Trump Gets Last Laugh When Gawker Releases Phone Number–He Turns Answering Message Into a Campaign Commercial!

04 Aug, 2015 by Warner Todd Huston

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The rather profane website Gawker.com released Donald Trump’s phone number this week thinking that it would really hurt The Donald as he runs for the GOP nomination for president. But Trump got the last laugh when he changed the number’s answering message into a Trump campaing commercial.

Saying, “We think it’s only fair and right that Republican primary voters be able to reach out to Trump himself,” Gawker released a cell number it thought was one of Trump’s numbers.

Turns out it was a Trump number, but Trump says it was an old one he doesn’t use much.

Still, what Trump did next was hilarious. He turned Gawker’s attempt to inconvenience him on its ear and turned it into a positive by making it into a campaign commercial. Now when people call the number they get this message:

Hi, this is Donald Trump and I’m running for the presidency of the United States of America. With your support and help, we can make America truly great again… Hope to see you on the campaign trail. We’re going to do it.”

Trump then Tweeted the number himself…

Thank you @gawker! Call me on my cellphone 917.756.8000 and listen to my campaign message.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2015

This is one of the reasons why Trump is getting so much traction.

Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago-based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com, BigJournalsim.com and all Breitbart News' other sites, RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, and many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs across the country to discuss his opinion editorials and current events as well as appearing on TV networks such as CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and various Chicago-based news programs. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the book "Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture" which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of PubliusForum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston and follow him on Twitter, on Google Plus , and Facebook.