Maybe Trump is campaigning in Maine for the same reason that Clinton recently made an appearance in Nebraska. These are the only two states that apportion Electoral College votes by congressional district, and the candidates are trying to poach a vote by winning a single congressional district while losing the state overall.
And I know that Trump has to be polite to the Republican governor up there while he’s visiting, but I gotta be honest. Even if you filled the Goodyear blimp with nitrous oxide and flew down to the Capitol Building and handed out a few thousand balloons, there is no way in Holy Hell that the U.S. Senate would ever confirm Paul LePage to serve in any capacity whatsoever in a Trump administration.
Here’s what Trump just told Scott Thistle, a reporter with the Portland Press-Herald:
Q: Speaking of Governor LePage, do you foresee any space in your cabinet for him and if so what would you like him to do?
A: I’ll tell you what. I don’t know that he would want that but he is a very talented guy, he is also a great person, a tremendous person and if he were available I would certainly find something for Paul because he’s done a great job up here, he’s not only popular, he’s done an unbelievable job so I would certainly say that he would be a candidate.
Trump has been on a roll recently saying more asinine things in one day than Sean Hannity typically manages in a whole week, but not much tops the following for making people want to hit their heads against their desks.
1. Paul LePage is a very talented guy
2. Paul LePage is a great person, a tremendous person
3. Paul LePage has done a great job, an unbelievable job
4. Paul LePage is popular
Of course, Trump also said this:
Q: What would be the best deal you could negotiate as president of the United States?
A: Peace all over the world would be the best deal. And I think I would know how to do it better than anybody else, but peace all over the world.
After this election is over, I am going to remove my brain and soak it in bleach until it’s disinfected.
Having recently revisited Dickens’ Little Dorrit, l think this quote is particularly apropos, vis a vis tRumps candidacy…would you not agree?
BooMan, as you mentioned recently, it will be impossible to unfurl the full opposition file against Trump; he piles up more stupidity each and every day.
The view you share here is particularly stupid- Governor LePage’s statements read so very poorly to a national electorate.
O.K., I’ll say what everyone must be thinking:
Trump just gave the stereotypical answer of a teen beauty pageant contestant. Peace all over the world!! But then he doubled down and added “I would know how to do it better than anybody . . . .” !!!
The Clinton campaign will never get a chance to use all their archived Trump material – at least as long as he keeps talking.
All Donald Trump ever wanted was to win one of his lousy beauty pageants, but they don’t have them boys so his entire life has been organized around filling that void.
That’s the most insightful, and compassionate, thing I’ve read yet about Trump.
Kinda like Shrub, all he ever wanted was to be Comissioner of Baseball. Instead, he had to settle for President of US.
“Peace all over the world… and I can do it better…”
Oi vey.
And this from the hoon demanding to know why he can’t just use some of them thar nukes laying around.
Oi vey es mir
Oh and Paul LePage on top of it all.
sheeee….
That “Peace All Over The World” thing. Is he targeting hippies?
I think it’s more along the lines of Costello’s “Peace In Our Time” where the only reason we have peace is because everything’s been nuked.
Then it would have to be a Yuuuuuuge cabinet!
Thanks folks, I’m here all weekend.
Paul LePage? Obviously, Secretary of State
And “piss all over the world” — Yes, that is what he would negotiate and that is why Paul LePage.
You’re laughing, but this might be a shrewd play for Maine’s EVs if Trump is promising to rid them of LePage
In the interest of accuracy (and just being a nitpicking jerk) it’s nitrous oxide and unfortunately it’s heavier than air, so that blimp won’t fly.
What has Trump offered Charles Manson? Head of DEA? Secretary of Education? Something like that?