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They both took shots at The Donald over the past few days, but David Letterman and President Barack Obama were on the opposite sides of Donald Trump’s graces today.
Trump slammed Letterman for the comedian’s suggestion on his show last week that Trump’s treatment of Obama was racist and canceled his scheduled May 18 appearance on the Late Show as a guest and another one as a Top 10 presenter, according to the New York Post. “I was disappointed to hear the statements you made about me last night on your show that I was a ‘racist,’ ” Trump wrote in a letter to Letterman sent Friday. “In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth and there is nobody who is less of a racist than Donald Trump.”
Meanwhile, Trump today praised Obama for overseeing the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, two days after Obama skewered the presidential hopeful at the White House Correspondents dinner and a day after the news of bin Laden’s killing pre-empted the conclusion of Trump’s NBC reality series Celebrity Apprentice on the East Coast. Here is the statement, which is very presidential candidate-like: “I want to personally congratulate President Obama and the men and women of the Armed Forces for a job well done,” it reads. “I am so proud to see Americans standing shoulder to shoulder, waving the American flag in celebration of this great victory. We should spend the next several days not debating party politics, but in remembrance of those who lost their lives on 9/11 and those currently fighting for our freedom. God Bless America!”
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Canceling out on Letterman is not a brilliant career move if you aspire to be President. It did not work well for John McCain. I can hear Letterman stropping his barbs from here on the West Coast. I doubt if Trump will be able to overcomb this misstep.
Nice observation, but Letterman cancelled on Trump, not the other way around
“overcomb this misstep” – I caught that Eric. Good one!
LOL and SMH and WTF and BITCH PLEASE at “I was disappointed to hear the statements you made about me last night on your show that I was a ‘racist,’ ” Trump wrote in a letter to Letterman sent Friday. “In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth and there is nobody who is less of a racist than Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump is the new Anita Bryant.
A media figure whose intolerance has made them unacceptable to mainstream society.
I hate that ugly stuffed shirt.
Just like Republicans. When you’re of no use to them anymore they turn on you. Who would lie down with such dogs Trump included? Only a fool or Linda Tripp.
Very surprising comment on an industry site. Just this morning read about an aging actress from the 50s who died in her home – maybe was dead a year – because nobody thought to keep in touch with her. And then there is the cheapskates whose donations could have given a lift to the home for Hollywood’s elderly. People working in the industry are only one failure, one cancelled show, one bad diagnosis away from becoming invisible in that town. I dont like Trump but if I want a lecture about what class and loyalty are I certainly dont get schooled in it from Hollywood.
I dont care if he goes on Letterman or not – I dont watch Letterman and if I did I probably wouldnt stay up to watch Trump on Letterman. But if someone called me a racist I wouldnt accept an invitation from them either.
Trump has ” class ” , that’s why he’s taking the high road after being attacked by Obama who strangely refused to show birth certificate, it took two years….hum…fishy…Donald Trump is not a racist , but he is a forward thinker, a straight shooter, pull no punches, blunt, direct, in your face brutally honest:) Lots of people want the truth, but they can’t handle the truth! The ” Republicans ” actually get the credit for this, especially Bush and Chenney….since they were the ones who ordered the wars and the mission to hunt Bin Laden down….it took almost 10 painful years for New Yorkers in waiting, but it finnaly happened! Letterman is an idiot for calling Trump a racist, he couldn’t have been more wrong! Trump gets respect from everyone , and for Letterman to disrespect him like that, it was right for Trump to not want to talk to him! Why waste your breath on idiots! You either get it or you don’t!
new yorkers now can have some closure to their pain….I have shed many tears and even this morning. Today the healing begins for NYC , but not without sadness, and grief! GOD BLESS!
The Republicans get zero credit. They failed to get Bin Laden after seven years, a trillion dollars and 44,000 dead and wounded.
Obama got him in two years.
You failed. And, like all Republicans, you actually hate America unless it’s ruled by the people you voted for.
You’re no different than Bin Laden – you’re both enemies of the country.
Well said.
The partisanship drivel spewed in these comments betray a total ignorance of how these intelligence/military operations are conducted. This type of operation transcends the party of the administration and does not suddenly start or stop overnight with the change of administration.
To say the pursuit of Bin Ladin was not a priority of the last administration is sheer nonsense. It is not only untrue but belittles and demeans the hard work and unrelenting efforts of the people doing the actual work of gathering the intelligence, analyzing it and planning the operations.
Every Obama spokesperson has stated that this is the result of ongoing efforts on the part of the intelligence community and the military which started right after 9/11. That takes nothing away from the credit due the President for authorizing and supervising the actual operation that resulted in the demise of Bin Ladin. It acknowledges the truth of the efforts of the entire community working on the project over time. If the President’s people can do that, why not we who post here?
It’s a sad sign of the time that we are so polarized as a nation that civil discourse and intelligent debate is almost extinct. Nowhere is that polarization more evident than in the comments made on this blog on an almost daily basis.
Pitch perfect parody of a crazed leftwing nutbag. No credit to anyone but your side, and anyone who disagrees with you hates their country and is like Bin Laden. Well done!
This is a pitch-perfect parody of far-right lunacy. Well done.
