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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 09:31 AM Sep 2016

What good is war? Let me count the ways." . . . Please come CAPTION Donald Trump!!!




Donald ("I would have jumped the hijackers&quot 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 OP
No words for that idiocy. lonestarnot Sep 2016 #1
really illustrates how it is all about him treestar Sep 2016 #2
Warning. CAPTIONing at DU is a creative activit, so skip fox Sep 2016 #4
War pumped up Donald's feelings of self importance. Trump owned the tallest building left standing. In_The_Wind Sep 2016 #3
"Just look at what a mere 19 men managed to do! Now that's going out in style!" randome Sep 2016 #5
My fingers may be short but I got a long building ladies Johonny Sep 2016 #6

treestar

(82,383 posts)
2. really illustrates how it is all about him
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 09:52 AM
Sep 2016

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
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 10:11 AM
Sep 2016

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.)

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
5. "Just look at what a mere 19 men managed to do! Now that's going out in style!"
Mon Sep 12, 2016, 10:24 AM
Sep 2016

"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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