Trump Backs Romney, Says He Won’t Let ‘Bad Things’ Happen
EmailLAS VEGAS – Real estate mogul Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney today in a ballroom of his opulent Las Vegas hotel, saying that Romney won’t “allow bad things to continue to happen to us.”
“It’s my honor, real honor, and privilege, to endorse Mitt Romney,” Trump said.
“Mitt is tough, he’s smart, he’s sharp, he’s not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. So, Gov. Romney, go out and get ‘em. You can do it,” Trump added.
Romney, in accepting Trump’s endorsement, said it was a “delight.”
“I’m so honored to have his endorsement and, of course, I’m looking for the endorsement of the people of Nevada,” Romney said. “There are some things that you just can’t imagine in your life. This is one of them.”
Prior to the official endorsement, Trump held not one but two brief news conferences with reporters, during which he said he will not run as an independent if Romney clinches the nomination.
Asked why he endorsed Romney, Trump said he had “numerous meetings” with the former Massachusetts governor and had really come to know him better in the past few months.
“I think his general attitude, but the last two debates were very impressive,” Trump said. “I really thought he did really well, plus he’s the one person who speaks strongly about China because China is ripping this country like nobody is ripping this country.”
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Posted by: jake | February 2, 2012, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
These two men who made a career based on firing people were made for each other.
Posted by: AppeaseThis | February 2, 2012, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm
LOL…poor Donald Frump…trying to make people believe he is relevant…or ever was…
Posted by: RyanC | February 2, 2012, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm
BREAKING NEWS….. TRUMP ENDORSES ROMNEY….TRUMP’S HAIR ENDORSES GINGRICH ….. DETAILS AT SIX !!!
Posted by: munster42 | February 2, 2012, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
Wow! This should be helpful!
Posted by: Carol | February 2, 2012, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm
SO WHAT!!!!!! …… I’m ashamed of the Republicans….. I agree with Donald Trump when he says the World is laughing at us….. Look at him…he looks like an idiot…. and the Republican Party would make a deaf/mute laugh…. Republicans are embarrassing this Country….. I travel abroad often… and watching Mitt Romney on TV abroad is torture… they look at him as a FOOL….. and wonder why we don’t appreciate President Obama because they view him as a Great Man!
Lauren
Posted by: LAUREN | February 2, 2012, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
Newt now has, Trump, Palin and Cain, that is one disgusting sandwitch.
Posted by: dave | February 2, 2012, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
Trump is an arrogant idiot. Narcissist works too.
Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | February 2, 2012, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
Who cares? I’m mean really.
Posted by: newcountryman | February 2, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
What a pair ! One wants to eliminate Medicare, privatize social security and thinks the poor on this country actually have a safety net that works and real estate speculators , like vultures, should get he spoils of the bottoming out of the foreclosure market. The other thinks that the government doesn’t need taxes to function, that the very rich have no responsibility to share the burden of the financial crisis which they helped create and that bankruptcy is good business practice. And this is what the GOP has to offer. The dunce from Michigan and the mouth from Manhattan.
Posted by: michael Saunders | February 2, 2012, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm
News flash! Jon Corzine endorses Obama!
Posted by: newcountryman | February 2, 2012, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
Mitt Romney and Donald trump are both successful Americans so I can understand why liberals resent them. They have both achieved the American dream and to many liberals it is not fair that successful Americans have so much and they have so little. Well, I guess everybody has choices to make.
In regards to the campaign, Mitt Romney would make a much more fiscally responsible president than the one we have now. The Obama policies have killed millions of American jobs, have increased the national debt by $5 trillion dollars and still rising, have caused gas and fuel prices to almost double, have caused healthcare costs to rise by 23%, and we have over 6 million more people living in poverty. It is easy to see, unless blinded by their own liberal bias, that Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum or even Ron Paul would make a much better president than Obama. Even liberals had better open their eyes because under Obama they will suffer even more than the “so called” rich.
Does anyone really believe they are better off now than they were three years ago? I doubt it. Even Obama admitted that we were not, although I don’t think he meant to. If you think things are bad, or unfair now, just wait and see how bad it will be in four more years if this guy wins.
Posted by: Mick553 | February 2, 2012, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm
I wouldn’t mind privatizing my SS. At least then it wouldn’t be held by an entity on the verge of bankruptcy…
Posted by: Logicsgood5 | February 2, 2012, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
“”We’re”" not concerned about the poor.
Posted by: newz4i | February 2, 2012, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
1% endorses 1%. What else is new?
Posted by: bob | February 2, 2012, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
One smart business man recognizes another. Romney knows how to help our ailing economy and strengthen our nation. Trump trusts Romney to get our economy back on track and insure a brighter future for all. I trust Romney’s leadership to restore American values and the American dream for our children.
Posted by: Quivley | February 2, 2012, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
lol Trump is such a press hound.
Posted by: lexingtonlady | February 2, 2012, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm
Ah, the grotesque little ringmaster and his freak show. Sad, pathetic, and idiotic.
Posted by: Dr. Bubba | February 2, 2012, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
They have Trump and Romney!! We have O(bama, the POOR and the rest of us. Who’s side are you on???
Posted by: Dr. Bubba | February 2, 2012, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm
For those of you who worship the rich as some kind of demigods, here are two examples as to why they’re not.
Posted by: mike | February 2, 2012, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm
Romney Endorsed By Trump….Money Lives Money…Scratch My back, I’ll scratch Yours. Vote Experience…Newt Gingrich Balanced the Budget Two Times!! Once under a Republican Administration! And..Once with a Democrat…. President Clinton! He can work with Democrats or Republicans!
Posted by: James | February 3, 2012, 1:23 am 1:23 am
And I thought Trump was going to run with Palin as his VP choice
Posted by: Joe | February 3, 2012, 3:26 am 3:26 am
A blessing, or a curse.
Posted by: john locke | February 3, 2012, 5:51 am 5:51 am
I’m a Brit and we always pay a lot more attention to your elections than you do to ours. Understandably as who is going to be the POTUS has a lot more significance for the world than who will rule the roost in Westminster. But I’ve never seen a US primary season getting as much attention as this current Republican circus. Not good attention either. ALL the current Republican contenders are seen as and being treated as jokes. There has been a bit less to laugh about since Bachmann, Cain and Perry dropped out of the race but the remaining four are still providing plenty of chuckles. Santorum and Paul are Creationists which seems to everybody outside the US to automatically rule them out. How could anyone who can’t grasp one of the most proven ideas in science lead America in to the 12st century? Gingrich and Romney fair a bit netter but not much. Is this bunch really the best your great country can come up with? The whole world is watching. And laughing.
Posted by: ashadulailahaillallah | February 3, 2012, 6:46 am 6:46 am
LAUREN: I absolutely agree. Here in the UK Obama is easily the most popular, respected and admired President the US has had in my lifetime. And I go all the way back to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Almost anyone here would swap our Dave and Nick for him any day of the week. And yet many of you want to replace him with one of the clowns that are the Republican candidates. Go figure.
Posted by: ashadulailahaillallah | February 3, 2012, 6:50 am 6:50 am
Of course Trump is gona endorse Mitt. After Florida, it is pretty clear that Mitt will probably take the nomination so why would Trump risk losing face by backing any one else?
Posted by: Rob | February 3, 2012, 6:59 am 6:59 am