Donald Trump's Qualifications To Be President Of The United States Are Laid Out On Newstalkers
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"Donald Trump was born in New York City, New York which makes him a natural born citizen of the United States .
That takes care of one of the qualifications
Donald Trump is 71 years old making him older than 35 years old .
That takes care of the other qualifcation. "
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Such pride in getting over such a low bar. There are 40 million plus Americans over the age of 65. (We won't even bother with 35) . Let's say, generously that 15% of those were born outside America. That would mean that there are 34 MILLION Americans who are as qualified to be president as Donald Trump is.
Let's break this down another way. You are on a subway car with 50 people. According to the standard we apply to Trump, at least 5 of the people on that subway car with you are folks you would be proud to vote for to be president of the United States, based on the criteria applied to Trump (over 65, native born American.)
Or you are at a ballgame with 50,000 people in attendance. If you support Trump based on the listed criteria, there are 5,000 people in that stadium that could get your vote to be president of the United States. Maybe now knowing that they will become inspired to run.
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"Qualified" to be president refers to "quality".
It is a sad day in Trumpville when they defend his reign based on the fact that he lived to adulthood and was born in the United States.
I am qualified to be the President of the United States. In fact I would humbly say that I am much more qualified to be president then he is. First of all I am a Veteran and no one had to tell me what the Nuclear Triad is. Plus I love dogs and would have them in the White House. Never, ever trust a person who does not love dogs. A president who does not have/love dog(s) is immediately suspect. They may be good or bad, but they need a strong second look.
Oh and I didn't have to take a test to prove that I could tell the difference between the drawing of a camel and an elephant and brag that I am one of the smartest people ever because I could do it.
Oh and a couple more before I head to bed. I don't owe Russian Oligarchs hundreds of millions of dollars and Putin has no kinky hooker blackmail video to hold over me!
Good night!
Have you seen the tape? Neither has anyone else.
Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite! You know, all those little critters the illegals brought with them.
You got my vote
Personally, I'm qualified by the standards trump was elected, but you couldn't pay me to take the job
So like Trump, you'd do it for free ?
Let me put it another way...you couldn't pay me enough to take the job
Provide proof.
You'd get my vote Randy.
That's a big plus right there. I always felt the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces should at least have some type of military experience.
I like dogs, but I am admittedly more of a cat person.
Well, I'm sold. Where do I vote?
Please tell us what Obama did that qualified him to be president? Community agitator, law professor in Chicago, a few years in the Illinois Senate, and finally, an unproductive half term in the US Senate...the other half being used to groom and train him to run for president. Where, in all those years, did he acquire any skills or experience to become president? The truth is, he didn't.
And please spare me the accusation that this is off topic. The opportunity to compare and contrast is the essence of debate.
Why don't you compare Obamas first year to Trumps if you wish to see how wrong you really are.
Barack Obama lectured on constitutional law at one of the top 5 law schools in the country at one of the top ten universities in the world.
He also graduated from and was editor of the Law Review at another of the top 5 law schools in America, Harvard.
Donald Trump made a deceitful video commercial for Trump University. On the basis of that false video Trump was made to pay 20 million dollars to the victims of his scam.
Yeah, Rex, that sure puts a good light on Trump.
He was also a member of a church for 20 years, where the leader of the flock espoused hatred for America.
He also had a warm and friendly relationship with the racist Louis Farrakhan.
There are a number of factors that should have prevented Obama from becoming President.
And yet, he was born in America, and over the age of 35.
It's a year and a month, John.
Time to move on.
Trump's had a lot more success than Obama did in the first year. Please tell us what Obama accomplished
What, if any, did Obama know about domestic and foreign policies? He was only elected because he was a well spoken black dude. And "clean", as Gramps Biden put it.
YOU know ALL....so YOU say......CONSTANTLY !
You should let ALL OF US know what he hasn't done !
Maybe we could get a better understanding of why you HATE if you did that.
Your attempt to compare the intellectual proclivities of Obama and Trump, in a way that is favorable to Trump, is laughable.
Well, he said that Russia wasn't a threat .....
