Trump vs. Trunk

It has been said that many times people with decent book smarts can tend to lack in common sense. (Shut up, that is SO not me!) I would argue that many times business smarts coincide with a lack of social sense. Donald Trump says some of the dumbest shit I have heard from a person of relative power; and apparently his sons take after him. Photos are surfacing of them holding up body parts of wild animals they “hunted” in Africa. Really?? Just because you have gobs of money doesn’t mean that you can ignore basic laws of humanity. It seriously reminds me of the movie Hostel; where extremely rich people pay a small fortune in order to torture and kill other humans.

They stated that they were just participating in a local custom. A “local custom” which further lessens the number of beautiful elephants we have left on this planet so that you can be Big Strong Man, Hunt from Truck, Kill Wild Beast. (Wild Beasts that were brought down with sophisticated weapons, how manly.)

The Business Insider’s Joseph Alexiou, lists the 7 dumbest things Donald Trump had said in a two week time on April 3, 2011. I can only assume his sons are headed in the same direction of delusional power and self satisfaction. One of my favorites was regarding President Obama’s Birth Certificate:

"there is something on that birth certificate — maybe religion, maybe it says he's a Muslim, I don't know. Maybe he doesn't want that. Or, he may not have one."

Oh Donald….

According to ABC News, one of the young Trumps recently tweeted in response to the controversy:

“in parts of africa they are actually overpopulated and killed by the govt. I know its not PC but look it up you’ll see.”

That is very interesting; I never knew that I could “look it up!” I will go look it up now…….

………….Oh yep, I found that elephants are not endangered. They are also stampeding through NYC at this very moment according to one website. They might, according to another site, eventually be the cause of the zombie apocalypse. And based on another story I found, they can fly!! Dumbo was a true tale all along!!

I am sure that the local’s who are “Ivory hunters,” according to the Trumps, do indeed tell them that there are way too many elephants in Africa - in order to justify their trade. In reality there are conservation efforts all over Africa trying to protect them from extinction. My mom “adopted” an Elephant on my behalf through one such group and she is beautiful and thriving, thank goodness.

Even if you are participating in a local custom does that make it ok? If the local custom was to sacrifice anyone with their father’s name sake and feed them to the hyenas then I doubt Donald Jr. would be as eager to participate.