№ 712.1: EXTRA! The Well-Trod Path

Trump Cancels Subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post (Paywall)

In 1962, John F. Kennedy, apparently fed up with the coverage of The New York Herald Tribune, decreed that copies of that newspaper would no longer be delivered to the White House. His press secretary, Pierre Salinger, after initially ignoring the president’s repeated requests to cancel the paper, eventually acquiesced and announced that Kennedy would instead read The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

THE GOLD PATE HOUSE (October 25)

Just following President Kennedy's precedent

is what Donnie's doing as White House resident.

Jawboning  businesses and any others

until they back down and he has him his druthers.

If Times  and Post would stop being solemn

and paid a lot to Ivanka for a daily column. . .

Still, Donnie is right. Why should he read

anything, anytime, ANYWHERE  not guaranteed

to confirm his feeling he's better than best

lest he be left bereft and depressed?

(Though his body is agile, his ego is fragile.)

Let's let Donnie do his hat-tip/shout-out

and sit back and watch how it turns out.

№ 692: Jack And Donnie (And Liz?)

TOMORROWANDTOMORROWANDTOMORROW (September 26)

JFK told us, “Shoot for the moon”

while he, himself, worked the bed-room.

He was a phony, but it was inspiring.

Donnie's more “honest”. And very tiring.

Both blatantly lied about being healthy.

Jack was more modest about being wealthy.

Both chided news outlets. Which condemnation

was duly rewarded with fan approbation.

The Herald Tribune, I fear, is no longer.

CNN, it appears, is a wee tiny bit stronger.

Neither Jack nor Donnie was what you could call “qualified” —

I wonder did THAT EVER matter? 

Although everything Kennedy's foreign to me. . .

Forced to pick? Reluctantly Jack, over the latter.

Elizabeth Warren now sits in Jack's place,

warming his seat in the Senate. If
we were to replace Donnie with Liz,

I wonder what would be the benefit?

Going from dumb ass to over-the-top?

One thing's for damn sure, this has to 🛑.

If Donnie loses — please, let it be so! —
you have to wonder, would he actually go?
Would he try to hang on — on some pretense
that, even to FOX, does not make sense?
Would FOX proclaim how this hard lesson,
has now secured Ivanka's succession?

№ 690.1: EXTRA! אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה (and I don't give a damn)

TRUMP PALACE (September 25)

Glued to the box, in just socks, watching FOX

I watch as the Dems marshal their “facts”

knowing I dasn't relax over snacks

of burgers and Cokes. They are not joking.

I told the UN the globe’s on the wane,

I meddled in Vlad’s domain, the Ukraine.

While this is not a strain on my brain,

(and if it were I’d not deign to complain)

a lot of this shit is really a pain

and I do not think I would do it again

except for the fun of thumbing my nose

at everything Obama did, I suppose.

What with his “smarts” and smarmy “honesty”

he turned the government into a monast’ry.

Out with “dignity”, forget being “formal”.

My fans delight when I act normal.

Like back in the day when JFK

fiddled with chicks and had it his way

without his spouse, in the White House,

and it was charming if you were louse.

Whenever I tweet in distortional font,

gazillions of fans get what they want.
And, please excuse, but I must observe,
I am exactly what they deserve.

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№ 637.1: EXTRA! I Mean, It's Not Like He Were Some Illegal Immigrant Toddler

Epstein’s Lawyers Push for Home Detention in Manhattan Mansion

Attorneys seek to keep financier out of prison pending sex-trafficking trial, dismissing U.S. prosecutors’ flight-risk concerns

BUSINESS CASUAL (July 12)

The single thing Jeff Epstein most fears

is not being judged by a jury of “peers”.

A jury with Clinton or JFK

would likely let him just walk away.

A jury with Cosby, a jury with Woody

would ignore “did he”, and decide he could.

A jury make up of Weinstein's and Spacey's,

not low-pay immigrant salesgirls from Macy's.

His dream team attorneys, I hope, will at least

seat on the panel a pædophile priest.

When convicted, he'll appeal to Augustus

where he'll get his one shot at justice.

Jeff — baby, sweetheart — keep up your gumption.

A pardon from Donald is a safe assumption.