{"id":6598,"date":"2011-05-11T10:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6598"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T00:37:39","slug":"trumpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trumpd\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6599\" title=\"hindenburg_catastrophe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hindenburg_catastrophe-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hindenburg_catastrophe-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hindenburg_catastrophe-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/hindenburg_catastrophe.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>With his sham presidential &#8220;campaign&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_theticket\/20110510\/el_yblog_theticket\/trumps-2012-polling-plummets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">disintegrating faster<\/a> than a hydrogen-filled zeppelin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aPdB1t9zUEUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">inept casino operator<\/a> <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s much-hyped Sunday announcement turns out to have been a put-on, too. Trump lackey <strong>Michael Cohen<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_exclusive\/20110511\/pl_yblog_exclusive\/no-trump-presidential-announcement-on-celebrity-apprentice-finale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">still trying to pump air into the deflating dirigible<\/a> but it turns out the big &#8220;revelation&#8221; was as phony as Trump himself. An <strong>NBC-TV<\/strong> flack calls the whole thing &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; <em>S&amp;G<\/em> would call it <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_theticket\/20110215\/el_yblog_theticket\/trump-confirms-hed-use-wealth-for-presidential-race-but-how-much-does-he-have\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">another mendacity<\/a> from the blow-dried blowhard, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_theticket\/20110429\/ts_yblog_theticket\/trumps-latest-scandal-draft-dodging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">one of many<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump balloon began leaking gas soon after Trump&#8217;s head exploded into flames during <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/political-insider-jim-galloway\/2011\/04\/29\/donald-trump-and-the-f-bomb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">his now-notorious tirade<\/a> at <strong>Treasure [expletive] Island<\/strong>. As usual with the Trumpster, the damage was all self-inflected. The likely <em>coup de grace<\/em> was his mockery of stammerers, after <strong>Seth Myers<\/strong>&#8216; expert skewering punctured Das Donald&#8217;s famously thin skin during a <strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> gala. Beltway pundits then noticed what <em>S&amp;G<\/em> has been saying<!--more--> all along: The Donald is 300 pounds of pantywaist; one well-thrown punch and he&#8217;s down for the count. (<strong>Phil Ruffin<\/strong>&#8216;s high reputation has lost a few cubits of stature after he publicly endorsed Trump&#8217;s buffoonery. Who ever thought Ruffin would get played for a fool?)<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6602\" title=\"Trump face\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-face.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-face.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-face-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-face-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Darn!<\/strong> Think of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_theticket\/20110509\/pl_yblog_theticket\/trump-school-sued-for-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">all the fun we&#8217;re going to be missing<\/a> if Trump&#8217;s delusions of competence had carried him past his May 15 ratings stunt and into the presidential derby. I, for one, couldn&#8217;t wait to see Don respond to criticism from other candidates by calling <strong>Newt Gingrich<\/strong> &#8220;Fatso,&#8221; <strong>Sarah Palin<\/strong> &#8220;Four Eyes,&#8221; Rep. <strong>Michele Bachmann<\/strong> (R-MN) a &#8220;piece of ass&#8221; and Rep. <strong>Ron Paul<\/strong> (R-TX) &#8220;Gramps.&#8221; All the while, <strong>Trump Entertainment Resorts<\/strong> CEO <strong>Robert Griffin<\/strong> could sit there, crossing off one customer subset after another that TER&#8217;s titular liability had alienated. Having already pissed off blacks, gays and the speech-impaired, what was the next demographic that would come to regard &#8220;Trump&#8221; as a five-letter swear word? Griffin and his boss, <strong>Marc Lasry<\/strong>, ought to be cold-calling <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong>, <strong>Pinnacle Entertainment<\/strong> or maybe even <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>, in hopes of hooking up with a new brand name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As for you, Don<\/strong>, stick in there a while longer. The media&#8217;s not yet done<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/yblog_theticket\/20110428\/ts_yblog_theticket\/donald-trump-faces-scrutiny-over-donations-merch-made-in-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"> exposing you for the snake-oil peddler you are<\/a>. Your life is a useful reminder that it&#8217;s the emptiest wagon which makes the loudest noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his sham presidential &#8220;campaign&#8221; disintegrating faster than a hydrogen-filled zeppelin, inept casino operator Donald Trump&#8216;s much-hyped Sunday announcement turns out to have been a put-on, too. Trump lackey Michael Cohen is still trying to pump air into the deflating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/trumpd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,133,28,42,26,53,69,119,30,33,12,9,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6598"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32943,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6598\/revisions\/32943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}