Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid

[Zander]

Cool, so that means Oprah should run in 2012 too!

She should run - imagine it......

The Oprah vs The Donald!!!!

Battle of the Billionaires!! (one real (oprah) and one fake!)

The Donald: "I have a billion billion dollars, a full head of hair, and Rosie O'donnell is a disgusting person".

The Oprah: "i have a billion kajillion dollars, I once ate an entire African Village, and Rosie O'donnell is disgusting person."

The Battle of the gigantic EGO's!!!

Enough hot air to fill a balloon!!!

Stay tuned!!!!! One of them wins....we all lose!!!

 

[random3434]

If only Merv Griffin were still alive, he could have run in 2012 too!

*sigh*

 

[Zoom-boing]

actually, he's failed in business more than he's succeeded and ALWAYS with other people's money. his father gave him an awfully large start.

and his business concerns have repeatedly filed bankruptcy. his acumen is in self-promotion.

and you'd hate him... he's a liberal.

No he's not.

"I'm a Republican so if I did anything, I'd do it, I guess, as a Republican," Trump said.

He was a fan of Hillary, though.

I was surprised when I read he was Republican. His "I'd do it, I guess, as a R" made me think he was RINO.

 

[Zander]

actually, he's failed in business more than he's succeeded and ALWAYS with other people's money. his father gave him an awfully large start.

and his business concerns have repeatedly filed bankruptcy. his acumen is in self-promotion.

and you'd hate him... he's a liberal.

He sure does not talk like a liberal. He trashed the SHIT out of Obama and the Dem congress just the other day on TV.

Like I said, I hope he does not run. I don't want him.

What you say about his Business record may be true on face value, but the fact is he has somehow managed to increase his net worth massively.

i didn't hear his interview, but i do know what his politics are.

it's not difficult to increase your net worth when daddy leaves you millions and you incorporate all your businesses to shield your personal assets and lose everyone else's money when they go belly up.

So true. He lends his name to various real estate development projects for a pre-paid fee. People see the "Trump" name and assume the project is backed by him and invest. Then the project fails, and the investors find out that Trump was only a "brand". He walks away, paid in full and unscathed. It is seedy to say the least.....

Carnage left in wake of failed Trump development | The Post and Courier, Charleston SC - News, Sports, Entertainment

SAN DIEGO — Stephen and Linda Drake cast aside concerns about owning property in Mexico because they believed in Donald Trump.

The Southern California couple paid $250,000 down payment on a 19th-floor oceanfront condo in Trump Ocean Resort Baja in 2006 before the first construction crew arrived.

But admiration for the celebrity developer and star of "The Apprentice" has now turned into anger and disbelief as Trump's luxury hotel-condo plan collapsed, leaving little more than a hole in the ground and investors out of their deposits, which totaled $32.2 million.

"I can't even stand to see Trump's face on TV," says Linda Drake, a psychologist, whose husband is a commercial airline pilot and financial adviser.

Investors were told last month their money was spent and they won't get a penny back. A single mother in suburban Los Angeles lost $200,000 and won't be able to send her sons to private universities. A Los Angeles-area businessman lost a deposit of more than $1 million on four Trump units, including two penthouses.

The project's collapse comes at a delicate time for Trump, whose casino company, Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., filed for bankruptcy protection last month. He also is embroiled in a lawsuit to avoid paying debt on the struggling Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago.

Trump and his children heavily promoted the northern tip of Mexico's Baja California coast. He sold 188 units for $122 million the first day they went on a sale at a lavish event in a downtown San Diego hotel in December 2006.

"I went out and saw this site, and I was blown away by it," Ivanka Trump told The Associated Press in June 2007. "From the minute I saw it, it was a deal I had to do."

The location was a contrast to more expensive Mexican coastal markets such as Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos and Cancun, she said.

The Trumps remained buoyant even as the U.S. housing market began to crumble. Ivanka assured buyers in an October 2007 newsletter that all Trump projects were immune to a slowdown.

"In characteristic Trump fashion, Trump Ocean Resort Baja will be the best of the best, and consequently always in demand," she wrote.

All that remains of Trump Baja is a highway billboard with a large photo of Donald Trump that advertises condos for sale. It hovers over a closed sales center and showroom, a paved parking lot, a big hole that cuts a wide swath, drainage pipes and construction equipment.

The failure of Trump Baja is a big blow to a real estate market just south of the border from San Diego that was booming two years ago with U.S. buyers looking for second homes and easy profits but is now similarly swooning. The market has been hammered by Mexico's drug-fueled violence and the global economic crisis.

Other developers completed big projects nearby in recent years and the area remains home to thousands of Americans, but the cliff-lined coast is pocked with partially built towers. The steel frame of one oceanfront high-rise is rusting, with air ducts hanging from one floor and an idled crane out front. A wind-tattered sales sign hangs outside twin towers nearby, one that appears almost complete and the other a much shorter steel skeleton.

Trump Baja demanded about 30 percent down for units that sold from less than $300,000 to $3 million, buyers said.

Deposits on abandoned projects are also at risk in the U.S., even in states like California that prohibit developers from spending the money on construction, lawyers say. The risk may be higher in Mexico because consumer protection laws are generally weak.

