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Donald Trump makes an idiot of himself over Obama birther issue

Posted on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 09:30 AM

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Now we learn that Donald Trump is casting aspersions on whether Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.

And this self aggrandizing, bad comb over,egomaniac wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate?

This fake business genius who was handed his wealth by his father is casting aspersions on a man who embodies the American 'up from the bootstraps" dream?

"Everybody who gives even a hint of being a 'birther' ... even a little bit of a hint ... they label them as an idiot," Trump told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview on St.Patrick's Day .

"Let me tell you, I'm a really smart guy.(He is? how some he went technically bankrupt a few times and his casinos are still under water?)

I was a really good student at the best school in the country," said Trump, who went to University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. "The reason I have a little doubt -- just a little -- is because he grew up and nobody knew him."

"If I got the nomination, if I ever decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten. They'll remember me," Trump said .

By contrast, "Nobody comes forward" to say they knew Obama as a little boy, Trump said. "Nobody knows who he is until later in his life. It's very strange."

Nobody knew him? Here is how Katherine Nakamoto, Obama's kindergarten teacher, described "Barry" Obama, at age 5, as "a cute, likable, heavy-build child."

"I could visualize Barry smiling, dressed in his long-sleeved, white shirt tucked into his brown Bermuda shorts, and wearing laced shoes," she told The Maui (Hawaii) News in a story published Jan. 21, 2009.

She also showed a photo she said was taken in 1967 of Barack Obama's kindergarten class.

The Obama campaign has also produced a certification of live birth in 2008 that reported his birthplace as Honolulu.

He attended kindergarten then moved to Jakarta,Indonesia with his stepfather and mom at age 6.

Trump is a birther because he wants to run for president next year or so he says.

Bring him on! Would love nothing more than the American people to tell this blowhard narcissistic idiot 'You're fired"

This guy makes Sarah Palin look like a genius.

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XFactor | May 01, 2011, 12:30 AM EDT

Are you ready? I have bad news for you all. The emperor has no clothes. Did anybody see Tom Marvolo Ridddle, alias Lord Valdermort alias Donald Trump in Las Vegas yesterday? This guy has evil ideas and he will use it if he is let into that oval office. The only thing that will stop him is that the American people will not give the nation’s key to that corrupt, uncouth egomaniac. To correct Pittsburghkid, The Republican Party has sold Americans lock stock and barrel to the oil companies. To imagine that EXXon Mobile makes $30 billion in profits, and the companies are getting subsidies, is unfathomable.

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McNamara31 | Apr 30, 2011, 11:43 AM EDT

Pittsburghkid "No one cares about Americans. In Alabama, tornatos hit and no one cares" Truth is: Obama landed at Tuscaloosa Regional Airport at 9:45 a.m. to expedite help to the victims.

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NYMOGUL | Apr 29, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT

Hair head seems to be delusional, not too bright, and in bad need of a remedial English course. I doubt that he received a degree from any college including one obtained by mail order. Show me your degree hair head! The democrats would love to run against this ego maniac. They would slice and dice him like an onion.

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Pittsburghkid | Apr 28, 2011, 09:38 PM EDT

The real jerk wrote this artical. Trump forced Obama to prove citizenship. Something that Hilary Clinton tried and failed to do. Trump put the issue to rest. Obama wanted to show the BC during the Campaign, which would have given his campaign a bump. Now The Donald can tackle the issue of OIL. America gas prices are up to $4. hr. America has to stop being the bank roll for the world. America has to pull out of these stupid commitments in the Mideast. I know Muslims are killing people, but this is what Muslims do. What serious advance has ever come from the Mideast? Nothing. They gouge us for Oil. Obama refuses to drill. No one cares about Americans. In Alabama, tornatos hit and no one cares.

