One can’t help but wonder if Billionaire Donald Trump's stated ambitions toward the White House in 2012 are in earnest, or is the gentleman “putting us on”? Trump is one of the richest men in America; there is a feeling among voters that this alone may qualify him for the Presidency. Trump enjoys his outspoken style; sometimes it is wiser, though, to keep a low profile.
Trumps recent claim to fame has been much founded on his questions about the current American President, Democrat Barack Obama. Trump has chosen to harp, and harp some more on President Barack Obama’s birthplace. Early in the election for the 2008 Presidency, some accused Obama of having been born in Jakarta, Indonesia. Trump lately has been insistent that Obama was born in Kenya. To serve as President, one must have been born in these United States. Trump was unrelenting in his demand for a "Long Form Birth Certificate" registering Obama's birth.
Early the week of April 26, 2011, Barack Obama received his requested Certificate of Birth from the State of Hawaii, and forthwith released it to the press, proving his citizenship and qualification to be President.
Undaunted, Trump made the resounding and general statement to interviewer Larry King that "Our President is Incompetent!" Trump got even more derisive after that. In an interview with Bill O'reilly, at Fox News, he pontificated, “People have birth certificates. He doesn't have a birth certificate. He may have one but there's something on that --maybe religion. Maybe it says he is a Muslim! I don't know... maybe he doesn't want that. Or — he may not have one!”
Trump seems slow in addressing political issues; issues of domestic or global import; those issues that fill the lives of ordinary politicians, and pundits. Trump responds to the beat of another drum. He moved swiftly to questions he had about Obama’s education. In an interview in late April, Trump made the accusation that Obama was a poor student – clearly not Ivy League material. Trump, still the ultimate CEO, completed his tirade saying, "I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard!" Trump said, "We don't know a thing about this guy! There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president."
Let's take a quick look at what we Americans do know about President Obama. Our President, Barack Obama is indeed Christian, a member of the United Church of Christ. President Obama is named after his father who grew up in Kenya herding goats, but gained a scholarship to study in Hawaii. In Hawaii the Presidential father met and married Barack Obama's mother, originally from Kansas, who had moved to Honolulu with her parents. Barack Obama's parents later divorced. When now President Obama was six, his mother, Ann, re-married, this time to an Indonesian oil manager and the family moved to Jakarta. The boy lived there for four years, but then moved back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attend school. Both his parents are now dead.
Article comments
1 - Sarah Goldston
Bravo John..TY!!
2 - pablo
yawn
3 - Arch Conservative
Both Trump and Obama are Narcissistic megalomaniacs that have nothing good to offer this nation.
This is news?
4 - Jerald Cumbus
@Arch Conservative... as usual you are wrong.
You are correct in that Obama has a BIG ego! However, you are dead wrong about Trump. Trump is (and always will be) a legend in his own mind! Obama appears emo by comparison.
5 - Boeke
Consider the possible consequences of Trumps foolish intemperance and bloodlust:
Andrew Sullivan on Trump
29 Apr 2011 07:06 PM
Trump's Bloodlust
Raymond Santana, an exonerated Trump_Death_Penalty rape suspect, wants an apology from Donald Trump. Santana was 14 years old at the time of his arrest:
Trump paid $85,000 for full-page ads in four city newspapers in 1989 calling for the death penalty for Santana and four other teens whose videotaped confessions outraged the city -- confessions they insisted had been forced by police.
Balko pounces:
If Trump had his way, all of the Central Park Five would have been dead by 2002. That’s the year Matias Reyes, already in prison for rape and murder, confessed to the crime, and insisted he acted alone. DNA tests had already confirmed that only one person raped victim Trisha Meili. Further testing showed Reyes was that person. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morganthou later vacated the convictions of the other five suspects, all of whom had already served their sentences for the attack.
As if the Death Penalty isn't bad enough, you've got a maniac like Trump running around DEMANDING it!
6 - Boeke
#3 Arch asserts that BOTH Trump and Obama are narcissistic megalomaniacs but I didn't see Arch offer any evidence of his psychiatric credentials nor offer any evidence.