Trump: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

There are certain ironies that cause you to simply shrug your shoulders and admit you just can’t make this stuff up.

Take for example, Fred Wilpon, the co-owner of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, being recently appointed to the league’s finance committee, despite twice being duped by Ponzi schemes including Bernie Madoff.

The latter incident so serious that the club needed a loan from MLB to stay afloat.

Then, there’s just declared GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, he of the $8.7 billion net worth (or so he claims, but more on that in a minute) and host of NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice, who stated that our county was in “serious trouble” and asked when was the last time the U.S. beat China in a trade deal.

The jowly megalomaniac, who has managed to slap his annoying surname on everything from buildings, to golf courses and even a state park, boasted that “he beats China all the time.”

Really?

Perhaps his memory is going the way of his wispy hair.

During his 2012 flirtation with the Oval Office, it was disclosed that most of his Trump-brand merchandise was made – um, in China. And his branded shirts were manufactured in Korea and Thailand.

Just this week, Trump was accused of paying actors from a casting agency to attend his Presidential announcement conference in order to beef up attendance. He’s already angered musician Neil Young for his unauthorized use of Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” during the conference and Forbes Magazine is claiming  that Trump exaggerated his net worth by more than double and is actually worth closer to 4.1 billion.

Sadly, this wasn’t the first time “The Donald” has sort of skirted the truth about anything.

When asked a number of years ago by one of the most respected cable business journalists about his various bankruptcies, he sat there straight faced and insisted they never happened.

Really?

A personal bankruptcy perhaps not.

But his companies indeed filed bankruptcy on not one, not two, but on FOUR occasions in 1991, 1992, 2004 and again 2008, the first two of which I covered in a former life.

He also boasted that he would be the “greatest jobs president that God ever created.”

Really?

For those needing a refresher, here was The Donald’s solution just a few short years ago to paying down the mind-boggling national debt – a 14.25 percent one-time tax on those with a net worth over $10 million? That, contended Trump, would have resulted in $5.7 trillion of new revenue.

Hmmm.

With more GOP candidates currently vying for the Oval Office than characters on Game of Thrones, the country needs Donald Trump in the race like it does adding another $1 trillion to its current debt load.

As a presidential candidate he should be taken as seriously as the results of a professional wrestling match.

“You’re Fired” would be the perfect polling response.