Via the Daily Caller, the year’s biggest self-promoter phoned into Fox & Friends this morning to wring out a little more publicity for himself. After last night’s Pizza Summit, Donald Trump tells the Fox hosts that Sarah Palin never mentioned teaming up with Trump for a political ticket. Trump, who announced last month that he would skip running for President in order to do another year of Celebrity Apprentice, says that Palin wants him to get back in the race:
During a Wednesday “Fox and Friends” interview, Trump told host Gretchen Carlson that he and Palin discussed a myriad of topics.
“Did she try to encourage you to get back in the race because you were, in fact, a couple weeks ago saying you were sticking with Celebrity Apprentice, instead?” asked Carlson.
“Well, she’d love me to get back,” Trump responded. “You know, I had great poll numbers.”
But when host Steve Doocy inquired about Trump and Palin “teaming up in some fashion,” the real estate powerhouse said this particular subject was not brought up.
“We really did not [talk about that]. We talked about lots of things. We did not talk about that,” Trump said.
Color me somewhat skeptical of this claim. Trump knows just how fevered the will-she-or-won’t-she guessing game with Palin has been in the media, and a tidbit like this would certainly get him more attention. It’s not likely to re-inflate his poll numbers, though, especially after quitting the race after the White House popped his birther-based campaign. I’d bet Palin said something polite about his bungee visit to presidential politics but nothing much more.
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