Joke 8
1. ...The 72-year-old Trump patriarch, who was on his way to a rally in Illinois, held an umbrella to shield himself from the inclement weather at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. As he ascended the stairs to enter the aircraft, he surprised the onlookers and shutterbugs by struggling with, and then surrendering to, his umbrella.
Before entering the aircraft, Trump takes a brief pause perhaps realising the humongous canopy wouldn't fit through the door in its unfurled form. So he casually dumps it outside after barely a second's worth of effort to close it. The video clip going viral online shows the umbrella rolling outside the aircraft door, upturned and abandoned.
Those who watched the video wondered if POTUS even knew how to collapse the umbrella, while others mocked Trump for struggling with daily simple tasks.
Of course, memes washed across social media, so perhaps Trump would want to shield himself with the umbrella, again. "Trump treats his umbrella like the rest of his job. If it requires more than 2 seconds’ thought, drop it," wrote one user. Ouch.
Source:
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/tr...d-with-memes-and-more-on-twitter-1923961.html
https://news.yahoo.com/viral-clip-donald-trump-umbrella-173621862.html
2. Instead of leaving the umbrella at the door, the Wise Guy could have closed the umbrella and handed it to an attendant in the plane.
Poor umbrella! It was left out in the cold long after the user had gone into the plane.
Here I coin the term "Trumpian umbrella" for a person or an object that is considered disposable and dumped when no longer needed. The following two sentences show the use of the new term:
(a) After helping to grow the business from a small shop to a multinational corporation, the co-founder was dumped like a Trumpian umbrella out of the company.
(b) The tearful wife was left alone at home like a Trumpian umbrella while her unfaithful husband went on a long holiday trip with his newfound lover.
3. Many political appointees of Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, have resigned or been dismissed. The record-setting turnover rate in the Trump Administration has been noted in various publications....
As of May 25, 2020, there have been 415 unique names dismissed and/or resigned...
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/politics/trump-admin-departures-trnd/
4. The following is my political satire of the record-setting turnover rate in the Trump Administration:
A police officer was sent to a noisy party scene to give the homeowner a “first warning" after receiving a complaint from a grumpy neighbour. When he arrived at the scene, he found more than a dozen masked men being carried away to be dumped unceremoniously outside the house. The masks looked familiar to him as they were replicas of faces he had seen in various media outlets.
One of the participants of the party explained in response to his query: "Someone suggested ending the party with a new variant of musical chairs called 'You’re fired' with the following new rules.
(a) The players have to wear certain masks throughout the game.
(b) The eliminated players have to be carried out of the house.
(c) The host has to wear a very special mask. Since "there is only one star in the house", the elimination of the host means the ending of the game. If the host is the lone survivor, he is allowed to get new players to continue the game. If he fails to do, the game is considered over."
The police officer asked: "Is it game over?"
"Not yet. The star is still in the house!" replied the man, pointing to his Trump mask.
5. I end this post with the touching story of the tragic fate of Boxer, a hardworking but naive and ignorant horse in George Orwell's Animal Farm. After losing its usefulness, Boxer became the Trumpian umbrella of the pigs.
(Begin excerpts)
One day, Boxer’s strength fails; he collapses while pulling stone for the windmill. The other animals rush to tell Squealer, while Benjamin and Clover stay near their friend. The pigs announce that they will arrange to bring Boxer to a human hospital to recuperate, but when the cart arrives, Benjamin reads the writing on the cart’s sideboards and announces that Boxer is being sent to a glue maker to be slaughtered. The animals panic and begin crying out to Boxer that he must escape. They hear him kicking feebly inside the cart, but he is unable to get out.
Soon Squealer announces that the doctors could not cure Boxer: he has died at the hospital. He claims to have been at the great horse’s side as he died and calls it the most moving sight he has ever seen—he says that Boxer died praising the glories of Animal Farm. Squealer denounces the false rumors that Boxer was taken to a glue factory, saying that the hospital had simply bought the cart from a glue maker and had failed to paint over the lettering. The animals heave a sigh of relief at this news, and when Napoleon gives a great speech in praise of Boxer, they feel completely soothed.
Not long after the speech, the farmhouse receives a delivery from the grocer, and sounds of revelry erupt from within. The animals murmur among themselves that the pigs have found the money to buy another crate of whisky—though no one knows where they found the money. (End excerpts)
Source:
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/animalfarm/section9/
