Donald Trump Blasts Obama Over Occupy Wall Street, Works With Bachmann On Phone-In Town Hall

Real estate mogul Donald Trump had harsh words for the Obama administration over the Occupy Wall Street protests, saying the president has let the escalating movement "go a little bit too far."

During an appearance on Fox News Monday morning, Trump said that the demonstrators are "doing no service to what they're representing," Politico reports.

"Change has to be made, not Obama's kind of change," Trump said, calling the president's rhetoric "all nonsense." Trump suggested the protesters -- who ignited their efforts in New York but have since inspired international demonstrations -- should place their focus solely on Washington, D.C. to rally against Obama's "terrible job on the economy."

Trump added that the protests are "class warfare" and asserted that Obama would use the movement to advance his 2012 reelection campaign.

"This is probably the only way that he thinks he can get elected, because he's done a lousy job as president," Trump said.

Trump has been regarded as a "GOP kingmaker" throughout the start of the 2012 primary season. He has met both publicly and privately with several GOP presidential hopefuls, including Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.

Trump is slated to join Michele Bachmann -- who he once called "highly underrated" -- for a "tele-townhall" Monday night.

In an email to campaign supporters, Bachmann described Trump as "a businessman who knows firsthand that Barack Obama's failed policies are crippling our nation's job creators" and touted "retiring Barack Obama" as a priority she shares with the billionaire.

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Check out the reactions of the 2012 Republican presidential candidates, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden reactions to the growing Occupy Wall Street movement:

 

 

 

 

Comments

[dlb1443]

10:06 PM on 11/01/2011

Donald SHUT UP we are tied of your mouth in fact of you period

[jacmed]

10:02 AM on 10/25/2011

Right, like the POTUS has any say-so over protestors! If that were the case, believe me, Pres. Johnson would have put down the anti-Vietnam protests before they even gained momentum. The Trump is apparently ignorant about what the POTUS can and cannot control. Even worse, he doesn't know that the OWS protestors are protected by the Bill of Rights. Oh, wait -- was he actually born here or is his birth certificate faked -- I mean, after all, anyone born here who has reached the age the Trump has reached should know all this! ROFL!!!

[EMGray]

07:46 PM on 10/21/2011

I love how they imply that the whole group was singing that song, and that OWS people hate the United States; They are Anti-Patriots.

Does Donald understand that the right to peacefully assemble is protected by the Bill of Rights?

Not letting the protests go on would be illegal and fascist.

[leajazz]

04:39 AM on 10/20/2011

Donald Trump had harsh words for the Obama administration over the OWS protesters? What a joke!

Donald duckta!l, I have harsh words for you I can't post on HP.

[desertdweller]

01:32 PM on 10/19/2011

Dear Mr. Trump, Ask not for whom the OWS bell tolls, it tolls for thee........

[momoluvsu]

09:51 AM on 10/21/2011

fanned and faved.!!

[Martin Beck]

08:01 PM on 10/18/2011

what good is a protest if it doesn't go too far ?

[ScribL]

06:27 PM on 10/18/2011

Trump go away already, no one in their right mind takes you seriously.

[JEWELLINGS]

05:13 PM on 10/18/2011

TRUMP IS NOTHING BUT A BUSINESS PERSON THAT LOVES TO BE IN THE LIME LIGHT. HE IS NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH FOR ANYTHING BUT THAT. HE WAS A HUGH JOKE WHEN HE CAMPAIGNED.

[Erik Kartmann]

04:47 PM on 10/18/2011

The Don should stick to what he knows best: tanking other people's money in bad real estate deals.

[obama gangstergovernment]

11:41 PM on 10/18/2011

George Soros and Obama are behind occupy wallstreet.

[skeakins]

12:16 AM on 10/19/2011

You're so right. Fanned.

[peskyliberal]

08:59 PM on 10/20/2011

What color is the sky in your world?

[rodneyvgt]

04:30 PM on 10/18/2011

OWS are just a bunch of lazy sheep that need to be led and taken care of.cant do anything,must be tired of sitting around plying xbox

[Ismael Coffee]

04:41 PM on 10/18/2011

I imagine that you have similar opinions of anybody that disagrees with your simplistic views.

[rodneyvgt]

04:54 PM on 10/18/2011

no, but that is my opinion, and you have yours but I dont sit around and cry about it if I am to dumb or lazy to make it on my own

[obama gangstergovernment]

12:14 AM on 10/19/2011

Lazy and backed by Rich George Soros. Don't be distracted by Trumps.

[Elbrando]

04:23 PM on 10/18/2011

You'll excuse me if I don't listen to the reality show clown with multiple bankruptcies, a couple of divorces and a penchant for being obnoxcious talk about who should be accountable for what's wrong with our economy.

[rodneyvgt]

04:35 PM on 10/18/2011

may be true but you cant win the race sitting around smokin dope he wins more than he looses

[RedSox61]

04:22 PM on 10/18/2011

Mr Trump - the people from Occupy Wall Street are not representing either side - and - they have the right to peacefully protest - which is exactly what they are doing....they are upsest that BOTH parties have let banks get away with too much....
they are upset at the lack of regulation and the lower regulations that the Republicans want to return to
they are upsest at the democrats for the heavy banking support - the bailout would have been fine HAD the banks then helped out the little guy - helped people stay in homes - instead of ramping up foreclosures - THAT is what they are mad at
they are mad that NOTHING has changed to keep this from happening again
and they are mad that no one has any real plan to get america working again....
These are NOT Obama's people - they are the American people doing what they have constitutional right to do - protest the excesses that you so well represent

[JEWELLINGS]

06:03 PM on 10/18/2011

You are right on time. Tell that insecure Trump man the facts. If mouth almight have so much to say, he certainly did not say anything when it was those Tea things were doing the same thing. He is nothing by stupid month.

[sakeith]

06:14 PM on 10/18/2011

peacefully protesting? are you kidding? they're beating down opposing voices and defecating on cop cars...real peaceful!

[RedSox61]

10:41 PM on 10/18/2011

Keep up - that picture you saw - was actually NOT from Occupy Wall Street - it was from a march something like 7 years ago.....it has been mis-represented

[mgrant33301]

04:17 PM on 10/18/2011

trump lost me a while back.

his nonsense is just beyond comprehension and logic.
now he is saying the protesters don't have a right to protest?
he really is one of the 1%. time to knock the "kingmaker" off his tacky thrown.

[mskittykat1326]

04:16 PM on 10/18/2011

"Trump is slated to join Michele Bachmann -- who he once called 'highly underrated' " Translation - "She's Pretty".

Where was Trump when that Tea Partier curb-stomped his opposing protester when she disagreed with him - and got off on all charges? They are being non-violent and they are voicing their opinions as collectively they don't have the funds to buy them as many of Trump's constituents can. It's their right.

[des946]

04:07 PM on 10/18/2011

Donald Trump is a joke . . . he has become an "entertainer" sort of like a higher scale "Jerry Springer".

Trump is no different than the CEO's of the financial institutions or Wall Street "isndiers" and all of their CRIMINAL MALFEASANCES. Trump has always managed to do well financially inspite of the bankruptcies of his casinos, and many of the high-rise building projects that he was associated with and that went into bankruptcies. Trump is like those CEOs, he aways comes out financially on top of it all . . . it is the people who invested in "his projects" that lose their shirts financially.

Why and how can anyone respect a candidate who would seek advice and consunssel fromDonald Trump? ? ?