1. “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud"

2. “Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again – just watch. He can do much better!”

3. “Ariana Huffington is unattractive, both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.”

4. “You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.” 

6.  “I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” 

7. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. They’re not sending you, they’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bring crime. They’re rapists… And some, I assume, are good people.” 

8. “Our great African-American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are... 

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Washington: It's hard to exaggerate what's going down here.

The Republicans, the party of Lincoln that controlled the White House for a total of 88 years, are on the verge of self-destruction over a man who might sneak away with the GOP nomination – but who almost certainly will never be elected president of the US.

Donald Trump's campaign has been truly spectacular. Along the way, a procession of pundits have had to eat their words as Trump easily cleared hurdle after hurdle, at each of which we were assured the New York mogul would trip up.

The sleaze, the vapid policies and the upending of pretty well every known political convention have so monopolised media attention that all the talk is of an unstoppable juggernaut. And in its wake, chaos; far from rallying around policies and tactics, party factions have taken to the trenches, bitterly disputing the meaning of policies that for decades had been carved in stone.

Lost in the dust is any real assessment of Trump's appeal beyond the confines of the GOP. Kicking over the furniture as one in a field that initially had 16 contenders and which now has been whittled to three, doesn't require great popularity.

For now, all eyes are on the battle for delegate numbers for the Republican convention in Cleveland in July. But with the likelihood that it'll be a brokered convention – that is that the nominee will be decided by votes on the floor of the convention – the unflattering reality of Trump's opinion poll numbers will come into play.

Unfavourable rating hits 63 per cent

Consider – for all his free media, more Americans think unfavourably of Trump now than at the start of this year. Back then just 37 per cent thought favourably of him, and 57 per cent unfavourably, according to the Huffington Post average of national polls. This week, that favourable rating has shrunk to 31 per cent; his unfavourable rating is now peaking at 63 per cent.