Some Might Take Trump’s Candidacy Seriously, But Now That The Media Does, He Could Be In Trouble

I’m not making a judgement call on Trump the man, just Trump as a candidate. The fact of the matter is, you can become super rich by one of two ways. Either you can have the money given to you or you can work hard and make it all yourself. Unfortunately, the second option almost always requires you to screw over a whole lot of people on your way to the top. It’s just a fact of life. Since Trump lost most of the money he got from his family and then made it back, he’s gotten rich both ways. While that’s impressive, it also means that there are a metric ton of stories out there that make Donald Trump seem like a royal ass. Same thing goes for any super rich person (seen The Social Network lately?).

But Trump isn’t just a rich businessman. He’s also a celebrity businessman. So not only are there bad stories about him out there in the boardroom, there’s also bad stories from the gossip pages. Cohen’s piece opens with a quote from a 1990 Vanity Fair profile which repeated Ivana Trump’s claim that Trump likes to read a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches that he keeps by his bed. There’s a huge chance this tid bit is entirely false. However, this is what Trump gets for being the only candidate that had huge magazine profiles quoting from his divorce proceedings.

At least I think he is. I haven’t read every profile ever written of Newt Gingrich.

The point is, In America, we expect our politicians to basically be spotless. It’s pretty dumb considering no human being is spotless but that’s the way it is. And, while George W. Bush may have partied a lot and Bill Clinton had some sex scandals bubbling up, no candidate in modern times has ever been a serious presidential candidate with as much skeletons free of the closet and in the public record as Trump has. This means one of two things. That he has balls the size of his bank account and just doesn’t care or, like people have been guessing this whole time, this is not a real candidacy.

Either way, it does make it ironic that Trump is spending so much time investigating the past of President Obama. Or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe Trump is only sending investigators down to Hawaii so that, when the Obama campaign finds his dirt by merely using a simple Google search, he can proudly exclaim that at least his team put some damn effort in.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.