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Trump Picks $50 Million Entertainment Career Over Presidential Race
Image used under a Creative Commons license courtesy Gage Skidmore. Announcing that he wouldn’t run for president on Monday, Donald Trump said in a statement that “business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector.” It’s not surprising that he didn’t choose to run a campaign that he almost certainly would have lost. But Trump’s decision was probably based as much on an ultimatum from NBC, the network that runs The Apprentice, Trump’s one undisputed business triumph, as it was by any particular love of business.
Mike Huckabee’s contract with Fox News pays him $500,000 a year, a sum that’s been quoted often in discussions of his decision not to run for president. But that contract pales in comparison to Trump’s take from his entertainment ventures: in its list of the wealthiest entertainers in 2009 and 2010, Forbes estimated that Trump makes $50 million annually from his entertainment ventures.
Trump might not have to sacrifice all of that income if he ran for president, because some of it comes from speaking fees, books, and products like a menswear line. There are no prohibitions on candidates receiving money for services rendered, so Trump probably could continue doing product endorsements as long as he wasn’t being paid unusually high rates for them, though he might have dropped some clients in order to avoid conflicts of interest or to appear more substantive. And NBC’s president for programming, Bob Greenblatt, told entertainment reporters that if Trump ran for president, the network would replace him but continue the show with a new host, a move they’d likely have been required to make to comply with equal time rules. That very public announcement left Trump with the unpleasant prospect of a campaign that could strip him of the most legitimate business enterprise in his portfolio.
Trump’s brief, incendiary campaign may have long-term negative implications for his brand, especially given how much he harped on President Obama’s citizenship. But continuing The Apprentice, one of the few things NBC knows works in the current lineup, gives Greenblatt desperately-needed breathing room to roll out an ambitious new programming schedule. Trump’s pseudo-run may have set the bar low for ugliness in the 2012 Republican primary, but in the short term, he’s still good business for NBC.
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So far, the biggest problem I have seen people have with Mitt is the kind of church he goes to...then that just means he cant do anything right. It was ok for Obama to sit in Reverend Wrights church for 20 years and listen to hate speech against Israel and our own nation....but he never really heard it.
Talk about politics at the pulpit.
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Rommney will divide the GOP. He just has to much going against him.
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: Rommney will divide the GOP. He just has to much going against him.
I have a question for you Ray. If the Koch brothers provided funding for mass media in the amounts George Soros does, what would you say?
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: Rommney will divide the GOP. He just has to much going against him.
I have a question for you Ray. If the Koch brothers provided funding for mass media in the amounts George Soros does, what would you say?
cash, does George Soros do it secretly or openly?
do you realaise that the Teaparty was created by the Koch bros and as people understand that they are the driving financial force they drop out? there is nothing grassroots about it..
the GOP is in worse shape than ever cuz of that...
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quote:Originally posted by raybond: Rommney will divide the GOP. He just has to much going against him.
I have a question for you Ray. If the Koch brothers provided funding for mass media in the amounts George Soros does, what would you say?
cash, does George Soros do it secretly or openly?
do you realaise that the Teaparty was created by the Koch bros and as people understand that they are the driving financial force they drop out? there is nothing grassroots about it..
the GOP is in worse shape than ever cuz of that...
Does it matter if its secret or in open? No, it doesnt.
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Santorum, Kane, or Pawlenty is who I am looking at in the Primary. Who are these guys in bed with? I would like to hear more from Herman Kane. What does anyone know of him?
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I really don't understand what your question has to do with the subject matter.
I think that Romney will divide the GOP.
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quote:Originally posted by Peaser: I really don't understand what your question has to do with the subject matter.
Really ray...
So are you saying not to check peoples backgrounds before putting them in office? The media did help Obama get in office, by ignoring his background.
You really think that FOX, Limbugger, Beck, etc ignored Obama's background? Not hardly peaser. Just look at the birther BS for a clue.
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quote:Originally posted by Peaser: I really don't understand what your question has to do with the subject matter.
Really ray...
So are you saying not to check peoples backgrounds before putting them in office? The media did help Obama get in office, by ignoring his background.
You really think that FOX, Limbugger, Beck, etc ignored Obama's background? Not hardly peaser. Just look at the birther BS for a clue.
Its not the birther background. Its the radicals he has been know to associate with that you and other libs gave him a free pass on. Its his VOTING RECORD (or lack there of) that screamed indecisiveness. You also, gave him a free pass on that. Its the lack of any kind of experience other than community organizing and being a token candidate for the urban community.