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Ajreaper | Apr 28, 2011, 01:40 PM EDT

Quick while all the half wits and small minded folks are here lets round them up- some of you scare me a hell of a lot more the Obama ever has. Your eitehr complete nitwits incapable of rational thought or you are racist and wish to hold a black president to a far greater standerd any WASP president had to meet. JFK had it tough being catholic and all but that was 50 years ago- I guess we have not come all that far as a people at all.

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McNamara31 | Apr 28, 2011, 09:54 AM EDT

People have to honestly ask themselves; why is this constantly being done to Obama? Why is his opposition always trying to build the case that he's not one of us, not capable, or concealing some inferred dark secret. The answer is: it’s a pure political maneuver (along with some cases of outright bigotry) from those who will do anything to bring him down. No lie’s too big, inference too small, or slur unwarranted, in their eyes. Fox News was ecstatic to enter into an unholy alliance with Donald Trump to Bang the Birther drum at every chance, but now they’ll just move on to the next smear, and line up their cast of opportunists to promote it.

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rivawharton | Apr 25, 2011, 11:39 PM EDT

I just checked my birth certificate and nowhere on it does it state whether I am Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc. Regarding circumcision, that operation really all depends on the doctor and the times. I have four grandsons. Three are circumcised, one is not, one of my friends sons is not, my husband was not, all were Christian, all born in different years, some decades and the jury is out on that one. It proves nothing. Give it up Trump. Find something intelligent to run on.

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haveuforgotten | Apr 20, 2011, 05:26 PM EDT

Wow eight years of that mumbled mouth idiot Bush! How soon you Teabaggers forget! Dog gone dummies! I'd like to see Bush's papers.

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dipperloop | Apr 14, 2011, 07:33 PM EDT

Hey Patrick, why won't he produce his birth certificate..all Americans can pull it out...let's put it to bed just show your birth certificate.

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vincem13 | Apr 11, 2011, 12:41 PM EDT

Mr. Roberts, your immature name-calling of Mr. Trump aside, there are a great many reasons to doubt the validity of almost all of Pres. Obama's past, and not just the place of his birth. His college records and transcripts for all institutions and degrees have been locked away from the American people. Mr. Obama claims to have been a lawyer. Great. Where is his client list so that We The People may be certain that there is no conflict of interest? There is much more we DON'T know about the president than we do know. Mr. Trump is within his rights to ask for this information, as our own constitution makes certain citizenship requirements. With so little of the President's past available to us for our consideration, it should make any thinking person very nervous that everywhere this man goes, he is followed by the man with the "Nuclear Football." I contend that we need to be confident in the background and history of the man who can plunge this world into a nuclear winter- and right now, Mr. Obama has failed in this answer this need in a great many particulars, not just place of birth.

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seanomelbourne | Apr 10, 2011, 08:14 PM EDT

Prove he was not born in the U.S. The onus on his small minded detractors to prove otherwise. What evidence is there to the contrary. Find an unamerican certificate if you can.

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Monsoonman | Apr 10, 2011, 07:56 PM EDT

"President Obama shouldn't have to prove his U.S. birth for the likes of Donald Trump or anyone else for that matter."....Oh? How about the American people?

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wizardofoz | Apr 10, 2011, 06:30 PM EDT

My take on American politics is simple, democrat or republican, makes no difference all you get is a Jew puppet. Both Senate and Congress are ‘occupied territory’ the sight of Obama groveling before AIPAC in order to get the nod, if it weren’t so serious, would be a farce! ‘Land of the free home of the brave’ do me a favor! Reading these ill informed posts is a laugh, you lot take yourselves sooooo…seriously, the blind and ignorant in abundance! Anyone want to buy a bridge?

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ehamlet | Apr 10, 2011, 04:13 PM EDT

President Obama shouldn't have to prove his U.S. birth for the likes of Donald Trump or anyone else for that matter. Donald Trump is an idiot and I don't believe that most Americans are going to agree with him running for office.

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peterson | Apr 07, 2011, 07:03 PM EDT

Trump is not the idiot that Obama is !!

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