"It's The Donald: Duck!"

Don't you just love Donald Trump right now, or at least what he's doing to the presidential race--or in his case, racist?  He's a breath of fresh, petulant adolescent, monumentally egotistic air and hair, don't you think?  There's no wetting of index finger to be held up to see where public opinion leads.  Nope, since he owns most of the air, he can just take some from his private stash and bloviate at will.  Throw some raw meat to the Repugnicant base?  Let's call Mexicans rapists, murderers and drug dealers.  Stand up for the downtrodden, oppressed white male constituency?  Throw some hints and allegations that the reason that Megyn Kelly is being so mean and bitchy toward poor innocent him is because she's on the rag, and we all know how they get then, right, fellas?

I'd call him a buffoon, but that's too charitable, too benign, too clownish; it misses the cynical expediency of his "campaign," which is of course about nothing but Donald Trump (registered trade mark symbol here).  Trump clearly ascribes to the "philosophy" attributed to the famed charlatan and self-promoter Phineas T. Barnum, to whom the axiom "There's no such thing as bad publicity" is frequently attributed.  Keeping his name, his "brand," is basically the only plank in Trump's platform, a platform, of course, made of 24k gold.  Better to call him a self-promoting racist misogynist, I guess, but it's not all that catchy.

On the other hand, if he does stay in the race I'm sure he'll provide us all with more entertaining scenes and opportunities for epithets, all the while dragging the GOP down with him.  Sure seems like a win-win to me.  In the meantime, some songs that arise from or call to mind The Donald's scintillating public utterances:


The Mexican Connection                                                               Billy Joel
Mexican Moon                                                                               Concrete Blonde
Mexican Home                                                                               John prine
Colder Than Mexican Snow                                                           Dirk Hamilton
Mexican Shuffle                                                                             Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Mexican Divorce                                                                            Ry Cooder
Mexico                                                                                            James taylor
Mexico                                                                                            Cake
Go To Mexico                                                                                 Cassandra Wilson
Going To Mexico                                                                            Steve Miller Band
Mexico                                                                                            Jefferson Airplane
Mountains Of Mexico                                                                     Jerry Jeff Walker
Gringo En Mexico                                                                          Maria Muldaur
Road To Mexico                                                                              Rory Block
Deportees                                                                                        Arlo Guthrie
Only Women Bleed                                                                         Alice Cooper
Let It Bleed, Genevieve                                                                  John Phillips
It's Alright Ma(I'm Only Bleeding)                                                 Dylan
Let It Bleed                                                                                      Rolling Stones
Romeo Is Bleeding                                                                          Tom Waits
Bleed To Love Her                                                                           Fleetwood Mac
Bleeding Heart                                                                                 Jimi Hendrix
Real Live Bleeding Fingers & Broken Glass                                   Lucinda Williams
The Bleeding Heart Show                                                                The New Pornographers
I Bleed                                                                                               Pixies
Bleeders                                                                                            The Wallflowers
Blood In My Eyes                                                                             Daddy Dylan
I'm Rich                                                                                             Geoff & Maria Muldaur

So get your comb-overs and petulant pouts ready for Tuesday, noon til two, on WOOL FM 91.5 and wool.fm on the webs.  And if you don't listen, you're fired!