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 beyond any reasonable doubt that he was born in the USA (in Hawaii) – was not enough. This nincompoop dismissed it as a fake.
Frankly, instead of interviewing him as if he has anything remotely relevant to say, I wish media personalities like Wolf Blitzer of CNN would simply refer to him as a “bloviating ignoramus” – as commentator George Will did on last Sunday’s edition of This Week on ABC. But only one word explains why the media will continue dealing with him the way a drug pusher deals with his favorite junkie: ratings.
In any event (and with Black celebrities like Jay Z in mind), I shall dismiss Trump’s latest episode of publicity-seeking hucksterism the way I dismissed his first foray into this birther madness as part of his vain flirtation with a presidential run:
Donald Trump is nothing more than the P.T. Barnum of business: a huckster who thrives on the maxim 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 Hollywood 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)
Enough said.
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