Donald Trump’s Slump

Posted by admin in Businesses, Featured, Online | 136 comments

Jan 04, 11 Donald Trump’s Slump

Ding, dong, the Donald is dead, politically speaking. After his recent shellacking by President Obama, who in rapid fire released his long-form birth certificate, made fun of Trump at the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner, and then pre-empted “The Apprentice” to announce the death of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, Trump’s popularity has shriveled up like a dry, old prune. According to a newly released survey by Public Policy Polling, Trump has gone from first place among possible Republican presidential contenders to a tie for fifth place with libertarian Ron Paul. In April he led the field with a stunning 26 percent of Republicans supporting his potential candidacy, but the latest results show that over the past month he has plummeted to a lowly 8 percent, as he has now been passed like a lame horse in the Kentucky Derby by Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and even Sarah Palin.

Trump enjoyed his brief moment in the political sun by playing on the fears of those who distrusted President Obama. His relentlessly crazed peddling of the widely discredited “birther” conspiracy theory, the idea that the president was not really born in the United States and therefore ineligible to be president, sadly propelled him in the polls among a certain desperate segment of the Tea Party and Republican base. Obama finally threw up his hands in disgust and arranged for the release of his long-form birth certificate on April 27. The result? A recent Washington Post poll shows that the percentage of people who think the president was really born abroad has been cut in half – from 20 percent in 2010 to 10 percent today. Starved of oxygen, birtherism is finally dying a well-deserved death.
 

According to cableinternetbundles.com, Trump then clung stubbornly to the idea that somehow President Obama wasn’t smart enough to have gotten into the Ivy League on his own merits. “I heard he was a terrible student, terrible,” Trump huffed. “How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?” Of course anyone with even a pea-sized brain recognizes this drivel was code for “he only got in because of affirmative action.” Trump responded to criticism of his baseless accusation during an interview at a talk radio station in upstate New York on April 14, saying, “I have a great relationship with the blacks. I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks.” He then proceeded to follow up those unintentionally tactless words on the ever fair and balanced “Fox and Friends” two days ago, insisting, “Well, you know, when it comes to racism and racists I am the least racist person there is…. In fact, Randall Pinkett won, as you know, on ‘The Apprentice’ a…couple of years ago. And Randall’s been outstanding in every way. So I am the least racist person.”

An African-American happens to win “The Apprentice” and that makes Trump the least racist person there is. How can anyone question that kind of logic? Thankfully there are those who can, and do.

Leave a Reply