"The bottom line in Mexico is caveat emptor, buyer beware," said Art Spaulding, an Irvine, Calif., real estate attorney who does business south of the border.

Trump's condos went on sale when Southern California home prices were near their peak, offering a lower-cost alternative in the Mexican border city of Tijuana. The Trump Organization teamed up with Los Angeles developer Irongate Capital Partners LLC, the partnership behind Trump International Hotel & Tower Waikiki in Honolulu.

Guadalupe Mendoza, 47, paid a $200,000 deposit at the first-day sale in San Diego, refinancing her Downey home and getting a loan from a sister. She watched a giant screen show units getting snapped up.

After signing papers, buyers were ushered to a buffet of sirloin tip and fish tacos. Cheers erupted in the hotel ballroom for each new owner.

"I did it in less than a minute," said Mendoza, an administrator in the Los Angeles County Office of Education. "I remember my head was hurting and thinking, 'My God, what was that?' I was thinking maybe I should have asked questions. It was like a roller-coaster ride."

Buyers pressed for updates as construction fell behind schedule. They got a bombshell letter in December that said negotiations for a construction loan from German bank WestLB AG collapsed and Trump Baja had only $556,000 left. It quoted a contract clause that gave the developer a right to spend their deposits.

Another letter came in January that said Trump was removing his name.

A Feb. 16 letter from a Mexican entity, PB Impulsores, said the project was scrapped "given the extreme dislocation of the financial markets." It said there was no money left to refund deposits.

The December letter says Trump was not an investor, but buyers said they were sold on his imprimatur.

"We thought of Donald Trump," says Linda Drake. "If Donald Trump was behind it, it was going to work ... I am embarrassed to tell people we got caught up in this."

Ivanka Trump told the AP in 2007 that her father "is the boss" when asked about his role in the project.

"He is involved in every capacity," she said.

In response to a request to interview Donald and Ivanka Trump, the Trump Organization issued a statement that said its partner violated an agreement to license the Trump name, missing deadlines to obtain financing and begin construction.

Timothy Hughes, an attorney for Irongate, said the project "will not be going forward" but declined to answer questions.

One buyer sued Trump and Irongate in Los Angeles Superior Court last month and more litigation is expected.

"They put their trust in this project and feel betrayed," said Bart Ring, a Woodland Hills attorney who says he represents about 75 buyers who haven't sued.

Homeowners and brokers in Baja welcomed the publicity and higher prices that Trump brought. Now they wish he never came.

"It was a two-edged sword that's cutting the wrong way," said broker Brian Flock. "Everybody is shellshocked. I call it post-Trump syndrome."

 

[edthecynic]

Trump Forgoes Run for President - SFGate

Trump Forgoes Run for President
February 14, 2000|By New York Times

Donald Trump has decided to end his brief and flamboyant exploration into running for president, concluding that the Reform Party, whose support he had sought, is so beset by internal fighting that he would have no chance of winning the White House as its nominee, the developer's associates said last night.

Trump will announce his decision officially in a television interview this morning, according to someone close to him.

 

[Trajan]

President 'The Donald'?

He's not exactly throwing his hat in the ring yet, but real estate mogul Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he's giving his first serious consideration to running for president in 2012.
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I think my whole life has sort of been about finesse when you get right down to it. I mean it's -- what running a country is, is to a certain extent we have to bring principle back and we have to also bring common sense back," Trump said. "We have no common sense. We have no common sense. And we're losing this country. Mark my words, if we keep going this way, we're losing this country. It will no longer be great. It's not respected to anywhere near what it used to be.

FOXNews.com - Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid

Donald...you're Fired!

 

[Ozmar]

President 'The Donald'?

He's not exactly throwing his hat in the ring yet, but real estate mogul Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he's giving his first serious consideration to running for president in 2012.
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I think my whole life has sort of been about finesse when you get right down to it. I mean it's -- what running a country is, is to a certain extent we have to bring principle back and we have to also bring common sense back," Trump said. "We have no common sense. We have no common sense. And we're losing this country. Mark my words, if we keep going this way, we're losing this country. It will no longer be great. It's not respected to anywhere near what it used to be.

FOXNews.com - Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid

And he would have my vote!!! We need people with business and common sense in government. We need smart people with values and principles.

Outspoken and flamboyant, Trump became a favorite of the press, and his multiple marriages and divorces were regular tabloid fodder. (Trump was married to model Ivana Zelnicek from 1977-92 and to Marla Maples from 1993-99. He married his third wife, Slovenian model Melania Knauss, on 22 January 2005.) Trump went suddenly on the skids in 1990, finding himself over $900 million in debt and facing bankruptcy.http://www.who2.com/donaldtrump.html

Donald Trump is not much in the way of values and principles...

We need strong people not wimps. No one to bow and apologize to world leaders for America. NO!

 

[Ozmar]

If only Merv Griffin were still alive, he could have run in 2012 too!

*sigh*

At this point I think these psychopaths would cheer if Larry the Cable Guy put in his nomination for virtue of not being a "minority."

I am more than a little perturbed at this notion of "taking our country back," and I'm not quite sure what certain people mean by that... But I do find the timing of it odd, considering this is the first time a non-caucasian is in the oval office.