{"id":3796,"date":"2019-12-24T15:08:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2019-12-24T15:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T20:08:23","slug":"trumps-christmas-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/trumps-christmas-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Christmas Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trump-Santa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Trump-Santa.jpg\" alt=\"Trump Santa\" width=\"940\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Here is my version of President Trump&#8217;s ride on Christmas eve. Please note that no Democrats were injured nor any bill signed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt;\">So here it is-<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the House of Representatives<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Not a politician was stirring, not even the Speaker of the House named Nancy;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The impeachment papers were laid by the chimney with care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">In hopes that The Donald soon would be there;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The political pundits were nestled all snug in their beds;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">While visions of money bags danced in their heads;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And Nancy Pelosi with her gavel, and I in my MAGA cap ready for space travel,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Had just settled our brains for a long winter&#8217;s recess nap,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When out on the floor there arose such a clatter,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I sprang from my seat to see what was the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Away to the window I flew like a flash,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Gave a lustre of midday to objects below,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When what to my wondering eyes did appear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But President Trump in a golf cart pulled by eight tiny rein-deer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">With a little flick of his so lively wrist did the cart go across the White House lawn,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I knew in a moment he must be President T.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">More rapid than bald eagles his coursers they came,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">&#8220;Now, <em><i>MAGA<\/i><\/em>! now, <em>Crazy Joe<\/em>! now <em>Wild Bill<\/em> and <i>Heartless <\/i><em>Hillary<\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">On, <em>Al Frankenstein <\/em>! on, <em>Lyin&#8217; Ted <\/em>! on, <em>Slippery James Comey<\/em> and <em>Boot-Edge-Edge <\/em>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">To the top of the Capital! to the top of the southern border wall!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">As leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">So up to the capital rotunda the coursers they flew<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">With the golf cart full of political tools, and some very foolish notions too\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And then, in a twinkling, I heard about the impeachment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">The prancing and pawing of each little burden of proof.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">As I drew in my head, and was turning around,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Down the chimney Trump came with a bound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">He was dressed all in Old Glory, from his head to his foot,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And his clothes were all red, white and blue not even covered with a little soot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">A sack full of bills he had flung on his back,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And he looked like a politician just opening his bag of political skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">His eyes\u2014how they twinkled! his dimples, how merry!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And the hair on his head was as white as the snow;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">A wink of his eye and a twist of his head<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Just taxes and bills and other things that were not dead!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And he created tweets on his phone; then turned on his own two feet to show me his latest tweet,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And laying his finger aside of his nose,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And giving a nod, up into the sky he rose;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">And away they all flew like a missile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em>\u201cHappy Christmas to all, and to all a good Republicans a merry good night!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Please understand that I make no political endorsement nor do I even own a MAGA cap. I just wrote the changes to that old poem &#8220;&#8216;Twas the Night before Christmas&#8221; that came into my head!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 18pt;\">A very Happy Hanukah and a Merry Christmas to all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fgtsx6a66c24643118\" ><script async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script>\n<a data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-board-width=\"150\" data-pin-scale-height=\"60\" data-pin-scale-width=\"800\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/mkendallpk\/stuff-for-sale\/\"><\/a>\n\n<\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\nmargin: 5px; padding: 0px;\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 1201px) {\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) {\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) {\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) {\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {\r\n.fgtsx6a66c24643118 {\r\ndisplay: block;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is my version of President Trump&#8217;s ride on Christmas eve. Please note that no Democrats were injured nor any bill signed! 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