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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 14, 2011
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Up until today, it's been mostly smooth sailing for professional hairpiece Donald Trump, who is well into his quest to reveal that President Obama is an impostor who wasn't born in America, and return the one true ring to Mordor. But today is shaping up to be pile-on-The-Donald day. In a profile with Time Magazine, Trump dodged a question about how many members serve in the House of Representatives: "Well, I don't want to answer your questions because this isn't a history class," said Trump, who insisted he knew the answer. "You could get some stiff that knows every one of those answers, but is incapable of governing." Classic Palin Donald!
Time also quotes Glenn Beck, who admits that Trump has maybe gone too far: "I could walk around the streets of New York without pants, and I could get attention," Beck recently said of Trump's wilder claims. "But that's not going to help me." Jon Stewart stuck to mocking Trump and his Hawaiian birth certificate researchers last night on The Daily Show. Stewart even found himself giving a tip of the yarmulke to Bill O'Reilly, who used his Bully Pulpit to debunk several Obama-based internet rumors/lies:
Meanwhile, the folks at Mock The Dummy decided to focus their Trumprage at the letter Trump sent to the NY Times last weekend in response to a Gail Collins column. They were incredulous over the letter, which was riddled with basic grammatical errors, and they demand that Trump release his application to Wharton Business School, since he uses his Wharton cred as evidence that he is a 'really smart guy.' “There is simply no way that a person who writes this poorly with so many grammatical errors could have passed Wharton’s vigorous acceptance standards based on academic achievement,” Ed Wittalker, a spokesperson for Mock The Dummy, said. Check it out (some NSFW language):
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