12/21/18: The president is preparing to escape Washington D.C. for a sixteen-day vacation at Mar-a-Lago. If all goes well, fleeing the capital will allow him to hang with those folks we see in red MAGA hats at all his rallies.
At least those who can afford to pay the six-figure fee to
join and the five-figure annual fee to remain a member of his club.
We do know the president needs a rest. First, he has proven totally unable to convince Mexico to pay for his wall. Nor are Democrats in Congress inclined to ask taxpayers to foot the bill.
There is, however, a GoFundMe page launched by Trump fans, to fund the wall with donations. Failing to grasp basic math, his fans are stoked to raise $10.9 million in the first few days. One anonymous donor chips in $50,000 all by him- or herself.
At Fox News, where ever story focuses on right-wing success, they point out that the fund is already “a full hundredth of its way to its goal of $1 billion.” Which reminds me, I need to watch my diet. But I’m already a full hundredth of the way to losing that ten pounds I’ve been meaning to lose for the last two decades.
Time to celebrate!
Anyway, the president doesn’t want to wait for the donations to pile up, so that he can start construction on the wall. Unless Congress can sort out the mess, he promises he will cancel his trip to Mar-a-Lago and shut down parts of the U.S. government and hold his breathe until he turns orange.
(The fund to build the wall, using private donations is
later alleged to be a scam. Not to mention the part that does get built soon
starts to fall into the Rio Grande. See: 7/11-12/20 and September 1, 2020.)
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FRIDAY NIGHT the final shoe falls. Democrats refuse to give Trump the billions he wants to build his favorite wall.
With that, large parts of the federal government run out of
money and the president orders them shut down.
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Monuments in Washington D.C. will be closed to tourists. |
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