i ve got better stuff to do. we ve got big problems to solve, and i m confident we can solve them, but we re going to have to focus on them. not on this. jonathan capehart, did the white house believe they had to do this today, they had to get the president out there, produce the birth certificate, in order to get the focus back on the big problems? well, there are two things. yes, the white house felt that it was important to do this, to move on to more serious subjects. but also the president was just plain and simple frustrated. frustrated by the fact that this distraction, as he called it, was crowding out more serious issues but also just what it was doing to him. i mean the idea that the president of the united states is being hounded by people who even when they brought it up in 2008 were considered fringe are now the mainstream of the republican party, and i feel comfortable saying that when the latest poll shows that about 45%
i hate saying it because it sounds trivial. but i have a very, very successful show on television. the number one show on nbc. a show that even the new york times yesterday said is a very, very successful show. i have a show called celebrity apprentice. i cannot announce until that show is over. i just can t do it. i d love to do it, but i can t do it. when the show is over let me explain. when the show is over and the finale will be on may 22nd. when the show is over, i will then be free to announce. i think you will be surprised at a number of things but i think you will be surprised at what my announcement is. well, he s right that it does sound trivial that an nbc fake reality show is the reason someone cannot announce a candidacy for president of the united states. it is also not true. trump could have announced today that he s going to run for president and nbc could continue
i ve got better stuff to do. we ve got big problems to solve, and i m confident we can solve them, but we re going to have to focus on them. not on this. jonathan capehart, did the white house believe they had to do this today, they had to get the president out there, produce the birth certificate, in order to get the focus back on the big problems? well, there are two things. yes, the white house felt that it was important to do this, to move on to more serious subjects. but also the president was just plain and simple frustrated. frustrated by the fact that this distraction, as he called it, was crowding out more serious issues but also just what it was doing to him. i mean the idea that the president of the united states is being hounded by people who even when they brought it up in 2008 were considered fringe are now the mainstream of the republican party, and i feel
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every hour of silence that ticks away with nbc entertainment executives in burbank continuing to live in fear, as the new york times put it, of any conflict with mr. trump must from this point forward be counted as an hour in which those nbc entertainment executives will have become complicit in the ugliest campaign of the television age, a campaign in which a vulgar nbc performer has become the sleazy front man of a campaign to legitimize hatred and racism. in his desperation today, trump turned from attacking one man s birth certificate to actually trying to undermine the