Someone I know met Donald Trump briefly recently

[DFW]

I don't want to get this person in trouble professionally, as they make little enough money as it is, so I'm being purposefully vague here. Suffice it to say this person is very close to me, and was at an event where Trump flew to it in his own helicopter, stayed long enough to tell a bunch of very economically disadvantaged kids that if they worked hard enough, they would one day have their own helicopter just like he did. I don't think he convinced anyone, including himself, that anyone there except The Donald was ever going to be traveling around in their own privately chauffeured helicopter. That he came across as a total ass was obvious to everyone BUT Trump, himself.

Fear not, people, this guy will NOT be the Republican nominee. If we're VERY lucky and eat ALL our vegetables at dinner, maybe, just MAYBE, he'll mount a third party run, and hand us the White House on a silver platter, and a Senate with 55 Democratic seats as well. One can only hope.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Six degrees of separation

I had a friend who I did business with in Orlando who was introduced to Donald Trump by drum roll


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David Siegel


I can't imagine all that ego in one room...


I was once in his office when he was on the phone with Jeb Bush... I could hear what he was saying, not what Jeb was saying...It was like "Look at me, i'm talking to Jeb Bush."

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. work hard and inherit millions from parents and you will be rich

[valerief]

3. If you inherit millions from Daddy and work real hard, you, too, can ride around in your

own chauffeured helicopter.

As ass is right!

[dsc]

4. wouldn't any helicopter be chauffeured?

But I figure he won't be the nominee, though I admit I thought his comment about McCain would sink him. I also think this debate will sink him but since I was wrong before I could be wrong again.

[gordianot]

5. There is a segment of Republicans no outrage is ever enough.

I think he is doing this because he is bored.

[murielm99]

6. By running for President, he has found a new way to

throw around money.

1 percenters have money to burn.

[gordianot]

7. Yes and he also enjoys confrontation all more than attention.

When he says he does not care what people think he means it.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. No, helicopters have pilots.

Most will work for whoever hires them.

Trump isn't capable flying a complicated multi-million dollar machine that takes intensive study and perseverance to learn.

He's a wheeler-dealer, not someone able to lift off and land one of these wonderful machines.

[DFW]

12. Not if he could fly one himself.

Although post #8 nailed why that won't ever happen.

[MrMickeysMom]

9. You may be on to something...

Wonder who talked his ego into running?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. Probably his own!

[hifiguy]

11. The British broke convicted pirates on the wheel

and displayed their severed heads on pikes over bridges that crossed the Thames.

Rough, but appropriate and effective justice.

All these pathetic, psychopathic klowns deserve no less.

Tradition deserves respect sometimes

[Betty Karlson]

13. 55 seats only? There are 19 seats seriously in play, and 18 of them are held by the GOP.

Flip all 18 of them, and say hello to a filibuster-proof supermajority.

[kairos12]

14. We can only hope he will go the full Perot on the Reich Wing.