Bloomberg Chides Trump And Republicans For Birther Rhetoric

Bloomberg and Trump sharing a hot dog in 2007 (Photographs by Seth Taylor for Fashion Herald)

Yesterday, WWE Raw enthusiast Donald Trump was criticized for his less than exemplary primary voting record. But today, he got a bit of a tongue-lashing for his obsession with President Obama's birth certificate by fellow member of the billionaire's-club, Mayor Bloomberg. “The Republicans are making a terrible mistake in making this a big issue. We have immigration, we have the deficit, we have the economy. Those are the things that the public cares about,” he said on FoxNews this morning.

Bloomberg made his thoughts on the question of Obama's birthplace very clear: "Look, anyone can run for president if you're 35 and you're an American citizen and born here. The President was born here." During the interview, he called Trump a friend and NY icon, but warned him to drop the birther stuff for more substance: "My girlfriend always says it's always about housing and jobs - my house, my job. That's what the public cares about.And if the Republican Party doesn't start addressing that they will lose and they deserve to."

Bloomberg added that the back-and-forth between Dems and the GOP is "good theater, but the country can no longer afford this. The American public is smart enough to understand that. lets focus on the main issues." Despite sounding suspiciously like someone who may have presidential aspirations of his own, Bloomberg again flatly denied that he was running for President.

Several Staten Island Republicans seem to be on the same page with Bloomberg about Trump's over-the-top antics. State Sen. Andy Lanza said Trump's reliance on the birther issue could hurt him: “It’s risky to stake your candidacy on that, because it’s so easily knocked out of the box. Then Trump would be done...What works in the entertainment business might be a weakness in a campaign for the White House. To run for president, you have to demonstrate statesmanship and polish.” City Councilman James Oddo agreed with his assessment: “If I want personality to that degree, I’ll turn on the WWE.”

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By Ben Yakas in News on April 24, 2011 6:10 PM

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ewtgertg

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George

There are definitely a lot of people angry that we have a president who wasn't born in this country. It's bad enough that we have to support the Third World and take in all their immigrants without their playing games where they attempt to take over our government with one of their own.

ruyikuui

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CeliacSpy

HA! HI Senator Sam Sloan now says that he doubt's it's whether 0 was born in HI that he's hiding his BC, BUT WHO HIS REAL FATHER IS!
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Like I've said a very long time!
For I do know: 0 and I share a same bio-father, former East German "Master Spy" STASI General Markus "Mischa" Wolf, who specialized in the breeding, grooming, life-long running, and Legend-creation of "Manchurian Candidates."
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Unkle_Bob

"The Republicans are making a terrible mistake in making this a big issue"

No, no, I think they're making a GREAT mistake! Keep it up!

Roger_the_Shrubber

Ok, what's the name of the doctor who delivered obama on the birth certificate?

anybody?

apheliotrope

Dr. Rodney T. West

Bernie_Geotz_Squirrel_Luv

Dr. Bombay. Happy now?

Roger_the_Shrubber

It's Mumbai now. Get with the program.

virgilstarkwell

i used to think don was the biggest douche on the planet. then i got a look at the boy.

frtetgryg

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freddynyc

Is there any time when Don Jr. doesn't have a smug expression on his face?

Don Robertson

Two years ago -I had to obtain and show my birth certificate ( I had never seen prior to this occasion) to RENEW my Maine driver's license. I am sixty-one.

Don Robertson
http://MaineArtists.US
Limestone, Maine

BajaRat

We are living in George Orwell's 1984 when Americans are ridiculed for demanding proof of eligibility of a person to hold the highest office in the land. You wouldn't rent a house to someone who couldn't demonstrate he could pay the rent, so why would anyone take the word of this loathsome globalist gasbag in the White House given his lousy track record?

clamburger

you figure that he got the Presidency handed to him without ever once filling in paperwork or having a background check done on him? I had no idea it was so easy to be given the keys to our nuclear arsenal!

The_Green_Devil

You're being ridiculed because you birthers are all batshit fucking crazy. Both Democratic and Republican governors have come out to say that Obama's legit yet still you crazy shitheads think there's a conspiracy that involved hospitals and doctors and newspapers and the US State Department and the state of Hawaii. I'm just waiting for the Trump investigation to tie it into Roswell, the Trilateral Commission, the grassy knoll, and the Nicole Simpson murder.

1BadDawg

be for real, you think he'd become a senator and the president without being a U.S. citizen? You're an idiot! Besides, why didn't you ask any of the former WHITE presidents to present their birth certificates...let's call a spade a spade...if he wasn't black, had a muslim-sounding name, would this country be having this conversation?

virgilstarkwell

a spade a spade? really? i'm trying to be on your side, but you ain't making it easy.

1BadDawg

my comment was for BajaRat virgil...because race is the underlying factor in all of the arguments from the other side, they don't want to admit it, but it's clearly BLACK & WHITE