Trump Calls On GOP To Be More Appealing To Minorities

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM



EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO 3:03 PM EST, MONDAY NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Donald Trump says the Republican Party needs to be more appealing to minorities if it wants to survive into the future. Trump's chief political accomplishment of 2012, sucessfully pressuring President Obama to release his longform birth certificate, was part of his larger dive into race-based Obama conspiracies on the right many saw as contributing to the GOP's terrible performance among African American and other minority voters.

Trump says the party needs to change its message moving foward so it can grow its base.

"Republicans didn’t have anything going for them with respect to Latinos and with respect to Asians," Trump said of 2012 in a Newsmax article published Monday. “The Democrats didn’t have a policy for dealing with illegal immigrants, but what they did have going for them is they weren’t mean-spirited about it. They didn’t know what the policy was, but what they were is they were kind."

Trump called Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" plan a "crazy policy" and "maniacal" and said the result was that Romney "lost everybody who is inspired to come into this country." In addition to Trump's calls for a change in GOP tone, the real estate mogul and reality TV star suggested Republicans come up with an immigration plan "to take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country."

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[iandhr]

1. Look at the pot call the kettle black.

[kelliekat44]

56. I call on Trump to be more appealing to the human race! nt

[Laurian]

2. Please let this asshole drift off into obscurity. Who

gives a shit what he thinks about anything? I would not want his advice on anything.....anything, at all!

[GETTINGTIRED]

3. Dump Trump

I 'd find that appealing......his bashing of Our President will forever make him a coward and clown deserving of no respect in my eyes....

[samsingh]

28. catchy

[Behind the Aegis]

4. LOL! I read that as "appalling" and I thought, "how is that even possible?!"

[Ash_F]

23. Somehow, I think they will manage to pull it off. /nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

26. +1 nt

[CurtEastPoint]

5. LOL! I thought I swear it said 'appalling'!

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. Have you noticed . . .

that every time one of these repukes talks about reforming their party to be more appealing to minorities, they never mention African Americans?

How disgusting! I hate them more every day!

[redwitch]

20. The Donald has a good relationship with the blacks.

[yellowcanine]

24. wasn't that the blahs?

[fleur-de-lisa]

58. I think that was Splat . . .

I mean Santorum who said that.

[JRLeft]

43. Yes, because us blacks are seen as the bottom of the barrel.

[Angry Dragon]

7. The New York City blimp

[Fence rider]

8. And I couldn't care less!

Who gives a rat's ass what the media whore says? Do any of you really care? I am with the previous post! Drift Away Dickhead! Drift Away!

[Dubster]

9. Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team)

[graywarrior]

10. I officially declare Trump as insane.

[sarcasmo]

11. How can racists be more appealing to minorities? this is going to be funny.

[toby jo]

45. Should be a riot - hey you minorities, (well, ok, only the white ones)

we want you on our side. & make sure you know we really only want the guy whites. Oh, yeah, & only the christian guy whites.
But we really want you, yeah we do.

[sarcasmo]

47. Minorities, we won't ask for papers any more, vote for us.

[olddad56]

12. What a pathetic soul. He is an icon but nobody remembers why. I guess an icon for decadence.

and greed.

[olddad56]

13. All of the republicans need to eat some magic mushrooms..

then they may start to at least appeal to themselves.

[Indi Guy]

14. Ha! What a transparent hypocrite!! He's just kissing minority butt in order to stave off a ratings-

-plunge of epic proportions for his upcoming TV show(s). The Koolaid is just now wearing off and he realizes that he's (pardon the expression) "alienated" a huge section of his audience demographic.

[KamaAina]

15. What country is his hair from?

[yellowcanine]

16. Well the Democrats are doomed now.

Oh noes, we will never win another election now that Donald has figured out why Republicans lose.

[donnasgirl]

17. To Late

This idiot and his ilk have already shown their true colors

[Third Doctor]

18. Who the hell can he council on

relating to minorities?!! The damned birther that wanted to march on Washington after Obama whipped Romney's ass.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

19. Historical Revisionism

People see him as the racist, homophobic, sexist man he is any he's doing damage control.

Pathetic.

[louis-t]

21. As in "be more appealing without telling them

how you REALLY feel about them". What a crock.

[Eugene]

22. Trump?! Of all people...

This is coming from America's foremost birther?

[Turbineguy]

25. Rich white guys are actually

a minority.

[olddad56]

39. I think that is the minority the Donald wants to appeal to.

[RevStPatrick]

27. OK, it's not The Onion...

Had to check to be sure.

[tblue]

29. Notice he didn't mention black people.

What a total asshole. Not just for that. For everything.

[MichiganVote]

32. Well but "minorities" is just such a sanitized way of saying-different from us.

And its such a nice way of denying the fact that the "minorities" will soon be the majority and not Donald Trump.

[Don C. Nuttin]

35. He did not mean black people.

[Quantess]

30. I give props to you

DonViejo, you are really good at finding outrageous / funny news articles.

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. GOP to Trump: You first, asshole!

[mechtech]

33. problem we have with people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country...

"to take care of this incredible problem that we have with respect to immigration, with respect to people wanting to be wonderful productive citizens of this country."

Yes Donald, that is our biggest problem... not your insanity and racism...

[Don C. Nuttin]

34. Out of the mouths of babes.

[NickP]

36. Laughable

I doubt that any time in the near or distant future that minorities will ever support the Republican Party. They aren't stupid, they know who really fights for them and they know who really wants to exploit them.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Go take a dump Trump

You're full of shit.

[DeSwiss]

38. Listen to meeeeeee, GOP!

I'm all that's left!!!

[SummerSnow]

40. I hope....

I hope he drifts off to sleep in his tanning bed and wake up looking like James Brown

[Maeve]

41. And whe Trump tells you an idea is crazy...he KNOWS from crazy!!!

[loyalkydem]

42. You got a lot

to do before this minority will take you seriously....

[adieu]

44. The Donald and the GOP still don't get it

Minorities and others don't want gifts as appeasements. They want to see inequities and injustice corrected. Nobody (well, except the lazy 1%'ers) want hand outs. We want fairness, equality and justice. Until the GOP directly addresses that, there's no point listening.

Oh, and if there's an option that becomes a better deal for all, that is, a win-win, that option should be taken. The GOP is all for win-lose, and sometimes (oftentimes?), even lose-lose.

[Ken Burch]

46. Does he see "people whose hair isn't actually attached to their heads"

as a minority?

[SunSeeker]

48. Oh that's rich.

[goclark]

49. TrumpDump get a ticket to Kenya

Take your birth certificate with you!
It proves that you are one of their own ---
Don't come back until Our President - born in
HAWAII---lets you back in for a five second visit.

Let the door hit you on the way out of town.

[Shilo]

50. and I'd like Trump to be more appealing as oh---a human being???

we don't always get what we want do we

[Sky Masterson]

51. After all, He is good with the blacks...

http://video.theweek.com/video/Trump-I-am-good-with-the-blacks#c=99DZB42XBL2Y5D7Z&t=Trump:%20I%20am%20good%20%27with%20the%20blacks%27 "I am good with the Blacks".. Trump

[liberal N proud]

52. Like telling a cat to act more like a dog

[no_hypocrisy]

53. Just a pathetic struggle for relevance after betting on the wrong horse.

And then trying to fix the race.

You got to remember this: Donald Trump doesn't hate criticism. He hates being ignored.

[davidpdx]

54. This coming from the crazy racist asshole of the century

Keep talking Donald..

[jsr]

55. Yeah, now that his candidate lost

[librechik]

57. Put more lipstick on that pig! (It won't help) n/t