Sues Bill Maher for $5 million over "orangutan" birth certificate joke

Trump filed a lawsuit against comedian Bill Maher demanding $5 million for charity after Maher joked on "The Tonight Show" that he would donate that amount if Trump could prove he wasn't the "spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan." The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claimed Maher entered into a binding oral contract. Trump provided his birth certificate to Maher's attorneys to "prove" his parentage. The suit was widely ridiculed as frivolous and eventually withdrawn, but it highlighted Trump's litigiousness and sensitivity to ridicule.

"I don't think he was joking. He said it with venom." — Trump on Fox & Friends regarding the lawsuit, February 5, 2013