DONALD THE CARNIVAL BARKER

"I am really honored to play such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue. Today I'm very proud of myself, because I've accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish. Now we have to look at it, we have to see, is it real."

So spoke Donald Trump on Wednesday when he took credit for the White House release of Obama’s birth certificate. Now that’s some chutzpah!

Trump expressed the hope that by the release of the certificate we would be ‘getting rid of this issue.’ Yet he wants proof that the birth certificate is real.

Addressing the birther issue during Wednesday’s White House press conference, President Obama referred to The Donald as a ‘carnival barker.’ I rarely agree with anything Obama says, but the president sure pegged Trump right.

Trump would fit right in barking for the sideshow of a travelling carnival: “Alright folks step right up and see the bearded lady. See the Siamese triplets. Come in and look at the four-headed snake. Watch Gordo, the amazing fire eater and sword swallower. Hey fellows, here we have five beautiful Turkish belly dancers. Come and see all the amazing attractions we have for you.”

In fact, Trump is a self-promoting snake oil salesman. He no longer controls most of the properties that bear his name. His casinos in Atlantic City went bankrupt and he’s no longer associated with them. His well-publicized business successes occurred years ago and, after a series of failures, his most notable success of late has been his reality TV show.

As for the Obama hating birthers, are they going to put this issue to rest now that Obama has released his birth certificate? Of course not. Donald the Carnival Barker and his fellow birthers are going to keep on questioning the authenticity of the certificate. And now they are demanding that Obama release his college records because they hope to show he really wasn’t all that smart in school.

Here is what Trump had to say about that: “I heard he was a terrible student. Terrible. He went to Occidental. I heard he was a terrible student. Not like, okay. I heard he was a bad student. How does a bad student then go to Columbia and then to Harvard? How does this happen? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records! … I don’t know why he doesn’t release his records.”

No matter where the president was born or whether he is a dumb-ass, get over it you idiots! Obama is our president whether you like it or not, and he’s very likely to be reelected for a second term. Oh, and if you idiots want a clown for president, then Trump is your man.

The Donald sounded pretty good explaining what he would do differently from Obama when he announced he was considering a run for the presidency – that is until he became America’s most prominent birther. What’s truly amazing is that a sizable number of Americans actually believe Trump would make a good president. Ignorance is bliss! Or, as P. T. Barnum put it: There’s a sucker born every minute!