{"id":17426,"date":"2025-03-14T00:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T04:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=17426"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:26:57","slug":"trump-mad-tariffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2025\/03\/14\/trump-mad-tariffer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mad Tariffer (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My latest political limerick was largely inspired by this<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/13\/trump-tariffs-eu-stocks-sink.html\"> CNBC headline<\/a>: &#8220;\u2018I\u2019m not going to bend at all\u2019: Trump doubles down on tariff plans as stocks sink&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Not surprisingly, &#8220;Trump doubles down on&#8230;&#8221; is becoming an over-used, albeit exceedingly appropriate, headline phrase.)<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Trump is doubling down on his madness,<br \/>Which increases my anger and sadness.<br \/>He&#8217;s insane and perverse<br \/>And keeps making things worse.<br \/>There&#8217;s no limit, alas, to his badness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest political limerick was largely inspired by this CNBC headline: &#8220;\u2018I\u2019m not going to bend at all\u2019: Trump doubles down on tariff plans as stocks sink&#8221; (Not surprisingly, &#8220;Trump doubles down on&#8230;&#8221; is becoming an over-used, albeit exceedingly appropriate, headline phrase.) Trump is doubling down on his madness,Which increases my anger and sadness.He&#8217;s insane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1550,44,114,1193,1188,6,3543],"tags":[1488,2897,516,396,1574,4034,702,3278,2681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426"}],"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=17426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17433,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426\/revisions\/17433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}