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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… Read more.
Alas Donald Trump’s birther nonsense has attained such cognitive dissonance that even Jay Z is trying to explain it. But only one word explains why Trump is continuing to peddle nonsense about President Obama being a foreigner: publicity. Evidently the national embarrassment he caused last year by compelling the president (to condescend) to publish his birth certificate – proving… Read more.
What is it with Republican presidential candidates queuing up to seek Donald Trump’s blessings as if he were the friggin’ Pope?! Last week Rick Perry ascended the stairs of his gilded, eponymously named tower in NYC for this purpose; Mitt Romney is scheduled to do the same next week; and Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann made their… Read more.
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”… Sadly, far too many people think Trump would make a good president. They are the suckers to whom he could sell swampland in the Florida Everglades as beachfront property, or discredited degrees… Read more.
Here is how I dismissed Donald Trump as a viable presidential candidate a week ago yesterday: [N]othing demonstrates that his clownish foray into presidential politics is just for personal ego and financial enrichment quite like previewing his campaign platform by speaking more like a right-wing radio shock jock than a politician. (Trump for president?! Don’t be… Read more.
