Donald Trump's New Obama Conspiracy Theory

Donald Trump’s New Obama Conspiracy Theory

By Tigger2005

Politics • April 2011 • Views: 1,417

President Obama may have released his birth certificate on Wednesday, but Donald Trump and other wingnuts have already moved on to a new conspiracy: how the president got into the Ivy League. Michelle Goldberg traces the far-right history of the claim.

The birther bit must have been getting old. Now Donald Trump has opened up a new line of attack on President Obama, accusing him of being a “terrible student” who shouldn’t have gotten into Columbia University or Harvard Law School. “How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?” he asked the Associated Press. “I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.” He continued darkly, “There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.”

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7 comments

andres Wed, Apr 27, 2011 8:40:10pm

Trump and Co. should drop pretense, cough out the dog whistles they swallowed, and say what they really think out loud.

researchok Thu, Apr 28, 2011 3:26:53am

Morons, all.

That said, dealing with silliness is a lot easier than having to deal with the real problems the country faces.

nines09 Thu, Apr 28, 2011 5:59:07am

I guess when Glenn Beck takes his Delusional Tears For Fears and Parinoid Schism Dog and Pony Show off of Fox....Donald "Dark Side" trump can slide right in. What a load of dung he is.

Vicious Babushka Thu, Apr 28, 2011 6:28:34am

I want to see the Combover's:

tax returns
high school and college transcripts
DNA tests on his head rug

moderatelyradicalliberal Thu, Apr 28, 2011 9:01:23am

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "n*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "n*****, n*****." - Lee Atwater, architect of the Southern Strategy.

They are still saying "n*****, n*****, n*****".

lawhawk Thu, Apr 28, 2011 11:26:59am

That's the thing about conspiracies. Once one starts, facts and logic are irrelevant. The theory morphs and evolves into something else, ignoring away those facts.

Now that the citizenship is without a doubt proven (as it was with the short form, but that's besides the point), the conspiracists move on to the next issue as though there was hardly a ripple. They'll focus on his academic records or his voting record or drivers license or something else. Trump is just the loudest of the loudmouths claiming that Obama isn't a true American™ in some sense, and therefore these grotesque "investigations" into his birth and history are relevant, even though the media pretty much sussed all that information years ago.

Perhaps Trump would like it now that he's put himself out there as the guy who got Obama to release the long form that investigators go digging into Trump's academic records, citizenship papers, business dealings, and pretty much everything else that Trump says or does. The fact is that Trump got where he is now because his father was fortunate and savvy enough to build up a major real estate portfolio. Trump took that portfolio and multiplied it by focusing on the luxury market, but he's had more than his share of failures. Trump's obsession over Obama's history says quite a bit about Trump.

MinisterO Thu, Apr 28, 2011 12:32:42pm

Obama should do everything in his power to help Trump win the Republican nomination.

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