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Donald Trump

From The Desk Of Donald Trump 3/30/11 +
1:49 web video on "trump's Channel" on YouTube.


Trump: Bill O'Reilly called me; he wants me to do his show, so I'll be doing it tonight.  I hope you all watch.  Hopefully I'll do a good job.

Now, my main issue is China, is OPEC, is how this country is just being taken advantage of by everybody.

Unfortunately so much of the birther issue—and I hate the word birther because it's demeaning to all of the great people that think that this man should have, our president should have a birth certificate. 

But the birther issue really has resonated.  It's all over the place now.  He doesn't have a birth certificate.  So many things have come up like who takes advertisements in a newspaper when a baby's born, especially poor people.  Rockefeller doesn't take advertisements in a newspaper.  How the Governor of Hawaii says he remembers 50 years ago when the baby was born, and to the best of everyone's knowledge he didn't even know these people, but the Governor remembers when Obama was born.  There's something fishy going on. 

So I do talk about it, but my main issues are China, OPEC, Libya; how we're spending all of this money in Libya and not being paid back by the Arab League, which asked us to go in.  You know what the Arab League is?  The richest nations in the world—Saudi Arabia and their friends. 

So there's a lot of things going on.  There's a lot of popular support I'm getting.  I'll make my decision before June. 

The birther issue is an issue that's very important because if you're not born in the United States you can't be president and there's a real question in my mind and a lot of other minds as to whether or not he was actually born here.

But my primary issue is China, OPEC, and the rest of the world, the way they take advantage of us.  It shouldn't happen, and if I run and if I win it won't be happening for very long, believe me.

Notes: Trump first raised the "birther" issue an wide-ranging interview with Ashley Banfield that ran on ABC News' "Good Morning America" on March 17.