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Donald Trump Creates A New Political Party -- The Trumpets

New York -- Just days after turning in his Republican membership card and secret decoder ring, real estate developer Donald Trump has launched his own personal political party.

“It’s called the Trumpets, because I’m a guy who likes to toot his own horn,” Trump told a crowd of reporters at a hastily arranged press briefing. “Plus, Trumpets is a play on my name. So it shows how clever I am and that I have a sense of humor -- a man of the people. I think the voters will like that.”

Only weeks ago, Trump offered to host a debate featuring all of the Republican presidential hopefuls. But most declined his invitation, citing dentist appointments, IRS audits and “a good chance of rain” on the scheduled date.

Trump was further stung by Republican Party leaders and analysts who described his planned event as a circus or a sideshow.

“I thought my choice of Gary Busey as moderator was a good one,” he said. “But they didn’t want a host who was smarter than their candidates.

“The Republicans wouldn’t let me play in their game, so now I’m starting my own,” the Donald declared.

Trump stopped just short of announcing his third-party candidacy, however. “I’m not saying I’m running, people,” he said. “But If I were a presidential candidate, you’d see a campaign that achieves the highest ratings in the history of politics.”

Trump explained that he would hire the staff of his reality TV show, The Apprentice, to run his campaign. “As far as I’m concerned I’m already the boss and everyone else is my apprentice. So I would go to China and tell them: ‘You’re fired. From now on Americans are making the iPhones.’

“And I would go to Europe and tell that ugly German broad to start bailing or else you’re outta here.”

Asked to outline his domestic policy, Trump says he favors what he calls The Universal Plan. “It addresses all the issues: the deficit, immigration, unemployment, with one simple law,” Trump said. “Anyone who is not making at least $40,000 a year will be fired. We want to reserve America for paying customers.”New York -- Just days after turning in his Republican membership card and secret... more

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Photos: Congressman Weiner.. In Women’s Undies!!

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Twitter in Focus: Donald Trump

This week we take a look at the Donald's tweets.

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Donald Trump: The President We Deserve

We can name more Jersey Shore cast members than our state's Senators. We have commercials telling our kids to go outside and play. We are steaming into the twenty first century, powered by wheezing, poisonous 19th century technology. And the little pocket sized super computer that we bought six months ago, that tiny little thing that would have been considered nothing short of wizard class magic ten short years ago, we can't wait to throw that worthless piece of shit away the split second they let us buy the new version that's 3% slimmer and has TWO cameras in six months.

In a time when the goal is no longer to achieve anything laudable, or to contribute anything to the betterment of mankind for future generations, when to excel and be exceptional is seen as being kind of a dick move, when dignity and self respect are quaint and adorable notions of the past and the most sought after personal goal is to have one's own reality show, who better to represent this failed generation than Donald Trump?

We all know that he's probably not going to win. It seems like that would be a given. But just because he's probably not, and that he never should, and to even think about it makes the brain wet its little brain pants, doesn't mean that he couldn't. My Governor killed invisible aliens and was Danny DeVito's hilariously implausible twin for 90 minutes... So, don't talk to me about won't and shouldn't.

This is a man who builds giant, forty story, gold plated failure penises and wallpapers them with his name. This is a man who brags about supposedly fucking over a dictator in a land deal like he's waiting for you to high five him. This is a man who feuds with Rosie O'Donnell and has gotten backing from such great political titans as Bret Michaels and Gary Busey.

There was a time, I assume, when we as a people wanted to be represented in the highest halls of power by those that we believed were the best of us. When we wanted people smarter than us to be in charge of important things like, making sure the French didn't try to fondle our balls a second longer than we wanted them to, or to tell the Germans to cut it out already. The idea of choosing a leader because you think it might be cool to hang out with them and tell squirrel stompin' storries over a couple Old' Milwaukees, or because you think he might flip off the King of Arabistan, call Russia a fag and punch the United Nations in the taint, is all fucking insane.

If Donald Ulysses Trump were elected President of these God's United States, sure, it would be hilarious. I'm not about to question the entertainment value of it. The country would finally complete its transformation into one giant reality show, issuing a flip camera and a web domain to every citizen within its borders. Camera crews would follow the Trump at all times, he would have a confessional room built into the oval office, and we would no doubt all be murdered by the outrageously inappropriate actions of Secretary of State Omarosa.

But... what was I saying? I'm not sure really. The more I talk about it, the more I wonder why I was even thinking of fighting this at all. I'm sure Vice President Gene Simmons couldn't possibly be worse than Biden, and that's a man that knows how to brand a marginal franchise into, pathetic, yet unquestionable profitability. And personal pride is over rated anymore anyway.

