• Donald Trump, who received draft deferments during Vietnam: "My behavior-correction boarding school
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[quote]Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school. [B]Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”[/B] That claim may raise eyebrows given that Mr. Trump, now a Republican presidential candidate, never served in the military and mocked Senator John McCain, a decorated naval aviator, for his yearslong captivity during the Vietnam War. [B]“He’s not a war hero,” Mr. Trump said in July. “He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured.”[/B] Mr. Trump described his education, business life, marriages and childhood in extensive interviews with Michael D’Antonio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter at Newsday. Mr. D’Antonio’s biography of Mr. Trump, “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success,” will be published on Sept. 22. In the book, Mr. Trump emerges as [B]a man largely unchanged from his childhood[/B] in the wealthy Queens neighborhood of Jamaica Estates, where an exacting father, Fred Trump, schooled him in the ways of self-promotion and encouraged a lifetime of fighting. The senior Mr. Trump, a major real estate developer, counseled his son to “be a killer” and told him, “You are a king.” Mr. Trump memorably told Mr. D’Antonio that “when I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.” [B]Mr. Trump’s preoccupation with winning — at anything and everything, big or small — dominated his youth. His mentor at the New York Military Academy, Theodore Dobias, called Mr. Trump “a conniver, even then.”[/B] When Mr. Trump’s high school classmates showed up for a Columbus Day parade in New York City, expecting to lead the procession, they were dismayed to find a group of Catholic girls arranged ahead of them. Mr. Trump announced that he would take care of the problem. When he returned a few minutes later, having negotiated a Trump-like deal, the cadets were put at the front of the parade, ahead of the girls, Mr. Dobias recalled. [B]Mr. Trump, he said, “just wanted to be first, in everything, and he wanted people to know he was first.”[/B] St. Martin’s Press provided an advance copy of the book to The New York Times, and Mr. D’Antonio provided excerpts from his interviews with Mr. Trump. (The author interviewed Mr. Trump for more than six hours. The sessions abruptly ended, he writes, after Mr. Trump learned that Mr. D’Antonio had spoken with a longtime Trump enemy.)[/quote] [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/us/politics/donald-trump-likens-his-schooling-to-military-service-in-book.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur[/url] :hairpull:
He's such a sociopath it's incredible that anyone is giving him attention.
He seriously just compared serving in the military to boarding school? And you tell me people are voting for this man? :suicide:
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48641903]Did he seriously just compare serving in the military to board school...? :suicide:[/QUOTE] No, he said that it's even more military training than actually serving in the military :v:
anyone who votes for or supports trump is an irredeemable idiot
This years american presidential run looks more like a circus festival from over the pond.
The school doesn't seem to have worked.
I think the sad part is this guy is actually one of the more moderate republican candidates.
I genuinely wish that someone would put this fuck in the dirt already.
[QUOTE=Aldawolf;48642088]I think the sad part is this guy is actually one of the more moderate republican candidates.[/QUOTE] When you put it that way it makes sense that Trump has as many supporters as he does, the moderate ones are trying to escape the rest of the "crazies".
[QUOTE=Aldawolf;48642088]I think the sad part is this guy is actually one of the more moderate republican candidates.[/QUOTE] No, jeb is as moderate as Republicans come these days, trump is straight up neocon nuts
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;48642169]I genuinely wish that someone would put this fuck in the dirt already.[/QUOTE] reasonable
If Bernie Sanders hadn't voted to ban assault weapons sadly.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48642661]If Bernie Sanders hadn't voted to ban assault weapons sadly.[/QUOTE] did he dam, I want him to win but that could hurt him,.
[quote]Mr. Trump said that his experience at the New York Military Academy, an expensive prep school where his parents had sent him to correct poor behavior, gave him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”[/quote] I wonder how people in the military are gonna be feel about Trump and this quote. Because that's definitely not something you want to say when you're running for anything, or saying in general at all.
Let's put you in military training then you fat piece of shit. [editline]8th September 2015[/editline] If your boarding school is more than military training, then it should be no problem for you!
