Trump the cobra versus Rosie the mongoose

By Stone Martindale Apr 26, 2007, 16:05 GMT

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You knew the rebuttal from Donald Trump was laying in wait, like the stealthy cobra he is.  Now that Rosie the mongoose has bid adieu to "The View," the reigning WWE hair champ has tossed his two cents in.

The Donald went on Greta Van Susteren's tv show to reply to Rosie's stand up remarks delivered to the media Queens being feted in New York, where she shared her dubious feelings on Donald.   Now Donald Trump now has something to say about Rosie, "The View" and Barbara Walters. Donald went "On the Record."

Trump: "Isn't it ridiculous that Barbara Walters, who owns half of the show, didn't know anything about it? Now, Barbara says she knows nothing about it, that she had nothing to do with ABC Daytime. I mean, give me a break. It's impossible to even conceive of that. Barbara knew about it. Barbara's got to be the happiest woman in the world to get rid of that slob."

Not content to let it lay, Greta pushed Donald further: "Why is she lying low, then, or under the radar? Why is she saying she had nothing to do with this?"

Trump replies: "I don't know what's wrong with Barbara. She's destroying her credibility. She told a very, very severe fib to me, and now she's doing another beauty. And it was — everybody knew that was not correct, and you knew that better than anybody. And now she's doing it again. She said ABC — some executive at ABC Daytime, and nobody even called Barbara. Barbara didn't know anything about it. That's what Barbara said. Who could possibly believe a lie like that?"

Trump shared more feelings about "The View" personnel: "...That show is in trouble because Joy Behar is, like, about a fourth-rate — I mean, she's terrible. She's got no talent whatsoever. And Rosie, say what you want, at least she caused controversy. She's not too bright, but she at least caused controversy. Rosie is very, very self-destructive. As you know because on your show, I said she will self-destruct. And that's exactly what happened."

Greta asked Donald how he accounted for their ratings growth since Rosie:

"Well, the ratings were up in January because that was when she and I were going at it, and that's when they had their highest ratings. But the ratings started coming down precipitously since then. So I guess that's probably why at the Waldorf-Astoria, she made that disgusting comment. She wanted to start it up again to get her ratings up. But her ratings — if you look at her ratings from January until now, they're down very, very precipitously since we had our big little spat." Donald opined.

And about the Rosie crotch grabbing show put on for the ladies who lunch?

"Well, Rosie stood up, and referring to me, she grabbed her crotch, which is a pretty disgusting thing, especially when you're thinking about Rosie doing it. She grabbed her crotch and she said, "Eat me." And she said this in front of young aspiring women that are fantastic young — you know, they're the future. And a lot of people left the room when she said it, it was so disgusting. And she said it with a mean, unattractive face. And people couldn't believe what she said.

And that's not all she said. She said other things. But when she said, "Eat me," a lot of people said they think that's it. You know, Imus said something that was bad. Well, this was something that was also very bad. And to be honest, a lot of people, when they heard that, they said, That's the end of Rosie. That, in my opinion, was the straw that broke the camel's back." Donald told Greta.

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