Yes, Bush/Cheney lied tot he American public and ordered the war in Iraq – even though that sovereign country had zero-zilch-nada to do with Osama bin Laden or Al Qaeda.
And let us not forget that when asked about the hunt for Osama Bush famously replied that he “just didn’t send a lot of time thinking about him anymore.”
Obama got Osama!
777, you’re one deranged individual and have horrible grammar to boot.
Can you tell me one instance of Trump being a “straight shooter?” Even the people he fires on his show “The Apprentice” is arbitrary and exemplifies his objective favoritism.
Also, from the last time I checked, Bush and Cheney attacked the wrong country. How does that give them the victory?
Who is Chenney?
seriously, was this post created using the “random cliche assembler 2000″? Where can I get one of those?
“straight shooter”
“pulls no punches”
“can’t handle the truth!”
I’m surprised “where’s the beef” and “who let the dogs out” didn’t find there way in there.
tool
Honestly, can we please STOP reporting non-news about this clown? The attention gives him the notion that he matters/is legitimate and this whole ‘trainwreck’ = newstory is now the norm rather than the exception.
It just takes one person to start a trend so put a moratorium on Trump stories and not only will you make the news you’ll break it as well.
Trump should have written;
Dear Dave
Go “F” yourself then bang another intern you unfunny, fowl tempered, gap toothed old has-been. You won’t be missed after you retire….or die.
Love “The Donald”
P.S. Your getting beat in the ratings by a cable access show about birds.
LOL. That would have been great.
talk about someone who ruined himself in a week…. he ruined his name. trump should be ashamed. he did come of as a racist. and what’s worse is you never thought of him as one before.
Trump’s humiliation and sudden shift to colossal ass-kissing of Obama is too little, too late.
He’s just PO’d that Obama cut into the end of Apprentice last night on the East coast. But he can’t go after Obama for something even he knows is more important, and since he has to go after Someone he fires off a LETTER to Dave instead of confronting him in person. Trump’s pathetic.
Donald Trump, just go the hell away. You suck. You are a loudmouth racist bastard. Go the f–k away.
Ruined himself? Trump is sensational! His stock has gone up 100 points in the last week!!! Btw McCain got in trouble with letterman because he lied about why he had to cancel the day of taping and got caught. Not three weeks in advance. Get your facts straight.
Boycott Apprentice sponsors.
love letterman but getting sick of his leftist crap. everyone knows the donald is not a racist..when they resort to this crap, you lost me…if you cant call someone out on something without them resorting to saying you are racist, well they are in the wrong then…so sick of that crap…get over it and shut up. glad he cancelled on letterman…letterman was way over the top in his comments.
Everyone knows Trump is not a racist? Are you sure about that?
Correction: Everyone knows Donald Trump is a racist.
Donald Trump says, “Donald Trump is a nice person.” Donald Trump says, “Donald Trump likes the blacks.” Donald Trump says, “Donald Trump would make a great president.” Crazy people often talk about themselves in the third person. Only difference between the crazy guy yelling at cars on the offramp and Donald Trump is that the guy near the off ramp wasn’t pulled back from bankruptcy. Oh, and he has better hair.
lol
I was just going to post a comment regarding insanity and the use of the third person. Trump in fact would seem to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which interestingly Gary Busey also suffers from, although clearly to a much higher degree. The key to NPD is delusion, a distorted sense of self.
Trump isn’t racist. He likes all colors, be they either black like Obama or orange like himself.
America’s Richest Clown
Finding bin Laden was not a priority of the Bush administration. The team that found Osama was selected by the current administration, not the last one.
Don’t be such a partisan idiot.
Don’t worry Donald. You’ve still got Charlie Sheen on your side.
Must be tough for a New Yorker like The Donald that the target of his racist attacks is the hero of the free world. Obama got Osama. President Obama got his 3 am phone call and proved himself more than up to the challenge. To quote Mr. Sheen: “Winnng!”
Trump’s behavior and actions can be described in one word: DISGUSTING. He is a pig and completely undeserving of his “success”.
Note that Trump still appears on Leno, who apparently has no problem with the racist comments. Of course most of Leno’s show is just mockery of people of color. Sometime count how many of his skits and jabs are aimed at Black and Hispanic celebrities and politicians. I did, and it’s jarring.
Are you 12?
Yeah, stay Klassy, Donald. odd, no one here is mentioning his other show of class from yesterday, his rant about “poor Seth Meyers” who Donald said “really embarrassed himself” at the Correspondents’ Dinner, humiliation Trump attributes to none of Seth’s being funny “because he has a stutter.”
I’m guessing that what Don thought was Seth stuttering was in fact all the folks around him laughing – with Seth and at the ass that is Trump.
Someone here wants Letterman to sleep with another intern? Maybe he should instead follow Donald’s role model, and marry a few more women the age of his daughter.
Trump’s only interest is Trump. He doesn’t like Letterman because Dave sees him for what he really is – a publicity hog. So when Dave canceled Trump’s upcoming appearances, that was the perfect way to get his goat – to deny him air time.
T-Rump (suggested new spelling) has the resources to “pretend” to run for president merely as a teaser to get people to tune in to the season finale of his show. (Let’s make it a series finale, please.) He tried this gambit in the past, remember and didn ‘t run then either.
T-Rump’s only interest is T-Rump. Not you, not me, and certainly not the American people.