Donald Trump is nothing more than the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the notion that ‘there’s a sucker born every minute’…
We all knew that Trump was a self-aggrandizing buffoon. But he has now exposed himself as a self-deluding racist as well.
This is why I urge all of the rich folks he depends on to patronize his eponymous resorts and buy up his eponymous condominiums to begin shunning him – just as they would a two-bit racist like David Duke. I urge this especially of the Black entertainment and sports stars he likes to feature as extras in his one-man freak show.
Trump is entitled to say whatever he likes. But, at the very least, he should suffer truth and consequences for accusing this country’s first Black president of being a Kenyan Muslim – who has perpetrated ‘the biggest con in U.S. history’.
CBS fired Charlie Sheen from One and a Half Men for hurling anti-Semitic remarks at a TV producer; NBC should feel even more compelled to fire Trump from The Apprentice for hurling racist remarks at the president of the United States.
So, here’s to this fiendishly thin-skinned huckster having his trademark words thrown back in his face: Trump, you’re fired!
(“Trump for President? Don’t Be a Sucker,” The iPINIONS Journal, April 8, 2011)
You’d think by now that the media would react to any of Trump’s patented attention-grabbing stunts by flipping him a collective middle finger. Yet it seems every media outlet was waiting with baited breath yesterday to see what snake oil he had to sell them this time – after he announced that he would be revealing on YouTube at high noon some “gigantic news” about President Obama that would affect the outcome of the election.
By contrast, as my opening quote indicates, I knew Trump was merely summoning the suckers he truly believes are born every minute. And sure enough all he had to sell was another barrel of hot air about Obama being an academic fraud who was not born in America.
Specifically, he informed the world that he has a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose deal for the president: if Obama releases his college transcript and passport application (and, most significantly, if they are authenticated to his satisfaction), Trump would donate $5 million to a charity of Obama’s choice. Not surprisingly, Obama’s spokesman reacted by saying that the president would not even dignify this nonsense with a comment, let alone a response.
Of course, the person who must be feeling like the biggest sucker of all today is Mitt Romney – who made quite a public show of traveling up to Trump’s conceited dome in New York City to kiss his ass and receive his endorsement.
But the only reason I’m bothering to comment is that this latest stunt seems to have been the all too belated tipping point even for reporters who consider the redneck utterings of Honey Boo Boo newsworthy. For here is how no less a person than Chris Cilizza of the Washington Post gave Trump the reportorial finger after listening to his “major announcement”:
Me to Donald Trump: Go away. Please.
What’s more, Cilizza was a Pied Piper in this respect; except that the words other reporters used to signal their intent to march away from Trump’s media circus made his words seem positively prayer like.
I am also happy to note that the Black celebrities I admonished to distance themselves from this race-baiting huckster seem to be doing just that – with both Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez moving out of Trump-owned/named buildings in recent months.
I regret, however, that NBC continues to carry his reality-TV show. But I suspect The Apprentice may have jumped the shark this season for many other reasons. So here’s to this tipping point too.
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