Donald Trump Quick Takes - Is Mussolini a Type of Pasta?

Donald Trump and Chris Christie embrace in a bro-hug. Christie looks like he's having an orgasm.

Donald Trump is famous for his quick-take insults and opinions on everyone and everything. So what are his thoughts on various topics? Here's our handy guide. (For some actual, real-time Trump-isms, straight from the mouth of The Donald himself, see the real Donald Trump Twitter feed.

• Marco Rubio: Sweats like a pig
• Ted Cruz: Little baby, girly man; looks like a freakish cartoon character
• Benito Mussolini: That's a type of pasta, right?
• David Duke: Isn't that the hot chick from "Dukes of Hazzard"?
• Pres. Obama: Wasn't born on this planet. Where's his intergalactic birth certificate?!
• Russian Pres. Putin: Strong leader. Has nice pecs & abs
• Carly Fiorina: She could give away free printer cartridges for life and still couldn't get elected president of a town's Solid Waste Department

Have you got any favorite real or imagined Trump-isms? Type them in the comments below!

Watch Big Bird in New Obama Ad (Video)

As you've no doubt heard, the Obama re-election campaign has created a TV ad featuring Big Bird that spoofs Mitt Romney's pledge to eliminate funding for PBS. You can see the ad below, but maybe not for long: Sesame Workshop, the organization that created "Sesame Street," has told the Obama campaign that it wants the ad removed.



The ad is funny, though it's anybody's guess whether it will have an impact on the election. And regardless of what one thinks about the funding of public broadcasting, the big yellow bird does look a little, um (how to gently say this?), overstuffed around the midsection. Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad thing if he had a little less bird feed in his dish.

Maybe in their upcoming debates, Obama and Romney can discuss the relative merits of Cookie Monster or Oscar the Grouch?

Meghan McCain's Writing Life Moving from Blog to Book

Meghan McCain, the 23-year-old daughter of presidential candidate John McCain, isn't limiting her writing career to her blog. The creator of McCain Blogette, an irreverent look at her life on the campaign trail, has said that she is going to write an illustrated children's book about her father. set to be published during the first week of September — just when the Republican Party is holding its national convention in Minneapolis.

Meghan McCain, the daughter of the presumptive Republican nominee and his second wife Cindy, is not your typical candidate's daughter, as you can tell from an article in GQ. Though the Columbia University graduate agrees with her father on many issues, she's a socially liberal young woman who voted for John Kerry in the 2004 election, thinks Barack Obama is "sexy,' and is a fan of burlesque stripper (and former Marilyn Manson wife) Dita von Teese.

With Meghan McCain blogging the general election campaign for the Republican side and Obama and his young supporters representing the Democratic side, there's going to be quite a lot of youthful energy in this battle for the White House.