And your understanding of what it takes to be a good President is clearly wanting, as intellectual ability takes a back seat to garnering the right people to promulgate and execute policy. This has been proven over and over again in the last 200 years.
EPIC FAIL
So, U agree with Obama ?
Don't worry JP, you and Netanyahu are safe. The scary man is out of the White House. BTW - what you said to Buzz was really shitty. At least he tries. When's the last time you hosted a post?
Cheers!
Ignored.
No value.
Cheers!
Skirting the CoC [ph]
So let me get this straight, Rex, Jonathon P, It is ME, and you Jasper, all agree with Obama?
When he stated that Russia was not as big a threat as say Terrorists, Al Kyda, & ISIS, at that time, was he wrong ?
So do YOU ALL still believe Russia is NO THREAT ?
Because OBAMA sure feels they are, and were, as well as all of our major Intelligence gathering agencies.
Do you fellows understand, the most serious impending 'Threats' that face our country, are constantly evolving and changing.
Are you fellows capable of seeing this much ?
Apparently, most of us thought more about the threat than Obama did.
I would have chosen not to dismantle the neighboring nations' missile defense systems that we provided them. Perhaps they would not have annexed the Crimean Peninsula if they believed that Obama was a threat. Therefore, I do not believe that Obama appreciated the danger of Russia.
They've always been a threat, and they always will be. That threat takes on different forms as years pass.
How do you suppose a DEFENSIVE missile system would have changed anything ?
REDUCING as opposed to ADDING or LEAVING INTACT weapons systems, whether they be defensive or not, goes a long way towards reducing the confidence that our allies have in our ability to handle an unstable environment in their backyard. Clearly, the Russians got the signal.
Why haven't you?
Perrie - What was wrong with my post?
This is why your site is losing it's balance.
Your post was taunting Jonathan. Please note, your first comment to him still stands, since that was your opinion of how things are.
Let me give you a hint:
"Dog whistle"
What "Balance"....are you Actually looking for ?
"Leaning" isn't balancing ya know !
I think you hit the "Fork in the road", and got confused again !
I was kidding around with you.
I guess there's a variance of our opinions on "kidding" and "funny" .
Leaning?
Now now.. it seems the two of you are complaining about the same thing, but you are on opposite sides. I must be doing something right!
I defer to you because it's your site.
later dude
Does this mean no "spooning" later ?
if you think Russia/Putin would have been deterred by our DEFENSIVE weapons not in the country they were planning on invading so as to not LOSE THEIR ONLY WARM WATER PORT,
U need to learn how to interpret some signals.
Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois state Senate was launched at a famous fundraiser and kickoff for the campaign at a 1995 gathering at the house of American terrorist Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn.
Ayers and Dohrn are well-known to people my age. In 1970, Ayers, along with wife Dohrn, were indicted for inciting a riot and conspiracy to bomb government buildings. Dohrn was convicted; Ayers was not. However, Ayers remains unrepentant, telling the New York Times in 2001, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon as part of his anti-war activities.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the only thing. There was also the gesture to Medvedev that he would make things easier for them "after the re-election". So you see, the entire posture gave Russia the impression that there wasn't going to be much resistance in the event of an incursion.
U need to learn how to interpret some signals.
This type of comment is not conducive to constructive debate. There are enough people on this site who are not interested in maintaining civil discourse, while remaining in ideological opposition. Please consider this in the future.
Sporking !
We both have "an understanding".
And Trump not enforcing RUSSIAN SANCTIONS after a Senate vote of 98>2 and a House vote of 421? or so to > 3 5 against <500 PLUS> against 5
really sends a much stronger message to his pal Putty Putin, don't you think ?
Obama's friendship with the terrorist Ayers, Dohrn, and the American hating Reverend Wright should have been enough to keep him from being elected President.
President Obama knew, both because of his superior intellect and education, that foreign policy is not a single entity. It is made up of thousands of constantly moving parts, each of which must constantly be understood, re-understood, monitored, re-evaluated and manipulated to the advantage of the United States and our allies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He understood that if you move one of the movable pieces or if it moved on it's own (many times without warning), that such a movement could and usually did affect dozens of other moving pieces in completely different parts of the world and that those movements in turn caused movements in other pieces and so on. He knew that all of the thousands of different pieces of the world, of foreign policy are all interconnected and all affected each other, many times in ways that are difficult or impossible to predict. Being the President of the United States requires an intelligence, education and grasp of huge number of idea in ones mind simultaneously of such a level to deal with a foreign policy that makes three dimensional chess look like amateur checkers. Obama was a Master at it.
