The Donald has decided to endorse Mitt Romney for president. Isn’t it depressing that we live in a country where this could actually be viewed as a good thing for Romney rather than a bad thing? Why in the world would anyone give two shits what Donald Trump thinks about almost anything? And I actually saw one commentator on TV talk about how this helps Romney because of Trump’s “populist appeal.” Apparently the word “populist” means that one is popular with morons.
Feb 03 2012
Trump Endorses Romney
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eric
February 3, 2012 at 12:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My curiosity was moderately piqued when I heard the next celebrity apprentice would include George Takei and Penn Gilette. But not even those guys are enough of draw to make me listen to The Donald.
carlsonjok
February 3, 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I can’t understand why Romney, who is running on his presumed business acumen, would want the endorsement of someone who actually managed to go bankrupt in the casino business.
Jordan Genso
February 3, 2012 at 12:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
But isn’t that what Romney needs to unite the Republicans? It seemed like Gingrich and Santorum were locking up too many of the crazy-conservative endorsements, but now with birther Trump on Romney’s side, it let’s the delusional voters feel more at ease about supporting Romney.
Some analysts are saying that a Jeb Bush endorsement would be the strongest out there for the Republican candidates. But in my opinion, a Jeb Bush endorsement wouldn’t do as much for Romney as Trump’s, since a Jeb Bush endorsement would just continue the narrative of the ‘establishment’ supporting Romney. Yet no one is going to confuse Trump with the ‘establishment’, so that endorsement does work to turn the wingnuts.
dingojack
February 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Voters are just hanging for that all important sentence:
‘Mittens, you’re fired!!!’
Then The Amphibian will lead the POG into electoral oblivion!
Dingo
Raging Bee
February 3, 2012 at 1:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Notice how Romney got Trump’s endorsement immediately after Romney flatly said he wasn’t concerned about the poorest Americans?
Yeah, that’s the “populist appeal” that Trump — and the rest of the 1% — are talking about: pretending the needy aren’t needy and the least needy need the most help.
rabbitscribe
February 3, 2012 at 1:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Apparently the word ‘populist’ means that one is popular with morons.
Well, properly speaking, yes, and it always has (no, Dennis Kucinich isn’t a populist). I hereby sentence you to re-read everything H.L. Mencken wrote about William Jennings Bryan.
Didaktylos
February 3, 2012 at 1:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
BTW – in some parts of the UK, “trump” is a synonym for “fart” …
chriswalker
February 3, 2012 at 2:32 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
At what point did “I star in movies”, “I’m a singer”, or “I’m marginally good at business and excellent at self promotion” become associated with “and therefore you should care about my political philosophy”?
eric
February 3, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Chris @8 – since the stone age. Its the old magical thinking: ‘if they’re successful, there must be something to what they believe. The universe wouldn’t reward a complete idiot.’
bahrfeldt
February 3, 2012 at 4:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Trump had stated that if the Repubs failed to nominate someone he approved of he would likely run as a third party candidate. Now that even Donnie can see that Mittsy will be their candidate, the endorsement frees him to concentrate on his tv unreality show and his cranial affectation. It is obviously a miraculous coincidence that the endorsement occurred only when the new season of his show is about to begin. No publicity stunt here, no siree. Perhaps now he will release what he said were the remarkable findings of his crackerjack investigative team in Hawaii. Perhaps.
KG
February 3, 2012 at 5:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How much did Newt pay Trump for this?
exdrone
February 3, 2012 at 9:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
From Your World Cavuto (2 Feb 2012):
Trump (short version): I’ll let Mitt warm up the crowd, but I may have to step in and give the people what they really want.