By MIKE JONES Associate Editor on Apr 14, 2011, at 3:14 PM Updated on 4/14 at 3:14 PM
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Politics can be a cheesy business. Candidates show up on talk shows. Not the serious ones on Sunday morning, but the late-night ones that revolve around laughs. Which, come to think of it, maybe that’s where most politicians belong anyway. But Donald Trump’s latest gag ranks right up there with the best – or worst.
Putting aside Trump’s courting of the nutty “birthers,” he has been flirting with running for president. Of course, everybody wants to know if and when. Trump teased by saying that he couldn’t announce anything formal because he is involved in his TV reality show, “The Apprentice.”
He said if he did, then he would disappointing all his fans because the network would have to cancel the show before it concluded. Of course, good old sympathetic Trump, the guy who is always considerate of the little people.
So, this week Trump announces that he will reveal his plans. When? Where? Everyone was breathless with anticipation.
He’ll tell the world on the finale of his show.
What? How grand. How statesmanlike. He’s going to use his bid for the presidency of the United States to pump up the ratings on his show. Maybe he’ll dress up as Uncle Sam, too. Maybe have a chorus line and some dancing bears.
Is this guy the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum? It was Barnum who famously said: “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
The even more acerbic H.L. Mencken said: “Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public.”
Less cynical and, I hope, more prophetic was Abraham Lincoln who said: “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
Although I’m sure that Trump is counting on the wisdom of Barnum and Mencken, I’m hoping that the words of Lincoln hold true.
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