You want a real black President? Herman Cain. Oh wait..he is an "uncle tom" because he is a black Republican. The left is such a joke.
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quote:Originally posted by Peaser: I really don't understand what your question has to do with the subject matter.
Really ray...
So are you saying not to check peoples backgrounds before putting them in office? The media did help Obama get in office, by ignoring his background.
You really think that FOX, Limbugger, Beck, etc ignored Obama's background? Not hardly peaser. Just look at the birther BS for a clue.
Its not the birther background. Its the radicals he has been know to associate with that you and other libs gave him a free pass on. Its his VOTING RECORD (or lack there of) that screamed indecisiveness. You also, gave him a free pass on that. Its the lack of any kind of experience other than community organizing and being a token candidate for the urban community.
You want a real black President? Herman Cain. Oh wait..he is an "uncle tom" because he is a black Republican. The left is such a joke.
And your skewed idiocy is ignorant and gives the right an even worse image than it already has. So Obama associated with radicals? LOL...u r such a dumbass. How about you explain GW sherking his duty in the military? I know...you'll say that's old news...but he was essentially a deserter. And you coming from the military, or so you say, condone that?!?! You are so full of crap it's coming out of your ears.
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So pagania, is the overflowing crap that comes out your ears any different than the crap that comes out of myself, anyone in the middle east, or Israel, or the right? Is it any different as to say that we all have beliefs? Everyone is wrong with each other and that's the way the world turns.
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No, I am saying that Romney will split the republican party
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quote:Originally posted by Peaser: I really don't understand what your question has to do with the subject matter.
Really ray...
So are you saying not to check peoples backgrounds before putting them in office? The media did help Obama get in office, by ignoring his background.
You really think that FOX, Limbugger, Beck, etc ignored Obama's background? Not hardly peaser. Just look at the birther BS for a clue.
Its not the birther background. Its the radicals he has been know to associate with that you and other libs gave him a free pass on. Its his VOTING RECORD (or lack there of) that screamed indecisiveness. You also, gave him a free pass on that. Its the lack of any kind of experience other than community organizing and being a token candidate for the urban community.
You want a real black President? Herman Cain. Oh wait..he is an "uncle tom" because he is a black Republican. The left is such a joke.
And your skewed idiocy is ignorant and gives the right an even worse image than it already has. So Obama associated with radicals? LOL...u r such a dumbass. How about you explain GW sherking his duty in the military? I know...you'll say that's old news...but he was essentially a deserter. And you coming from the military, or so you say, condone that?!?! You are so full of crap it's coming out of your ears.
I never defended GWs actions on dodging duty. I never defended Bill Clinton draft dodging either. Bill Clinton, draft dodging then becoming the commander in chief. Bush pulling his stunt, and becoming the commander, Obama....no military experience yet commander.
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Wow, I am enjoying this Trump debate debacle. Rick Perry declined, and Mitt Romney had some excuse. Bachmann is not coming either. Who does Trump think he is anyway. I didnt mind him before, but now he is just getting annoying. He always shows up on Greta and just blows the same thing out of his mouth. It wouldnt be AS bad if he had something new to say.
Donald Trump debate now just a two-man affair
"Is it too late to fire the moderator?
Two more Republican candidates -- Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry -- said thanks but no thanks to an invitation to participate in an Iowa debate managed by real estate mogul Donald Trump.
The Dec. 27 affair has now just two committed participants, one at the top of the GOP field and one distant aspirant, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, respectively.
Perry's campaign said he plans to focus his efforts on traditional retail campaigning in the closing weeks. His campaign announced plans for a 44-town bus tour starting next week."
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Trump Bows Out as Moderator of GOP Debate, Reserves Right to Run for President
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BTW, anyone find it odd we have not been seeing Sarah Palin in the limelight lately? I wonder if she is planning some surprise entry...I doubt it at this point in time but you never know.
I will say this, I will not be voting for Newt if he runs, I am afraid that he will be pushed as the front runner by the evangelicals because of Romney being mormon.
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She made her million touting her book while getting the PAC to fund the cross country bus ride. Sarah's done for this season CCM. Maybe next year once her ghost writer pumps out the next one.
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BTW, anyone find it odd we have not been seeing Sarah Palin in the limelight lately? I wonder if she is planning some surprise entry...I doubt it at this point in time but you never know.
Actually I have rather enjoyed not seeing Palin in the limelight...she gives me the creeps
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