Speculation on who Trump will pick for VP?

[alfaniner]

There's one reason why Trump won't pick Scott; he's black. Trump's massive racism will perclude him from picking Scott, even if it's the only way for him to win. Trump may be persuaded to pick a woman, but never a person of colour.

One thing I never got from The FPDJT is a personal sense of racism, anti-semitism, or anti-gay. Oh, he definitely backs those people who are blatantly that way, as long as they bow to him, sure. But his defining characteristic is narcissistic misogyny.

 

[Armitage72]

One thing I never got from The FPDJT is a personal sense of racism, anti-semitism, or anti-gay. Oh, he definitely backs those people who are blatantly that way, as long as they bow to him, sure. But his defining characteristic is narcissistic misogyny.

“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza – black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else...Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”

Although this is a second-hand quote from John O’Donnell's 1991 book "Trumped". In a 1997 interview, Trump said the claim that he said it was "probably true", but in 1999 he denied saying it.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

One thing I never got from The FPDJT is a personal sense of racism, anti-semitism, or anti-gay. Oh, he definitely backs those people who are blatantly that way, as long as they bow to him, sure. But his defining characteristic is narcissistic misogyny.

Did you not see the full page ad he had in the NYT about the central park five? Or the time he tried to get one of his accountants fired because the man was black which in Trump's eyes, made him too stupid to be an accountant?

 

[Darat]

Did you not see the full page ad he had in the NYT about the central park five? Or the time he tried to get one of his accountants fired because the man was black which in Trump's eyes, made him too stupid to be an accountant?

Yep: https://theweek.com/articles/835714/what-donald-trump-said-about-jews

One of the oldest stereotypes about Jews is that they are all money-grubbing chislers — a prejudice that was at the root of countless medieval pogroms. Trump has implied or straight-up said this many times. In a 1991 book, John O'Donnell, the former president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, said Trump had told him: "Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day." He later called O'Donnell a "loser" in an interview with Playboy, but allowed that, "The stuff O'Donnell wrote about me is probably true."​

ETA: Ninj'd

 

[Stacyhs]

Don't forget he was also sued by the DOJ for racial discrimination due to his policy of not renting to Black people in one of his buildings in 1973.

 

[varwoche]

In her zeal to be the VP pick, Kari Lake has plunged deeper into Trump's rectum than the throngs who have heretofor ventured, where she administered a reverse psychology enema.

I don’t think he needs a vice president. If there’s ever one president who’s so strong he doesn’t need one, it would be him.

Lake practically lives at Mar-a-Lago now, according to this report:

Kari Lake Was At Mar-A-Lago 'Every Night' In Bid To Be Trump VP Pick: Report

 

[crescent]

Trump will view any VP as a potential rival. He'll never like nor trust any VP and probably dislikes the idea of even having one.

To be Trump's VP is to be sidelined.

 

[dudalb]

Trump will view any VP as a potential rival. He'll never like nor trust any VP and probably dislikes the idea of even having one.

To be Trump's VP is to be sidelined.

I hate Trump with a passion, but that is often the case in elections.
There is old joke about how a mother had two sons: one joined the Navy and was lost at sea, the other was elected Veep. Neither was heard from again...

 

[Stacyhs]

A Trump-Lake ticket goes nowhere but Kray-krayville.

 

[TellyKNeasuss]

I think that Trump will pick someone that he has leverage over, so that Trump can claim to be "disabled" for a day and can count on that person to pardon Trump while temporarily possessing presidential powers. Trump could pick Walt Nauta and make Nauta's pardon contingent on Nauta pardoning Trump first.

 

[Trebuchet]

Trump's already said he can pardon himself.

 

[Stacyhs]

Vice-President Ginny Thomas.

 

[Trebuchet]

Vice-President Ginny Thomas.

That's entirely too plausible.

 

[Stacyhs]

That's entirely too plausible.

Hell, it's plausible that Donnie would pick Donnie Jr or Eric for his VP. It would depend on which one had crawled up his ass the farthest at the mo.

 

[varwoche]

That's entirely too plausible.

Not a chance, based on her appearance.

 

[Stacyhs]

Not a chance, based on her appearance.

She's not his type.

 

[P.J. Denyer]

Even more special my brother had a call from one of our right wing cousins this morning (my brother acts as a tax consultant for the family). Our cousin felt that Trump doesn't even need a VP because, 'when God calls him home his departure will cause the second coming of Jesus'

I think your cousin might be holding the map upside down..

 

[Trebuchet]

Hell, it's plausible that Donnie would pick Donnie Jr or Eric for his VP. It would depend on which one had crawled up his ass the farthest at the mo.

Ivanka.

 

[Stacyhs]

Ivanka.

Well, she is his type....

 

[Armitage72]

It probably won't be Lindsey Graham. He was booed constantly for six minutes while trying to speak at a Trump rally held in his own home state.