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Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« on: March 16, 2016, 01:03:41 pm »
Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy

By ELIZA COLLINS 03/16/16 08:24 AM EDT

Donald Trump finally shared the name of someone he consults on foreign policy: himself.

Asked on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” who he talks with consistently about foreign policy, Trump responded, “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things."

"I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are," Trump said. “But my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff."

The New York real estate mogul has kept mum on his foreign policy team, despite promising in early February to release a list of his advisers in “about two weeks."

Trump was also asked on Wednesday morning if his foreign policy was “neoisolationist,” to which he responded “I wouldn’t say that at all.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/trump-foreign-policy-adviser-220853#ixzz434RHsPud
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2016, 01:05:04 pm »
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things."

In any other context, a person blathering like this would be committed.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2016, 01:19:19 pm »
I guess now that he thinks he has it locked up, or close to it, if he really wanted the nomination or if he starts to sandbag or move left?
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2016, 01:29:55 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on March 16, 2016, 01:21:38 pm
Trump is an idiot, start to finish.  And a bully.

That's really very nasty. Very, very nasty. I never thought of you as a nasty person, by the way. But that was very, very nasty.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2016, 01:30:20 pm »
Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy

Rest of the World: It shows.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2016, 12:19:35 am »
Quote from: Lando Lincoln on March 16, 2016, 01:29:55 pm
That's really very nasty. Very, very nasty. I never thought of you as a nasty person, by the way. But that was very, very nasty.

The anti-Trumps seem to offer little else.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2016, 12:21:49 am »
I have a nurse for him too.

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« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2016, 12:28:08 am »
Quote from: Chosen Daughter on March 17, 2016, 12:21:49 am
I have a nurse for him too.



I'm quite certain he can find and pay for the best. He doesn't need to depend on Obama or you.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2016, 12:51:48 am »
 :amen:  I hope he gets one soon!
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2016, 01:03:06 am »
At this point I view sinkspur as a performance artist.

The kind of performance artist standing on the street corner shaking his fist at clouds and warning of the Doomacoplyse.

It's very entertaining.  Are we sure Myst and Repub4 aren't making money off of the crazy pants act? 
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2016, 01:07:31 am »
Seems to me like Trump says he listens to a lot of people, takes in information, and then makes his own decision he chooses based on the information he gathers.

What a stupid thread.  Is sinkspur saying he'd prefer a candidate who doesn't make his own final decision? 
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2016, 01:28:30 am »
Quote from: sinkspur on March 16, 2016, 01:03:41 pm
Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy

By ELIZA COLLINS 03/16/16 08:24 AM EDT

Donald Trump finally shared the name of someone he consults on foreign policy: himself.

Asked on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” who he talks with consistently about foreign policy, Trump responded, “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things."

"I know what I’m doing and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are," Trump said. “But my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff."

The New York real estate mogul has kept mum on his foreign policy team, despite promising in early February to release a list of his advisers in “about two weeks."

Trump was also asked on Wednesday morning if his foreign policy was “neoisolationist,” to which he responded “I wouldn’t say that at all.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/trump-foreign-policy-adviser-220853#ixzz434RHsPud
If anyone else had made these exact comments, Trump would be mocking them mercilessly. But no one else in politics, of either party speaks this way, for which I imagine we ought to be grateful.
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2016, 01:31:00 am »
I consulted with myself on neurosurgery. Who volunteers to be my first patient?
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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2016, 01:36:55 am »
Well, considering the results that some of the high officials occupying foreign policy positions have achieved for us over the last fifty or sixty years, maybe Trump "consulting himself" is better off.

Then again, he could always rely on the advice of:
- Robert McNamara
- Henry Kissinger
- Madeline Albright
- Hillary Clinton
- John Kerry

After all, one doesn't get to the lofty positions they occupied without bein' an expert.
Right.....?

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Re: Trump: I consult myself on foreign policy
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2016, 01:46:14 am »
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Quote from: Fishrrman on March 17, 2016, 01:36:55 am
Well, considering the results that some of the high officials occupying foreign policy positions have achieved for us over the last fifty or sixty years, maybe Trump "consulting himself" is better off.

Then again, he could always rely on the advice of:
- Robert McNamara
- Henry Kissinger
- Madeline Albright
- Hillary Clinton
- John Kerry

After all, one doesn't get to the lofty positions they occupied without bein' an expert.
Right.....?

;)

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