Trump's Selfish Deadline

Earlier last week, Trump made an announcement that he had a major revelation about Barack Obama that would consequentially, change the course of the elections in favor of Republican candidate Mitt Romney. What is wrong with Donald Trump? This is what immediately came to mind when I first saw his YouTube video with his unnecessary proposition to President Obama about a week ago. Everyone became skeptical and even the most outrageous rumors arose including a possible divorce between the President and his wife.

As he probably wanted, Trump got the attention of the whole nation, but the reaction was probably not what he had predicted it would be. As suspected, he had absolutely nothing on President Obama. Absolutely nothing. Is he trying to ruin his own reputation? Even his respected friend, Barbara Walters, called him foolish for this recent action. He once persuaded the President to release his birth certificate in order to prove that he was born in the United States, but now Trump is pushing his luck by requesting the release of his college transcripts and his Passport. Honestly, does Obama need to do this to prove himself? No. The United States government would never have allowed him to become President if he had not been born in this country. Everyone knows that so why won't Trump accept that? He wants attention.

By giving Obama a deadline, he is trying to show who has power, but will Obama succumb to that power? Probably not. Trump proposed that if these documents were released he would donate five million dollars to the charity of Obama's choice, but wouldn't the right thing to do is donate that money anyway?

In the midst, of Hurricane Sandy, Trump has pushed the deadline one day to November 1st at 12 PM. To me, this is just selfish. Trump is so focused on showing he has power over the President that he does not realize how the American people have been truly affected by this storm. If Obama does not release these documents, it will not prove him to be an awful President, but a responsible one as he is showing priority to the destruction that needs to be resolved in the wake of this hurricane rather than worrying about Trump's foolish demands.