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Video: Trump, Weiner Trade Insults Over Political Ambitions

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Mayoral hopeful Rep. Anthony Weiner and presidential hopeful hopeless Donald Trump both appeared on Piers Morgan Tonight on CNN last night, discussing Libya, OPEC, and how best to insult each other. Poor Bill Richardson was also on the show, but you would have been hard-pressed to notice given that he was the third wheel during their tense banter. Let's just say that if this were the 1950s, the Hays Code would have required that the cameras fade out on Trump and Weiner sometime between Weiner sarcastically calling Trump "big guy" and Trump jabbing, "A lot of people are leaving the city if you end up winning." Here's the video (things get interesting around 6:20):

Weiner took the first shot when he said, "I'm not president yet—although I think I have as much chance as Donald Trump does." For some reason, Morgan defended Trump, and said "He's polling better than you." Trump then chimed in, "If I polled like Anthony's polling, I would drop out immediately." But Weiner shot right back with a smile, "You'll be dropping out soon enough, Donald. We both know it." This pissed Trump off, who responded directly, "Frankly, I look at his polls in New York, running for mayor, he does very poorly. So I wish him a lot of luck," Trump said.

That's when things really got testy: Weiner jabbed at Trump, "I'm the front-runner, big guy. I'm not sure if you're even going to be around at the end." But Trump got the last salvo in: "A lot of people are leaving the city if you end up winning." Morgan was downright flustered and disappointed having to end the segment mid-coitus: "Tragically, I have to leave it there, just when things were hotting up nicely." It's a good thing that Trump wasn't in the studio, or else those camera lens' would have been foggy alright.

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  • Anthony Weiner also killed at the Congressional Correspondents' Dinner: http://gtcha.me/hr9ztD

  • Not that you would ever want to know but if you asked, Piers Morgan could tell you what Trumps ass tastes like.

  • kevd

    he could tell you what the asses of most of his guests taste like.
    he is a fool.

  • kevd

    Why can't anyone understand the difference between England and the UK?
    Really Piers? You should be able to point that out, since you're from there.

  • Fronko

    Labeling yourself the presumptive front-runner two years before the election is a sure fire sign that you have no chance of winning.

    Sad, because without that mayor's salary Weiner may have no way of paying off all his parking tickets.

  • HypocraticOath

    Trump is such a pompous arrogant piece of shit.

  • WetButt

    I respect Weiner but Trump is right on both of the initial points. 1 oil prices are not rising because of Libya, they are rising because of artificial market factors like commodity trading and projecting, not to mention OPEC deciding the rate at which the oil is distributed. 2. NATO is entirely US lead, there is not a single NATO intervention that militarily was not lead by or had majority participation from the US. Lest everyone forget the nearly comical 'coaltion' that went in to Iraq with the US

  • Politburo

    Iraq was not a NATO mission.

    Ocean Shield is being run by the Dutch, and the US is not a majority participant (Dutch 2 ships, US 2 ships, Denmark and Turkey 1 ship each).

  • unretrofiedforu

    Sure they will Trumpy. You're really going to uproot all those assets and leave? Go, find another city with that's this in love with their finance centers. I dare you.

  • airtech1

    I'm no Trump-corner doter, but you should probably say the exact same thing about Weiner.

  • unretrofiedforu

    That he wouldn't leave either? I think that proves to discredit what Trump says even more.

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