Usually shoots his mouth off. Then he received an earful
‘Ear today, gone tomorrow’. Threat turned to photo-op. On July 13, Teflon Trump proved he’s additionally actually unputdownable. After being shot within the ear, he rose, fisted the air and, with one indelible gesture, punched a Biden-sized gap within the Democratic marketing campaign. It will take a courageous coronary heart to face up in a stand-off in opposition to this man who by no means backs down or shuts up. Everyone is aware of this, from the inner income service he dodges as deviously as his taxes to the porn star he tried dismissing as a Stormy in a D Cup. To reference Elton John’s tribute to a different intercourse bomb related to one other libidinous president, ‘The 20-year-old Crooks lived his life like a candle on a rooftop; the legend of Trump-it never dies.’
That picture of The Don shouting ‘Fight, fight!’ with blood working down his cheek as soon as once more evoked ‘my head is bloody but unbowed’ from James Ernest Henley’s ‘Invictus’. In the eponymous 2009 movie about Springboks lifting post-apartheid 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa, the White captain was impressed by this traditional poem – handed to him by President Nelson Mandela performed by Morgan Freeman. Sorry for now linking it with a man for whom Black lives don’t matter. In real-life Mandela had offered not ‘Invictus’, however a textual content by President Theodore Roosevelt – who, btw, too had taken a bullet (in chest, not mere ear) whereas campaigning in Milwaukee. It went via his metal eye-glass case and a 50-pg copy of his speech, however missed his lung. He’d continued – with the opening comment, ‘Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible.’ Roosevelt succeeded assassinated President William McKinley.
Like Henley thanking ‘whatever gods there be for my indomitable soul’, Trump attributed the gunman’s dangerous intention to ‘God, who alone prevented the unthinkable from happening’. Ironically, the encumbered incumbent had declared, ‘Only the Lord Almighty’ might ‘convince’ him to stop. Now that He has handed his rival a trump card, plus an ad-Vance, Go-Go Joe would possibly want the hymn, ‘A-Biden with me.’
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Alec Smart mentioned: “Everyone’s singing ‘Spanish Eyes’ and no one’s ‘cry’ing in ‘Argentina’.”
Disclaimer
This article is meant to convey a smile to your face. Any connection to occasions and characters in actual life is coincidental.
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