Trump: "I'm worth a fortune...a big fortune...a tremendous fortune...bigger than people understand"

[Cali_Democrat]

Trump Steamrolls NBC Reporter, Takes Shots at Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg
by Andrew Kirell | 1:53 pm, July 8th, 2015

For those who didn’t watch Donald Trump‘s lengthy interview with NBC’s Katy Tur this afternoon, here’s a one-sentence summation: The Republican candidate constantly chided and condescended to his interviewer, talked smack about his critics, and repeated all the same claims he’s made about Mexico over the past few weeks.

Asked whether he’s concerned about gun violence in America, Trump responded that he’s a “big Second Amendment person.”

And when Tur asked whether he owns a gun, the following exchange ensued:

TRUMP: I have the license to have a gun, yes, I do.
TUR: Do you own one?
TRUMP: Yes, I do.
TUR: Do you use it? Gun range?
TRUMP: That’s none of your business. It’s really none of your business. I have a license to have a gun.
TUR: Gun control?
TRUMP: What are you talking about?
TUR: Or stronger background checks?
TRUMP: Yes, I have a gun and, yes, I have a permit to have a gun.
TUR: Stronger background checks? What about that? Is there any steps that you would take to make it harder to get a gun in this country?
TRUMP: Once you get into that, you start getting into a situation, the slippery slope where all of a sudden you’re going to really violate the Second Amendment. I don’t want to do anything to violate the Second Amendment. To me, the Second Amendment is very important.

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On Jonah Goldberg, who compared him to a “failed man”: “I’m worth a fortune. You know, it’s interesting. I went to the best school, got great marks, everything else. I went out, I made a fortune, a big fortune, a tremendous fortune… bigger than people even understand. […] Then I get called by a guy that can’t buy a pair of pants, I get called names?

Video @ link:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-steamrolls-nbc-reporter-takes-shots-at-krauthammer-and-jonah-goldberg/

[randys1]

1. Listen you PUKE FUCK, you made your fortune using GOONS and THUGS to CHASE old people

out of their homes.

You see, you PUKE FUCK, some of us out here KNOW the truth about you

you PUKE FUCK

[Beaverhausen]

22. He inherited a bunch of it, along with his father's businesses

It's easy to hit a triple when you are born on third base.

[Journeyman]

2. Let's turn the old saying on its head: "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?" . . .

[benld74]

3. went to the best school, got great marks ??

Time for somebody to do some research DU !!!

[underpants]

20. Went from Kew-Forest school in Queens to New York Military Academy at 13

He was having difficulties at Kew-Forest.

Fordham 2 years. Penn Wharton school 2 years - BS Economics.

Wikipedia

[hobbit709]

4. The last time I ran across some clown with the "Don't you know who I am" attitude.

My response was "Yeah, you're an ASSHOLE!"

[Liberal Veteran]

5. It must have been so hard for him with all the obstacles he faced in life.

Born into wealth, sent to the best schools, inherited something like 200 million dollars.

With so many challenges he's faced, it is a miracle he isn't holding a sign on a street corner begging for spare change.

We should all respect how he pulled himself out of such squalor and made something of himself.

[GreatGazoo]

23. Don't you know how hard it is to take over your father's government-enabled business??

Trump was born in New York City in 1946, the son of real estate tycoon Fred Trump. Fred Trump’s business success not only provided Donald Trump with a posh youth of private schools and economic security but eventually blessed him with an inheritance worth an estimated $40 million to $200 million. It is critical to note, however, that his father’s success, which granted Donald Trump such a great advantage, was enabled and buffered by governmental financing programs. In 1934, while struggling during the Great Depression, financing from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) allowed Fred Trump to revive his business and begin building a multitude of homes in Brooklyn, selling at $6,000 apiece. Furthermore, throughout World War II, Fred Trump constructed FHA-backed housing for US naval personnel near major shipyards along the East Coast.

In 1974 Donald Trump became president of his father’s organization...

http://www.alternet.org/story/156234/exposing_how_donald_trump_really_made_his_fortune%3A_inheritance_from_dad_and_the_government%27s_protection_mostly_did_the_trick

[Helen Borg]

6. I really want to see how this guy will react when...

The doc will tell him he has an incurable disease and just a couple of months left to live... Perhaps then it'll dawn on him that the only value dimension he's been using in life, $$, may have been a bit of a terrible delusion?

[Myrina]

10. Nah, he'll just start buying body parts like Cheney ...

Borg 1 and Borg 2.

[MineralMan]

7. I never thought a pile of bovine excrement was worth much, really.

Useful for fertilizer only. So much for Trump's worth, in my view.

[Liberal Veteran]

13. The one thing money can't buy: class.

Odds are if you fertilized a field with Trump, you'd probably grow a gold plated ear of corn that would be inedible and the corn silk would look like a furry rat was impaled on the cob.

[fredamae]

8. Dear Donnie...So The Fk What?

You think I care how much gold you have? I Don't. I'm willing to Bet Most People could give a crap about you at All. You are not "interesting".
Frankly and in my opinion....It's that "thing on your head" We're Most Interested in...and very Concerned about and Wonder if it needs a License and Shots annually from the local Animal Control Shelter...ummmkaaaay?

[Myrina]

9. Money doesn't buy class.

Sorry Donald, you're still a monumental jackass.

[spanone]

11. donnie. who. gives. a. flying. fuck.

[Bluenorthwest]

12. He may be rich but apparently he's still a dollar shy of a decent haircut.

nt

[cwydro]

14. He may HAVE a fortune,

but he's not WORTH two cents.

[Scurrilous]

15. I'm not buying the 'best schools, great marks' BS.

How good can a school be if it gives great marks to a guy who thinks the correct answer to every question put to him is "I'm rich!"

[jwirr]

16. Who cares?

[Initech]

17. If we needed any further proof that the rich are out of touch with the common man...

Look no further than Donald Trump. He might as well have said "let them eat cake" while he was at it.

[yellowcanine]

18. If Donald keeps this up his head is going to spontaneously combust.

?w=490

[Rex]

19. Trump is a great candidate for the GOP, a total failure that had to get a bailout in the 1980s.

I WISH someone would bring up the FACT that Trump had to file for bankruptcy 3 times and would have been PENNILESS if not for the Grand Old Party!

[underpants]

21. Trump crossed a serious line here

Now I have an image of Jonah Goldberg with no pants

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Actor Tommy Lee Jones was recently asked to comment on Trump's statements of his net worth.

[MiniMe]

25. Then why have you declared bankruptcy 2 or 3 times?

[HFRN]

26. the most emotionally needy person i can think of

'dont you know what i've done, what i have, who i am?'

[3catwoman3]

27. "I'm worth a fortune...a big fortune...a tremendous fortune...bigger than people understand."

Whoop-de-doo. Bully for you.

Donald has a sub-type of Attention Deficit Disorder - he never thinks he's getting enough.

He truly makes me want to

[PoliticAverse]

28. And yet not as big as his ego. n/t

[WinkyDink]

29. Bragging about his wealth. The Donald knows his base.

[Octafish]

30. The White Man's Burden

Toupees, esp. the merkin.