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48642661]If Bernie Sanders hadn't voted to ban assault weapons sadly.[/QUOTE] And constantly harps on about the 2nd Amendment being about hunting and antique weapons. yeah. Bernie has pretty much lost any if all the support he had from gun rights activist.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;48642735]I wonder how people in the military are gonna be feel about Trump and this quote. Because that's definitely not something you want to say when you're running for anything, or saying in general at all.[/QUOTE] They probably already are not fans of him due to that whole John McCain thing.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;48642981]And constantly harps on about the 2nd Amendment being about hunting and antique weapons. yeah. Bernie has pretty much lost any if all the support he had from gun rights activist.[/QUOTE] I'd still prefer to have him, the pro-gun candidates are all otherwise retarded.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;48642981]And constantly harps on about the 2nd Amendment being about hunting and antique weapons. yeah. Bernie has pretty much lost any if all the support he had from gun rights activist.[/QUOTE] Okay, seriously, this is one issue compared to the so many others that Bernie is good on.
[QUOTE=Atlascore;48642999]Yeah but Jeb is a Bush family member, no one is going to vote for him.[/QUOTE] Third times the charm
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;48642981]And constantly harps on about the 2nd Amendment being about hunting and antique weapons. yeah. Bernie has pretty much lost any if all the support he had from gun rights activist.[/QUOTE] To be fair, that's probably what the founding fathers had in mind when they stated everyone should have the right to bare arms.
[QUOTE=ccg;48643239]To be fair, that's probably what the founding fathers had in mind when they stated everyone should have the right to bare arms.[/QUOTE] The interpretation I find most convincing is keeping a "local militia" in case there were foreign invaders and they couldn't notify the army to get help soon enough. Of course this was back before telephones and such existed.
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;48642661]If Bernie Sanders hadn't voted to ban assault weapons sadly.[/QUOTE] sure one thing he voted on 20 years ago should disqualify him completely, even though he's actually been funded by the NRA for years partly because his moderate (for 80s,90s era) stance on gun laws, today's NRA culture makes anything about gun control evil, but sander's record is pretty straight forward middle of the isle
[QUOTE=ccg;48643239]To be fair, that's probably what the founding fathers had in mind when they stated everyone should have the right to bare arms.[/QUOTE] They wanted the people to be able to stand up to the government in the case that it should become tyrannical (as Britain had). While I agree that a violent revolution is neither necessary nor possible (and even if one were to occur the military would probably by and large be on the side of the civilians), it seems disingenuous to suggest that they meant people should only own muskets because muskets are all that existed at the time. Obviously they knew firearms technology would keep developing and the people would need to keep up. No, I don't believe civilians should own nuclear weapons or any crazy nonsense like that. But I think that a lot of the current restrictions are too tight and not very well thought out as they seem to affect the wrong people and the wrong types of firearms.
[quote]When Mr. Trump’s high school classmates showed up for a Columbus Day parade in New York City, expecting to lead the procession, they were dismayed to find a group of Catholic girls arranged ahead of them. Mr. Trump announced that he would take care of the problem. When he returned a few minutes later, having negotiated a Trump-like deal, the cadets were put at the front of the parade, ahead of the girls, Mr. Dobias recalled.[/quote] sounds like him alright. i'm sure he negotiated to have his first bake-sale scheduled before other classes did too.
Has there ever been a more massive cunt to run for any kind of office? Seriously, has any other candidate ever gone so far out of their way to draw aggro? I'm genuinely curious, I would [b]love[/b] to see a Trump of the early 1900s. Someone who's whole platform is "fuck everyone who isn't just like me, let's run this shit into the ground," surely this can't just be a modern phenomenon
[QUOTE=YourBreakfsat;48642778]Let's put you in military training then you fat piece of shit. [editline]8th September 2015[/editline] If your boarding school is more than military training, then it should be no problem for you![/QUOTE] Honestly, I'd pay decent money to see Trump try and get through any given branch's basic training, seems like it'd be an absolutely hilarious spectacle
[QUOTE=cccritical;48643524]Has there ever been a more massive cunt to run for any kind of office? Seriously, has any other candidate ever gone so far out of their way to draw aggro? I'm genuinely curious, I would [b]love[/b] to see a Trump of the early 1900s. Someone who's whole platform is "fuck everyone who isn't just like me, let's run this shit into the ground," surely this can't just be a modern phenomenon[/QUOTE] Those types of people generally aren't well-remembered once the novelty wears off. Trump won't be, either.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;48641893]He's such a sociopath it's incredible that anyone is giving him attention.[/QUOTE] Well that's because he's acting like a fucking bonko the clown that folks just can't help but watch and laugh.
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