Trump has decided to run "in his mind." But that's not the last word. Perhaps other parts of Trump do his actual decision making. He makes an analogy between his position on same sex marriage to his resistance to using different golf equipment. Both make him uncomfortable, as a traditional type guy. Sounds good. This country is based on its traditions and if Trump thinks same sex marriage is like using a long putter and just plain wrong I don't think another minute of debate is necessary. He doesn't like it. I hate the designated hitter in baseball and I'm hoping that Trump is elected and feels the same way so he can get rid of it. Moving on. Then he talks about Ryan - and his problem with Ryan isn't the substance of what Ryan is saying, it's the timing. If Ryan got elected and THEN revealed his plan to screw seniors that would make sense. But see, it's a card game and you have to win first. Then when you win, WHAMMO, you hit them like the pesky flies they are. That's the proverbial art of the deal right there. He's flat out saying it's okay to lie to get elected. Next.
He bought a plane. You can look out the window and see it! And then he decided to buy an even bigger plane. Come on! What else do you want in a President? How many planes would he have to buy to convince you? I'm good right now!
Did I mention this is the LEADING Republican candidate? Trump is ahead of Romney, Huckabee, Paul and Whoever, which is something those guys will have to ponder when Trump drops out. For now all these guys are looking at Trump's ass, and I suppose that is better than having to look at his head.
He was savagely mocked by President Obama and the comedian Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — belittled as a political charlatan with an unchecked ego and a dead fox plastered on his head.
But the next morning, Donald J. Trump was not laughing. He was doing what seems to come more naturally: lashing out.
“Seth Meyers has no talent,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Sunday. “He fell totally flat. In fact, I thought Seth’s delivery was so bad that he hurt himself.”
Mr. Trump, who appeared unsmiling throughout most of the annual dinner on Saturday night, acknowledged his occasional discomfort (“I am not looking to laugh along with my enemies”) but said he viewed the rough treatment as a measure of the fear he had struck in the Washington establishment.
The Trump-centric dinner capped what could only be described as the Week of the Donald — a dizzying span in which the developer and reality television star drove the news (compelling the president to release his full birth certificate) and became the news (after delivering a profanity-laced speech in Las Vegas).
None of it, however, answered the central questions posed by his White House flirtation: Is it real or, like his hit series on NBC, a reality show? Even a comment Mr. Trump made to Bloomberg News on Sunday — that he had decided to run “in my mind” — created as much confusion as clarity. A top aide, Michael Cohen, said he could still change his mind and nothing was official.
During a lengthy conversation in his 61st-floor suite at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, amid the Trump-branded room service menus and bottles of Trump Ice water, Mr. Trump provided ample fodder for supporters and skeptics — waxing about foreign policy and his TV ratings, displaying a detailed understanding of the political landscape and a curious insensitivity toward potential voters.
At one point, he compared his opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage to his reluctance to use a new kind of putter.
“It’s like in golf,” he said. “A lot of people — I don’t want this to sound trivial — but a lot of people are switching to these really long putters, very unattractive,” said Mr. Trump, a Republican. “It’s weird. You see these great players with these really long putters, because they can’t sink three-footers anymore. And, I hate it. I am a traditionalist. I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist.”
He said that, should he run, he would offer himself as a “conservative with a big heart.”
To that end, he said, he would do nothing to curtail benefits for senior citizens, whom he called the “lifeblood of this country.” But he suggested that his biggest objection to Representative Paul D. Ryan’s deficit reduction plan — which has alarmed seniors on Medicaid — was not its substance but what he saw as poor strategy by Mr. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, in rolling it out.
“As a poker player, he shouldn’t have put forth such an early plan,” Mr. Trump said. “Anybody who touches Medicare,” he added, “is in tremendous trouble politically. We, the Republicans, have an election to win.”
Mr. Trump, 64, repeatedly found ways to weave the topic of his wealth, and its reach, into the conversation. “Look at that,” he interrupted, pointing to a giant white plane hovering outside the room’s windows. “That’s my plane. How beautiful is that?”
He also announced that he had just bought a Boeing 757 from Paul G. Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, and was having it refitted to his specifications. “I was going to buy a 737,” he explained, “then I heard about this one.”
[New York Times]
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