Has Donald Trump's presidential run been canceled?

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By James Oliphant Washington Bureau

May 5, 2011, 7:56 a.m.
American commandos eliminated Osama bin Laden this week. Did they also liquidate Donald Trump's presidential run?

A week ago, Trump was riding high. President Obama had been forced to go on television to confirm for the world what most of it already knew: that he had been born in the United States. True to his nature, Trump claimed credit -- and immediately embarked on a tour of New Hampshire in what seemed like a victory lap, as he talked incessantly about running for president.

But there's an old axiom in Washington: The more time the media -- and everyone else -- become consumed by silliness by, as Obama might put it, "sideshows and carnival barkers," the more likely something serious will come along to wipe the whole business away. Perhaps it's just a form of karmic payback.

Or more simply put: maybe the curtain was finally yanked away. When the target of a decade-long worldwide manhunt is brought down, reality-show antics and birth-certificate debates lose their power to grip, assuming they had ever held that power in the first place.

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