Dear Editor,
Have you heard about the DC spelling bee? In Texts and emails Donald Trump Jr. has been misspelling the word “drone”, typing d-r-o-a-n. Junior corrected the error after scanning the 38-million dollar drone manufacturing contract that daddy set up for him.
Several conservative commentators (Will, Carlson, Kelly) have had enough of Trump corruption and I think Rush Limbaugh would be leader of the pack if he were still with us.
Rush had a knack for coining memorable nicknames. He’d be calling Trump “President Renege.” The shoe fits, the billionaire was insincere when he promised to fight inflation and to end “forever wars.”
Pitch players know that there’s two kinds of reneges, the accidental, which occasionally occurs as brown bottles collect, and the deliberate, which is cheating. Donald’s misplays are cheats; there was no need, no push for his inflationary tariffs or his Iranian boondoggle.
I can hear Rush linking the president’s elitist priorities with his pajama party frivolity in a single soundbite, saying “The ballroom builder waltzed into war.”
The president is good at nicknaming too and he’d be calling Rush “Traitor Tree Trunk,” (tree+trunk=limb+baugh).
Who’s the real traitor? Limbaugh would wonder.
Trump’s weaponization of our Central Government is big government at its very worst. Rush called for “smaller”, unintrusive leadership.
The Show-me wit would address masked federal agents on our city streets though innuendo, telling his audience, “Jesse James always wore a mask when he boarded a train or made a withdrawal from a Missouri bank.”
Government weaponization would rub a Limbaugh family sore spot. Like many southern Missourians, Rush’s pop and grandfather drifted from the left, but they remained close friends with Warren Hearnes, Missouri’s democratic governor in the sixties.
Hearnes’ career was ruined by an early Watergate dirty trick. A Nixon prompted prosecutor charged him with tax evasion, relentlessly running his name through the mud.
My college mentor was Hearnes’ sister-in-law, and she once spoke of an intense meeting just after the indictment. The governor remained silent as an inner circle speculated on the motivation of the prosecutor. Hearnes surprised his confidantes when he finally spoke, saying, “I’ve never done this man a favor.”
High powered influence peddling had convinced Hearnes that some people and incapable of gratitude. They digest a favor and resentment follows.
Could that explain Trump’s dismissed promises? Or has a deep end sense of destiny only recently relieved him of his debt to Republican voters and the shared American dream?
In texts and emails subsequent to the DOD contract, Donald Trump Jr. has been boasting about the deal, calling it “a hard earned wendfall.” Rush would remind us that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Jesse Laurentius
Perryville