Trump is struggling to begin to understand the basics of Chutes and Ladders. And is still in a rage every time he fails to play it well, which is all of the time. When it comes to conducting foreign affairs, the rest of the world leaders are maestro conductors and Trump is pounding rhythm-lessly on a bongo drum like a pre-schooler.
Comparatively speaking Barack Obama is on the level of B.B. King or Eric Clapton. While Trump is of the level of "Huh? What's a guitar?"
Barak Obama put the U.S. 8 trillion dollars in debt in the first 6 months of his first term. President Trump sure did not come close to that in his first 6 months!
Obama was a professor at one of the top ten universities in the world.
Trump was a huckster for a fraudulent "university" which ended with him having to pay 20 million dollars as a "refund" to the students he had conned.
But they both worked for a "university", so you have that at least.
So what? Many of us are not overly impressed by a cred like that. Quite the opposite actually.
At least Trump built something, hires and manages payroll for thousands of people, etc, etc. All Obama ever did was stand in front of a bunch of law students and bloviate? Certainly an accomplishment i suppose but not really that impressive.
Trump has a history of massive unethical behavior in his businesses and in his personal life.
It's not my problem if you are too incurious to look into it.
Hard to defend a fact so you deflect/resort to a childish meme? Says a lot about you!
Yep, seems like Obama and Holder's gun deals with drug cartels was one of the Obama administrations shining and "ethical moments" as well.
UC Law School statement: The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer." From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a professor in the Law School. He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996. He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year. Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors , although not full-time or tenure-track. The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status. Like Obama, each of the Law School’s Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching. Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.
The University Of Chicago regarded him as a professor. Your opinion is insignificant.
Sure my friend, sure - whatever helps you get through your day........and understandably I'm sure he DOES seem pretty smart to a lot of the liberals....after all, his good buddy Jonathan Gruber was speaking from the heart when he told us that Dingle-Barry was COUNTING on the stupidity of his voting base to pass the ACA.......and boy was he EVER right on the money.
The thing is this: The adults in the room aren't fooled. Dingle-Barry WAS smart enough to pull the wool over the eyes of the liberals, but not the adults. He wasn't even smart enough to not get caught with his hand in the cookie jar. While the goobers still chase that collusion fantasy down yet another rabbit-hole the facts are emerging about the Obama administration, the DNC and the Klintons all colluding to deny the civil rights of the incoming administration's members. A year from now Dingle-Barry's "legacy" will completely be in tatters - and the only questions that remains are "How many liberal goobers are going to jail for violating civil rights and constitutional law?" & "Will Dingle-Barry be going to jail with them?"
They sure are, but Obama told us not to worry about Russia or anyone else as he continued his worldwide apology and ass kissing tour. But it seems that he collaborated with Russia by having certain agencies try to dig up dirt on Trump. The proverbial substance is going to hit the fan as the year progresses and investigative committees are formed. The enemy is not Trump, it is the progressives.
Hey there Ed!
In a world where liberals worship a pedophile - a mass murderer like Kim Jong Un, dying from symptoms of obesity while his people starve - something like the knowledge that Obama armed drug cartels in mexico, that Obama bankrolled Palestinian terrorists with millions in tax payer dollars - and funded Iran's nuke program to the tune of Billions of Dollars just doesn't bother the garden variety lefty sympathizer.
Hilarious ..... the person who really hasn't done jack squat is Obama ...... never ran a business, never hired or managed a significant payroll, never stimulated local business with a business venture. Obama never went bankrupt because he never ran a business that could go bankrupt. ...... in other words he did exactly jack squat in business.
I hear he was very good at bloviating to law students though.
So can you tell me where Jim Morrison is now living? I'd like to ask him what brand of shampoo/conditioner he uses. I'd also be nice to know who killed JFK. Private message me if needed ...... you know, as to not screw up your clearances and all ....
