The Origin of the Obama Bomb: Trump's
Spreading the Bogus "Birther" Brouhaha.
For
years Donald Trump mischievously pounded into voters' heads that Barack
Obama was born in Kenya — not in the U.S. — and therefore ineligible
to be president in violation of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.
Worse, he might even be a dreaded Muslim. A sampling of the Donald's "birther" rhetoric:
"He
[Obama] doesn't have a birth certificate, or if he does, there's
something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody
told me - and I have no idea if this is bad for him or not, but perhaps
it would be - that where it says 'religion,' it might have 'Muslim.' And
if you're a Muslim, you don't change your religion, by the way."
—Donald Trump, The Laura Ingraham Show, March 30, 2011.
Barack Plays Hardball.
President
Obama's extraordinary retribution for the birther fraud was a gross
assault on Trump's fragile ego. Obama planned his revenge to
take place at the White House black-tie Correspondents' Dinner at the
Washington, D.C. Hilton, 30 April 2011. There Obama — and his victim — were surrounded on all sides by 2,500+
members of the nation's glitterati in politics, showbiz and the media...
plus 6 million viewers on national television. This was the very
universe Trump was (and is) desperate to impress and gain respect from.
Instead of respect, Obama gleefully made Trump the goat of the evening
in a night of boffo laffs at Trump's expense.
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Thank you.
A Personal Aside.
"The
most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit
detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
—Ernest Hemingway
I
hope you agree with me the Correspondents' Dinner was a hoot. The
audience went nuts with delight and laughter, as we did at home.
At
the
same time, the red flag of my built-in s**t detector started waving
furiously in my head. I went to bed and woke up with an eerie sixth
sense of coming mayhem. I was spooked and later proven spot on. Barack's
entertainment so riled Donald Trump he angrily threw his hat into the
presidential
ring. And by golly
he became the 45th and 47th president.
A Sampling of Donald Trump's Post
Obama Bomb Oh-so-dark Oratory.
Trump: "I am your retribution," Trump said to crowds of his supporters throughout the campaign."
—The Guardian, March 4, 2023.
Trump: "I
will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt
president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden and
the entire Biden family."
—The New York Times, January 19, 2025
Trump: "This will be a time for all citizens of the USA to celebrate! This guy (U.S. Army four-star General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) who
turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is
correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the
thinking of the President of the United States, and act so egregious
that in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!"
—Mark Wilson, Newsweek, September 22, 2023
Trump: "In
a completely illegal, psychotic order, the deeply conflicted, biased
and incompetent Acting Justice Juan Merchan had completely disrespected
the United States Supreme Court, and its historic Decision on Immunity.
But even without Immunity this illegitimate case is nothing but a Rigged
Hoax. Merchan, who is a radical partisan, wrote an opinion that is
knowingly unlawful, goes against our Constitution, and, if allowed to
stand, would be the end of the Presidency as we know it."
—Truth Social, @realDonaldTrump, December 17, 2024
Nuff said here, Okay? —DH
What's Going on Inside President Trump's Head?
A Frenzied Crusade to Become a Dictator... or King?
Illustration by Tim O'Brien for TIME.
CLICK BELOW
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic
February 4. 2025.
Trump's Love of Dictators
Trump: (On Kim Jong Un) "We fell in love over beautiful letters."
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 30 Sept. 2018
Trump: "Let me just say about world leaders, Viktor Orbán, one of the most respected men, they call him a strong man. He's a tough person. Smart prime minister of Hungary.
—Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect, 30 Sept. 2018.
Trump: "Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Viktor Orbán were at the top of their game whether you like it or not."
—Praveena Somasundram and Frances Vinall, The Washington Post, 24 May 2024.
Trump: "I love you. You got to get out and vote. In four years you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."
—Maggie Astor, The New York Times, 30 July 2024.
Trump: "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
—Winnie Hu and Stefanos Chen, The New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
NOTE: Boldface above is mine. —DH
A Terrifying Scenario
Our
once-beloved country is in the deepest distress headed by two wannabe
dictators-in-chief — Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They will no doubt be
operating in cahoots with their sycophantic cadre of
presidential-pardoned January 6th rioters. Plus an avalanche of additional
thugs and mutineers will be hellbent on generating crippling
international tariffs, putting governments and citizens out of work,
pocketing their paychecks, ignoring murders,
suicides, perpetual poverty, starvation, plagues, pandemics, deaths and
the penurious scrapping of all healthcare research and universal medical care for the washed and
unwashed.
And it all started with the Obama Bomb. Who'd a thunk it.
A supreme leader's motto: "It's good to be the king." —Mel Brooks
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By Oluchi Samuel
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