Last Friday night, you may have heard there was a little incident on Broadway, in the Big Apple, at the evening performance of America’s current biggest hit musical, “Hamilton”.** Hamilton: An American Musical (from the Official Website) Just a bit of background. Private American citizen Mike Pence decided to go to the theatre. He bought… Continue reading Trump & “Hamilton”: Daddy, I’ve Got a Boo-Boo* (November 20, 2016)
Category: Trump Whining
Trump Day Two: Gone to the White House, Ho, Ho, Ho! (November 10, 2016)
On Day Two of the Trump Presidential Pre-Regnum, he traveled to the White House for a meeting with President Obama to begin the governmental transition at the President’s invitation. The meeting lasted about 90 minutes, and occurred without apparent rancor. At the end, in an informal armchair setting, both men gave some brief remarks about… Continue reading Trump Day Two: Gone to the White House, Ho, Ho, Ho! (November 10, 2016)
Trump’s Fantasy Flight: The Class and The Ass (November 4, 2016)
Trump was on a hot roll Friday night, November 4th, during a rally in Hershey Pennsylvania when he launched into a fervent recasting of events earlier in the day in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was complaining bitterly about Obama’s behavior towards a Trump protestor at a Clinton rally that afternoon. “If I spoke the way… Continue reading Trump’s Fantasy Flight: The Class and The Ass (November 4, 2016)
Trump’s Finances: $100 Million Three Bags Full (November 3, 2016)
“Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” * One of the first childhood nursery rhymes I can recall learning is this famous example dating from 1731 in England, sung to a French melody from 1761. It seems appropriate to use childhood phrasing in this season of Trump driven intellectual (non) rigor. Its use here however is not for… Continue reading Trump’s Finances: $100 Million Three Bags Full (November 3, 2016)
Trump’s Mauve Gallery; A Tour Update (October 11, 2016)
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)
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 and Military Service: A 100 Year Family History (June 6, 2016)
Frederick Trump (1869-1918) m. 1902; Age (1898) 29 Fred Trump (1905-1999) m. 1936 c 1937, 1938; Age (1940) 35 Donald Trump (6/14/1046-present) m. 1977; Age (1964) 18 Military Service: Frederick (None), Fred (None), Donald (None) We have just celebrated Memorial Day for 2016, so military service to our country is freshly relevant.* In honoring America’s… Continue reading Trump and Military Service: A 100 Year Family History (June 6, 2016)
Trump’s New Metric: Lawsuits per Billion Ratio (June 1, 2016)
Trump’s hair-trigger lawsuit behavior has been much in the news this past week, It started with his intemperate and racist outburst about the San Diego based Trump University fraud case, and morphed into a more searching examination of his typical business practices for more than 30 years. Trump Art: The Lawsuit Golden Abstract (Interactive Graphic)… Continue reading Trump’s New Metric: Lawsuits per Billion Ratio (June 1, 2016)
Trump: The Sideways-L Northeast Primaries (April 29, 2016)
This past Tuesday, April 26th, there was celebration and fireworks at the Trump enclave in Trump Tower, New York. Five Northeastern states held Republican primaries (Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland in geographically southward order) and Trump won them all. He won each with more than 50% of the vote. In two of them… Continue reading Trump: The Sideways-L Northeast Primaries (April 29, 2016)
Trump: Thug in Sheep’s Clothing (April 17, 2016)
Thug: Background for Selecting the Word It has taken some time to resolve the proper definition of the first title word for this blog post. I had a pretty settled notion in my own mind what the proper meaning of this term is in my native language, English. That understanding was based on the usage… Continue reading Trump: Thug in Sheep’s Clothing (April 17, 2016)