Our last tour through the Mauve Polling Gallery, with works based on the brushwork of the HuffPost Pollster was on September 11. We return a month later to see how the wall hung graphics have fared with time. Sharp eyes required. Review the previous September guided tour here. Please recall that the great advantage of… Continue reading Trump’s Mauve Gallery; A Tour Update (October 11, 2016)
Category: Trump’s Character
Trump’s Place In Natural History: An Ancient Piscine Ancestor (October 9, 2016)
There has been no known Trump fish species identified by biologists before now. Occasional scattered reports have surfaced in the past year or so, of sightings of several kinds of Trump fish in the wild. All of these have been nearly conclusively identified as masquerading Blob fish or Puffer fish variants upon closer investigation. Or… Continue reading Trump’s Place In Natural History: An Ancient Piscine Ancestor (October 9, 2016)
Trump’s Brand New Original Campaign Slogan (October 8, 2016)
Great News! Our man Trump has swooped into the final 30 days with a brand new, exciting slogan for all the brothers and sisters on board the Trump Train. Well, mostly the Bros, to be honest. Here it is, fellow believers: GTBTP In line with modern design practice, he will use just the first letter… Continue reading Trump’s Brand New Original Campaign Slogan (October 8, 2016)
Trump’s Hollow Tower: A Barren and Empty Place* (October 2, 2016)
Trump says he likes to build beautiful things, and not for the money. Yes, he really said that. Pinocchio’s wooden nose just erected a good 12 inches. Trump also likes shiny towers with his name emblazoned on them. More than any other rich plutocrat in recent memory he insists on a very public display of… Continue reading Trump’s Hollow Tower: A Barren and Empty Place* (October 2, 2016)
Trump: Don the Con Plays Stump the Chumps (September 6, 2016)
Trump’s Latest Immigration Song and Dance From Reuters (September 5, 2016): Trump softens again: Raising possibility of eventual legal status for undocumented immigrants by Steve Holland In a new twist to his immigration proposals, U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held out the possibility of legal status for millions of illegal immigrants, but only after… Continue reading Trump: Don the Con Plays Stump the Chumps (September 6, 2016)
Trump: Fibs and the Fibbing Fibbers Who Fib Them (August 31, 2016)
The Literary Inspiration for This Title The title of this post is a gentle adaptation of a 2003 best-selling satirical book by Al Franken,* who was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota in 2008, and re-elected in 2014. Franken was a prominent cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live for almost 15 years,… Continue reading Trump: Fibs and the Fibbing Fibbers Who Fib Them (August 31, 2016)
Trump & Louisiana’s August Floods: American Disaster Porn (August 22, 2016)
Louisiana Underwater The rains began last Thursday, August 11. By Saturday, here in Baton Rouge we had endured 24 inches of rain from the continuous storm. Rivers and creeks were flooding at levels seen less than once in a century (maybe once every 500 years; until now the new normal). By Monday 30,000 people had… Continue reading Trump & Louisiana’s August Floods: American Disaster Porn (August 22, 2016)
Trump: Cardboard Christian (August 14, 2016)
In the last two weeks Trump has made a renewed call to “the Evangelicals” for their support as he vows to protect and support Christian rights in the United States. This is not his first rodeo with the more explicitly political among their brothers and sisters, despite the large segments of this religious group who… Continue reading Trump: Cardboard Christian (August 14, 2016)
Trump’s Military Service Family History: A 50-Year Update (July 27, 2016)
We have added another 50 years to the Trump family military service history to extend the 100 years already chronicled earlier (June 6,2016). The saga begins with the birth of Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich Trump (1869-1918) in Kallstadt, Germany in 1869. It runs through four generations of men named Trump in this family through mid-2016.… Continue reading Trump’s Military Service Family History: A 50-Year Update (July 27, 2016)
Trump’s Convention Ratings Flub: No Better than 4th Place (July 24, 2016)
Trump’s 2016 Cleveland convention is over and done. He promised showbiz and ratings, and delivered a mediocre performance. Trump’s Convention Acceptance Speech (2016): The Modern Cult of Personality No surprise to anyone paying attention, before the final ratings were actually announced this past Friday, Trump was punditificating, in his own bombastic style, what a huge… Continue reading Trump’s Convention Ratings Flub: No Better than 4th Place (July 24, 2016)