donation to Obama’s favorite charity* in exchange for going public with an authentic copy of his original birth certificate. If Obama ignores the offer and is willing to endure the bad publicity of depriving a humane and worthy charity of millions in needed funds (done over a paltry birth certificate) then we can be certain that he’s hiding something far more damaging-the bad PR being the lesser of two evils. This I believe is the best way forward for nailing the president on this issue and vindicating or humiliating Trump and the birthers.
Click my name and read more of this widely linked article on my top Townhall.com blog.
That is actually a pretty good idea.
Obama’s favorite charity = Acorn, or Al Sharpton.
No, the only charity that Obama believes in is Obama.
That is a pretty accurate rendition of how the Democrat Primary debate should go. It would be good to have Obama challenged by a more interesting, hard core liberal. His schtick, the Teleprompter, the endless lectures on food by his wife, his gay attempts at recreation, are getting old. Donald Trump would be a more compelling proponent of big government and crony capitalism. He would actually be interesting in a way. He has ripped of creditors so often with the bankruptcy laws that he might be the perfect fit for a bankrupt America. I think the Democrat National Committee could make money promoting this match up in the Democrat Primary – Trump vs. Obama. Could be big Pay Per VIew.
Now, let’s get a good conservative Republican to take on the winner of that Democrat Primary.
If Trump was the Republican candidate, I guess I’d vote for him. Anybody would be better than Obama. But I doubt he’ll get the nomination. But, a debate between Obama and Trump certainly would be fun! Maybe, when Obama loses the election, he could be on Celebrity Apprentice? We can only hope.
Yeah, I’m trying to imagine the debate. Let’s see, the Donald graduated from college in 1968, and then went to work for his father. Show me your draft card, Donald. The draft was still happening in ’68, and the Donald has absolutely no military exposure. But he did play football during college and had some anger management issues, seems like he would have qualified to hump the jungle and enjoy some of those single payer health care benefits? Wasn’t the Donald touting reduced corporate health care costs through universal health care rationing for everyone not too long ago?–except of course, for him.
Yeah, I can see the debate now. Where’s your draft card Donald? You were a chicken hawk in your prime, after the ’67 summer of love, after the Tet Offensive, but now you want to take Iranian, Iraqi, and Libyan oil the old fashion hard way; blood for oil? You silly racist savage, Donald. Did you take your meds today? (Mary Jane and window pane does not count; no self-medication allowed.) Donald, you had your chance to be the good imperialist and save the South Vietnamese and the Cambodians from a fate worse than…taking advanced Critical Theory from Bill Ayers and Angela Davis. Why don’t you try trolling for your fourth trophy wife? I know, you read One Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse, right, and you’ve been a secret admirer ever since?
yeah, but he^s still better than obummer. at least he doesn`t need to get his campaign contributions from cair and other muslim bro organizations. wake up and when you do, take a time out in the corner until you can put a smile on that angry face of yours
The country is being run by a man who hates America. There really is no doubt about that. And he has referred to the Constitution as “a charter of negative liberties” … limiting what the government can do is a “negative liberty”. He would truly have government run everything in our lives if he could– and he is trying.
Any name plucked at random form the phonebook– instead of Obama– would be fine with me.
At least Trump loves this country. That is really all I ask for in a President, now that I have seen that the voters in this country are so gullible that they would elect an empty suit that they just met.
Well spotted. Never thought of it that way, but you’re right. He wants liberty…….. for the government.
I’m still not understanding why a US Citizen, especially one so highly invested in our shotty real estate industry, is getting ridiculed for asking for a document that by law should have been presented before candidacy consideration for presidential or any other political election? I understand that a copy of some sort was originally accepted, but a copy isn’t acceptable when you’re enrolling children into a private kindergarden. A “live birth record” is needed or enrollment is not allowed. So if anything I’m a little aggravated with the checks and balances of our government. I’m from Chicago so I understand the politics here and honestly, it’s pretty much a joke. They do what they want, how they want to, so slipping through the cracks here doesn’t surprise me. But for american citizenship to not be verified before an official is elected into the highest and most respected office in our country, that’s just plain scary. At least for me. And as far as political views go, I want to make it clear that I am not a fan of Obama nor am I of Trump. I definitely dislike both of them equally:) But regardless and looking past the fact that Trump wouldn’t let the issue go, I’m almost glad that he didn’t. Because the president in all actuality is there to serve us as citizens just like every other publicly elected political official. So why wasn’t the question just answered right away seeing as it was an oversight brought to government’s attention? It was presented like a challenge I get that, but Donald Trump isn’t the president so I can look past his arrogance. But President Obama putting on a show, and I mean that literally seeing as he went on Oprah, I was really disappointed. So basically my point in responding to this is; as much as I really never doubted Obama’s citizenship, I was expecting a much more respectable response.
