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Updated: 7:47 a.m. Thursday, April 21, 2011 | Posted: 7:46 a.m. Thursday, April 21, 2011
Donald Trump’s going to end up making Sarah Palin sound like Winston Churchill.
So much attention has been paid to Trump’s insistence on fanning discredited claims about President Obama’s birth certificate that it obscures the rest of pretend-candidate Trump’s world view, which is nothing shy of jaw-dropping crazy.
I caught Trump’s act Saturday at the South Florida Tea Party rally in Boca Raton, where he took the stage to the strains of James Brown’s “Living in America,” the same theme song used by boxing entrepreneur Don King, that other huckster promoter who finds faux-patriotism so personally useful.
Trump finds it useful these days to spew angry nonsense to the mouth-breather wing of the Republican Party, which has a limitless appetite for angry nonsense, even if it has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility.
“You know in New York, I know all the great business people, and they’re vicious, ruthless, horrible human beings,” Trump told the crowd. “And I want them negotiating for me.”
That was Trump on how he would fire America’s diplomats and replace them with corporate sharks as our foreign service corps.
“You know, a diplomat is a person that studies hard. And you know what they learn? How to be nice people,” Trump said. “I don’t want nice people.”
President Trump would need a whole lot more soldiers than diplomats, anyway. That’s because we’d be taking over the oil reserves in other countries, starting with Iraq, because we “won” the war there.
“For thousands of years when you won a war, you keep the nation. You keep the land. You keep the oil,” Trump said.
The crowd cheered lustily, as if Iraq, a nation invaded under a false premise and occupied for the past eight years at a tremendous human cost, is an American “victory” that entitles us to that sovereign country’s most valuable natural resource.
“We take the oil,” Trump continued. “It’s estimated that they have $15 trillion worth. We give some to Iraq. We pay back ourselves, plus, plus, plus.”
To show that he’s a magnanimous president when it comes to plundered wealth, Trump said his administration would share some of the windfall with the other nations that helped in the invasion and also give “a couple of million dollars apiece” to the families of American military members killed there.
“It’s peanuts when compared to what we’re talking about,” Trump added.
As for the civil war in Libya, President Trump is pretty clear on how to resolve this humanitarian crisis.
“I’m only interested in Libya if we get the oil,” Trump said.
“If we’re not going to get the oil, no interest whatsoever.”
It’s no wonder Trump mocked Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Trump’s foreign policy would be more worthy of the international criminal court in The Hague.
But believing in the concept of a President Trump is a fool’s game.
This is a short-term deal for Trump. He’s just temporarily hijacking a morally bankrupt Republican Party, a party that has mainstreamed nuttiness, in order to deliver his ultimate message: Watch the “Celebrity Apprentice.”
The TV show’s contract is up for renewal after this season. And so Trump’s just pumping his brand, and using the nation’s easily stirred political simpletons as his marketing foot soldiers.
Frank Cerabino writes for The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post. Email: frank_cerabino@pbpost.com.
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