Chafed by The Donald

Although this is a celebrity gossip blog, I find myself needing to take a step into the political world for my latest rant. You could argue that since this post is mainly about the producer of "Celebrity Apprentice", I'm not straying too far from the fold.

Last night, I watched a nearly 30-minute segment on CNN that featured an extensive interview with Anderson Cooper and Donald Trump about - you guessed it - President Obama's birth certificate.

It turns out that even when Hawaii submitted Obama's official birth record, it was not in a format that pleased The Donald. Instead of a "birth certificate" it was a "certificate of live birth", which Trump claims can be manufactured by any Tom-Dick-or-dumba$$ with a notary stamp, pen and - oh wait - permission from the state of Hawaii to certify such an official and entirely legal document.

Please turn to your neighbor now and say, "The Donald can suck it".

Trump continued on in the interview to say that further proof of a conspiracy can be found in the fact that Obama's birth announcement came out in the local newspaper eight days after he was born.

Why the delay? Because, as the newspaper and CNN were both quick to point out, birth announcements were made only once a week on Sundays and the President was born on a Friday. ALL babies born that day were in the following week's paper due to a baby backlog.

Which I believe, because who wouldn't want to get knocked up in Hawaii?? I bet their birth rate is through the roof.

The most disheartening thing about this travesty of a "news" story is that when Trump first came on the scene as a presidential candidate, no one really took him seriously. Now, polls show Trump neck-in-neck with Huckabee for the #1 spot on the Republican ticket.

And what is the big difference between Trump's debut and now? His one-man witch hunt for the President's birth certificate as his campaign platform. This means that many Americans are truly stupid enough to buy into this non-story and base their voting decision on prejudice, racism and lies.

I say racism not because President Obama is black, but because Trump claimed one reason the President may have for "hiding" his birth certificate is that it would prove he's Muslim.

And maybe I'll get shot for saying this, but what is wrong with being Muslim? Not all Muslims planned 9/11 - it was a group of heartless radicals who also happened to be Muslim.

Shall we go back in history to name all the batshit crazy Christians who did terrible things? If one Buddhist decides to go whacky, should we march over to Tibet and bomb everyone in sight? I don't think so.

I'm disgusted for several reasons but will highlight only two for the sake of brevity:

#1 - The fact that Donald Trump thinks he's fit to run anything outside of his real estate empire and LaToya Jackson's business training on "Celebrity Apprentice" is not only arrogant, it's vile and insults my stance as a pseudo-intellectual.

#2 - The fact that people are actually buying into his propaganda means that, in fact, our country did not wise up after electing George W. Bush not once but TWICE and we deserve to fry in hell as a nation.

There's nothing left for me to say here aside from shame on you, Donald. You would be much better off getting wasted with your 17th wife - who is the same age as your daughter - instead of wasting Anderson Cooper's (and my) time with nonsensical interviews.

No, I won't vote for you. And I will make it a personal mission to slap anyone in the face who does.

I'm going to go throw up in my mouth now.