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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat good is war? Let me count the ways." . . . Please come CAPTION Donald Trump!!!
Donald ("I would have jumped the hijackers" Trump is saying: "Sure 9/11 was bad. . . . It was terrible. . . . But that afternoon my building, 40 Wall Street, became the tallest building in downtown Manhattan. . . . I mean, I don't want to minimize the importance of 9/11, but to have the tallest building in New York . . . ! Wow. Just imagine!"
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Above CAPTION based on an interview with the Donald on 9/11 as told by Huffington Post based on a Politico story and with a link to a brief portion of the interview:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-9-11-bragged-towers_us_57d58b91e4b03d2d459aee98?section=&
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What good is war? Let me count the ways." . . . Please come CAPTION Donald Trump!!! (Original Post)
skip fox
Sep 2016
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lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)1. No words for that idiocy.
treestar
(82,383 posts)2. really illustrates how it is all about him
in his views that' all there is to 911. How did it affect him?
skip fox
(19,359 posts)4. Warning. CAPTIONing at DU is a creative activit, so
he didn't say those exact words, although the sentiment (if you'll check out the sound file) is distinctly his. (To make it a decent joke, I had to contextualize it and exaggerate his sense of his own significance as well as his blindness toward others.)
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)3. War pumped up Donald's feelings of self importance. Trump owned the tallest building left standing.
randome
(34,845 posts)5. "Just look at what a mere 19 men managed to do! Now that's going out in style!"
"Fundamentalists have had great things to say about me so I have great things to say to them. They showed respect for me by making my buildings the tallest in Manhattan. You can't buy good PR like that, you simply can't."
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Johonny
(20,851 posts)6. My fingers may be short but I got a long building ladies