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Money, Money, and Trump
Showing the flag at Mar-a-Lago as no one else can (or would dare to).
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“Anyone who objects,” Trump declared, “should not, in my opinion, hold a public office of any kind — at least not in this country.”
The dispute ended with Trump agreeing to reduce the height of the flagpole by 10 feet (still 28 feet above than the maximum permitted 42 feet) and agreeing to donate $100,000 to “charities agreed to between parties dealing with the Iraq War Veterans and the local Veterans Hospital.”
Threatening another lawsuit, this one for $100 million, Trump eventually won the town’s approval to turn Mara-a-Lago into a private club. There’s a $100,000 initiation fee (half the $200,000 initiation fee in place before Bernie Madoff’s scheme imploded with a ground zero hit in Palm Beach), plus $9,000 in yearly dues, plus $1,000 per night for a bedroom, not counting food and drinks (for lunch, a turkey burger at Trump Grill is $18, plus an additional $7, $6 and $7, respectively, in you want a small salad, some broccoli and a Bud Light, plus an automatic gratuity of 18 percent — altogether, $44.84).
As a postscript regarding the mystery of the innovative comb-over, Vanity Fair ran close-up photos of Trump’s hair with this comment: “This could be evidence of a rarely-sighted, possibly unprecedented ‘double-comb-over.’ It looks as if a length of hair growing from the part on the left side of Trump’s pate has been combed left-to-right over the crown of his head, while a second length of hair, growing from the back of his head, has been combed back-to-front over the first length of hair. Salon-strength hair products likely play a role in the final construction of this lattice-like structure.”
Lattice hair! There’s probably big money in that too if Trump would license it. It beats a wig.
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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
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oldfart| 2.2.12 @ 7:11AM
The Donald always seems to have a knack to tweek the noses of the super pompus.
Jack in Wi.| 2.2.12 @ 7:29AM
Trump, Gingrich, Romney, Adelson, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Ben Bernake etc, all love one quote. " Let them eat cake."
L. Ross| 2.2.12 @ 7:53AM
Sorry, Mr. Reiland, but the double comb over does NOT beat a wig. Most cartoonish hair on the planet. Makes me long for the class of the punk rock spike mohawk.
oldfart| 2.2.12 @ 8:25AM
That was a visual I did not need.
USSAlabama| 2.2.12 @ 8:34AM
I remember ALL of this happening.
Now, news is, Trump will endorse Newt Gingrich for President.
USSAlabama| 2.2.12 @ 11:31AM
A red herring. It's Romney after all.
Anthony| 2.2.12 @ 10:28AM
Trump, the private sector narcissist- in- chief, manages to stay front and center. He must pay his P.R. machine tons of dough.
So the fat toad finally endorsed somebody, and it turned out to be Newt. While I agree with this, I could give a damn what this egotist thinks, unlike Rush, who has found somebody as egotistical as himself, a kindred spirit if there ever was one.
This is another great ploy on the part of Trump, as it insures that we have not heard the end of this POS.
By endorsing Newt, now that he lost Florida, and appears to be DOA, Trump keeps his ongoing threat alive of running 3rd party if the Rs don't pick the right candidate (Newt).
Funny about Trump's timing on this, don't you think?
Hey Donald, we ain't falling for your crap. If Romney is the nominee and you decided to run 3rd party, we will do our best to bankrupt you, (once again). Go away, you loathesome toad!!
Vern Crisler| 2.2.12 @ 11:17AM
Remember, Newt and Santorum agreed to Trump's debate. Romney declined. You think this is not payback? Now Newt may have some cash to counter Romney's carpet bombing, and maybe an aggressive bull-dog of a defender in Trump.
USSAlabama| 2.2.12 @ 11:35AM
It's Romney.
What will that do for Romney? Newt?
Many say it will only help Ron Paul.
Bill| 2.2.12 @ 11:37AM
Trump is the "Kiss of Death."
Anthony| 2.2.12 @ 11:38AM
Trump is a narcissist and a bully. With money, you can threaten your way to what you want with expensive litigation. He with the most money lasts the longest.
Sometimes I agree with Trump's tactics, most of the time I don't.
No wonder Rush is such a suck up to Trump, besides being kindred spirits, Trump has a fancy golf club that he no doubt offered Rush a membership in.
Now the word is no endorsement was made. Ya gotta love how this fat toad plays the media for all it's worth.
Kingofthenet| 2.2.12 @ 12:11PM
Wow Conservatives are enamored by selfish people suing the Citizens(Govt) who would have thought.This is a deed restricted property, it's been priced in by the free market, if you want that type of thing, fine buy it but not in Palm Beach.
Kingofthenet| 2.2.12 @ 12:11PM
Wow Conservatives are enamored by selfish people suing the Citizens(Govt) who would have thought.This is a deed restricted property, it's been priced in by the free market, if you want that type of thing, fine buy it but not in Palm Beach.
Kingofthenet| 2.2.12 @ 12:12PM
Wow Conservatives are enamored by selfish people suing the Citizens(Govt) who would have thought.This is a deed restricted property, it's been priced in by the free market, if you want that type of thing, fine buy it but not in Palm Beach.
littlemike| 2.2.12 @ 2:02PM
Wow, only 4x6 size limit? The flag in front of my house is 8x5, and it's proportional to the house, which is merely a 4-bedroom suburban home, nothing remotely approaching the Donald's casa. Looks like the town goes way overboard in policing "style and taste"! And if some fool cannot find a spot to tan herself in sunny South Florida because of one flag, she flunks the IQ test.
signalfire| 2.2.12 @ 4:55PM
The real t'Rump, a bit of insight here:
http://current.com/community/9.....otland.htm
POST American| 2.2.12 @ 10:20PM
-------------------TRUTH OPENED---------------------
The Globalist RED China handover and TREASON OP
---meets---franchise slum flag fetish.
---------------------CASE CLOSED-----------------------
Sonny119| 2.3.12 @ 12:14AM
Say what you will about Trump personally and politically, but he is definitely a finanical wizard..
shipley130| 2.3.12 @ 1:34PM
The moron that called the US Flag stupid should be punched in the mouth so hard that their teeth fall out.
POST American| 2.3.12 @ 9:16PM
"Notice, that as things get MORE
corrupt, as TREASON gets MORE
open -----MORE flags!"
It's called the 'Tavistock/Stanford
Research FINAL round fetish op'.
YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE