Prize Bull

From Jarvis MacKinnon III:

Donald Trump is such a clever man, huh?  He is so intelligent.  In fact, I would venture to say that he is a stable genius, a very stable genius.

Is your sarcasm detector clicking off the charts?  It should be -- because I was being completely and utterly sarcastic.

Trump asked doctors to check into bright lights and household disinfectants as a way to cure the coronavirus.  Later he claimed that he was being sarcastic.  Hmm.  I have to admit, my sarcasm detector registered zero.

Today, Trump launched into a twitter rant about journalists and their unmerited "Noble Prizes."  After he was mocked unmercifully, he deleted the tweets and claimed he -- once again -- that he was merely being sarcastic.

Once again, my sarcasm detector registered zero.

Here's what Trump tweeted -- and then later deleted:

After he was ridiculed beyond belief, Trump deleted his tweets, and then posted this:

What's your sarcasm detector telling you?  Was Trump being sarcastic?  I think not.  If he were, then why did he delete his original tweets?  I tell you what -- my BS-detector is ticking off the charts!   Off. The. Charts.

The entire affair calls to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson's poem "Lest any doubt that he is nuts know he was mad Today" (below on the left).  Dickinson's lines inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Lest any doubt that we are glad that they were born Today" (below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Lest any doubt that he is nuts know
       he was mad Today
His tweets beheld by us about his
       noble prize dismay
With misspelled words, and
       pompousness & plain insanity –

By Emily Dickinson:
 
Lest any doubt that we are glad that
       they were born Today
Whose having lived is held by us in
       noble Holiday
Without the date, like
       Consciousness or Immortality –

I suppose if the Noble Committee ever does bestow a Noble Prize on Donald Trump -- it will be for sarcasm!  (...and I bet your sarcasm detector is ticking off the charts again!)