"I have this money that I WOULD give to people who need it... but I'll hold it hostage for my ridiculous demands."

Stay classy, Trump!

Obama is less transparent than any other president? Well sure, if by that you mean he's darker.

Least transparent? Did he seem to forget about Nixon?

Ooh ooh, I know how this game works! I have $5 million to give to the charity or SuperPAC of Mitt Romney's choice if he releases a decade's worth of his complete tax returns and those of his "blind" trusts, to my satisfaction. Because it's all about transparency, right?

Who the fuck is this guy? This is maneuver is classic comic book villainy behavior.

I wish someone would make the same offer to Romney for his tax records.

What bothers me the most about Trump's racist campaign is that it's been going on for so fucking long, people seem to have forgotten that it is rooted in deep, ugly racism.

Why isn't Trump asking for proof Romney wasn't secretly born in Mexico, like his father? Because Romney is a white Republican, and because it is a ridiculous suggestion.

Why isn't/wasn't Trump asking for proof that McCain wasn't secretly born in Panama, rather than the Panama Canal? Because McCain is a white Republican, and because it is a ridiculous suggestion. (Btw, the Panama Canal is about the shittiest version of "American soil" a Presidential candidate can be born on.)

Trump and his bigot supporters are only pushing this issue because the President is a not-white-enough Democrat, in spite of it being a ridiculous suggestion.

Jesus Murphy why won't anyone ignore this racist piece of shit?

Maybe we should raise $5 million dollars and mail a picture of it to Trump along with a picture of his mom having sex with a bear.

How am I still disappointed by Donald Trump? That man takes major letdowns to a new level.

The man is about as irrelevant as Ann Coulter and Sarah Palin yet everyone has to report on whatever stupid offensive meaningless shit they say.

I would like them to just go away but the media just won't let that happen.

That fucking whore!

Trump is the Kim Kardashian of politics. Fake, vapid, ridiculous, and yet still able to command the attention of the international media at will.

I think President Obama should take the deal and give all the money to Planned Parenthood.

To WHICH charity? And no, the offer is not credible, unless he puts the offer in writing to make it contractually binding and define what his "satisfaction" would be.

what does releasing his college transcripts and passport applications have to do with anything?

I'll join #4, and pledge $5 to charity if Mitt releases his tax returns from the last decade, like every other major candidate for a generation has done (and like his Daddy said was the minimal display of good faith the voter had a right to expect). By contrast, no candidates have ever released either their birth certificates or their college transcripts.

@16 He still thinks Obama's birth certificate is fake, hence the passport app. Not sure about college transcripts. Does he now think Obama didn't finish college?

@14
"I think President Obama should take the deal and give all the money to Planned Parenthood."

But it would never happen.
Trump would never agree that Obama had released "enough".
It's about control.
The guy with more power controls the guy with less power.
If Obama has to jump through hoops set by Trump to get Trump's money, then Trump is more powerful than the President of the United States of America.

I'm with everyone else who asks why Trump has to put conditions on giving money to charities that need it.

@17

Correction: Obama did release his birth certificate because of these racist shit bags. What he is missing is a certificate of whiteness.

Does Trump actually do anything anymore aside from being an annoying TV person? I know at one point he built casinos and golf courses and other things that went bankrupt but does he still do that?

Romney never did release his tax returns, did he?

Trump and the rest of those losers can go fuck themselves.

I think it would be great if Obama released that stuff and said he'd match Trump in the donation. Although I wonder if Trump even has five million dollars in liquid assets. The guy is a financial moron. It's only because his daddy left him an ungodly amount of money, plus the bankruptcy laws, that he has amounted to anything.

I agree with Paul, if by "sad" he means "awesome"

I applied for my first US passport a couple of months ago. I didn't keep a copy of the application form. Who does that? Why is the application form of more value to Trump than the actual passport?

As the proud owner of a non-US university degree, I don't understand what the big deal is about transcripts either. I don't have one, UK colleges don't give them. I just have the certificate I got at graduation, saying I got a degree.

Why ya gotta hate on clowns?

It doesn't really matter what Rmoney does at this point, the teabaggers are guaranteed votes for him.

And even if those grades were straight A's, they still wouldn't be enough. He would still be the first affirmative action president, unworthy of his accomplishments, only in power because he's black.

Man, I was looking forward to those divorce papers.

My dad used to idolize Donald Trump, when I was a little kid, because he had made such a fortune at such a young age. We were quite poor and struggling and here was this guy who had Figured It Out. He was some kind of genius, possessed of an acuity and fearless initiative beyond the grasp of us dullish mortals. Dad would have waited upon any pronouncement falling from his satin lips like Zeus's priests would have waited for his oracle.

Okay, maybe I'm overstating it. (Sorry, Dad!)

But the point remains.

This was before he was on T.V. all the time, so we had this godly illusion of him, this financial genious. But now as Trump and his fellow 1%ers have exposed themselves in popular culture, the illusion has fallen and we're left with the realization that the filthy rich aren't necessarily smarter or nobler. Rather, they can be as dumb and foolish and petty and flawed as the rest of us. They're not gods at all. In fact, they appear to be more unethical than us dumb slobs who think everyone plays by the rules. No billionaire has done more to demolish this Brahmin illusion than Donald Trump.

So thanks, Mr. Trump!

Wait, Trump isn't going to pay back the American people all the money he owes us from his many bankruptcies first?

Even GM paid us back.

YOU OWE US MONEY, TRUMP! YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT!

@6 actually, Mitt was born in France. You can tell by his elitist attitude.

Following @22, I read somewhere (Slate, I think) that Trump thinks his grades were sufficiently inadequate to qualify him for admission to an ivy league school. Whatever. What so many others said, why does anyone give a shit.

What if someone were to start a charity who's sole purpose was to somehow ruin and/or finally render Donald Trump to full fledged irrelevance? And then to get a $5 million donation to that goal?

Tump's hair tells one everything one needs to know about his delusions - self and otherwise.

The government is the only reason Trump still has a roof over his head.

Those bankruptcy laws he depends on all the time can be very favorable to certain people, you know.

Also, like most very wealthy people, he would have nothing if his father had not left him at least 40 million dollars.

Furthermore, he made his own name building government housing during wartime. He would have nothing if not for the federal government, and daddy's inheritance.

I can't believe that nobody else has declared @7 the winner of this thread yet.

@27 - I think what he means, is that as President, Obama can instruct the State Department to release his passport application.

@32: Good point. Per Trump's logic, and were Romney unwhite, Mitt's Frenchiness would be HUGE.

@37: I know rite? Oatmeal reference and everything.

If Trump gets to choose the charity he contributes the money to, it might be one of these 501(c)(3) organizations (please don't click on the vile links):

Cato Institute
Heritage Foundation
American Family Association
Americans for Prosperity Foundation

There are many other such political money-laundering, uh I mean charitable, organizations.

I think a million of us should give $5 to the Obama campaign today.

"No billionaire has done more to demolish this Brahmin illusion than Donald Trump."

floater @30 gets the sentence of the day, in my mind, but I agree that @7's snark is AWESOME.

Donald Trump is still alive?

I'm with @7

I too find it highly suspicious that the busiest man in the country refuses to dig up his old college transcripts at the whim of some spoiled, stubby-dicked attention whore.

Regards the least transparent idea: It is true that the Obama administration has prosecuted more whistleblowers than any president in history.

Colbert is going to give a million to Trumps charity of choice if Colbert is allowed to stick his balls in Trumps open mouth.

A Gentleman's C refers to affirmative action for guys not named Barack Obama. Hm, reminds me of someone else, though I can't put a name to it.