{"id":13607,"date":"2017-02-10T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2017-02-10T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:17:48","slug":"trump-humor-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2017\/02\/10\/trump-humor-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick Ode To Donald &#8220;Peter Principle&#8221; Trump (4 Verses)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 4-verse limerick was inspired by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/donald-trump-challenges-governing-presidency-234879\">Politico article,<\/a> headlined:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump vexed by challenges, scale of government<br \/>\nThe new president\u2019s allies say he has been surprised that government can\u2019t be run like his business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About running the gov, Trump knows nought.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s much harder than #FumblingTrump thought,<br \/>\nThough supporters were told<br \/>\nThat this CEO, bold,<br \/>\nWas equipped for the job that he sought.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Trump and his voters believe<br \/>\nThat all that it takes to achieve<br \/>\nWhat he wants is to say:<br \/>\n&#8220;Make it so! Find a way!&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s done, at a magic wand&#8217;s heave.<\/p>\n<p>But instead, Trump encounters delay;<br \/>\nMany lawmakers stand in his way,<br \/>\nAlso bureaucrat drudges<br \/>\nAnd treacherous judges.<br \/>\nSo he vows that he&#8217;ll soon make them pay.<\/p>\n<p>Donald stews and he bitches and rails<br \/>\nAnd keeps posting his tweet-storming wails.<br \/>\nYes, our nation&#8217;s now run<br \/>\nBy a son of a gun &#8212;<br \/>\nA madman who only knows sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 4-verse limerick was inspired by this Politico article, headlined: Trump vexed by challenges, scale of government The new president\u2019s allies say he has been surprised that government can\u2019t be run like his business. About running the gov, Trump knows nought. It&#8217;s much harder than #FumblingTrump thought, Though supporters were told That this CEO, bold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1550,20,6,7,3,9,17],"tags":[2994,2993,2897,2988,2747],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-gop-humor","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-republicans","category-white-house","tag-balance-of-power","tag-checks-and-balances","tag-donald-trump","tag-fumblingtrump","tag-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13612,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions\/13612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}