Trump: Ryan will get along or 'pay a big price'

[Eugene]

Source: Politico

Trump: Ryan will get along or 'pay a big price'

By NICK GASS 03/01/16 10:22 PM EST

Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to work with Congress if he is elected president — or else.

Asked about comments by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticizing the mogul for equivocation when he was asked about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, the candidate offered a preview of the cooperation to come.

“Look, I don’t want to waste a lot of time," Trump said. "I’m going to get along great with Congress, OK? Paul Ryan, I don’t know him well, but I’m sure I’m going to get along great with him, and if I don’t? He’s gonna have to pay a big price, OK?”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-paul-ryan-super-tuesday-220095

The Donald seems to be drunk on his own wine.

[monmouth4]

1. That's Jersey/NY Mafia speak for "he better get in line or else." Christy does fit in I think...n/t

[Initech]

2. Der Trumpenfuror doesn't make friends or enemies.

[3catwoman3]

3. Very sophisticated...

...negotiating skills -

Any Democrat who sits out this election because our eventual candidate does not pass their own personal purity test, and allows this poseur to occupy the White House will have a lot to answer for.

[bearssoapbox]

4. I listened to to his red meat, low intelligence aimed blathering to his base.

His base goes crazy and applauds him when he says that he will get things done by running roughshod over everyone, and everyone will bend to his will and those that don't will "pay a big price".

Yet, when President Obama tries to work with the reTHUGliCONS, no matter what the goal, he's accused of trying to be a "DICTATOR", "MONARCH" or "KING".

It's just mind boggling that trump supporters can't see the hypocrisy!

[3catwoman3]

11. His "base" is a very apt term, as he...

...certainly appeals to his followers basest instincts. He is despicable.

[bearssoapbox]

23. Agree with him being despicable.

[Cosmocat]

16. Man

I feel your pain ...

Their contradictory nature, their way of being relentless bullies while playing the victim against unimaginably non-existent bullshit has burnt my ass going back to Bill Clinton's days as POTUS.

You can't conversate with them, either, because that mentality has transitioned from just about the their politics to themselves.

It's a pretty good gig being a conservative, you get to say the most awful things while always being outraged and offended over nothing.

[bearssoapbox]

22. Exactly!

It's almost impossible to have a rational conversation with them.

[SummerSnow]

5. Pay a big price, Hmm what would that be?

Hey Trump, Herman Munster is his dad so you'd better run.

[Hortensis]

6. LOL. Wish we had an parallel universe

where we could sic them on each other.

[lunatica]

29. Trumps modus operandi is to humiliate his enemies by making them 'sissys' or 'low energy'

No one can fight back against the way he fights dirty.

Although Rubio tried and ended up just having a Who's got the bigger dick fight.

Trump will say things about Ryan that will strip him of any manliness. It's what he does. All while waving his arms languidly and dismissively in the air saying he heard others saying it.

He'll sit in the Oval Office and re-tweet every insult he finds about his enemies, always claiming he's not the one who said it.

[spanone]

7. he'll have his boys rough him up. that's what thugs do.

he's one fucked-up humanoid.

[Chan790]

8. LOL LOL fucking LOL.

I have no great love for either the Turtle or the Bro-Speaker...but Trumpie might want to learn to respect his betters.

Someone might want to point out to the Donald that if he pisses off the Congressional leadership of his own party, the first time he runs any business of the US government as fast-and-loose as he runs his personal business...Democrats are not going to stand in the way of House Republicans issuing articles of impeachment against a President from their own party or Senate Republicans ratifying those articles of impeachment to make him a former President.

Over/Under: 45 days from inauguration.

[gratuitous]

9. Read Trump's comments in an Edward G. Robinson sneer, see?

I suppose it's just too much for the millionaire pundits to ask Trump, "So what do you mean when you say that Speaker Ryan will 'have to pay a big price'?"

[Monk06]

10. He would face a GOP senate who hates is guts and has no reason to cooperate with him. Genious

Luckily the GOP senate can hate Hillary instead At least that makes a modicum of sense

[MowCowWhoHow III]

12. Horse's head incoming

[Yavin4]

31. More like Cheesehead.

Ryan is from Wisconsin.

[hardboiled]

13. I wish Obama was this alpha towards congress...

Obama should've said something similar after the 2010 mid terms. We needed more 2pac and less cliff huxtable.

[leftynyc]

14. Ryan is the head of body

of government that IMPEACHES. Be careful, Donnie - you're threatening the wrong person.

[avebury]

15. He is so clueless. Has he not paid attention the last 7 years?

We have already seen what happens when a Republican Congress does not want to work with a President. Trump doesn't get the fact that the President (i.e. Executive Branch) is only 1/3 of the Federal Government. He can spout all he wants but the Presidency does come with certain limitations, most important of which is a President cannot act as a Dictator.

[bemildred]

17. His Master's Voice. nt

[HughBeaumont]

18. WHAT "PRICE", FUCKER??? You can't fire him like you can an underling!

And you're telling me you'd have a hard time deciding, America?????

"Left wing and right wing are part of the same bird", MY ASS.

[dembotoz]

19. the song goes Hail to the chief is do not go hail to the speaker

[Roland99]

20. The Authoritarian!

[Mendocino]

21. This is a

"talk about it again, I'll throw you off this *******balcony" moment.

Drumpf is punk gangster racist fascist.

[eissa]

24. Nice pair of arms you got there

Shame if somethin' were to happen to them.

I can't stand Ryan, but that's some messed up shit right there.

[DemocraticWing]

25. Trump is going to flaunt the law, then have his goons shoot Congress if they don't let him.

We have to stop this man.

[WDIM]

26. He never answers a question he just says catch phrases. nt

[LonePirate]

27. This GOP intra-party war would be much more entertaining if we weren't threatened by it.

It may be fun to watch these buffoons spar with each other; but if it reaches the point where we all suffer from the terrible decisions (or indecisions) that result, then we won't be laughing.

[tularetom]

28. HL Mencken is widely quoted as having said

"Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American public"

Actually, what he said was:

“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

We were pretty dumb 100 years ago when he said this, but we're a lot dumber now. Believe me Trump will pay no price for this.

[Zambero]

30. Hee Hee

Does Trump realize that the Speaker of the House can effectively block any and all legislation that might otherwise reach the President's desk? Historically, the lion's share of grovelling between branches of government has originated from the White House and not from the Speaker's office.

[annabanana]

32. He neither knows nor understands the word "legislature" or "legislation".

He works by fiat and decree..

clueless