2011 Obama Might Be The Reason Trump Could Become President
Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton is pretty much a foregone conclusion now that Lyin’ Ted Cruz has officially taken his name out of the hat for the Republican candidacy. But the Trump candidacy was once thought of as a joke. When he threw his name in the ring, no one really thought he’d be a threat to anyone. Donald has taken America by storm and there’s at least a fair chance he will be our next president.
Our current president was one of those who thought the idea of Trump being president is a joke. Just take a look at this video from the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner where Obama cracks jokes at Trump and the thought of him being president, which has resurfaced in recent days.
Turn to 2:50 for the money line
Seth Myers also chimed in on Trump jokes. Trump was not amused.
Live look at all those people who were laughing…
Yeah, this thing is no longer a joke. The Trump train is real and it’s headed straight for DC. Hop on board or get out the way. Trump versus Hillary will bring tons of great content opportunities..
I would rather have Obama as president than Trump.
9 years ago at 11:49 amDont be such a bitch
9 years ago at 11:51 amI think most people named Carlos would agree #buildthewall
9 years ago at 11:53 amThe fact that my name is Carlos doesn’t mean that I’m illegally in this great country. I’m a republican who goes to an SEC college and I’m in a fraternity. I come from a conservative family. Please don’t be so close-minded, us fraternity gentleman are better than this.
9 years ago at 12:31 pmBut you didn’t explicitly say you were here legally. I’m going to need to see your papers
9 years ago at 12:36 pmBeing a massive bitch. TTFMM
9 years ago at 11:54 amIn his defense, anyone named Carlos would not want to have trump as president
9 years ago at 11:54 amFuck I didn’t see the comment above me, my bad guys
9 years ago at 11:55 amAmerica already lost. Economically and fiscally Trump and Hillary are basically the same. Anti-free trade, progressive tax perversions of capitalist policy. Don’t let a few talking points convince you Trump is a good candidate. I’d take him over Hillary because of guns and that’s about it
9 years ago at 12:00 pmNobody knows what Hillary is, she says whatever she thinks people want to hear. She could very well be free trade, she was like last year, and she helped draft NAFTA.
9 years ago at 12:40 pmNo one expected Obama to be as free trade as he has been, you have a point. We know Trump is bad for trade. When Hillary wins guess we’ll find out where she really stands
9 years ago at 12:49 pmBut NAFTA isn’t actually good
9 years ago at 1:02 pmTrump is giving the people what they want too. Also I don’t think Trump is as crazy as he talks. I think acting like a racist bigot is what it takes to win the Republican nod these days. I think he will relax when it comes to the general in an attempt to win the moderate vote.
9 years ago at 1:10 pmDude he doesnt act like a racist bigot, your comment makes me cringe of your ignorance. Trump will win.
9 years ago at 1:28 pmVoting is like choosing what STD you want right now
9 years ago at 2:40 pmTrump isn’t a racist but he tweeted out crime stats that stated 81% of white murders are committed by black people even though the real number is 15%. I’m no BLM SJW bullshit or whatever, but that’s fucked up no matter how you spin it.
9 years ago at 6:40 pmTo be fair Trump will flip on both sides of an issue in the same hour. Who the fuck knows where he stands on anything besides the stupid fucking wall?
9 years ago at 2:15 pmAnd “China”
9 years ago at 2:55 pmNice try, Jeb!
9 years ago at 12:42 pmI don’t like Jeb either. I stood with Rand
9 years ago at 12:58 pmIf sending hundreds of thousands if American manufacturing jobs to Mexico, pushing down wages for the jobs that actually stayed in the US, and increasing o ur trade defecit by nearly 300% is considered a good move then I guess NAFTA was good. Just because it has the words “Free Trade” in the title doesn’t mean it is good. That’s how politics works take the “Patriot Act” for example. Yeah sure it sounds good but it’s actually fucking terrible.
