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Politics, The Media

Sarah Palin Says She Is Ready To Dump Trump

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imageAMES, Iowa — Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, has spoken out for the first time on the 2016 U.S. presidential elections and asked voters the question, “Are you ready to dump Trump?”

“Are you ready for the leader to make America great again?” Palin said with Mr. Trump by her side at a rally at Iowa State University. “Then you must dump Trump.”

The Republican frontrunner presidential candidate was not expecting the comment from Palin.  Immediately after the rally, Trump posted  his own criticism about the 2008 vice-presidential candidate, saying, “What is wrong with this woman? She has blood coming out of her eyes, and her mouth, and from her whatever.” His post is reminiscent of a similar comment he said of FOX News commentator and debate moderator Megyn Kelly who had called him out on his mysoginistic record.

It turns out that, because of poor audio at the rally, Trump misheard Palin who actually said, “Are you ready to stump for Trump?”

Well, so much for Palin endorsing Trump.

 

International, Politics

Birther Issue: Donald Trump Goes After Ted Cruz And The Philippines’ Grace Poe

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Top left, clockwise: Cruz, Poe, Trump, Obama

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is undeniably a birther: he has continuously questioned Barack Obama’s citizenship, claiming the president was born in Kenya and should not have been qualified to run for U.S. president.

Fast forward to 2016.

Trump is running against Senator Ted Cruz who appears to be the greatest threat to the billionaire’s quest for the presidency.  Cruz was born in Canada to a Cuban-born father and American mother.  That, according to Trump, does not make the senator a ‘natural-born citizen’ which is a primary qualification to become president of the United States.

Trump has also turned his attention to the Philippines which is holding its own presidential elections in May this year.  One of the leading candidates is Senator Grace Poe who faces questions about her being a ‘natural-born citizen’ on the grounds that she is a foundling , adopted by film actors Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces, and whose biological parents remain unknown to this day.

Asked by The Adobo Chronicles why it matters to him who gets elected Philippine president, Trump said, “If I become U.S. president, I  cannot be dealing with a foreign leader who is not legitimate.”

He added: “Grace Poe is either a natural-born citizen or is not. And if the answer is no, then as U.S. president, I do not have any business recognizing her as a fellow head of state.”

Do we see a budding alliance between Ted Cruz and Grace Poe?

Beauty, International, Politics

Donald Trump Calls For An End To All Beauty Pageants

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imageNEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has run out of controversial campaign statements and has turned his attention to beauty pageants.

The former owner of the Miss U.S.A. and Miss Universe pageants is now calling an end to all international beauty contests.

Riding on the coattails of the recent Miss Universe fiasco in which pageant host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner (Miss Colombia) only to correct himself later saying it was Miss Philippines who had won the title, Trump says beauty pageants are degrading to women.

Trump’s comments came after an op-ed piece in salon.com argued that the great Miss Universe mixup offers an excellent moment to call for an end to beauty pageants. “Once upon a time, feminists openly condemned such contests, and with good reason. But then, somehow, it became unfashionable to object to parading young women around and assigning them numerical ratings like cattle at the marketplace,” the article said.

Asked by The Adobo Chronicles if it wasn’t hypocritical of him to call for a total ban of beauty contests considering he himself owned pageants in the past, Trump said, ‘that was pure business. I am a businessman.’

‘Don’t get me wrong. I love beautiful women, and beautuful women love me,’ he added.