What I wouldn't do...
Tell that lie to someone who will buy that partisan nonsense.
Dumb and dumber perhaps ..... i think they would buy it.
His employer says he was a professor, and they should know. It is their business. Why is it so important to you to whine "he was not a professor" ? The university says that numerous times over 12 years they offered Obama a path to tenure. So that shows they wanted him to be tenured.
Stop polluting the site with trivialities.
Donald Trump filed for bankruptcy so many times because he knew he could make money doing it. When he bankrupted his casino his investors all took a bath. Trump made sure to pay himself bonuses and whatnot before the bankruptcy so as to be sure that he made out. He's a crook and has always been a crook.
Whatever.
But how did that prepare him to be president??
Zero Obama campaign or administration officials have ever been indicted for malfeaseance in office...
Trump and Company already cannot say that. The indictments have just begun. They will rain down.
That's what Friends are For !
Who gives a flying fart whether or not he filed for personal bankruptcy or not?! He and his lawyers are clever enough to know how to force others to pay for his failures. He had billions in debt wiped out , and American citizens had to pay for every penny of it. And guess what? Those 4 stupid casinos are sitting either unfinished, or abandoned. Do you know how many laborers were screwed out of paychecks? THOUSANDS. And what does he care about? Suing whomever owns the properties where the broken-down nightmares are...to have his stupid name removed from them so the Trump effing Brand doesn't suffer.
So please, go right ahead and sing his praises. I'm sure you can afford to help him pay his bills. I can't.
No, Darling. None of us deserve this, not even the Trump supporters, especially the 'poorly educated' that he was able to bamboozle...which is why he has stated publicly several times, "I LOVE the poorly educated!" After he said it, people clapped and cheered. Why would anyone clap and cheer about that?
It would have been nice had the election rules been changed to include a 'shitty candidates can cancel each other out and therefore the election can be held again' clause. And just to clarify, I voted for Hillary and never considered her to be a shitty candidate. But the truth is that too much water has trickled under that bridge for her to be a viable candidate in 2020. She is too smart not to realize that. Hopefully, she will have the grace to back someone that can get us out of the mess that Donald Trump has put us in.
I don't know how much of a military threat Russia poses to the US, but I do know that Russia, China and Iran pose an economic threat to Wall Street profits. Because of the economic threat, I expect to see a lot of US media continue to post hysterical articles about how Russia is controlling the minds of voters in the US and similar propaganda.
I received this article to discuss on another website and haven't researched it for more info. It is on my to do list to find out which countries are banding together to rebuild war torn countries and to be in competition with US companies for contracts globally. The US companies tout that competition is necessary to keep prices in check, but most companies in the US are owned by a handful of conglomerates.
If Russia, China and Iran band together to expand competition for building global infrastructure, the US companies will face more competition that they are accustomed to dealing with.
We either believe in the "free" market system or we don't. Which is it?
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If you hate Hillary you dispute that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. This is very common among the Hillary hating left.
Do you personally base your vote on who you personally hate or on the issues?
Really? Since you seem to know so much about it, which companies & countries are you referencing.
Also, China, Russia and Iran have building an alliance for some time on various projects.
Do you read media other than mainstream US?
I will note that the US government has approved sales of billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia while Obama was in office.
Please read the following articles about Russian economic expansion into global markets.
and
I am glad that I did a little more research on this. I found a really good article on how local companies compete against global companies. Sometimes, local companies can then become a player on the world stage.
This article is from 2006, but I found it very interesting. I haven't finished it, but I thought I would share a tidbit that explains, in part, why global countries have difficultly meeting the needs of specialized markets.
(Kudos for reading a wide variety of media. I have never lived outside of the US and never wanted to. As a kid, I wanted to visit Africa to see the wildlife. As an adult, I would like to see the remains of Greek temples and the Colosseum in Rome. I am very grateful for all of the documentaries that bring the world to me on television. LOL!)
Yeah because they learned the Obama Administration shuffle all too well. That is to say ..... pleading the 5th in lieu of getting indicted.
with Chinese companies buying US companies?