9 years ago at 1:13 pmYou don’t know how free trade, trade deficits, etc. work. At all. A trade deficit is only inherently bad for manufacturing-dependent economies (which we are not). Do some real research, our manufacturing sector is stronger than it was in the 90s even if there are fewer workers in it. A healthy economy relocates it’s workers to where the labor demand is. As we get more efficient at manufacturing our workers are moved to where they are needed. There is always inefficiency, but cherry picking stats like that is 1) pointless 2) childish and 3) fuck you. There’s my cock on the table you illiterate waste of space
9 years ago at 1:17 pmWhat you’re saying doesn’t even make any logical sense. “A healthy economy relocates it’s workers to where demand is” so are you trying to say all those American workers that lost their jobs to cheaper labor in Mexico moved to Mexico? How are you actually trying to spin that as a positive effect of NAFTA?
9 years ago at 1:23 pmNo, I’m referencing the American economy. Fewer workers in one sector means more workers in another sector. Also, I know this is a crazy idea, but for long term economic health we need trading partners (of both goods and services) with healthy economies. This isn’t the 19th century anymore, we need to not make policy like it is. If Mexico, Canada, Europe, etc. are in the shitter there’s less money for us. The supply of money in the world is not static. Mercantilist economic views are for the liberals who are afraid of the rich. A rising tide raises all ships.
9 years ago at 1:28 pmI agree with you butt chug. This mans statement about relocating workers where demand is doesn’t make any sense to me either. Why is the unemployment rate here in the 20’s while in China it’s 1%? The need for jobs is clearly over here Americans just need to take the stick out of their asses and accept that it’s okay to work a job that produces goods instead of services and realize that not everybody in America is as smart and able as we are to become doctors, lawyers, engineers, and technicians. There are people all over this country that have no viable prospects and the best reality for them is one where they work in a factory for 30 years where they receive medical and dental and are able to provide for their family
9 years ago at 3:05 pmThat’s not what VandyConservative is saying at all. U.S. manufacturing sector has been setting production (and export!) records, and almost 90 percent of the decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2010 was caused by productivity gains (robots and computers), rather than import competition. Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production, we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million. So unless Trump wants to destroy all the robots, those jobs just aren’t coming back, tariff or not.
9 years ago at 6:31 pmAnd that trade deficit, even if it is any and just the worst, has to do with the rise of Chinese, Indian, Brazilian, etc. manufacturing since NAFTA. Mexico isn’t shit
9 years ago at 1:18 pmOmg “muh trade deficit.” Sit down, shut up, and get a god damn education. The idea that the U.S.-China trade balance proves that we’re “losing” at trade is the height of economic ignorance. For one thing, there’s actually a strong correlation between U.S. economic growth and an expanding U.S. trade deficit.
9 years ago at 6:29 pmYou just gave a few talking points to convince everyone trump isn’t a good candidate. And he’s against free trade because he wants manufacturing and jobs to come back to America. And how can you not love how pro states he is?
9 years ago at 2:12 pmThat’s not how manufacturing and jobs come back, that’s how prices rise for the American consumer stifling spending and investment. As long as small and medium business are a driving factor in the U.S. market, free trade is best for the American people.
9 years ago at 2:24 pmIf it’s more expense to do business offshore how would they not come back? And Higher priced goods are offset by the wages being brought back to America and more money circulating in our own economy. We have a record number of people not in the workforce, it wouldn’t kill you to pay a few dollars more on your khakis.
9 years ago at 2:48 pmBecause we can’t pay 2 dollar a day wages here. More expensive doesn’t mean it’s more expensive than here. It just means it’s more expensive than it used to be. If we want to stay on the leading edge of the global economy we can’t pretend textiles and plastics manufacturing will keep us competitive. Seriously, this is economics 101. We have expensive, skilled labor. Which is very good. We can build cool shit. Blame taxes and the average consumer (note: average, not guy who can afford topay mofe as a patriotic service) for manufacturing moving abroad. People buy the best product they can afford. We can’t base our policy on the hypothetical patriotic spender when the rest of the world innovates. Isolationism kills
9 years ago at 3:17 pmI’m not sure what utopia you believe you want to live in but we can’t keep replacing low skill jobs with high skilled ones. The guys who lose their job to a robot today aren’t going to be the ones designing them tomorrow, then we have a whole class of people who can’t work unless some bs infrastructure bill passes and they get a year of work. And Donald trump wants to lower all taxes (for businesses and individuals) further proving my point. And if you still don’t think companies will come back see Ford.
