Donald’s Near-Death Experience (That He Invented)

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    Terminally tacky Trump is always grandstanding to be center of attention 24-7.


    The Trump Files: Donald’s Near-Death Experience (That He Invented)

    Three of his executives died in a helicopter crash, and Trump claimed he had planned to be on the flight.
    MAX J. ROSENTHALJUL. 15, 2016

    After a chartered helicopter crashed and killed three of Donald Trump’s top executives in October 1989, the real estate mogul was distraught.

    “These were three fabulous young men in the prime of their lives,” he said in a statement. “No better human beings ever existed. We are deeply saddened by this devastating tragedy, and our hearts go out to their families.”

    A few months later, Trump told New York magazine that the crash had shocked him, showing him “how short and fragile life is.” The event, he said, helped convince him he should leave his wife Ivana.

    But did Trump cheat death that day? “Sources said Trump himself was scheduled to be on the flight but decided at the last minute he was too busy to leave New York,” United Press International reported the day following the tragedy.

    Other outlets reported the same claim from the Trump camp, includingLong Island’s Newsday and the New York Daily News, which slapped the report on its cover.

    At least one biographer, former Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett, believed the claim was a PR stunt. In his book, Trump: The Greatest Show On Earth, Barrett wrote that Trump “did not hesitate to use [the crash] for personal advantage. He planted stories suggesting that he had almost boarded the chartered copter himself, though he’d never ridden to Atlantic City on one, trusting only his [personal] Puma [helicopter].”

    And after the Daily News story about Trump’s close call appeared, one of his executives told the Associated Press it was false. “Trump had definitely never planned to be on it,” said Bernie Dillon, vice president of Trump Sports and Entertainment.

    As BuzzFeed noted last year, Trump later walked back his claim that he was supposed to be on the flight.

    He described it instead as a fleeting idea he had as the executives left his office. “As quickly as the idea had popped into my mind, I decided not to go,” he said in Surviving at the Top, his 1990 book.

    Read the rest of “The Trump Files”:

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/07/donald-trump-files-helicopter-crash/
     
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    Donald attacks a water fountain.

    excerpt:

    Mark Bowden, the reporter and author of the book Black Hawk Down, was “prepared to like” the aging and increasingly hefty Donald Trump when he set out to profile the mogul for Playboy in 1996. The two men took a trip down to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for a weekend, but the reality of The Donald quickly made any affection impossible.

    “Trump struck me as adolescent, hilariously ostentatious, arbitrary, unkind, profane, dishonest, loudly opinionated, and consistently wrong,” Bowden wrote last year in Vanity Fair, recalling his time profiling Trump. “He remains the most vain man I have ever met. And he was trying to make a good impression.” Any remaining chance of that went out the window when Trump unleashed his fury on an equipment box at the Mar-a-Lago tennis courts, as Bowden wrote in the profile:

    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-files-donald-goes-apeshit-water-cooler/
     
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    The masturbation thread.
     
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    You don't find Trump's antics amusing?
     
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    Are you stalking Trump Margot? Seems you have a Play Misty for me complex.
     
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    Hilarious read. I thought I was reading a Laurel & Hardy scenario.

    :thumbsup:
     
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    LOLOL.. I know..
     
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    Ah, the snowflake meltdown continues. At least he doesn’t mention himself constantly in speeches like his predecessor did.
     
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    Motherjones. 'Nuff said. :roflol:
     
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    Donald Trump's near death experience, as told by Donald Trump:

    It was incredible! It was the most amazing NDE anyone has ever had in the history of the human race!!! At first, there was a light. But it wasn't just any light. It was the brightest light anyone having a NDE has ever seen! And in that light I saw a shadowy figure emerge. As it approached I knew I was about to meet God. And when at last I saw his face, it was ME!!! That explains a lot. Now my life makes sense.

    And it explains the kid. I've never actually had sex with Melania. I must have willed him into existence.
     
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    Fake news squared
     
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    LOLOL.. I know..
    You mean you don't remember? That doesn't make it fake news.
     
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    I mean it didn't happen as presented which makes it fake news
     
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    It's not often that staying in New York City improves your chances of long life.
     
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    I wonder if he'd be a nicer person if he had had less money all his life?
     
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    No...money and privilege do not a sociopath make.. he would be that way regardless...bad genes and his environment just likely exacerbated his shitty personality.
     
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    . . . seriously . . . have you never heard the man speak? At all? Was that a joke or do you really expect us to believe you kept a straight face while typing that?
     
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    He claimed he was going to be on the flight. His staff contradicted him, pointing out he only flew on his private service, he had no planned meetings that would have put him on that helicopter, and he had other meetings already scheduled that would have precluded the flight. He lied for publicity. Which is pretty much his MO anyway.
     
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    Your TDS is not allowing you to think clearly. Obama tops just about every president in mentioning himself.
     
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    Yep he didn't just tweet about the fictional offer from Time magazine to interview him for Man of the Year.
     
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    A tweet = a speech. Liberal logic 101.
     
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    He doesn't do speeches. He reads what other write. The real Donald is in his tweets.
     
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