When a rich and powerful person surrounds themselves with yes men and sycophants, does the line between reality and fiction begin to blur?
Take Donald Trump. Once upon a time he was just another rich asshole, making deals, worshiping at the alter of money, which I'm sure he had gold plated. But back in 2004, Trump decided to be on the telly and The Apprentice was born. When interest in the show wained it was replaced with Celebrity Apprentice, where celebrities from the B thru D list show up and try and raise tax write offs, er I mean charitable donations, for their favorite charity.
To Mr. Trump's credit, he realized that when you are on TV with a reality show, it's a bit like having a 45 minute commercial every week that makes a lot of money for just being on TV, and then a ton of additional money later on in product placement deals and self promotion.
Fast forward to 2011 and it certainly seems as if all that money, power, and celebrity has perhaps taken his ego into the stratosphere. So much so that in the past few weeks Donald Trump has made it increasingly obvious he would consider running for President of the United States.
Oddly though he didn't choose to do this by stating his case, showing his business and financial credentials, instead he did it by acting like the belligerent and obnoxious drunk you see in a bar late at night looking for a fight. Trump began by coming out as a 'birther.' This is the new term for what used to be called a 'racist.' Now racist people simply attack Obama for not being 'like us' and murmur about 'taking our country back.' These same people, love to make wild baseless claims about the birth place of our first non-white President. To me it all seems like code to replace the N word.
Under normal circumstances I would have hoped that intelligence would have prevailed, and people would have dismissed the man as a rich and eccentric lunatic who loves the sound of his own voice. But shockingly all this ranting about Obama's birth certificate in little sound bites on the news and on talk shows, didn't get Trump laughed off the stage, it actually ignited the Republican base, and in just a few weeks, he went from nowhere to the number one choice of polled Republican voters for their favorite presidential candidate in 2012.
I'm not sure if this speaks to the stupidity of Republicans, the weak field of candidates they have to choose from, the underlying racism within the Republican party, or all of the above.
Donald Trump has continued to run his mouth unchecked in the media almost every day now, with the class and sophistication of one of his gold phallic monstrosities he erects around the world. Having just attacked Jerry Seinfeld in the media, he more recently moved on to Robert Di Nero spitting venom after Di Nero dissed him in an interview for his recent boorish behavior.
At this rate Trump is on course to put out a rap record by the end of the year in which he claims that he does in fact have the most bitches and hoes, and the longest penis, and is going to shoot anyone that dissed him recently.
Frankly, I'm sick of it. What this country needs is some TLC to nurse it back to health after Bush raped it and left it for dead in the gutter. The Bush legacy will take years to recover from, and the last thing we need is some retarded bimbo from Alaska telling us who the 'real' Americans are or the blow hard egomaniac telling us all how easy our problems are to fix if you are brilliant at everything, like he is.
I guess I may as well get used to it, because election season is nearly upon us, and it won't be long before the attack ads begin all over again. The bright side for me though is that if Palin, Trump and that Mormon cult member are all the Republicans have to offer, Obama should be a lock for another four years.
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