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I don't know about you, but I have a hard time taking Donald Trump seriously as a presidential candidate. I'm not 100% convinced he takes it seriously either. Has he even announced a run? I remember Ross Perot. I always thought he would have made a good president. Business experience would be a big plus, but more than that is required. Donald Trump has done lots of work in foreign countries, he has an idea of what foreign policy should look like. I'm just afraid this is going to be a publicity stunt...
by Jason Mattera - Human Events
“Look at everything I’ve built,” he said, while pointing to framed pictures of palatial properties around the world, from Panama City to Abu Dhabi to Chicago. “Aren’t they beautiful?”
That’s Donald Trump for you: gregariously proud. And why shouldn’t he be? The hotels and condos he was boasting about are, in fact, beautiful. For that matter, so was the view overlooking Central Park from the 25th floor of Trump Tower in New York City.
And it is exactly that hard-charging bravado, candor, and proven track record that Trump believes could catapult him to the highest office in the land. “I have a big ID, big recognition, maybe the highest there is among any candidate, some say of any candidate including the President,” he brags.
Who can disagree with that? The real estate mogul is an American icon. There’s “The Apprentice,” “Celebrity Apprentice, “Miss Universe,” “Miss USA,” “Miss Teen USA,” his fashion line, the inestimable hair, and his awesomely awesome public feud with Rosie O’Donnell. (“She’s unattractive, both inside and out.”)
When you hear “The Donald,” you automatically know who’s being talked about. Now that’s cachet.
But President of the United States? Is that really in the realm of possibility for Donald Trump?
Several of us from HUMAN EVENTS spent 45 minutes with him at his Fifth Avenue luxury office in Manhattan. What you’re about to read is an account of how serious he is regarding a presidential run, an uncut look into the billionaire’s bluntness about America’s wilting image in the world, and what exactly he would do to revitalize it. He doesn’t run away from his criticism of the Bush administration, nor does he back down about his campaign contributions to influential Democrats over the years. He speaks on the importance of religion in his life (“I am a believer”), America’s crumbling infrastructure (LaGuardia Airport in NYC is “Third World”), his pro-life conversion, the declining dollar, entitlements (his plan to fund them is, um, novel), and much more. Some of his views will anger free-market purists and other views will draw sharp criticism from Iraq and Afghanistan war evangelists.
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