Trump f-bombs his way through Vegas
One thing about Donald Trump has become very clear: He would never go Galt. He would also never get a job as a Sunday School teacher. Speaking in Las Vegas last night, the Donald gave John Kerry a run for his cursing money.
We can debate all day whether it’s presidential to speak like this or not. I happen to think it’s not, but after the Nixon tapes, a pair of episodes with then VP Dick Cheney and “Captain Kickass,” this isn’t likely to sink Trump’s run.
What might sink him, at least among GOP primary voters, is the Smoking Gun’s look at Trump and the Vietnam war.
During a TV interview Tuesday morning, Trump–who spent his high school years enrolled at the New York Military Academy–said, “I actually got lucky because I had a very high draft number. I’ll never forget, that was an amazing period of time in my life.”
He went on to recall, “I was going to the Wharton School of Finance, and I was watching as they did the draft numbers and I got a very, very high number and those numbers never got up to.” The word “deferment” was not mentioned by Trump during his chat with the morning show hosts on WNYW, the Fox affiliate in New York City.
However, Selective Service records reveal that Trump, the fortunate son of a multimillionaire real estate baron, took repeated steps to avoid serving in Vietnam.
By the time his number (356) was drawn during the December 1, 1969 draft lottery, Trump had already received four student deferments and a medical deferment, according to military records on file with the National Archives and Records Administration. An extract of Trump’s Selective Classification record, seen here, was provided in response to a TSG records request.
In fact, the December 1969 draft lottery occurred about 18 months after Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied business at the Wharton School. So, while claiming that he would “never forget” being at Wharton watching the draft numbers being drawn, the 64-year-old Trump seems to have misremembered, as candidates are fond of saying.
I’ll join everyone justifiably howling that TSG got ahold of Trump’s records so quickly, but no one has managed to find Obama’s college records at all. Or any evidence that The One has ever experienced a profound thought. There are some differences here; these are federal records and there just happens to be a Democrat administration that obviously finds Trump threatening in charge.
The American electorate outside the GOP primary has already put its stamp of approval on a draft dodging president, twice — Bill Clinton — and has once elected a far left ideologue with no relevant job experience on his resume. But they were both Democrats; Trump is positioning himself as a conservative Republican. So this is all somewhat more likely to cause him some problems. Had Trump chosen a different path, he could have dodged both of these potential problems very easily, just by appending a D after his name.
He’s preparing the ground to withdraw with deliberately unpresidential actions. This phase may continue for a couple more weeks, perhaps up to his big June announcement. He will confess that he hasn’t been able to adapt to the kind of pantywaist public behaviour required of presidential candidates. It’s just not him and he can see that he just can’t play the game and that the other candidates are getting a stiffer upper lip anyway, thanks, of course, to him.
His mission was accomplished when little lenin revealed the BC. If the rinos can’t learn from that, they are hopeless anyway.
The show is winding down.
As much fun as a Trump campaign is to watch, he’s NOT what the Conservative movement is looking for. Let him beat up the administration, but when it comes time to pick a general election opponent, find a true conservative that will fight. Unlike the that last loser that was afraid to point out the many many issues hidden by the press.
WTH has the Smoking Gun done to discover the vast troves of Obama coverups. I for one am sick of these one sided expose tools.
I keep saying, the Obama people *want* Trump in the running. No one takes him seriously (and why should they, what with all the dead-animal-on-his-head jokes that are going to be made?) and half of the pundits can’t tell if his whole campaign is a publicity tour for his stupid TV show, or a serious attempt to run and become president. If you were Obama, who would you rather run against? Sarah Palin? Newt Gingrich? Mitt Romney? Mike Huckabee? Or some guy with a funny hairdo who is the host of a reality TV show, where he’s known for saying to the contestants, “You’re fired!” I would think the choice was obvious. Baggage aside, he’s not a serious candidate, and the Dems are just praying that he stays in the race long enough to distract attention from whichever Republican does run.
I think watching the President of the United States and his minions make Donald Trump a target of the relentless jokes at the White House Press Corp dinner last night that it is obvious they have a great fear of the Donald. For those of us who actually want to win in 2012 I suggest we weigh the bile that is being piled on Trump and remember our best candidate, Sarah Palin has been having this 24/7 smear campaign waged against her for 3 years for a reason. With her on the top of the 2012 ballot the Democrats are toast. We just have to stop believing the Left Wing media smear campaigns and think for outselves for once.
Well said, nickel. Hear! Hear!
Obama has a long history of trying to pre-emptively destroy formidable possible opponents. Disqualifying his mentor from the State Senate Race ballot, unsealing the Ryan Divorce Records. [Which speaks to his own scandalous secrets he wishes to hide.]
Trump is the one guy he fears the most because Trump is the one guy he cannot define (long years in the public eye make Trump already defined) and Trump is the one guy who will fight him all the time. Who indeed, likes fighting. And is good at it, particularly with economics.
Trump understands that anti-Obama voters want someone who will stick it to Obama, not be a good loser like McCain and court the approval of the Press. Thus the coordinated effort to destroy Trump. Likely to fail too.
Really, Republican voters will pull the lever for … little Timmy Down the Well Pawlenty, who did nothing when Franken frauded the election? Mitch “I’m not really Republican and love Obama” Daniels? Huckabee? The Legend that is John Huntsman (who?) Mitt Romney? Aka Caspar Milquetoast?
Trump has already been vetted more than Obama. How are student deferrments 40 years ago relevant anymore?
I’ve said this before and chances are I’ll say it again but, just as Mr Trump is to Capitalism, what Ross Perot was to the re-election campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush, so is Mr Trump to the Republican Presidential Campaign, what Ross Perot was to the re-election campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush.
And United States of America’s President and Armed-Forces Commander-In-Chief-Elect doesn’t need any lessons from the likes of Mr Trump, in saying what she means and meaning what she says!
Maybe he can be her Commerce Secretary, though.
I think Trump is doing the rest of us a great service by taking all these hits from the left-wing MSM while the Republican presidential field slowly shakes out. He saying what nobody else in the GOP let alone the Democratic Party will because political correctness has everybody cowed. If he can help us throw those shackles off he will be a historical figure.
Nothing wrong in your pointing this out, but I think you’ve succeeded in laying down a mall parking lot speed bump in front of a Sherman tank. And we need a Sherman tank at this point.
Who the hell DIDN’T seek every possible deferment during the Viet Nam War? By the time Cronkite and his bunch of wannabe’s got done with fictionalizing the facts of each day into The News They Want Us To Know, it became a sign of moral standing to seeks ways to avoid joining the bloodthirsty killers of our military.
May Cronkite rot in hell for what he did. Millions of people perished thanks to his arrogance.