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April 30th 2011 is the turning point. Obama roasted Trump so hard at the White House Correspondent's dinner that night that Trump locked in on running for president out of nothing more than pure spite.
Donald Trump is here tonight! Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than the Donald. And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter—like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?
But all kidding aside, obviously, we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience. For example—no, seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice—at the steakhouse, the men's cooking team cooking did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks. And there was a lot of blame to go around. But you, Mr. Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership. And so ultimately, you didn't blame Lil Jon or Meatloaf. You fired Gary Busey. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.
Well, Donvict was clearly worked up over Obama Presidenting While Black - it was obvious from all his stupid racist birther bullshit.
Sure, he wasn't the only one (anyone remember Orly Taitz, LOL?) but he quickly became the spearhead for the racists that were so GRRRR MAD that a black man was their President and tried to make their white hot racist rage all about long form birth certificates. It seriously broke the brains of the Republican Party/conservatives to have Obama as their President. I mean, they were already bad before, but after Obama, they only got worse. When conservatives blame Obama for their turn to someone as shitty as Donvict as their option, they are not exactly wrong, but they are not really understanding that they are telling on themselves.
Someone as disgusting and gross and racist like Donvict was almost bound to happen as a result of having a black President. Also, after the China White of someone like Palin, they were not going to settle for the methadone of Jeb! or Romney.
They wanted someone that would tell them to be their worst selves and be proud of it, because this country was "taken" from them and they need to "take it back". They viewed equality as oppression. They wanted someone that was the manifestation of Faux News, and Donvict is exactly that.