It would never go like that, it would be pre-scripted so they could get it on the teleprompter in 0gabe’s favor and Trump would be cut off early and often, the LSM is in 0gabe’s pocket, no longer even any doubt whatsoever.
You forgot to include Obama’s latest outburst to the (now banned) Texas reporter: Obama: “You’re not letting me answer the question!”
(Translation: “You’re not letting me blather on forever while saying nothing in my best Harvard-professor impression that our time will be up and you go away with nothing but a sunburn from my aura.”
The “debate” answers were ONLY taken from the recent George Stephanopoulos interviews with Obama and Trump.
The Republican elite would be rooting for Obama.
In a real debate Trump would ask the hard questions to Obama that he doesn’t want to answer…
It would be a bloodbath, and people might even feel sorry for the beating our boy-President took…it would be brutal.
Not me though…of course, I enjoy watching MMA.
“Look…”
“Excuse me?”
“Look…”
“Excuse me?”
“YOU’RE FIRED”!!!!!
First of all, the word debate has been bastardized in this country to describe a Q&A session moderated by a talking head with his fellow talking heads asking the questions. Secondly, the odds of The Donald actually ‘debating’ are slim to none, because I don’t think he is going to win the Republican nomination. Thirdly, the only, and surest way for Trump to get on the same stage with Barry is as a Demorat and Trump has already said he is running as a Republican. In conclusion, thanks for the fantasy read.
The test of how seriously the Kenyan takes Trump’s challenge will be measured by how vigorously our lap dog, captive media goes after Trump. When the crooked media starts pointing out Trump’s errors in and after 1995, say, and asks questions that they’d NEVER ask Obama and start making stuff up about Trump, then we’ll know they are taking Trump seriously.
for all my friends on the right…GET OFF THE BIRTHER CRAP. nobama and his cronies are letting us run with this ball so we all look like morons. IF YOU WANT TO REELECT HIM, KEEP IT UP! STOP THE SELF IMMOLATION NOW!!!!
Trump is a liberal, he was pro-choice, pro taxing the “rich”, gave money to Schumer, Weiner and a host of other liberals. Now suddenly he’s a republican. Well I’ll give him that, we have a lot of Rino’s that act just like him but he is no conservative so if you are so easily swayed that you think the Don sounds good, perhaps you should just stay away from any and all salesmen because you’ve been swindled again…oh and I have some ocean front property here in Nebraska that I want to sell you.
The debate would be awesome but the problem is this: the nation would be no better off by electing The Donald. Trump has anything but a conservative track record and although he is entertaining, he would betray any semblance of the Tea Party points that he espouses.
He’s a fraud!
Celebrity Trump can say anything and get away with it. Presidential candidate Trump has to be more circumspect. Which is why, on the live finale of his reality-T.V. show “Celebrity Apprentice” which airs on 22nd May, we will see a magical transformation of buffoon into sober international statesman.
This is when serious Republicans will take a closer look and they may not be so impressed. The vexed issue of MORALITY will be debated. After all, he has been married 3 times and there has been at-least one child out of wedlock. When asked to comment, I would not put it past the standard-bearer of the Tea Party to opine that our third President Thomas Jefferson who authored the “Declaration of Independence” in 1776, had one of his plantation slaves Sally Hemming as mistress who bore him six children. Trump’s constituents live somewhere in the 18th Century so he would certainly win their applause.
Then, there is CONSISTENCY on policy matters. He was once a Democrat, then occupied one seat too many in the miniscule “Reform Party”, finally became a Republican and now, if frustrated in his wish to be his party’s nominee in 2012, may break away and run as an Independent – to the consternation of whoever is chosen to run against President Obama. This may well be Romney who on his best day will have a poor hand in his game of poker against el supremo.
It is of course possibile that the Donald will repect the decision of his Party and bow out, while donating a seventh of his fortune (estimated at $7 Billion) to the G.O.P. war chest, thus matching – in terms of money if not intellect – the country’s first billion dollar candidate. Possible but not probable. There is only thing Trump loves more than self-respect and that is his money.
Mr Trump,
Do not listen to left coast rebel, Maria and others. They simply do not like you, I wonder why. You speak eloquently using long words like “supercalifragilisticexpialidocius” and even short four-letter words to make a point.
And by the way, when you are alone in the dark of night, the most brilliant ideas come to mind. For example: the Seals, our armed forces, General Petreus, Secretary of Defense Gates, Secretary of State Clinton and even our dear President are all trying to pull another fast one. How do we know they got the real Usama bin Laden?
Please ask for (a) UBL’s Birth Certificate
(b) Dental records
(c) Sample from his beard
(d) Old madrasa records to prove he was a good student
of terrorism.
Then, entirely due to your efforts, good Americans will have proof that Usama has at-last shuffled off this mortal coil and we can put away all guns kept by the bedside, in case we get this unwelcome visitor.
But do not say anything looney – it will simply put us off.