Trump:Not the Hair Heir Apparent

I assume he means in American history. It would be a bridge too far even for Trump to put him past Kim Jon Il, Robert Mugabe and my personal favorite is president Turkminbasi, of Turkministan who made himself president for life and renamed the months of the year after himself and his family.

We can debate seriously the racist nature of his new-found Birtherism. We can decry the harm he does to the body politic. We can hate the coverage he is getting from the media (Yes, ironically here and now within this piece). But mostly, and personally, I am deeply grateful that he has entered the political arena. Yes, he's a deeply shallow person with lots of bluster and little actual knowledge of history. He doesn't know Sunnis from Shiites, so he can easily conflate them in Libya. But he is a gift to Obama. In fact I suspect him of being a mole sent in to destabilize the Republicans. I mean, there could be a mole deep in his hair, couldn't there?

Let's face it, the birther stuff appeals to people who would never vote for Obama anyway, and it makes the rest of the party seem mean and silly. Meanwhile, his larger than life personality sucks up all of the oxygen in the Republican room. He is not a serious person, but he does have a serious ego. Still, knowing that he can't be elected frees him to be outrageous and entertaining. Does he think he can get away with his fact-challenged assertions about birth certificates, investigators and no one remembering Obama in Hawaii? Well that depends on whether you think that he thinks he is getting away with his greatest cover-up: His magnificent, improbable and architecturally triumphal comb-over.