How the HELL R U gonna be able to do that
after
i just red That...?
Never heard of "Operation Fast and Furious"? The rest of the thinking word has!
it is a established fact. Research it for yourself. I'm not going to do it for you!
Hope Halliburton will somehow be able to scrape by.
We know US tax payers get constantly screwed over by these rebuilders, and have no pity for these companies. I am curious on who will be footing the bills for whoever gets the contracts.
It is probably built into some US program as foreign aid or some obscure military item that is above being questioned.
Companies like Halliburton, will scream foul if they aren't the ones raping US taxpayers.
Profited Billions on Hallucinated Mushroom Clouded LIES, and "Nation Building".
It was obviously just a silly coincidence the former head of Halliburton, was involved in the decisions that enriched his former company.
Privatization of government services has been ongoing beginning with the Bill Clinton presidency. Clinton achieved results in a short time period that even Saint Reagan couldn't have dreamed of.
Trump is currently spearheading the effort to privatize our infrastructure. GW Bush and Obama has some small successes and Trump is now talking about "trillions of dollars" of infrastructure that we, the taxpayers, can't "afford", so that "private" companies must do the jobs. Really? "Private" companies expect to make profits, so I am not understanding how we, the taxpayers, are going to benefit by paying to drive on toll roads and continue to pay taxes to companies to run our government and then pay tolls to companies for the services that we shouldn't be paying them to provide.
Colossal clusterfuck.
Sums up Trump,
and his qualifications.
how bad does a candidate / professional politician have to be in order to lose to a guy who's only accomplishment is that he was born here?
lets face the facts... 7 million obama voters can not be wrong
A blank page would have sufficed.
The electorate judged him more qualified than his opponent.
He won.
Stop whining about it.
Sean, point out to me a specific interview with Donald Trump where he exhibits detailed understanding about any topic that pertains to being president of the United States.
He is completely dishonest, psychologically unbalanced, and immoral.
You are more qualified to be president of the United States than Donald Trump is.
Maybe he was speaking of the "shovel ready jobs" that were not so shovel ready.
Maybe it was his uncanny ability to tell the country that cops "acted stupidly" even before any facts were disclosed, and was later proved wrong.
He is completely dishonest, psychologically unbalanced, and immoral.
You're really talking about HilLIARy.
You are more qualified to be president of the United States than Donald Trump
But he remains president and will be so for at least four year, and more likely seven.
It's a matter of semantics. No one would argue that Trump meets the criteria to be President. Most of us do. What is a matter of debate however is whether or not he will be a good president or not.
Pride? I haven't seen anyone express pride in being a citizen over 35 years old. Exceeding the minimum qualifications is simply a question of fact. You either qualify or you don't.
Yeah! That's the idea. The door to being president is supposed to swing wide. What do you want the qualifications to be? An Ivy League education? Set that standard and you lose both George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln. Neither one of those guys even attended college. More recently, I think Truman might be the most recent president to not have a college degree. Trump at least graduated from a pretty prestigious business college.
Other qualifications are the personal jurisdiction of each voter. That's what campaigns are for.
JR's problem with President Trump is one thing an one thing only. His name is not Hillary. His hatred overrides any sane thought of what positives this President has done for his country.
JR thinks our President must be some sort of an intellectual to be president. In his world, only liberals can be intellectuals.
JR hates the Constitution so much that he thinks we need to change it to read presidents must be far left leaning community agitators that was a member of a church whose preacher was known to preach hatred of America.
No one else is acceptable to JR.
And critical thinking eludes you.
and none of them would have beaten trump. so what exactly is your point?
He is highlighting Trumps exceptionalism. What he has achieved is out of reach for all but a few.
with that level of debate, you should not have to wonder why we did not let liberals continue to run our country.
OMG someone still believes that russia bs?
im just kidding...
yes, I take my orders from putin and so did 7 million obama voters
nixon just used a tape recorder, meanwhile, clinton paid russians to manufacture lies /influence our election/ and then obamas admin used those lies to obtain a fisa warrant so our fbi and doj could illegaly spy on many more people than nixon or his father ever dreamed of
people with big names will be going to jail.
cheers