The Donald doesn't like a challenge, particularly if it concerns his birth certificate.
Trump wasted no time this week responding to a challenge set by Irish American comedian Bill Maher on the 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno.'
Maher, 56, announced on Monday night he would donate $5 million to the charity of Trump's choice if he was able to prove that he is not the 'spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan.'
Some people would have taken the high road, ignoring the obvious insult. Not Trump though. On Tuesday, Scott S. Balber, a lawyer for Trump, 66, sent the HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher' host a letter with Trump's birth certificate attached.
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To underline the gotcha, the letter asked Maher, said to be worth $40 million, to come up with the promised cash.
The birth certificate demonstrated that Trump 'is the son of Fred Trump, not an orangutan,' the letter said.
Maher had earlier suggested Trump would likely donate the cash to the 'Hair Club for Men' or 'The Institute for Incorrigible Douchebaggery' but Trump's letter indicated he wants to give $1 million each to charities for the Hurricane Sandy Victims, The Police Athletic League, The American Cancer Society, The March of Dimes and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Maher's birth certificate malarky was a pointed send up of Trump's notorious announcement in October that he would donate $5 million to charity if President Obama would release his college records.
At the time Trump declared he was sitting on 'something very, very, big concerning the president of the United States' that could 'possibly' change the election.
But the public was unimpressed with the big reveal, however, when it turned out to be just more birtherism, which many commentators decry as blatant racism - since its suggests that Obama is not 'one of us.'
Obama later made fun of Trump on the 'Tonight Show,' suggesting that the bad blood between himself and Trump stems back to an argument the pair had 'when we were growing up together in Kenya.'
According to the Daily Mail a representative for Maher did not immediately return a request for comment. 'I’m not looking for a feud with Donald Trump,' said Maher on the Tonight Show.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.McNamara31 | Jan 13, 2013, 10:45 AM EST
So "The Donald" has proved he's not a orangutan however if you ask all the past wives, they will clearly say he's one big amadan.
Proud Canadian2 | Jan 12, 2013, 02:14 PM EST
Seanomelb you are oh so right, what could I have been thinking. My opology goes out to all the Baboons out there, I am so very sorry. What a black mark for Baboons all over the world. I hang my head in shame.
seamus60 | Jan 12, 2013, 02:11 PM EST
Anyone watched that documentary yet. thats what its called " you`ve been Trumped". About the golfcourse in Scotland.
JudyStinger | Jan 12, 2013, 11:52 AM EST
Donald Trump fulfilled his part of Bill Haher's challenge. So now Bill Maher must fulfill his portion, since he presented the challenge in teh first palce and come up with the 5 Millinon Dollars. No pun intended Bill, but you've been trumped.
seanomelb | Jan 12, 2013, 01:02 AM EST
Proud Canadian2 you owe baboons an apology shame on you.
Proud Canadian2 | Jan 12, 2013, 12:37 AM EST
Ok the Donald wasn't a orangutan, has anyone checked his other birth certifacate that says that he is a baboon? Just asking.
seanomelb | Jan 11, 2013, 04:43 PM EST
Trump is a self centred egotistical idiot.
cillowen | Jan 11, 2013, 02:31 PM EST
Trump was sitting on something or so he claimed and Obama supporter Maher flushed his something out, finally, Trump's own birth certificate to reveal his Gerry-Scotia ancestry that few care about. Some egotists is this squirrel on 'ead fella.
ray bass | Jan 11, 2013, 11:58 AM EST
That's Vegetables... and(come to think of it) they are frequently orange, so perhaps Trump is really an orange-utanian.
ray bass | Jan 11, 2013, 11:53 AM EST
FAKE ! FAKE ! He is definitely an orangutanian ... His lower lip is clearly genetically adapted to eating Southeast Asian fruits .. and maybe some begetables.
Eschetic | Jan 11, 2013, 10:53 AM EST
Mr. Trump wants so desperately to be taken seriously, a goal his behavior in the last election set back seriously, but demonstrating a sense of humor about himself is a good start at rehabilitation - it should be noted, however, that the birth certificate merely listed his mother and father's names (which, admittedly were neither "J. Fred Muggs"), but it did nothing to prove that he is not, in fact, the child of an orangutan.
89west | Jan 11, 2013, 09:40 AM EST
you are right! however it would be nice to see some of the money to the victims of sandy. wishful thinking on my part
wjb1tex | Jan 11, 2013, 08:38 AM EST
Two self serving, ego driven jerks who have convinced themselves that people really care what they think.