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Colbert sounds off on Trump debate withdrawal
The Comedy Central host also reaffirms his commitment to hosting a "serious, classy" debate of his own VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) Donald Trump announced yesterday that he would no longer moderate of the upcoming Newsmax Republican debate, thus ending weeks of back-and-forth that saw every candidate except Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum withdraw from the event. Of course, Trump didn’t quit because his presence at the debate risked descending it into some sort of bizarre media sideshow — no, no — but because he refused to rule out a third-party run for president. Right.
OK, sure, we all probably could have predicted all this from a mile away, but it took Stephen Colbert to weigh in on the development with the poetry of the Donald himself:
Folks, I would be lying if I didn’t say I saw this coming. Donald Trump is a friend. He’s my best friend. Number one best, greatest friend of all time. We race yachts. We trade mistresses. I call him “Trump Card.” He calls me “Cold Beer.” That said, the guy is a boob. He looks like a tangelo had sex with an old dishrag. And I can say that because I love this man. And to honor the memory of Trump mattering, it is more important than ever that tonight I reannounce my Stephen Colbert’s South Carolina Serious Classy Republican Debate.
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Colbert apes Trump, announces his own debate
Introducing "Stephen Colbert's Serious, Classy, South Carolina Republican Debate" VIDEO
(Credit: Comedy Central) With less than a month until the Iowa caucuses, the race for the Republican nomination is finally headed to the voting booth, where rank-and-file party members will make the choice, presumably between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The stakes never higher, serious Republicans no doubt hoped that the theatrics that characterized the early stretches of the nominating process would recede into the background. Unfortunately for them, Donald Trump has gotten himself a debate.
Predictably, establishment conservatives like George Will and Karl Rove are incensed at the prospect of a Trump-moderated debate. Stephen Colbert, meanwhile, has his own bone to pick with the hotel tycoon, and last night he dusted off his best Donald impression to do it:
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Karl Rove and Donald Trump (Credit: AP) Newsmax, a nutritional supplement sales organization and expensive email list with a right-wing news website attached, is hosting a Republican presidential debate, “moderated” by fictional television clown tycoon Donald Trump, set to air on a television channel you probably don’t actually know you have that spends most of the broadcast day airing paid programming. Historical fiction author Newt Gingrich — a disgraced serial adulterer with a still-unexplained $500,000 credit line at Tiffany and Co. who is also for some reason the current frontrunner for the party’s nomination — could not be happier. For some crazy reason, Republican campaign strategist Karl Rove is not particularly thrilled with all of this.
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Trump will endorse a candidate (in a month)
Birther TV clown promises to support a GOP hopeful VIDEO
Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Alberto Lowe) Oft-bankrupt former fake presidential candidate and television clown Donald Trump announced on “Fox and Friends” this morning that he is very close to announcing his presidential endorsement. I am guessing he won’t pick Jon Huntsman.
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Trump will pocket $65 million a year with new contract
Who says a fake presidential campaign isn't good for the bottom line?
In this photo taken April 25, 2011, Donald Trump is interviewed in New York. After months of flirting with politics, Trump said Monday, May 16, 2011, that he won't run for president, choosing to stick with hosting "The Celebrity Apprentice" over entering the race for the Republican nomination. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)(Credit: AP) It seems Donald Trump’s much-hyped flirtations with a presidential bid (birtherism and all) has only made him more valuable in the eyes of NBC Universal executives.
The New York Post reports that NBC has offered Trump and his “Apprentice” co-producer, Mark Burnett, an unprecedented $160 million contract for two more years of “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
A source tells the Post that Trump will “personally pocket $65 million a year” from the lucrative deal; the paper adds that the contract will make Trump “the highest-paid reality-TV star, eclipsing the ‘American Idol’ judges and the Kardashian clan.”
Under the new arrangement, Trump will earn more than 150 times the presidential salary of $400,000. Apparently, he wasn’t kidding when he told ABC News in May that he wasn’t “ready to leave the private sector”!
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Trump: “Anthony Weiner is a bad guy. He’s a psycho”
On YouTube, The Donald says: "When this came out, I was not surprised at all"
Donald Trump took to YouTube today to share his thoughts on Rep. Anthony Weiner and the fallout from his recent Twitter scandal. It seems the mogul and the congressman don’t have a great relationship.
“The fact is, I know [Weiner] very well,” Trump says in his short video statement. “He called me all the time looking for campaign contributions — it would never stop.” (“I don’t think I ever called him,” Trump adds.)
“Anthony Weiner is a bad guy. He’s a psycho. When this came out, I was not surprised at all. … I thought that his career was so important to him. The fact is, what he was doing was more important — or, probably, he just had a death wish.”
Trump’s conclusion? While Weiner is a “liar” who “should never, ever be allowed to run for office again,” “one good thing” has come out of the whole sorry situation: ”I’ll never have to give him campaign contributions.”
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