Does Donald Trump have any friends?

[Jim Dandy]

I can't think of any. Tried real hard, too. Maybe crazy Rudy G?

[apcalc]

1. Unpaid friends? Chris bridges Christie?

[Rex]

2. No.

I doubt he considers anyone his friend, he views the world of people as rival or equal or inferior. Women are ugly, nasty or pretty (his view on that is fluid depending on how they respond).

Maybe Rudy. Hannity? Ann?

[yortsed snacilbuper]

3. If money can buy friendship,

maybe.

[jberryhill]

4. He would be a difficult friend to have

I would imagine it would be emotionally exhausting.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. He has sycophants, political allies and hangers-on.

As far as I can tell he has no actual friends. I've never read any reports about any old school pals or neighbors or family friends coming forth to talk about what a great guy he is. There was an article a few months ago about what he was like as a kid - which was pretty much like he is now: a loud, aggressive jerk. There's an elderly butler at Mar-a-Lago who seems very loyal, but he sounds like a crazy, mean bastard like his boss. Is there anybody in the world who actually loves him? It would seem not. Have his sister, a federal judge, or his two surviving brothers, been heard from? Maybe his father loved him. But Don has been a douche all his life, so the apparent lack of real friends is no surprise.

[Madam45for2923]

6. He used to hang around some weird mafia type guy!

Let him and his mistress stay in his property. Vouched for him to be pardoned when in trouble with the law.

It's in David Cay Johnston's book.

[NBachers]

8. Do you mean "crazy as a shithouse rat Rudy G?"

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Not according to Tony Schwartz, author of "The Art of the Deal."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

As far as Schwartz could tell, Trump spent very little time with his family and had no close friends. In “The Art of the Deal,” Trump describes Roy Cohn, his personal lawyer, in the warmest terms, calling him “the sort of guy who’d be there at your hospital bed . . . literally standing by you to the death.” Cohn, who in the fifties assisted Senator Joseph McCarthy in his vicious crusade against Communism, was closeted. He felt abandoned by Trump when he became fatally ill from AIDS, and said, “Donald pisses ice water.” Schwartz says of Trump, “He’d like people when they were helpful, and turn on them when they weren’t. It wasn’t personal. He’s a transactional man—it was all about what you could do for him.”

That's why I doubt that Trump has any real loyalty to Russia. He's getting money and other help from them, and that's all that matters to him. It would likely "turn ugly" in a hurry! Meanwhile, I suspect that Russia simply wants us to elect a clown as President. They also get to stir up the worst people of this country to hurt it from within.

[pinboy3niner]

10. He whined bitterly at the Al Smith dinner about his friends abandoning him

Who can blame them?

[dhol82]

11. Wish he would said which ones.

Can't imagine anybody being a friend for more than five minutes.

[Mr.Bill]

12. When Donald was a child

he was beaten up by his imaginary friend.

[unblock]

13. of course! he can afford plenty of gold-framed mirrors.

[appleannie1]

14. Friends implies a relationship. A giving and receiving. So NO. You can't be friends with yourself

[rickford66]

15. He claimed 100's died on 911

I wish he would name a few, one even!

[KentuckyWoman]

16. I would be shocked if even the current wife is his friend.

I don't mean that as rude as it sounds. Herr Hair is a different sort and I just don't see emotional vulnerability as any part of that package.

[EricMaundry]

18. Putin said nice things about him