The Madman has gone too far

[suzieseaside]

Mad, ignorant, racist, bigoted egomaniac, Trump seems to have blown his chances of going for the US Presidency.

Breathe a sigh of relief.

Washington (CNN) Donald Trump's statement that Muslims should be banned from entering the United States "disqualifies" him from being president, the White House spokesman said Tuesday.

"The fact is what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in Tuesday's press briefing. For a White House administration to so heavily weigh in on an opposing party's nominating contest is a highly unusual step.

Earnest noted first that every president must take an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the U.S. Constitution, and thus, he said, Trump would not qualify.

"For Republican candidates for president to stand by their pledge to support Mr. Trump, that in and of itself is disqualifying," Earnest said. "The question now is about the rest of the Republican Party and whether or not they're going to be dragged into the dustbin of history with him. And right now the current trajectory is not very good."

And Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook on Tuesday said -- without hitting the Republican front-runner by name -- that Trump's comments put U.S. national security at risk.

"Anything that bolsters ISIL's narrative and pits the United States against the Muslim faith is certainly not only contrary to our values but contrary to our national security." 

He also said that there are "many men and women in uniform today of Muslim faith who are serving this country patriotically."
The U.S. is working with Muslim nations right now, Cook noted. "We want to, in essence, take the fight to ISIL with the help of Muslims around the world."

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/08/politics/donald-trump-josh-earnest-disqualified-president-muslims/...

[lucybelle2006]

He's an absolute nutter. He makes Hitler look like a kind, tolerant man!

[al**bear]

The Republicans can't drop Him from the Nomination race, he would just run as an Independent & take a massive % of Republican voters with Him.

The Repub party & Trump know this

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Conspiracy ALERT

Could he be assassinated ? 

If he is, maybe looking at His enemies, would be the totally opposite direction to look in

Him being killed may be the only way, His party can Win

Him being killed by a 'Muslim' no mater how tenuous a link to that Religion, would be a Win Win

[upthecreekyetagain]

Trump's comments/suggestions are not that much different from some of the posts on here.

[astrologica]

Touché Creeky! I take your point. Donald Trump is quite out of his tree...that's obvious. But a lot of Americans think he has a point. I have a friend in America, a lovely warm, human, intelligent, rational lady. She thinks Donald Trump is not quite the full shilling , as they say. But she says at this moment she would actually vote for him, because of his stance on immigration. And she says that a lot of Americans think the same way. 9/11 is still very fresh in their minds.

[lucybelle2006]

I think that saying you can't come into a country if you are a certain religion is only one step away from saying everyone in the country must be a certain religion

[tommy.irene]

Where in England are the Police afraid to go

[******lynda******]

Free speech and all that. He can say what he likes, as far as I am concerned and if he thinks those things, it is better he says them so people know what they would be voting for, or not. It would be worse if he believed those things, said nothing, and got elected to a position where he could then have power....though who would want to vote for him on his previous behaviours, I cannot imagine.

[mikes*corvettes]

He's going to hand this election to Clinton on a plate.Maybe that's been the plan all along.

[evoman3957]

Trump is one of the most successful businessmen America has produced, I can't believe he got there ; talking and acting entirely the way he is doing now. Perhaps he employed PR people, to do the front of house bit, while he channelled his acumen in the direction of making money. One thing is for sure, you can't say everything you think and feel..........even if some of it is the way things really are......AND be a politician. When they hold these political summits, or UN meetings, you don't think for one minute everybody gets their oar in; by saying what they really think, do you. It's about everybody finding common ground, which invariably means nobody gets everything they want ; or has what "they alone", think, believe, or feel, taken into account. People should be asking themselves, how did people like Hitler rise to power....what feelings among the masses; allowed him to flourish and reach a position, from which he couldn't be removed by his own people. People create their own Gods and their own Demons.

[cee-dee]

Trump can't become another Hitler. Even if elected, he'd have to get any actions passed by Congress.

[evoman3957]

..........and therein lies the "rub", because we know how hard Obama found that was to do ; making it almost impossible to govern the Country, domestically, under that system.

[lucybelle2006]

Even if he couldn't pass the actual laws, his public speaking about it as the president would "normalise" it. And we all know what that leads to. Just ask all the disabled people who have seen a rise in hate crimes since Iain Duncan Smith started on them

[jd.linklater]

If Donald Trump's intention is to protect American lives as he says, then I think his words and actions are totally misdirected.

In the last decade 24 Americans have been killed by acts of terrorism, in the same period 280,024 have died from gun violence committed by their own citizens.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/05/viral-image/fact-checking-comparison-...

Even if you factor in the figures for the 9/11 attacks, since 2001 terrorism has killed 3,380 US citizens while domestic gun violence has killed 406,496.

 http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-shooting-terrorism-gun-violence/

Seems to me that Americans need protecting from themselves more than from terrorists.

[evoman3957]

Obama has tried to make them see sense over that issue as well..........to no avail.

[jd.linklater]

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@evoman3957 wrote:

Obama has tried to make them see sense over that issue as well..........to no avail.

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Yes on several occasions and he's been defeated at every turn by the NRA influence over Congress. Gun ownership and the resulting death toll it brings are an ingrained part of US society, its citizens are the only ones who can change things.

[evoman3957]

Like so many things in life, as the saying goes, "You can lead a Horse to Water........but you can't make it drink".

[upthecreekyetagain]

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@evoman3957 wrote:

Trump is one of the most successful businessmen America has produced . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Not really a given

http://www.nationaljournal.com/twentysixteen/2015/09/02/1-easy-way-donald-trump-could-have-been-even...

Had the celebrity busi­ness­man and Re­pub­lic­an pres­id­en­tial can­did­ate in­ves­ted his even­tu­al share of his fath­er’s real-es­tate com­pany in­to a mu­tu­al fund of S&P 500 stocks in 1974, it would be worth nearly $3 bil­lion today, thanks to the mar­ket’s per­form­ance over the past four dec­ades. If he’d in­ves­ted the $200 mil­lion that For­bes magazine de­term­ined he was worth in 1982 in­to that in­dex fund, it would have grown to more than $8 bil­lion today.

Even the smal­ler fig­ure ex­ceeds the lower range of his pos­sible net worth as re­por­ted to the Fed­er­al Elec­tion Com­mis­sion, while the lar­ger num­ber ex­ceeds by bil­lions re­cent es­tim­ates of Trump’s worth by fin­an­cial pub­lic­a­tions. And it would have come without the high-drama, roller-coast­er ca­reer that has in­cluded four cor­por­ate bank­ruptcies.

[******lynda******]

there are plenty of successful businessmen and women who have greatly exceeded DTs abilities to make money. He is just one of the noisiest ones so gets the publicity.

[cee-dee]

Empty kettles make the most noise?