Trump is One Sharpie Cookie

From our political correspondent, Dorothy Dawe:

Are you exhausted by Trump?  I am incredibly exhausted.
 
The issue du jour is that (supposedly) Trump invited leaders of the Taliban to Camp David on the eve of 9/11, and he announced last night that he decided to cancel the meeting.
 
@MrAlanSpencer wrote on Twitter, “Hopefully he’s also canceled Al-Qaeda Day at Disneyland.”
 
@VicStoddard noted, “I’m glad that Obama hadOsama bin Laden killed before Trump had a chance to invite him to Camp David.”
 
Now, the hashtag “TalibanTrump” is trending at the same time as “SharpieGate,” the tag given the outrage swirling around Trump’s feeble attempt to cover up his lack of preparedness in monitoring Hurricane Dorian when he held up a weather map he had altered with a Sharpie (below on the left).

Be sure to check out the hashtag #Sharpiegate on Twitter for some hilarious pics!  Some of my favorites are below on the right.

Here’s my take on Sharpie-gate:  At some point, when Hurricane Dorian was first churning in the Atlantic, an early possible track for the storm included a path through southeast Alabama.  However, as the storm moved closer and closer to the United States, its cone of uncertainty changed as forecasts evolved – but Trump did not keep up with the latest updates. Therefore, when he told the residents of Alabama to hunker down (and this from the clown who didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Category 5 storm), he probably did so because he’d heard somewhere early on that Alabama was in Dorian’s path.  However, he was not perceptive or caring enough to keep up with up-to-date forecasts, so at the time he made his misinformed statement, he was basing it on old news.
 
Trump is not a sharp cookie.  Alas, it does turn out that he is a sharpie cookie – for when he realized his gaffe had gone viral, he began spinning a story faster than Charlotte could spin “Some Pig” into her web.  When he altered a forecast map with a sharpie pen to include a portion of Alabama, he provided solid proof that pathological liars/narcissists do not like to be called out when they are wrong.
 
The entire, ridiculous affair called to mind two of Emmett Lee Dickinson’s now-classic poems, “For each erratic instant” and "A Cap of Lead will cross the sky" (both below on the left).  Dickinson’s poems inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poems “For each ecstatic instant" and "A Cap of Lead across the sky" (both below on the right).

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

For each erratic instant
He must in anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To his stupidity.

For each moronic blunder
Sharpie lines now disguise –
Bitter contested forecasts –
And Comments heaped with Lies!
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By Emily Dickinson:

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.

For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years –
Bitter contested farthings –
And Coffers heaped with Tears!
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Pictured at the right:  I also LOVED this tweet from @Acyn (from 9/2/19):  It shows a video of Mike Pence overseas somewhere -- on a trip Trump cancelled for himself because he was going to stay at home to monitor the storm -- and Pence made excuses for Agent Orange's absence by saying, "The President is where he needs to be."  A video embedded in the video of Pence, though, shows exactly where the president was and what he was doing.  He wasn't monitoring the storm at all.  HE WAS GOLFING! 

No wonder he had bad information for the people of Alabama!  He had no idea what was going on.

​The man is a stooge.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
A Cap of Lead will cross the sky
It’s tight and surly drawn
He cannot find its mighty Track
The Figure is redrawn –
 
A Chart held up and from a shift
Our proof that he’s not well
A Hurricane reveals the harms
Of Living through this Hell.
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By Emily Dickinson:
 
A Cap of Lead across the sky
Was tight and surly drawn
We could not find the mighty Face
The Figure was withdrawn --

A Chill came up as from a shaft
Our noon became a well
A Thunder storm combines the charms
Of Winter and of Hell.