"If Trump were to TAP HIS DAUGHTER, the move would be unprecedented." -People Magazine

[TacoD]

http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-vice-president

"If Trump were to tap his daughter, the move would be unprecedented. But it's not technically forbidden."

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tap&defid=1059283

Lolololol

[NightWatcher]

1. I bet he'd like to tap his daughter

Have you heard him talk about her?

[TacoD]

4. sure have, sure have (nt)

[Jerry442]

5. Not unprecedented.

John Philips "tapped" Mackenzie.

[Funtatlaguy]

27. Yes, and it is sick.

He should have more respect for her even if he was joking. Which I hope he was.

[HassleCat]

2. Running it up the flag pole?

People Magazine would be a good place to test such an implausible idea.

[Bucky]

10. ew

you made it worse

[HassleCat]

16. I guess so.

Hard to avoid phallic imagery with Trump around. No, wait. "Difficult to avoid." Didn't mean to say "hard."

[spanone]

3. sure, let's have another trump who knows absolutely nothing about governing on the ticket

insanity at it's height

[frazzled]

6. This is just the kind of levity we need

to offset all the tragedy of the past few days. I appreciate this kind of stuff as a diversion. Bring it on.

[CrowCityDem]

7. Holy incest joke, Batman!

[gopiscrap]

8. it is my understanding

that the Pres and VP can't reside from the same state...also don't you have to be 35 on inauguration day in order to be pres or vp?

[nadine_mn]

11. She turns 35 in Oct - I know this because Eric Trump also thinks its a good idea

Bob Corker mentioned it too and a couple other GOPers/Faux News have suggested her as well

[Mc Mike]

21. You're right, the 2 candidates can't be from the same state.

Didn't wind up stopping bush cheney in 2000, though.

[gopiscrap]

22. Cheney technically moved to Wyoming

so as not to violate the same state rule

[Mc Mike]

24. Yeah, the Reagan appointed Judge Sid Fitzwater

found that Cheney lived in Wyoming, because Cheney said he did. Sid was a Dallas lawyer and North TX judge. Another right winger from Dallas, like bush and Cheney.

Cheney ran up to WY less than 3 1/2 months before the election to register to vote using a hunting cabin as a residence. Which means Cheney committed a felony fraud by getting a $347,000 residential tax exemption on his $1.6 million dollar Highland Park, TX, mansion. Either he violated the 12th Amendment and was legally eligible to keep the $300+k, or he should have been forced to give the money back, since he was 'from WY', and his worth is at least $90 million dollars. Or he should have been charged with felony fraud.

He lived in Dallas county for 8 years, voted there, his driver's license was from there, his cars were registered there, he 'paid his taxes' there. But he got to say he was from WY, and keep the TX residential exemption money, and never faced any charges.

[hedda_foil]

33. He can use the Mar a Lago address in Florida.

I'm afraid he'll do it. It's just the kind of thing he'd go for.

[Mc Mike]

37. Yeah, that's his style, and his party's. nt

[MousePlayingDaffodil]

29. Your understanding is incorrect . . .

Per Amendment XII, an Elector in a given state cannot cast his or her vote for President and his or her vote for Vice President in the situation where both the Presidential candidate and the Vice Presidential candidate are both from the same state as the Elector.

To put it in concrete terms, if the ticket were indeed Trump-Trump (and, at the time the Electoral votes were cast, both Trumps were "inhabitants" -- that's the term used in Amendment XII -- of the State of New York), then the Electors from New York could not cast their votes for both Donald Trump for President and Ivanka Trump for Vice President. Each New York Elector could cast his or her votes for Donald and someone else (that "someone else" not being from New York) or for Ivanka and someone else, but not for both.

In this scenario, of course, if Trump-Trump had not carried the State of New York in the November election, then, as a practical matter, the provisions of Amendment XII wouldn't be at issue at all.

[The Second Stone]

28. He doesn't want to win, he wants the brand publicity

for the goofy antics.

[bettyellen]

40. I think since hem owe he will lose he might do it- he can't find a running mate

Who is a respected Repub or who won't overshadow him in the intelligence dept. I don't think he has a lot of good choices.

[LuvNewcastle]

12. I've been thinking for a long time

that Trump would pick one of his kids. For one thing, no one else seems to want to be on a ticket with him. For another, men like Trump tend to be paranoid, and he wouldn't want to be looking over his shoulder all the time in fear of what his VP might do to get him out of the way. Someone like Cruz, for instance, would stop at nothing to be President.

[yeoman6987]

23. The kids are going to run the business. They'll be busy enough.

[no_hypocrisy]

26. Unless there is more going on than meets the eye.

If Ivanka were VP, she wouldn't be running the Trump Empire with her brothers, who may want her out of the management.

So you get Eric, younger brother, to praise the idea of his beautiful and smart sister as Vice President of the United States instead of Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization.

[lapislzi]

13. A rather unfortunate choice of words

Given the man's history and the current child rape case dangling in the breeze.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. " "If Trump were to TAP HIS DAUGHTER..."

That is a disturbing image.

[nadine_mn]

15. TYT had this on yesterday - not the "tapping" part (eww) the VP part

[AgadorSparticus]

38. Thanks for posting this video. That is just frightening.

I thought it was kind of a joke. I didn't realize some folks on fox actually meant it.

[Katashi_itto]

17. He would get Lannister backing then

[Yavin4]

18. And Targaryen

That's two houses.

[Katashi_itto]

19. True!

[geek tragedy]

25. He's an upscale version of Craster. nt

[Adrahil]

20. Oh, he wants to tap her alright.... Sick fuck! NT

[davidn3600]

30. Dear god....

[sarae]

31. Oh NO, they didn't...

[UTUSN]

32. People magazine?!1 A double-DRUMPF ticket would be a People *dream ticket*!1

[First Speaker]

34. Is it possible he'd get away with it...?

...there'd be talk of JFK appointing Bobby Attorney general, and our long history of political dynasties. Our "media" would swallow it whole, if you'll excuse the expression. How long would it be before anyone who questions it would be accused of being part of the "liberal media"? Having said this, I must admit, I think this would be too much, even for Trump, even for the GOP.

[Ilsa]

35. I think we need to set up a calendar to bet on which day

He sells his nomination to Mittens RMoney.

[Barack_America]

36. Fantastic.

[lame54]

39. "Trump/Trump - Keep It In The Family"