At a chic dinner party last week, a Trump insider gossiped about an American president having had an affair with a former French president’s wife. Actually, Carla Bruni has denied the rumours concerning her and the Donald, although they did have a date once upon a time. It seems that everything about Trump is controversial and some of us are having a rough time defending him. If only he’d shut his mouth and stay away from Twitter once in a while.
Mind you, his enemies have become so desperate, and their charges so outrageous, that the 45th president of the good old US of A might even become popular — as long as they keep it up. For example, I don’t know many people — except the handpicked cheering crowd at the studio — who thought it was funny when Bill (penis-face) Maher announced that Trump is having an incestuous affair with his daughter Ivanka. No newspaper or TV programme condemned Maher. See what I mean? When the Washington Post columnist Paul Hume made fun of Margaret Truman’s singing back in 1950, her father Harry threatened to punch him in the face and the country cheered him on. Sixty-seven years later, a cesspool of a man who was once fired for denigrating American soldiers says something as disgusting as that and gets away with it. The networks and the New York Times have gone ballistic in their blind hatred for a man who has been in office for about 110 days. Their latest caper is to put out rumours and then quote them as facts from sources that have asked for their names not to be revealed because they fear Trump’s revenge.
Young Taki learned this lesson long ago.
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