Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Eat At Famiglia Pizza In Times Square

If you're going to have a Maverick meet a Good Friend To The Blacks, why wouldn't it be at the Famous Famiglia at Broadway and 50th Street? Former 2008 vice presidential candidate, Grizzly Mom and possible 2012 candidate Sarah Palin met 2012 Flirter Donald Trump at the Times Square pizzeria tonight. (So much for a "low key" meal.) When asked, "How about a Trump-Palin ticket?" Palin reportedly crowed, "That sounds exciting! Sounds unconventional!"

ABC News also recounts the love fest: Trump said: "I’ll tell you she's a great woman, a terrific woman, and a great friend," and added, "I'd love her to run," while Palin said, "What do we have in common? A love for this country and a desire to see our economy put back on the right track," and she likes "his independence, his willingness to speak his mind.”

The Caucus reports, "Artan Brdakic, a worker there, said they had a pepperoni pizza, a sausage pizza and a meatball pizza, with Mr. Trump wearing a suit with a blue tie for the meal and accompanied by his wife, Melania." Yes, Melania Trump was there, along with Palin's parents and Palin's youngest daughter Piper. Another weird note: Palin was eating her pizza with fork and knife.

Don't worry—Palin did stop by Trump's gilded apartment at Trump Tower. Apparently the Hockey Mom requested the meeting, as Trump's special counsel Michael Cohen told the Daily News that "Palin requested the meeting, saying she was coming through town on her 'One Nation' bus trip to New Hampshire. They are friends and have been talking for a while about getting together when the governor is in town," Cohen said. "Not for nothing, I think Mr. Trump can teach a lot of these politicians a lot." Yeah, like how to take attention away from Mitt Romney.

One person Tweeted, "Palin/Trump 2012! Definitely want someone who picked Famous Famiglia's in Times Square to have the nuke codes." Why were Palin and Trump at Famiglia, besides the fact that it's located at the Crossworlds of the Lamestream Media? Well, Trump's latest batch of Celebrity Apprentice contestants had to sell pizza at Famiglia. (Former Celebrity Apprentice contestant/Real Housewife of Atlanta Nene Leakes calls Famigilia her favorite pizza spot.)

So, where will Palin be today? Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty.

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By Jen Chung in News on May 31, 2011 11:55 PM

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Oak

Palin is a quitter , a pathological liar, a xenophobe, and an intellectually lazy hypocrite.
But, of course, we're all supposed to be in awe or scared of her. Riiiiight.

futomaki

she's not a governor.

seattlesnow

brooklyn does have better pizza, the Hipsters would of loved it

LinkMan

I would think that with their combined excellent taste in all things tasteful, they would have known that the BEST pizza in Times Square is at Sbarro. Just ask Michael Scott.

souper_crackers

R.I.P. Sbarro. :(

seattlesnow

Sbarro's is like a fly over land mall staple

mzknowitall

She's angling to be on Celebrity Apprentice, which is where she belongs.

whatidsay

It's going to be some kind of slap-fest if she gets into the race with Bachmann. That should be fun to watch!

BobSantos

For one of them to live - the other must die.

It would be a win-win situation.

xXxMExXx

More Melania pictures next time Jen.

jambolino

who eats at a famiglias? lol how not new york of them

Roger_the_Shrubber

The woman can't even go out for a pizza without the hate-mongers having a fit.

For decades the feminists have been preaching that a woman should be able to have a family and a career. Here is a woman doing just that and it drives them nuts.

Marla

Yes, Roger, that's exactly what progressives dislike about her: the fact that she simultaneously has two X chromosomes and isn't a housewife.

And what they dislike about you has absolutely nothing whatever to do with you being a knee-jerk dog-food-for-brains whose sole and only political thought is how much he hates liberals.

masterjarvis

she didnt go out for a pizza moron. she went out on a publicity outing and disguised it as going out for pizza.

ANGRYGOD11

Do you really believe she just went out for pizza with Trump or maybe its just a publicity stunt for their own benefit?

randomtransplant

Where the hell have you been? Women have careers now. This one just happened to muck hers up so bad she had to quit before she was indited on something.