Has Donald Trump's presidential run been canceled?

By James Oliphant Washington Bureau

May 5, 2011, 7:56 a.m.
American commandos eliminated Osama bin Laden this week. Did they also liquidate Donald Trump's presidential run?

A week ago, Trump was riding high. President Obama had been forced to go on television to confirm for the world what most of it already knew: that he had been born in the United States. True to his nature, Trump claimed credit -- and immediately embarked on a tour of New Hampshire in what seemed like a victory lap, as he talked incessantly about running for president.

But there's an old axiom in Washington: The more time the media -- and everyone else -- become consumed by silliness by, as Obama might put it, "sideshows and carnival barkers," the more likely something serious will come along to wipe the whole business away. Perhaps it's just a form of karmic payback.

Or more simply put: maybe the curtain was finally yanked away. When the target of a decade-long worldwide manhunt is brought down, reality-show antics and birth-certificate debates lose their power to grip, assuming they had ever held that power in the first place.

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My father used to use the LBJ quote, "he ain't a pimple on a good man's ass" to describe people like Trump.

No dog should be carted around on top of pile of shit. That's just wrong.

were pretty well trounced last week.

And that goes for the fox on his head.

He is making the GOP into a laughingstock.

The media will start saying he was never a Republican, it was an independent bid. You read it here first.

and trot out the clips of him criticizing Bush (from 4-5 years ago) to "prove" it.

He said he was going to run in 1988 and in 2000. And he went through the same show in 1987 and 1999 that he has this year. People forget quickly.

A billionaire is going after a 400,000 a year job?? :wtf: