{"id":25900,"date":"2017-01-16T17:47:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=25900"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:47:07","slug":"monday-mirth-trump-is-getting-desperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/16\/monday-mirth-trump-is-getting-desperate\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Mirth: Trump Is Getting Desperate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;re all aware of the growing inaugural boycott by Democrats following <em><strong>Traitorous Trump&rsquo;s<\/strong><\/em> denigrations of Civil Rights icon, <strong>Rep. John Lewis<\/strong>.&nbsp; Apparently skipping Trump&rsquo;s <em>&ldquo;bigly day&rdquo;<\/em> is a common sentiment among true Americans, because there have only been <u><strong>200 <\/strong><\/u>requests for bus parking permits for his inauguration on January 20<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/01\/12\/1619764\/-D-C-official-We-ve-received-200-bus-parking-applications-for-inauguration-1-200-for-Women-s-March\" target=\"_blank\">That&rsquo;s <strong><em>one-thousand <u>FEWER<\/u><\/em><\/strong> than <\/a>the 1,200 that have been requested for the <strong><em>Women&rsquo;s March on Washington<\/em><\/strong> the following day.<\/p>\n<p>So what if he had an inauguration, and nobody showed up?&nbsp; Apparently Donald is so worried about that possibility that he&rsquo;s now gone on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/01\/16\/1621063\/-A-desperate-Donald-Trump-records-a-message-on-Facebook-offering-free-inauguration-tickets\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook to offer <strong><em><u>FREE TICKETS<\/u><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>to his inaugural!&nbsp; <em>(Personally, I&rsquo;d hold out for some <strong>really good swag<\/strong> to sweeten the pot, if I were a right-winger.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And, of course, we&rsquo;ve been reading about the endless refusals of A-list celebrities to show up and perform for Trump.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s gotten to the point that it has Donald <em><u>so<\/u><\/em> desperate that he&rsquo;s now going to take matters into his own&nbsp;hands (teeny, tiny though they may be), and has decided to play his accordion for the crowd!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#39;ll be sure to pack &#39;em in!&nbsp; A preview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump_Accordion.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25901\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump_Accordion.gif\" width=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump_Accordion.gif 640w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Trump_Accordion-300x169.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Background Note<\/em><\/strong>: I posted this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/comments\/1621063\/65148489#comment_65148489\" target=\"_blank\">GIF over at DailyKos<\/a>, and it seemed to tickle folks&rsquo; funny bones &ndash; so I decided to share it here.&nbsp; Especially since there&rsquo;ll be no <em><strong>&ldquo;Friday Fun&rdquo;<\/strong><\/em> on the 20<sup>th<\/sup> because I don&#39;t find anything really &ldquo;fun&rdquo; about that date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But I do hope to put something together on a more serious note.<\/p>\n<p>My best friend from medical school sent me a YouTube <strong><em>&ldquo;Life Accordion to Trump&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong> that prompted my search for the accordion GIF.&nbsp; So here&rsquo;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S65jqrHQi_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;re all aware of the growing inaugural boycott by Democrats following Traitorous Trump&rsquo;s denigrations of Civil Rights icon, Rep. John Lewis.&nbsp; Apparently skipping Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;bigly day&rdquo; is a common sentiment among true Americans, because there have only been 200 requests for bus parking permits for his inauguration on January 20th.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s one-thousand FEWER than the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/16\/monday-mirth-trump-is-getting-desperate\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}