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I Was Way Better Student Than Obama Says Donald Trump

Michael Hunt --2011-04-26 11:31

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New York - Real estate mogul Donald Trump suggested in an interview on Monday that President Barack Obama had been a poor and black student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended.

"I know all about how the Blacks get into good schools," said Trump, "and this is what America gets with terrible, really bad left wing ideas like affirmative action. It's bad for America to just give people an education. They should earn it with hard work."

Trump, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.

Trump playing at the Golden Trump Golf Resort in Cape Town

"I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a poor, bad black student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?" Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I just know he got lousy grades. He's not a very smart man, has no idea how to run a business, let alone an entire country...look how he is running this country into the ground. Let him show his school records."

Rivolo Tarantuliari, a Trump business associate from South Africa told the Cape Town Journal that "Mr. Trump held his own against African bullies when he attented the Gaia Waldorf Kindergarten in Cape Town, South Africa. He is not about to let a fraud like Obama stand in his way of becoming president of the United States, not after all the bullying he went through as a small child. These things haunt him," said Mr. Tarantuliari.

Obama's 2008 campaign did not release his college transcripts, and in his best-selling memoir, Dreams From My Father," Obama indicated he hadn't always been an academic star.

Trump told the AP that Obama's refusal to release his secondary and high school grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about himself.

"I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can't get into Harvard," Trump said. "We don't know a thing about this guy. He could be retarded for all we know. Look at his father! There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our black president."

Donald Trump

Mubaya Mogoudobuto, a marble mogul from Cape Town remembers Donald Trump from the Gaia Waldorf kindergarten. "He did not like to lose to us brown children," he told the AP. "Losing made him get very angry. He would turn bright red in the face and get the principal to make us stand for hours in the corner, naked. Obama doesn't stand a chance against this man."

Trump has shaped himself as an ultraconservative candidate, reversing some positions he once held. He now would criminalize abortion giving abortion providers the death penalty, opposes gay marriage and gun control. He advocates repeal of Obama's healthcare and wants to take the oil from Saudi Arabia, Libya and Iran and then "clean up the mess they made for themselves."

Trump was born outside the United States but is a naturalized American citizen. "The release of his official birth records will be revealed after the announcement for his candidacy," says Reginald Humbert, his campaign manager. "The US Constitution requires that presidential candidates be duo parental naturalized American or natural-born US citizens and Mr. Trump fulfills all the requirements."

"I have more people that are excited about the fact that I reinvigorated this whole issue of affirmative action," Trump said, adding "the last guy (Obama) wants to run against is Donald Trump. I represent the majority of white America. I don't know if he knows any math, but I operate on a very high mathematical level and last I counted, we outnumbered the blacks."

Trump is scheduled to travel to the early primary states of New Hampshire and Nevada this week and said he will make a final decision about a presidential bid by June.