Unlike Comrade Trump, sometimes you have to admit you made a mistake.  After spending so much time creating MacTrump, this morning I realized a better parody might have been the Wizard of Oz.  This admission was triggered by an article in today’s Los Angeles Times which chronicled a somewhat innocuous promotion by His Orangeness of a Fox News show  which aired last night.

According to the LA Times, the program had been promoted throughout the day as “reveal(ing) ‘stunning new details’ about Trump’s claim that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones, according to a tweet from Business Insider’s Oliver Darcy.” (LA Times, March 26, 2017)

In a classic bait and switch, host Jeanine Pirro opened the show as follows.

Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the house. The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill, the one trumpeted to repeal and replace Obamacare, the one that he had seven years to work on, the one he had under lock and key in the basement of Congress, the one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.

Forget Vietnam or, when face to face with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Trump could have demanded our southern neighbor pay for his wall.  I can just hear Comrade Trump’s explanation now.  “I didn’t know she was going to attack the Speaker.  I thought it was going to be about ‘wire tapping’ Trump Tower. That’s what they said. How was I to know she was going to call for Ryan to step down?” Just one more example of Nance’s law, “Coincidence takes a lot of planning.”

We know Comrade Trump lies.  Now he once again demonstrates he is a coward.  Less than 24 hours earlier, the cowardly liar had praised the Speaker for his efforts.  In his personal call to Washington Post reporter Bob Costa, Trump said, “I don’t blame Paul.  He worked very hard on this.  I don’t blame Paul at all.” (Washington Post, March 24, 2017)  Instead, Trump and the White House propaganda machine uses a a former county court judge, to do their dirty work.

If only Pirro had stopped there.  Trump would have been cast in Bert Lahr’s role as the cowardly lion.  But later, Pirro added:

I want to be clear, this is not on President Trump. No one expected a business man to completely understand the nuances, the complicated ins and outs of Washington and its legislative process. How would he know which individuals upon which he would be able to rely?

Now I’m really confused.  Not only does Trump not have the nerve, Pirro confirms he doesn’t have a brain either.  The good news is, much like Ray Bolger in the original Wizard of Oz, it is now clear the GOP crows are not intimidated by this scarecrow’s presence in the political cornfield.

I’ll save his many qualifications for playing a tin man without a heart for later.  Let’s just leave it at this.  The yellow brick road is going to be a little less crowded with one, instead of three insecure individuals, accompanying Dorothy to the Emerald City.  Speaking of Dorothy, that part will be played by Melania Trump who reminds us all she wants is to return to her own bedroom in her own home.  So far, she’s the only one who seems to have been granted her wish.

For what it’s worth.
Dr. ESP