Obama was a key enabler of Trump's campaign, he established that someone minimally qualified for the presidency could run and hold the office. This clearly paved the way for Trump.
Say what you will, but Trump would never have gotten this kind of traction running as a Democrat. Not enough crazies.
Let me put it another way... philosopher kings come from the philosopher class, not business class. Based on the track record of previous presidents who came from business, I'd be tossing Trump's resume in the circ file.
Recent Op/Ed piece with a old tale: Opinion: Donald Trump’s business disaster is worse than you think How successful is Trump really? And if Romney was such a big success, why did he perform quite miserably in Massachusetts?
Funny but I would have said Obama created Rubio and Cruz. Suddenly it was not the mark of a lunatic to think some small time local pol could run for president 15 minutes after getting sworn in as a freshman senator. At least Trump can point to some accomplishments in his life. What can little marco point to?
The Left Disarmed the Racism Charge NOAH ROTHMAN / MAR. 3, 2016 So eager was the press to dub any and all opposition to Obama racist in 2008 that overzealous crowd reactions to McCain’s swipes at his opponent became suitable evidence of an ugly phenomenon on the right. “McCain: Obama not an Arab, crowd boos,” a Politico headline blared in October. From then on, reportage on the conspicuous booing of conservative crowds proliferated. “Obama can hardly be held accountable for Ayers’s behavior 40 years ago, but at least McCain and Palin can try to take some responsibility for the behavior of their own supporters in 2008,” the New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote without a discernable hint of irony. So petrified were Obama skeptics that, even when they’d preface such criticism with “I don’t want to sound racist, and I’m not racist,” it wasdubbed by the left an admission of their racism. The efforts of Obama allies to tar Mitt Romney and his supporters as racially suspect made the 2008 campaign look tame by comparison. Hardly a day passed when the vilest slurs and most thoughtless innuendo were not deployed against Romney for having the gall to run for president against Barack Obama. That’s not an exaggeration, either. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews asserted that he thought it was“arrogant” and showed a “certain kind of disdain” when Romney decided to run against a sitting African-American president. “I don’t want to get into his head on this – I don’t like the look of it,” the MSNBC host declared. For Obama backers, identifying racist “dog whistles” became a favored pastime in 2012. Words like “angry,” “golf,” “skinny,” “Chicago,” “food stamps,” “apartment,” and even “Constitution,” were ascribed some darker meaning that supposedly only white nationalists could hear (although liberal talk show hosts seemed rather attuned to them). Romney was allegedly racist toward African-Americans, towardPalestinians, toward Hispanics, and none of this let up even after he lost. When, in the effort to address long-term urban poverty in 2014, then-Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan was accused of racism for using another one of those code words, “inner cities,” to describe one of the areas in America plagued by generational poverty. “Let’s be clear, when Mr. Ryan says ‘inner city,’ when he says ‘culture,’ these are simply code words for what he really means: ‘black,’” insisted Representative Barbara Lee, along with a host of finely tuned dog whistle decoders on the left. It is perhaps unsurprising that Barack Obama did not meet with the same criticism for making the same observation while using virtually the same language. Even members of Barack Obama’s own administration have mobilized racial anxiety against Republicans when it was politically convenient. When complaining about having had to address a typically pugnacious House committee session, former Attorney General Eric Holder told a gathering of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network members (again, sans irony) that the spectacle was “ugly,” and standard for a GOP that had treated him and the president with unprecedented contempt. “What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?” he asked. In case this was too subtle an accusation for anyone, Holder spelled it out. In an exit interview before he resigned, the attorney general was asked if he believed Republican racism was behind opposition to the Obama administration. “There have been times when I thought that’s at least a piece of it,” Holder said. When honorable and decent men like Senator John McCain and Governor Mitt Romney, not to mention most of the conservative movement, are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a GOP electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the genuine article is in their midst. Democrats will go about patting themselves on the back for their successful psychological manipulation of the right to a point at which the GOP appears set to nominate a toxic figure for the presidency. They should perhaps postpone the celebrations. Anyone who wins the presidential nomination of one of the two major parties in America stands an excellent chance of winning the White House. While Trump would seem unlikely to become commander-in-chief, any number of unforeseen black swan events along the campaign trail could yield a victory for the celebrity candidate. Today, they point and shout “racist” into the void, but Democrats only have themselves to blame for the fact that so many on the right are no longer listening.
I believe it. I don't think Trump is some Man-God. Nobody is perfect man. Think about how many times you've personally lied in your life, beat off to a hot cousin, or cheated on your GF. Shit happens dude. We're human beings. Trump built an empire. Did he have failures? Sure. Wtf doesn't? I take losing trades every day. I blew out a couple accounts before that. Who the fuck is this snow white angel we should all be voting for? Hillary???? LOL Lets see. Trump's failed Steak brand. Or Hillary covering up tens of rape accusations against her husband and disclosing above top secret intel via email? America is absolutely obsessed with this puritanical stereotype for politicians. And they only apply it to Republicans, not Democrats. Because the media is Democrat controlled. It's all a gigantic psych-op and you're falling for it.