Editorial: Stop feeding the troll

By The Daily Athenaeum Editorial Board

Donald Trump does it again.

The billionaire casino mogul and host of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” who explored a presidential run of his own earlier this year, spent the past several days teasing a revelation he implied would shake up the presidential election.

Wednesday, Trump finally let the cat out of the bag. In a video Trump posted on his Twitter and Facebook pages, he announced a “deal” he was offering President Barack Obama.

In exchange for President Obama releasing his college transcripts, college applications and passport application, Trump vowed to donate $5 million to any charity of Obama’s choosing.

This cheap publicity stunt was Trump’s big, earth-shattering surprise. That his announcement wasn’t a game-changer for the election is hardly shocking. Trump has made similar bombastic claims on numerous occasions, such as his recent teasing of something “huge” he had in store for the Republican National Convention. Unfortunately, Trump’s big surprise was scrapped when the RNC was shortened due to the weather. It turns out we were all going to be treated to a video of him telling an Obama impersonator that Obama was “fired.”

Trump was roundly mocked for his most recent announcement, which he hopes will vindicate his conspiratorial views that Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and was a bad student who only attended elite universities because of Affirmative Action.

Of course, the birther claims have been refuted time and time again, and the notion that someone who became the president of the Harvard Law Review didn’t deserve to be admitted to Columbia and Harvard is laughable. But what else should we really be expecting from “The Donald”?

In light of this latest charade, The Daily Beast proposed a fantastic idea: Everyone should just ignore Trump.

This man is very obviously a delusional egomaniac who thrives on the attention he gets when he employs these ridiculous publicity stunts.

The Daily Beast is right. It’s time we all ignore him in the hopes that he’ll just go away.

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