Right on the heels of CNN apologizing for a producer who joked about Donald Trump's plane crashing comes a similar "joke" from Washington Post "humorist" Gene Weingarten, who penned a poem in the Post's Sunday magazine about the joy of dropping the President-elect out of an airplane to his death.
According to Newbusters, Weingarten (pictured above) noted that he struggled with his first column since Trump's election victory:
First I tried to imagine what a Trump administration would look like. Would there be a "Department of Taunting Hispanics"? Would the White House press corps be renamed the White House press corpse? As you can see, mirth has been difficult to muster, because there’s a thing in my head that is screaming, "This is not a joke!"
Hilarious. Weingarten ultimately decided to write some poetry about a dead president-elect. In one poem, Weingarten envisions Trump and wife Melania on an airplane, contemplating dropping money to the people below to bring them joy. Hillary Clinton suggests a better idea:
On Air Force One traveled the president-elect
And his wife, and the woman he had just decked
At the polls. Mr. Trump gave a winning smile,
And said, “I should throw out of the window a pile
Of cash, say 10 Benjamins, so as to bring joy
To 10 people, be they man, woman, girl or boy.”
The first lady-elect smiled as well. “Lover-pants,”
She said, “Why don’t you throw out 20 Grants
Which would bring joy not to 10 folks but to 20!
We have $50 bills! Why, we have plenty!”
Then Hillary Clinton stood up, and she smiled, too.
“You know, I’ve a far, far better idea for you!
Throw no cash. Throw out just one Donald Trump
And bring joy to a hundred million people, chump.”
Wow, move over, Robert Frost. There's a new poet laureate in D.C.
Here is another literary masterpiece from Weingarten that also centers on his fantasy of a dead Donald:
What does Melania see in her dude
To make her put up with all of that rude?
Well, there’s billions and billions — and, best of all,
He’s a fatty with sky-high cholesterol.
Perhaps Weingarten, who has a Pulitzer Prize for journalism, is also shooting for one in Poetry as well.