Let's just face the facts that Abraham Lincoln isn't going to show up again. And besides, we wouldn't let him. Why would we want to? It's not about what's best for us anymore, it's about what's most ironically hilarious. This is what we get, this is what we deserve.

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'Celebrity Apprentice' Recap: Different Gary Busey Is Fired

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Get Me Two, Gary Busey -- Another Look Back on "Point Break"

“Celebrity Apprentice” star Gary Busey loves to improv – as evident from some of his most famous lines in “Point Break,” which he told Current are his own creation.
"I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhino”? Improv.
“They vanish… like a virgin on prom night.” Improv.
“We were doing the scene in the FBI office,” Busey said, “and I had said it in rehearsal as a joke, and Keanu [Reeves] just came back at me with this Cheshire cat grin. There’s a bunch of lines I did like that, like adding 'squid brain,' but the improv I like the most in the movie is what Anthony Kiedis did, by shooting himself in the foot. That was a heck of an improv.”
Busey’s FBI agent Pappas had been pretending to search for his dog to gain entry to a house where some suspect surfers (including Kiedis) are hiding out. As the surfer gang realizes FBI agents are outside, they panic and start pulling out the guns, shooting at the agents, and in Kiedis' case, himself.
“Shooting that scene was never dull,” Busey said. “You never knew what it was going to come out like. There are a lot of great things in that scene. You’ve got the fight outside with the lawnmower, and the fight inside, with 10 or 11 people fighting at once. I loved the passion of it.”

The fight starts when Pappas shoves himself into a woman (played by Kimberly Martin) who had answered the door in her black thong, saying, “FBI, gorgeous!” He later has to shoot past her when she’s used as a body shield.
“That was fun,” Busey said. “I talked to her about it beforehand, so she knew I respected her. I asked, ‘Do you have brothers or sisters?’ ‘What did you want to be when you were 10?’ Those kinds of milestones help you know the way your world is, the way you see the world. And I made it up to her afterwards. How? I’ll leave that up to your imagination!”
Busey also loves the improv fight moves that happen when that scene is recreated on stage in “Point Break Live!” (where an audience member gets to play Johnny Utah). “They all have red water in their mouths so they can spit it out like blood,” he said. “And they got me in one of the performances. They gave me a gun so I could shoot everybody, and I went crazy! It was an amazing experience.”
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Keanu Reeves looks back on 'Point Break'

It’s been 20 years since Keanu Reeves became an action star with the surfers-turned-bank-robbers classic “Point Break” – to which Reeves says, “Fantastic!” (You were perhaps expecting a “Whoa!”?)
“Having the chance to do that kind of film, it was nice to have that chance,” Reeves told Current. “[Director] Kathryn Bigelow gave me my shot.”
Imagine how different the film would have been had Matthew Broderick or Johnny Depp (who were both considered) gotten the role of Johnny Utah. Instead, Reeves, fresh off "Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure," got the part of the rookie FBI agent, alongside Gary Busey and Patrick Swayze (“His support, and his life, he was inspiring,” Reeves said).

Their final scene together was originally shot with a more traditional ending – but was changed after testing with audiences and reshoot six months later. Both Swayze and Reeves had gone off to other projects and had changed their hairstyles -- Swayze had cut his for "City of Joy," Reeves had grown his out for the "Bill & Ted's" sequel. Luckily, it worked for the story, since Swayze's character had been in hiding, and Reeves' character had become disillusioned. Plus, it helped to show time had passed. After searching for him around the world for a year, Johnny finds Bodhi in Bells Beach, Australia, considers arresting him, but lets him go (again!).
“They wanted to complete a circle,” Reeves said. “It’s supposed to be Australia, and where did we shoot that? Northern Oregon. Patrick and I have this great ocean fight scene in the water, and I think it was 52 degrees, you know? And rain machines – good old fashioned movie making! Rain machines, cheaper location, cold water, new ending… ‘Vaya con dios. Vaya con dios.’”
When Bodhi realizes he’s surrounded, he tries to convince Johnny to release him for one last wave. “Look at it,” he pleads, referring to the monster swell behind him (actually the break from Waimea Bay in Hawaii's North Shore, not the mythical 50 Year Storm). “It’s an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, man. Just let me go out there. Let me get one wave before you take me. One wave. Where am I going to go, man? Cliffs on both sides. I’m not going to paddle to New Zealand!” (Especially not from Oregon). “My whole life has been about this moment, Johnny. Come on, compadre. Come on!”
Johnny uncuffs him, and Bodhi paddles away. When he’s chided that he let him go, Johnny says, “No, I didn’t,” as Bodhi wipes out, disappearing into the waves. It might be the first case of suicide-by-surf on film.
“I had so much fun making that film,” Reeves said. “Hopefully people still enjoy it.”
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