Donald Trump Emerges as 'Just a Little' Bit Birther
In another sign he is ogling the White House, Donald Trump joined the birther-curious community on Thursday in an interview with ABC's 'Good Morning America,' fully airing his doubts that President Obama was born -- or even raised -- in the United States.
He premised his skepticism by defending others who don't believe the president is a native-born citizen. "Anybody that even gives any hint of being a birther ... they label them an idiot," he said. "And let me tell you, I'm a really smart guy ... The reason I have a little doubt, just a little, is because he grew up and nobody knew him."
He then challenged the interviewer, Ashleigh Banfield, to mine his past if he were to run and secure the Republican nomination.
"You may go back and interview people from my kindergarten," he said. "They'll remember me. Nobody comes forward. Nobody knows who he is until later in his life. It's very strange. The whole thing is very strange."
According to his biography, Obama attended Noelani Elementary School in Honolulu for kindergarten, then moved to Indonesia where he attended St. Francis Assisi Catholic School for three years.
The 'Celebrity Apprentice' host then laid out what he would do regarding several foreign policy matters of the day:
• On Libya, he'd endorse a "surgical strike" on the country's rogue dictator, Col. Muammar Gadhafi
• On Somali pirates, he'd roll up "an Admiral and a couple of ships" and "wipe them out of the sea so fast."
Following these pledges of international policing, Trump seemingly railed against such actions while also lamenting China's precipitous rise on the international stage.
"While we spend billions of dollars a week on being the policemen for the world, China's spending billions of dollars a day on taking over the world, economically. That's not a good formula for us."
Oh, the interview took place on Trump's private jet.
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How many times did he declare bankruptcy? If I could start out owning what he did, because of his dad, I don't think I'd go bankrupt. The only reason he's got money is because of nepotism.
you would be working 10 jobs instead of 2 if their were no unions. unions created minimum wage. you do not make any sense and obviously do not know what unions have done for this country
You mean, into the ground??? Bankrupcy twice?? Then there were the PERSONAL bankrupcies...? Do you really want someone who won't even be honest about his HAIR to be President of the United States???
I would like to have a president i can look @ he is so uglyyyyyy.
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Moron
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Anyone who has to tell us he's a "really smart guy" almost certainly isn't.
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SO IF WE THINK TRUMP IS SMART, WE ARE NOT,O MY GOD WHAT AN IDIOT, ANOTHER ONE OF THEM BLACK SHEEP THAT HAS TO FOLLOW THE PACK, I BET YOUR ALSO IN LOVE WITH OBAMA LOL
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Obama does nothing but play, party & lie. This is my experience with most black people. Now we will never get anything out of them because their leader is teaching by example. I guess they're all lazy.
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Pam,you are a racist fool.
I'm confused. I thought Obama was half black, half white...
The Donald certainly is full of hot air. If the pirate issue was that simple it would have been alleviated by now! And as for what he says and what he'd be able to do as President are also worlds apart. Where he is in life, what he says goes. When in the White House he'd have the Congress & Senate to contend with. In other words it's a Democracy and not a Dictatorship.
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The Donald is now The Doubter and everyone should now doubt his capacity for making a rational decision and evaluation. I now have doubts that he is intelligent.
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My only thought to Donald, you are rich, so you can ask for copies of all the birth certificates of every other baby born in Hawaii on the same day as Obama and see if their certificate looks just like Obama's. All Birth Certificates in Hawaii looks like Obama. I know I worked for an OB GYN group in Hawaii...These birthers are nuts.
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Yep, just what we need. I guy who started out with a silver spoon in his mouth, declared bankruptcy a few times and screwed his creditors out of their money. Maybe he can finish bankrupting this country, a job his republican buddy Bush got off to a great start.
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Vickie before you call Sandy a dumbell ..........Governor Neil Abercrombie was pressured to produce a BC for Obummer, on 1-20-11. Here is his answer:'It actually exists in the archives, written down,' he said.
But it became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives and not a birth certificate. And in the same interview Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health. WHY I wonder?
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I AM A QOUBLE VET/USMARINES/USARMY.
TRUMP HAS SHOWN WHAT A FLAKE HE IS BY HIS STATEMENT THAT WE SHOULD GO INTO LIBIYA.
HOW MANY BATTLES HAS HE BEEN IN.
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How many battles has donald been in? many namely, wifes and bankruptcies. That's probably why he says what he says without giving it a thought.
That man gives me a headache...he could not get his inflated ego thru the doors of the White House.
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Donald Trump you are Fired.. You can't win! Did you forget about your new Wife and those issues.. and the issues with your former wives and your past money problems. How dare you go there with the birthers.
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Please stop with the stupidity...the newspaper archives of Obamas birth was not handwritten; he is a citizen...gosh, folks move on...theres nothing to see here...its a wrap, he's born in the USA...dang already, golly I'm an Independent and am not even sure if I will vote for Obama again, but we can stop kicking this dead horse already, and Trump is the biggest clown, or is it loser...
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