White House Nursery
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Trump: We regret to inform you that your son Donald has once again violated the basic norms of behavior for our nursery. As you know, we have spoken to you about this before. When Donald was admitted, school psychologists expressed grave concern about what they felt was sociopathic behavior. You will recall, a minority of staff members persuaded the majority to accept Donald. In recent days, his conduct has been unacceptable. On an outing to a Boy Scout rally, he delivered a soliloquy on subjects having nothing to do with scouting. We have heard from the Scouts that his comments were not appreciated. Then, on a visit to a police ceremony on Long Island, he urged them to commit violence to people under their control. Many people in law enforcement were insulted by this talk from a child, and have told us so. In short, we can’t take him anywhere. Donald also makes threats about staff members, including the very experts hired to scrutinize him and help him. Our staff psychologist has identified his behavioral type as “The Little Dictator” – and tells us this condition begins in the home and, unless modified, can lead to real danger in the outside world. To make things worse, Donald seems drawn to other badly-behaved children, especially a new boy whom I will identify only as “Mooch.” They goad each other into crude language and blatant threats to more pacific students in our school. As we made clear when you beseeched us to accept him, we reserve the right to expel a child who disrupts the entire school. We feel his behavior predicts future danger for himself, unless you get him help. As of this letter, Donald is on final probation. One more outburst and we will have to expel him, for the good of our nursery and as a warning to society. With our sincere best wishes, Pars Magna, Superintendent
Brian Savin
7/31/2017 08:42:26 pm
What the hell is this, George? Identify it. Justify it. Document it.
Brian Savin
7/31/2017 08:51:18 pm
Your Tweet announcing your blog entry: "Donald Trump's parents receive a warning from nursery school."
George Vecsey
8/1/2017 09:15:55 am
Brian: the child predicts the man.
bruce
8/10/2017 07:16:12 pm
george,
Mendel
8/2/2017 01:48:33 am
Yes
Peter Lee
8/1/2017 05:59:15 am
Poor little Donny. He gets no respect, nor does he deserve any.
SAM TPEROFF
8/1/2017 01:56:18 pm
Come on! What's happening back there in the land of the free? Man writes a wee bit of satire--and I mean wee-and there's this huffin' and puffin'. Can't have a little bit of a spoof and let it pass without an, Oh yeah, and what about your people. Methinks ye protest too much, way too much. Feel free to chime in gentlemen. 8/2/2017 06:55:47 am
I agree With Sam. I have always looked for the humor in things to get through different situations.
Gene Palumbo
8/3/2017 02:49:19 am
“It's hard to be nice and effective. Consequently, President Trump is hugely under respected.“ That was Brian’s comment last time. As an exercise in (il)logic, his new one here matches it, saying, in effect (and I’m tracking his language):
Ed Martin
8/3/2017 08:35:17 pm
From Op Ed today in NYT, ( I know Brian, same as Pravda, whoops Pravda is good now.)
george
8/8/2017 11:33:52 pm
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Walter Schwartz
8/12/2017 11:10:35 am
An artistic work and a work of great artistry. This one trumps all other caricatures!
Hansen Alexander
8/16/2017 04:11:41 pm
There is no doubt, George, that you got the sense of the man-child, whether it is better to label him a psychotic monster (my choice), a man of no sense of decency like Joe McCarthy, a bad imitation of Richard the II, most closely aligned with Mussolini regarding his mastery of mixed messages and inability to hold the same policy view for more than a few hours, or like Hitler, merely has issues with those whose genes do not contain enough white skin.
George Vecsey
8/16/2017 06:14:53 pm
Dear Hansen: Thank you for your note. A lot of people agree with Trump -- and not just in red states. It never goes away.
Hansen Alexander
8/17/2017 10:12:27 am
George, glad you mentioned Chancellor Merkel. I was actually thinking yesterday that the Fuhrer of Fifth Avenue has probably paid off whatever his debt to Putin is by sewing the seeds of discord so successfully between the United States and NATO. "A lot of people agree with Trump" is a rather loaded statement---and question--George. Because what version of what Trump says do they agree with? Furthermore it seems quite clear that Trump has carefully and cleverly morphed what he thinks and says to these whites (and mostly white males) think, with help from Bannon, and has delivered that message back at them. Yes, it never ends; I was shocked last week to look at the actual voting numbers from November and see that 75% of uneducated males voted for the Monster.
George
8/17/2017 10:20:10 am
And beyond race and politics is the impact on people from being around a rabid human. GV
bruce
8/16/2017 06:54:25 pm
george,
Johnny
1/12/2018 12:00:50 pm
Hilarious!! Best thing I've read in weeks, especially following this week's "shithole" comments from Baby-in Chief. Comments are closed.
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