Trump
is at it again on Barack Obama with claims that he has the divorce papers of
the First Family. A revered business
magnate, Donald Trump joins a list of other silly Americans (mostly white) who
have obdurately refused to acknowledge the ascension of a black man in the
White House. Trump and cohorts are so uncomfortable that every now and then,
they have to use their influence to mudsling the president. Another sworn
acolyte of the anti-Obama brigade is Dinesh D’ Souza who penned a book with the
title: The Roots of Obama’s Rage
where he lambasts an age mate of whom they share similar history to a degree
that nauseates. Let me not get ahead of myself. The issue at hand is the ‘You
are fired’ guy and his fixation with Obama presidency that turns such a well
respected tycoon to a total unthinking figure.
First, it was the issue of Obama’s
birth certificate. With notoriety for hyping his sensational, near-alarmist
concocted fabrications; in early in 2011, Trump insisted that Obama must
produce his birth certificate. Trump had
been alleging that Obama was not fit to be the president of America because he
was born in Kenya and not the US. His ‘very, very big news’ compelled Obama to
produce his birth certificate that indeed he was born in Hawaii. For those not
in the know, Donald Trump is a fervent ‘birther’ and would stop at nothing to
vilify and raise a kerfuffle over vacuum that Obama is not a legitimate natural
born American. ‘Birthers’ is made up of conservative Americans who insist on
the mark of ‘natural born citizen of America’ for anyone to hold an American
public office. And the entire furore is because a black man is at the helm of
the United States. Therefore, even with the money, the influence and prestige
of being an author, TV host et al, a person like Donald Trump stills feels
discontented with Barack Obama.
Truth be told, Obama is a normal
human being with his flaws and Trump and ilk should treat him with modesty and
decorum that he deserves. At least, if a person of Trump’s caliber engaged the
American nation in Obama’s possible waterloo of drone attacks in Pakistan that
is exterminating mostly civilians according to numerous reports then it would
be sensible. But with a net worth of 2.9 billion USD according to 2011 findings
from The Trump Organization, Donald
Trump is a terrible disgrace to even those who look up to him in amassing
wealth.
It is an ignominy when a public
figure such as Trump tasked with setting the moral principles of their nations
and the world at large to stoop to xenophobic inadequacies. Various definitions
describe xenophobia as an ‘irrational dislike’ or ‘fear of strangers’ that is
constantly jolting Trump from his quite to make headlines. Recently, George
Will, a Republican commentator called him a ‘bloviating ignoramus’ who think
others are wrong and he is correct. Thomas Paine in The Crisis notes that ‘to argue with a person who had renounced the
use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.’ Trump is dead
mentally and should be hastily rehabilitated before he jumps with another ‘very,
very big’ conspiracy that Malia and Sasha are bastards. And he has the papers
to prove that such and such year, Michelle Obama was this and Obama was that to
maintain his popularity ratings.
It not thus not scandalous to find a business
mogul whose books all have his name with funny titles befitting his extreme
abhorrence for public good and individual integrity. Trump: Survival at the Top, Trump:
The Art of Survival, Trump: The Art
of the Comeback, Trump: How to Get Rich,
Trump blah blah. Next time it will be Trump:
The Art of Disliking a Black President. Get fired!
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