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YOU CAN HARDLY blame RTÉ’s Sean O’Rourke for seizing the opportunity to ask US billionaire Donald Trump a couple of questions about his intriguing hairdo.
Back in May of this year, when Trump came to Ireland to visit his golf resort at Doonbeg, he sat down with O’Rourke for a 20-minute interview on RTÉ Radio 1 which seemed to end pretty amicably – on air, at least.
However, O’Rourke’s line of questioning on Trump’s golden locks has left a bitter taste in the businessman’s mouth.
“Sean O’Rourke! That a**hole from the radio show!”, Trump exclaimed in a interview with Will Hanafin for the Sunday Independent’s Life magazine.
He asked about my hair. He took off my hair! This is my hair! It was a nasty interview.
Trump claims that O’Rourke was influenced by a piece published in a national newspaper the morning of the interview, which said that O’Rourke would provide the billionaire with an easy interview.
“I knew immediately it wouldn’t be, because he then had to show it was legitimate,” Trump told Life.
Here’s how the offending segment went (or listen here, from just after 21 minutes in):
Sean O’Rourke: And last thing, you probably get asked this often, do all these jokes people make your hair, do they bother you?
Donald Trump: Ah, they kill me. Well, the people kill me. No, it used to bother me years ago, but it never stopped, and it is my hair, as you’ve probably noticed it [...] I had a story written in a major periodical a couple of weeks ago saying that nobody’s doing better than Trump. You know my company is very strong, very powerful, I’m doing great all over the world, but they had one sentence: “But he has the worst hairpiece I’ve ever seen”. I don’t even wear a hairpiece. I said, you know its a shame I can’t even…
SOR: Didn’t Vanity Fair not do a big close analysis last year sometime, and come to the conclusion…
DT: Oh Barbara Walters did. She took my hair, and analysed it and the whole thing, and…
SOR: But you’re one of the few guys I’ve ever seen, and maybe it’s because you own the place, it probably is, managed to leave his cap on in a bar in a golf…
DT: Oh I took it off. Oh yeah, I had it off.
SOR: Yeah?
DT: I mean, I take it off all the time.
SOR: Right okay, that’s the kind of trivial question people expected to be asked.
It was reported by the Irish Independent at the time that Trump attempted to confront O’Rourke after the programme, to the extent of almost bursting into the live studio, but it was all settled afterwards between the two men.
“I was not angry. I understood. It was not a nice interview. I told him ‘You’re an a**hole!’ Essentially that,” he said.
Trump also hit out at criticism of Minister for Finance Michael Noonan for greeting him as he stepped off his private jet at Shannon Airport.
“A couple of losers didn’t like that he did that,” Trump said, and said Noonan’s presence made him feel good about Ireland, especially given the vast amounts he was investing in the region. He also believes this “helped Ireland” on the path to recovery.
In a separate interview with TV3 in May, Trump described Noonan as a “terrific guy”.
“It was very nice that he met me and he met me because I’m throwing tremendous amounts of money into Ireland and that’s a good thing.”
Trump has promised hundreds of jobs for Co Clare over the next few years.
The Trump Organisation snapped up the luxury hotel and golf course for a knockdown price in February — and the US businessman said he was planning to “at least double or triple” that investment as part of his initial plans.
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In fairness if you were a wigmaker and produced work like that, you wouldn’t be in business for very long.
He got an absolute roasting that time. Obama made him look like a complete plonker.
I wouldn’t mind only his hair is rotten!
I know it is his hair because he paid big bucks for it.
He must have no best friend.!
Watch the BBCpanorama documentary ‘The trouble with Trump’ to see who the a*****e is. A ruthless man in business, with a particularly nasty side as seen in the documentary..(available on YouTube).
Is that how u succeed. Plough over everyone to get to the top
Well said Don.
O’Rourke is an A*****e
So is RTE.
8 months along, how are those “hundreds of jobs” he promised?
Do we have a few or is it all Jobsbridge so far?
Oh. I see he’s a man of his word. Integrity abounds in the trump orgaization.
http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/dumped-trump-billionaire-laying-over-3554366
From now on, whenever I say “Donald Trump”, I will preface it with the words
“That ______sucker”
A title he has certainly earned.
“It was a nasty interview”
Anyone who has seen “You’ve Been Trumped” knows that DT is a nasty human being.
Good on you Seán. What a f*cking clown this guy is, and an ego as big as his hotels. His daughter is well though.
No, it just shows how inept Sean O’Rourke is. The much more salient fact is that this billionaire was able to acquire a five star hotel, a number of “golf Lodges”, and a large golf course in a very beautiful area of the country for 8.7 million. Now THAT is a bargain. Come one, come all, come every vulture fund and buccaneer, there’s plenty for everybody.
Where did you get the 8.7m from – closer to 14m from what I heard. Played there last week for €50.00
8.7m was giving in yesterday’s paper.
I’d rather see Trump get Dun Beag than some of the other faceless vermin circling the country.
Of course it his hair! The man is a multi billionaire you don’t think he’d pay for something so cheap looking?!
A terrible presenter asking stupid trivial questions to a greedy man who has a lot of wrongdoings to answer for.
O’Rourke is an astute interviewer trapped in a functionally corrupt organisation.
RTE is full of those old rugs in worse condition than DT’s
This is the guy that sued. Bill Maher comedian and political commentator for $5m.
After DT was demanding that Obama product his long from birth cert. To prove he was born in US. And would pay $5m to anyone who coud provide evidence that obama was not American.
Bill Maher on his show said he would pay $5m for DT if he would produce his long form birthcert to prove he wasn’t a cross between a human and a golden retrieve. The thing is DT produced his birth certificate. Now he wants his 5 million.
It was a cross between a human and an orangutan actually. Check out Maher’s retort online. Very funny.
I liked Jon Stewart’s retort (that turned into a running gag) that Trump’s birth cert was a fake, and his real birth name “F%$kface von Clownstick”
It’s a hair don’t!!!!
Two days ago he called Obama a “psycho” over the Ebola response.
Obama is a psycho and, quite possibly, Trump as well.
So Trump flipped his wig – still hard to tell if he was really annoyed or not.
Seriously, if you walk around with hair like that, people are going to ask you about it.
If i was DT, i would have slapped o’rourke
I have had the misfortune to come across this man and his Organisation in business and all I will say , is that I wouldn’t touch him or his Companies with a barge pole .
He is perhaps the rudest cockiest most ignorant man I have ever come across in business !
Or Mattress Mick
It was like that clown Trevor Welch trying to give Jose Mourinho biscuits, what is causing the shortwire in these fools’ heads, that makes them think ‘this is a clever thing to do/say’
This guy expects us to respect him and his “investment” in Ireland. He’s the tesco of the golf world. Ask Scotland to name but one golfing nation. Imagine him having a bad hair day, ouch.
Trump described Noonan as a “terrific guy”…..yes he said, he fits perfectly in my back pocket!!
He got Doonbeg lodge for a steal. If it wasn’t Bird nest head who bought it someone else would have and they would be creating the ‘hundreds of’ [ insert ficticious/jobsbridge/seasonal] jobs
Ha Ha, who really cares?????
Pot kettle
Funny about his promise of jobs….he’s closing the place down essentially from Nov-mar/April. There have been jobs lost & people pushed out. No sign of those xtra jobs- maybe in the summer he’ll higher more at minimum wage ……
NSFW – but certainly cathartic.
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