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“I Have Total Authority … Tremendous Total Authority!”

By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column

If you have had to take calming medications to watch the Trump TV Show aka: press conferences, you were watching the Twilight Zone and Walking Zombies morph into the old TV game show, “What’s My Line,” where celebrity contestants try to guess the occupation of a guest.

     The contestants ask a series of penetrating questions trying to discern what the person does for a living and, after a period of time, if they fail, the guest wins and then he or she reveals their true job identity.
 


Lafe Tolliver, Esq

     Well, during Trump’s press conferences, the audience of reporters struggle mightily trying to guess what is the true occupation of the clown who stands before them in the Rose Garden.

     Now, you would think that the clown has already given the reporters enough clues as to who he is, but you are jumping the gun if you think the clown is straight with the questioners.

     No. Not at all. The clown preens and gives off airs of condescension and is always quick with an elbow to the ribs of a reporter who gets too close to finding out who he really is.

     During this Covid-19 pandemic, the clown was none for the worse when, despite thousands of people dying on his watch and his still acute failure to provide needed national testing, the farce of he acting presidential never failed.

Here is a part of an exchange between the Clown and a reporter from ANNN (All Negro News Network):

ANNN: Mr. Clown, do you know whether national testing is available?

CLOWN: If you want a test, you can have a test!

ANNN:  Oh? Where can one get one?

CLOWN: Talk to your governors, I take no responsibility! What do you think I am…a shipping clerk!

ANNN: When will the economy be opened back up?

CLOWN: I have total powers and the governors are to report to me before they do anything!

ANNN: Oh? Do you have any legal authority to say that?

CLOWN:(long pause) We will be issuing some papers on this very soon, very soon…it will be tremendous!

ANNN: Do you know that China has a stranglehold on the protective garments and equipment that are sorely needed in our hospitals and nursing homes?

CLOWN: I love China! They have the best spring rolls ever! They are tremendous!

ANNN: Why did you eliminate the White House Pandemic Office when it was vital as being a watchdog for these very emergencies?

CLOWN: It is Obama’s fault! He should have stopped me, but he did not.

ANNN: Why are you insisting that your name appears on the stimulus checks that are being mailed out by the treasury department?

CLOWN: I made this possible! It was me! I alone can solve this problem! I deserve the credit! Everyone needs to thank me for those checks!

ANNN: There are several video tapes in which you state that you have this pandemic under control and that it will go away, but it has not.

CLOWN: I did not say that!

ANNN: Oh, yes you did!

CLOWN: Did not!

ANNN: Did!

CLOWN: Did not!

ANNN: Did!

CLOWN: You are a third-rate reporter! By the way, who are you with?

ANNN: I am with the All Negro News Network.

CLOWN: Oh, a reporter from one of those sh**hole African countries! No wonder.

ANNN: There was talk that you were considering firing Dr. Fauci, is that true?

CLOWN: Almost! He is sucking up all my street cred! I alone can solve this problem. I am an extremely stable genius!

ANNN: If you open the economy before testing is done and there is a relapse and thousands more die, what will you do?

CLOWN: I will fly to Mar-A-Lago and give you updates via Trump News…I mean Fox News! They are doing an tremendous job!

ANNN: When you were briefed in January about this coming pandemic, why did wait so long to do something?

CLOWN: I had to first check in with Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity,

Laura Ingraham and Putin to get their advice. Tremendous people!

Contact Lafe Tolliver at tolliver@juno.com

 
   
   


Copyright © 2019 by [The Sojourner's Truth]. All rights reserved.
Revised: 04/23/20 18:43:02 -0400.


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