{"id":334910,"date":"2020-12-11T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334910"},"modified":"2020-12-11T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:04:06","slug":"tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Trumpty Tweeter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThen round and round, and out and in,<br \/>\nAll day the puzzled sage did spin;<br \/>\nIn vain\u2014it mattered not a pin\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n                     <strong>       \u2014William Makepeace Thackery (1811-1863)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Four Years of Lies and Spin About Him<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA liar lived one time on Pennsylvania Avenue<br \/>\nhis hair dyed yellow, white skin, eyes of blue<br \/>\nknowing little he tweeted nights and daytimes too<br \/>\nmany of the tweets were about HIM<br \/>\nsome on the media and his impeachment case<br \/>\nvery few of his lies would he ever erase<br \/>\nwhen confronted with truth he never lost face<br \/>\nsince his face was in love with HIM<br \/>\nlies about immigrants, a wall, and a space force<br \/>\nfor four years he spent one day in five on a golf course<br \/>\nhe watched stock markets on an international bourse<br \/>\nwhere banks had business loans involving HIM<br \/>\non lying and tweeting his efforts would never slack<br \/>\non Covid 19 he lied, on America he turned his back.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Mar-a-Lago Trumpery* Tale<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(The word trumpery comes from the French language,\u00a0tromperie, or tromper. It means to deceive, cheat; or something showy but worthless; nonsense; rubbish.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd all should cry, Beware! Beware!<br \/>\nHis flashing eyes, his floating hair.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t  <strong> \u2014Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (1772-1834)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn Mar-a-Lago did Trumpery Don<br \/>\na golf course resort for rich sorts decree<br \/>\nand from there did other businesses run<br \/>\nsome gone bankrupt unseen by you or me.<br \/>\nFleets of lawyers quickly found<br \/>\nhis narcissism quite fertile ground<br \/>\nbut when payment time came round<br \/>\nof chink and bling there was no sound.<br \/>\nBut oh the lies! with nary a query<br \/>\nplenty snorts, reports of rant and seething<br \/>\nspouting many a conspiracy theory<br \/>\neyes bugged out, shouting, bigly breathing.<br \/>\nIn marched Cohen, Flynn, Giuliani, and Barr<br \/>\nto bully for, bolster, and benefit the selfish czar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThen round and round, and out and in, All day the puzzled sage did spin;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-334910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}