The Cheeto-in-Charge at his it's-not-really-a-State-of-the-Union speech in 2016. |
As dawn broke over a frigid Crystal Lake this morning witnesses reported a huffing
and puffing young man said to resemble Donald Trump Jr. peddled up to
our driveway on a vintage balloon tire Schwinn and
plopped a sealed blue envelope down on the pavement next to this morning’s Northwest
Herald. I picked both items up
and stuffed them in my messenger bag
as I got on the Pace Bus to come to
work in Woodstock.
Passing the opportunity
to do the crossword puzzle on the commute, I opened the envelope and was stunned to discover that it was an excerpt from the State of the Union Address (SOTU) scheduled to be delivered to a joint session of Congress
tonight.
According to a note scrawled on
Office of Official White House Leaks stationary
Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout is
just one of a handful of “Prestige media outlets” to be sent this “unprecedented preview to circumvent Fake News reports that will
claim the President said something completely different.” Among the outlets who received a similar
package were Breitbart, The Sean
Hannity/Fox News Fan Club Newsletter, Stormfront, Resorts magazine, and
Dell’s Fun ‘N’ Easy Crosswords.
Trumps speech writers, image consultants, strategists, and immediate family members hard at work on an early draft of the State of the Union Address. |
While
I am somewhat mystified about how
this little pop stand was included
in this august company, I have
quickly run the text by our panel of
exerts in expensive looking suits and former
NSA code breakers for analysis. Reactions varied. One exclaimed this is “the most lucid text by the President in
recent memory.”
At
any rate, in fulfilment of our
journalistic duty here is the excerpt provided to us in its entirety.
Our editorial cartoonist suffered a nervous breakdown after rushing to complete this illustration but not being able to figure out what to label the Beast. |
’Twas brillig, and
the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimswere the borogoves and the mome raths
outgrabe.
“Beware the
Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun the frumious
Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal
sword in hand. Long time the manxome foe
he sought—So rested he by the Tumtum tree and stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish
thought he stood, the Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, came whiffling through
the tulgey wood, and burbled as it came!
One, two! One,
two! And through and through the vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it
dead, and with its head he went galumphing back.
“And hast thou
slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh!
Callay!” He chortled in his joy.
Our panel
of experts believe the so-called Jabberwock may be CNN, Robert Mueller, Hillary Clinton, Colin Kaepernick, Meryl Streep,
or some conspiracy involving others. Jabjub
bird was suspected to be author Michel
Wolfe and the furious Bandersnatch may be either Stormy Daniels or Melania Trump. A fist
fight and coin toss called it
for the First Lady.
Other
portions of the text are being analyzed
by the network of super computers
employed by Search for Intelligent Life
in the Universe (SETI) project but have not yet been completed.
Hilarious. But, in truth, the State of the Union speech will be far less coherent and heroic. We'll get Teleprompter Trump, smug, dead-eyed and monotone reading as if it is a mental chore for him (it is). If only Tweeter-in-Chief showed up we'd get Jabberwocky word salad sentence fragments guaranteed to make even Paul Ryan wince.
ReplyDeleteLove this! Most likely we will not hear these words from Trump's mouth as he goes off-script...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant!
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