TV talk show producers, bloggers and assignment editors are asking themselves today why they continue to pay attention to Donald Trump. His “blockbuster announcement”, promoted for days through various news and entertainment venues, turned out to be an offer to donate 5 million dollars to a charity of President Obama’s choosing if the president releases his academic and passport records.
Ho hum.
I am complicit in this madness. The man needs attention, but I cannot explain why I give it to him. Just days ago I suggested that his cufflinks had been discovered on Mars. I could have assigned those cufflinks to anyone, and I tried. But they were only funny (to me) when they were Trump’s. He is an easy, never-fail punch line.
Dang.
So many things are not worth the energy it takes to think about them. Meanwhile, serious problems go unaddressed. Important information we really ought to have remains secret, and none of it has to do with the President’s upbringing or personal history.
Where are our priorities? What is wrong with our judgment? The world deserves an explanation for this lunacy, but let’s not take a long time with it. Just as we did with our playing-the-lottery apologies, the 5-7-5 syllabic sequence of the haiku allows more than enough to describe why Trump continues to beguile.
1.
It is not the hair
Or the big time blustering.
It’s only money.
2.
Anyone can be
bizzare for a single day.
Forever is hard.
3.
Too many people
need to know someone else is
more ridiculous
Explain Trump’s allure in a haiku.
Trail Baboon 
that thing on top wow
the lack of stuff inside wow
try not to be him
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self proclaimed greatness
do the deal is your mantra
it gets old donald
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hair boa up top
he is who he made himself
brash pompous a star
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Donald is our man
the one all love to dump on
our top bad example
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perfect role model
lesson how not to behave
donald is the best
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donald the pig man
crap flows freely like mucus
from hole below mop
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Down with dumb Donald
How can we get rid of him?
Send him off to Mars
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We would commit him
extended treatment order
had he no money
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Similarly
Donald Trump is mad.
I can commit him, you know.
Just phone the sheriff.
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Like very much.
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yep
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Dale finds you alluring
He can’t resist your appeal
As why-ku haiku
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Sorry Dale and baboons, I’m taking a pass on this one. I find the man so utterly obnoxious, I refuse to spend any time thinking about him. Not playful when it comes to HIM! Can’t even bring myself to write his name.
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PJ doesn’t like Sarah P. either… 😉
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Very true, or MB fro that matter.
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Yep. I was wrong. I thought Dale was going to give us the heart of the Galaxy but he gave us a supernova.
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Yes… exploding gaseous vapors all over the universe!
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The heart, heck no, Clyde. More like an entirely different part of the anatomy; a word I don’t use very often, but which is entirely appropriate when he is the man we’re talking about. I’m not risking suspension from the blog by using it here, but I’m sure you all get my drift.
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Is there a trail censor?
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Steve seems to think so.
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I worry for Dale.
The Donald is so bizarre.
Is Dale in crisis?
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You make a good point.
This obsession with Dale,
a cause for concern.
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dale is undonald
top of head is obvious
down deep even more
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All these are good but I especially like this one, tim.
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Me too. 🙂
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going to bathroom
be sure to wipe your donald
after you flush the trump
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Okay. Well, I guess you really don’t like the Donald, tim.
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Allure of Donald?
I’ll rank him with Ms. Palin
Obnoxious mouth.
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I’ll take a pass on contributing in the requested form – my brain’s not wired that way but I would like to say something! I’m wishing that someone like Soros or Gates would counter-extort MittWit with and identical “offer” if he’d release multiple tax returns. Please????? This right wing obsession with 30-year old college transcripts reveals undeniable racism.
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Cb, I’d make the offer and pay in leaves, about the only thing I have five million of. Probably wouldn’t get any takers.
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Thanks anyway, PJ. For the first time in a decade, I won’t have to deal with my 80 yard bags worth of leaves this fall. Last Mother’s Day, one of my sons gifted me with the “loan” of his groundskeeper to do all the spring start-up labor. This guy eyed my dock (in my divorce settlement, the ex got the big boat with no dock; I got the dock with no boat!), then offered a deal I couldn’t resist: he docked his boat in exchange for spring AND fall clean-up!! Oh what a relief it is 🙂
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A deal that worked well for both of you. Congratulations.
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I think that offer is perfect pj
Put it out there
Could be exactly what mitt needs
I’ll help you collect the leaves
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I wonder what we would find if we had Trump’s transcripts and other records? The deal maker probably has more than a few secrets that would look good out in the open.
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Often those who most point their finger at others have the most to hide.
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“Projection” (as a psychological defense mechanism): accusing the other of doing exactly that which you’re doing.
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The Donald is strange
Unhinged, inexplicable
He is the “other”
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Pay no attention
To the man behind the hair.
It’s all a mirage.
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he’s so generous
to make an ass of himself
just to amuse us.
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You’re too kind, Linda.
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I was excited at the prospect of a why-ku day but the subject is too icky to be inspiring. Other Baboons have worked well with the material.
A big waste of air.
He could be some fine kindling
Just needs to be Fired!
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