Well Done, Obama

There is nothing quite like well-earned ridicule to take the pontificating absurdity of a poseur away from the realm of reality into the area of absurdity, which is where it belonged in the first place. Prick the pomposity of an idiot spewing nonsense under the guise of a pundit and you have a deflated ego hanging out to dry.

And, if anyone deserved that comeuppance it was certainly Donald Trump. A real estate entrepreneur and nothing else. With aspirations to the White House which should have presented as delusional to anyone with half a brain, but amazingly quite a few Americans who lean Republican were impressed with Trump's expression of interest.

Raising a stir among the Tea Partiers by echoing their call on Barack Obama's true birth, certainly not as an American, more likely a citizen of Indonesia, by birth. And who could believe that this biracial man who managed to influence enough voters to sail him into office, is really a Christian as he claims to be? They know a closet Muslim when they see one; and that's him. And The Donald most pleased to repeat the calumnies.

Creating a buzz by appearing as a shallow-minded expert on corporate interests and money-making, in the process playing the heavy and dominating a round table of experts, while brutally dampening the aspirations of poor dunderheads who believe Trump's prognostications and empirical decision-making, does not a feasible candidate make for the presidency.

Except in the mind of someone so self-involved and egotistically entitled that his enthusiasm for himself seems highly infectious, enough so to cause others who venerate celebrity and wealth to consider his qualities expressive of a prestigious political posting of the highest order.

So when someone whose genes imbued him with a true measure of intelligence expresses his own opinion of his detractor it is well worth paying attention to. What better venue than the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner to display President Obama's acerbic wit, turned upon Donald Trump's naked ambition?

As a send-up it was priceless; to wit: Trump taking personal ownership of the White House to stamp it eponymously and to set about administering the affairs of the country in reflection of his Celebrity Apprentice show. "Say what you want about Mr. Trump. He certainly would bring change to the White House" stated the President.

On the obvious basis of his "credentials and breadth of experience".