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The Spectacle Blog
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, 10 percent of Republican primary voters and GOP-leaning independents prefer Donald Trump for president. Nobody gets more than 19 percent (Mike Huckabee) with Mitt Romney at 18 percent and Newt Gingrich at 14 percent.
By comparison, Sarah Palin takes 12 percent and Ron Paul receives 8 percent. Based on the margin of error, the Donald could be Palin or Paul. Nobody else makes it out of the low single digits. I’m skeptical Trump will run based on his reluctance to get into the Reform Party race in 2000, but these poll results will definitely keep his name in the mix for a bit.
Grzmlyk| 3.23.11 @ 3:23PM
Trump has no intention of running. This is all just a windfall of publicity and performance art designed to puff up his pneumatic ego.
If he were to make the mistake of believing his own press, he'd quickly be disabused of the notion. He has a lot in common with Obama - he's all image and very little substance. And he is not a conservative in any way - he is an opportunistic pragmatist without a single conviction in his ever-blonder head.
I'm not sure I understand this sudden groundswell of people who are actually taking Trump seriously. The man is an ass. And it's one thing to appear to be brilliant when millions are looking at you with beatific gazes and none of your rhetoric has to be backed up by action.
It's quite another to get in the trenches and govern and, like Obama, Trump has absolutely no experience in this realm. Both men are completely out of their depth in governance.
His success? Well, he's been good at inflating an overrated and highly-leveraged brand that is more smoke and mirrors than substance. I'm willing to bet that his wealth is all bank-owned; if he has the $600 million on hand he claims he could invest in a presidential bid, I'll eat my hat.
Fortunately, though, Trump may be a fool, but he is no idiot. He will never run.
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.23.11 @ 3:39PM
I agree with you he likely will not end up in the race and definitely won't garner the GOP nomination but... I don't believe his desire to run is all for show. He may truly believe, at this point in time, that he has a chance to run for President.
As far as the money goes he claims to be worth 7 Billion so a liquid 600 million is feasible.
Grzmlyk| 3.23.11 @ 5:33PM
No friggin' way is Trump worth $7 billion. That may be his real estate's value, but as I say, the guy is all hat and no cattle.
A 2005 book by Timothy O'Brien ("TrumpNation") put Trump's net worth at somewhere around $200 million. At the time, Trump claimed to be worth between $5 and $6 billion; Trump sued for defamation and lost in 2009.
Frankly, my guess is that even the $200 million is, uh, "trumped" up. I think if you put total assets against total liabilities, the guy is in the red, and if every bank called in its loan to the guy, he wouldn't have a pot to piss in.
Trump is an interesting guy and, in a way, compelling. But he's a blowhard who pretends to be mega-rich when what he really is is a perpetual deal-maker - and, as the author put it in Trumpnation, "a trainwreck" of a businessman.
Trump is definitely NOT a giant in any sense of the word.
Alan Brooks| 3.24.11 @ 12:13AM
"Trump may be a fool, but he is no idiot"
The slogan is on his business card:
'I, Donald Trump, may be a fool but I'm no idiot'
Floyd Looney | 3.23.11 @ 3:44PM
Trump is far too liberal for most of the country, and his being a celebutard will turn off a lot of traditional conservatives. Then again, the GOP loves to pick losers.
Grzmlyk| 3.23.11 @ 5:42PM
Yup, Floyd: I'm just waiting for the GOP to get behind a "Re-draft Bob Dole" movement.
I mean, once you'e nominated John McCain, you've already hit the bottom of the barrel.
But Trump would make Obama look good, and that's going to be mighty hard to do.
Clint| 3.23.11 @ 8:00PM
RINO-CINO Scammer Trump gave $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel's Mayoral Campaign.
Zbigniew Mazurak | 3.24.11 @ 5:51AM
Palin got 12% of the vote? She should consider herself lucky, given the endless slander and libel she's been subjected to during the last 2.5 years.
Trump is a RINO. What America really needs is a conservative politician who's been LEADING the fight against Obama and his policies, a politician with a spine of steel who is ready for, and has tasted what it is like to wage, a hard fight against Obama and the Democrats.
In 2012, Republicans will have an unrivalled opportunity to break the last remaining glass ceiling in the US.
In 2012, Republicans will have an unrivalled opportunity to elect a truly conservative president since 1984.
Only Republicans can waste these opportunities.