Sunday, April 29, 2018

Trump Dumps a Load of Manure on Farmers

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Donald Trump appeared at a "campaign style" rally in Michigan last night where he roared at the friendly crowd about whatever happened to flit across his mind, and the crowd roared back its orgasmic delight at getting to bask in the fiery glow of its revered leader.  Trump likes to appear before large crowds who stomp and chant their approval as he rambles spasmodically and sometimes in near incoherence.

Trump went to Michigan last night in part to avoid the White House Correspondent's Dinner, an annual event in which national journalists raise money for charity through a roast-type of entertainment in which the press and White House officials lampoon each other.  The notoriously thin-skinned Trump can't seem to take the heat, so he stays far away from the kitchen.  He skipped last year's WHCD as well, even though his predecessors in the Oval Office nearly always attended and seemed to take great enjoyment in sparring with the Fourth Estate.

One of the reasons that Trump traveled to Michigan in his rolling snub of the White House correspondents was to shore up support in a state that he carried in 2016.   His recent threat of tariffs and the subsequent probability of a trade war with China had factory owners and workers - as well as soybean farmers - in Michigan on  edge.  Trump moved to assure the crowd that while they might feel some economic pain for awhile, things would soon get better - and he tipped his hat to the farmers by saying "I love my farmers!"

Trump's love for "his" farmers was reminiscent of the time back in 2016 when he was bragging about all of the different voting blocks that he had won in the Nevada primary, a list that included - his words here - the "poorly educated."   He went on to blather that he "loved" the poorly educated.  Perhaps Trump's farmers should note that when their bellicose leader won the presidency, one of his early acts was to appoint Betsy DeVos to the post of Secretary of Education, a move which almost guaranteed that America will have an abundant supply of "poorly educated" voters for decades to come.

Donald Trump wouldn't know a soybean from a jelly bean, and he is walking proof that the poorly educated can do just fine in life - if they are born rich.

If America's farmers want to benefit from Trump's love, they need to bag it and use it on their fields for fertilizer.   Beyond that, they are on their own.

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