9 years ago at 3:39 pmWe need to stop pretending that just because we’re the greatest nation on earth that were somehow above manufacturing jobs. How many kids from high school do you know that are going absolutely nowhere. That are good at nothing? It’s a good chunk and we should be putting them to work not just casting them onto the streets to sell drugs and soak up welfare. Vandy i feel you but you need to stop thinking about yourself and your immediate surrounding
9 years ago at 5:42 pmThe anti-free market protectionist calling the free trade proponents “utopian” is rich…
9 years ago at 6:33 pmThe “utopia” I spoke of was wanting to steer towards a country of mostly highly skilled workers when it’s obvious that, that doesn’t describe even half the population. That doesn’t make me a “anti-free market protectionist”. But glad to see you took Poly Sci 1
9 years ago at 6:51 pmThank you for bringing some economic literacy to this Donnie. These alleged conservatives don’t even know how to follow their espoused ideology.
9 years ago at 8:50 pmGet real, those jobs are never coming back. Vast majority of Americans don’t want to work them, and even if they did they’d want to be paid an insane amount of money.
9 years ago at 3:26 pmPeople are gonna get paid 15 bucks an hour for flipping burgers. No one is going to bust their ass for an internationally competitive wage.
9 years ago at 3:46 pmThis comment chain was more entertaining and informed than anything this site has posed this week.
9 years ago at 4:32 pmThey want $15/hr because that’s all they’re qualified to do. Those jobs need to go back to the young college kids and they need to be working their ass off in a factory. Gas stations and food service shouldn’t be a competitive market. And you can’t tell me this wouldn’t have a positive effect on incarceration rate
9 years ago at 5:37 pmObama lost all credible when he dropped a mic that he didn’t even use.
9 years ago at 12:04 pmIf trump becomes pres, makes me think even kayne has a chance
9 years ago at 12:05 pmAnd if we’re lucky someone will pull a John Wilkes Booth and we’ll be rid of him forever
9 years ago at 1:08 pmTake it easy, guy
9 years ago at 1:10 pmFuck Obama. He kept me waiting, thinking someone was coming to take my gun. But all that happened is gas got cheaper. #buildthewall
9 years ago at 12:08 pmRunning for president and securing the nomination out of spite because someone told you that you couldn’t make it. TFM
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9 years ago at 11:22 pmIn all honesty this is a terrible article from a journalistic sense, not that I expected a journalistically superior article from TFM. Ruling out every candidate except Trump and Clinton for the presidential race creates an unrealistic scenario that you are reporting on. Stay out of politics, and keep to what you know: smokeshows and frat bros.
9 years ago at 12:33 pmWho else would you like to enter that discussion? Cruz and Kasoch have both dropped out for the GOP and HRC seems to have the Democratic nomination with her super delegate votes. Are you trying to say there’s an independent candidate that should enter the argument?
9 years ago at 12:43 pmKasich actually hasn’t dropped out of the race!
9 years ago at 1:20 pmIt’s rumored he is. We’ll see. I think his plan was to never confront anyone one on one and let the contested convention pick him because he was the most electable.
9 years ago at 2:35 pmHe got a small chunk of the votes in Indiana yesterday so I think, while it was rumored he dropped out, he’s still cry much in it. I think you’re right about his waiting though.
9 years ago at 9:19 pmVery much* not cry much sorry
9 years ago at 9:20 pmBeen saying this for months- Donald Trump thinks of this moment every night before sleep.
9 years ago at 12:33 pmHarrison, you were that kid that ate paper in elementary school, weren’t you?
9 years ago at 12:37 pmThanks a lot, Obama
9 years ago at 12:43 pm