On Oct. 24, Donald Trump started off a wildfire of political controversy on video, calling out President Barack Obama as the “least transparent president of our country” and demanding the president release his applications and records for college and for a passport.
Trump, not being satisfacted after Obama released his long form birth certificate last year, now seeks more than his 15 minutes of fame with yet another publicity stunt, even after being humiliated at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by the ever-so-witty Obama.
“If Barack Obama opens up and gives his college records and applications and if he gives his passport applications and records, I will give to a charity of his choice -Inner City Children of Chicago, American Cancer Society, AIDS Research – anything he wants, a check immediately for $5 million,” Trump said in a recently posted YouTube video.  “The check will be given within one hour after he releases all of the records so stated.”
Trump’s request, or rather ransom deal, to Obama gained a mixed bag of reactions from his Twitter crowd, with one person tweeting Trump to “Stop being an asshole – donate the money to NJ & NY so they can use the [five million] towards rebuilding efforts.”
Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, sized up Trump’s offer by offering Donald Trump $1 million to shave his head, even adding on Fox 4 News that he would sweeten the deal to $2 million if Trump wanted.
The president’s response?  “It’s always good to ignore Donald Trump.”  
And rightly so, Mr. President.  The Ppesident of the United States should not have to bow down to a reality TV star’s request, especially since Trump has not made a request to any white president to release his personal records.
The president, like every other American citizen, should have the right to privacy and should therefore not have to release his birth certificate or college transcripts to the public because some rich reality TV show host is suspicious.  
Following Obama’s rejection of his offer, Donald Trump took to his Twitter account and further vented his frustration with outlandish comments like “Obama thinks he can just laugh off the fact that he refuses to release his records to the American public. He can’t” and “Why is Obama playing basketball today?  That is why our country is in trouble!”  
 A reporter from the New York Daily News blatantly called Donald Trump out on his racist behavior as well.  
“This [Trump’s offer] is what racism looks like. Please save the, ‘Oh you are a typical liberal always playing the race card’ response and take a moment to hear me out. First, racism is not a card. It’s a reality for many black and brown people in 2012,” writes New York Daily News reporter Zerlina Maxwell. “Assuming things are just better because we can drink at the same water fountain isn’t sufficient.”
Since Obama’s reelection, Donald Trump has further called for “revolution!” and urged his 1.8 million Twitter followers to “march on Washington and stop this travesty” after election results came in, according to CNN’s reports.  
His efforts proving to be futile, Trump has since calmed his revolutionary fervor and has instead taken to criticizing the U.S. electoral structure.
“The voting booth process was a total disaster-it could and should be much better and more efficient-tremendous room for error!”  Tweets Trump, “The electoral college is disaster for a democracy.”  
The first African American president has been more than gracious in dealing with such an act of racism and orthodox thinking, and that speaks volumes.