Terry Sarten: Stand in line - there's crowds ahead of you - to pie the president

CLOWNING AROUND: Time for the president to try some pie.PHOTO/GETTY IMAGES

THE queue lining up to pie face the clown in the White House is getting longer by the day.

Apparently, it costs American taxpayers some US$33 million to protect Donald Trump and the various Trumpets (sounds like a brass band) from enemies within his own country and abroad ... and he has plenty of those.

Now more are appearing every day as he continues to fire insults in all directions - at those who might have the gall to tell him he is wrong when he sweet tweets neo-Nazi and white power types, fires anyone who does not agree with him, undermines the media with fake news and tells huge obvious lies without a hint of remorse.

His statements and speeches present an ongoing threat to the English language. His clowning would be fine in the circus but not in the White House as there is a very serious danger that he might press the nuclear button simply to spite those who have dared to challenge his opinion of himself.

Visualise, if you will, a long line of people spread across the lawn of the White House, all waiting with a cream pie in hand to squish into the president's petulant pouting clown face.

Some will be the poor and unemployed who have seen through the avarice and greed of the kleptocratic Potus and now seek justice; some will be the wealthy and powerful who understand how Trump is demolishing the future prosperity of the country.

At the head of the queue will be women, furious that Trump thinks it is okay to treat them like objects. Their pies will have a tough crust and be filled with a mixture of hard lard and sour cream.

Those of Hispanic origin will be there denouncing his wall to keep them out, and right behind them will be the Black Lives Matter crew, hoping their protest will not be shot at by a rogue police officer.

Walking with them, arm in arm with the Jewish people, will be Muslims who have had enough of being treated like second class citizens in their own country.

Behind them waving placards will be the past presidents, a host of Republican Party leaders, senators, congressman and high-ranking public officials who have had enough of the demagoguery and see great danger in the way Trump conducts himself.

The media will be there - standing together to show their resistance to fake news and the abuse fired their way whenever they are critical of Trump.

There will be a jazz band made up of musicians from all the diversity that is America, all playing the same tune - a slow mournful march to mark the dying of democracy.

Further down the line will be the world leaders who share their concerns for the future as Trump marches towards wars, while the generals, covered in braid and medals, will be demonstrating their unwillingness to start a nuclear conflict when the president throws a tantrum.

Of course, it is unlikely that Trump would emerge from the White House to face such a huge crowd. He would be afraid, as all bullies are when confronted and out-numbered.

He would retreat to Mar el Largo and play a round of golf surrounded by hordes of secret service personnel, all armed with pie shields, and he would tell the media the crowd at the White House was much smaller than the number at his inauguration.

Terry Sarten is a writer,

musician and satirist

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