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MineralMan

(150,692 posts)
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:00 AM Jul 2025

The Clowns Are Already Here

If you had suspicions that the Trump administration is little more than a freaking circus, you're pretty much spot on the money. Worse, there's not even a ringmaster in this circus. It's all clowns. All the way down.

Trump, himself, is a clown. He wears heavy makeup and has clown hair. He makes odd faces at his audience and uses insults as humor.

His Vice President, J. D. Vance, is little more than a hand puppet for Trump to have sitting on his knee to say things for him.

His Attorney General is a rare girl clown. She's not really qualified to be the chief attorney of the USA. She's almost good looking, but when she speaks, strange noises come out of her mouth that make no sense.

And how about that clown he chose to be Secretary of Defense? Hogsbreath or whatever his name is. It's sort of like making the Mail Boy the CEO of your company. So, this clown is telling seasoned General officers what to do. None of it makes any sense at all, because the Mail Boy doesn't know anything about running the world's largest military force. He has strange tattoos over most of his body. Some are downright scary.

He has another blonde girl who talks to the media for him. She repeats whatever he tells her to say, but understands none of it. When someone asks her a difficult question, she stops to see if she knows something to say about that. She doesn't, so she makes odd faces and meaningless words come out of her mouth anyhow.

He needed to appoint someone to handle the complexity of Health and Human Services, so he chose someone with a famous name. Someone whose father was an Attorney General, a likely Presidential candidate, and brother of one of our most popular young Presidents back in the promising days of the 1960s. Both were famously assassinated in a decade of great people being assassinated. His choice, who is a junior for the younger relative, though, had a worm that ate some of his brain and who now is known for glomming onto every conspiracy theory that's going around. He talks funny and makes no sense.

And so the list goes: Clowns to the left of Trump and jokers to the right. All clowns. All with painted on smiles and bright red noses. What the actual fuck?

Send in the clowns? Don't bother, they're here!

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The Clowns Are Already Here (Original Post) MineralMan Jul 2025 OP
👍 underpants Jul 2025 #1
Hat tip to Stephen Sondheim... Glorfindel Jul 2025 #2
Yes. One of the saddest songs from a musical. MineralMan Jul 2025 #3
Beautiful. Disaffected Jul 2025 #6
YW Glorfindel Jul 2025 #8
I love that song. Great poetry in the lyrics and the tune is beautiful Walleye Jul 2025 #9
You beat me to it. A wonderful singer. Ping Tung Jul 2025 #11
I thought of the same song. Beacool Jul 2025 #18
Sondheim wrote the song very quickly PJMcK Jul 2025 #23
;-{) Goonch Jul 2025 #4
Wow! MineralMan Jul 2025 #5
He's Pennywise, Stephen King's sewer clown. Ocelot II Jul 2025 #7
So good with kids... hay rick Jul 2025 #14
If only they could be funny once in a while. Like when they say they are "joking". Never funny. Walleye Jul 2025 #10
Clowns on the surface. BUT KentuckyWoman Jul 2025 #12
We have a cabinet full of James Bond villains, each more horrifying than the next. Initech Jul 2025 #13
Hilarious Coolgoober Jul 2025 #15
AMEN! LoisB Jul 2025 #16
What about the people Keepthesoulalive Jul 2025 #17
Well, that's a very good question. MineralMan Jul 2025 #21
I believe Americans are very Keepthesoulalive Jul 2025 #24
Yes. That's true, for sure. MineralMan Jul 2025 #25
Shakespeare said it better Warpy Jul 2025 #19
That says it well, too. MineralMan Jul 2025 #22
Spot on! Katinfl Jul 2025 #20
Here's a poem I posted in the Poetry subforum a few weeks ago...for your entertainment on this subject. The Madcap Jul 2025 #26
The Garbage Clown Blue Owl Jul 2025 #27
Good post! Wild blueberry Jul 2025 #28

Glorfindel

(10,172 posts)
2. Hat tip to Stephen Sondheim...
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:11 AM
Jul 2025

Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear
I thought that you'd want what I want
Sorry, my dear
But where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns
Don't bother, they're here

The best version:

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Walleye

(43,889 posts)
9. I love that song. Great poetry in the lyrics and the tune is beautiful
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:30 AM
Jul 2025

A funny reference in the movie “To Be on not to Be”(I think) with Mel Brooks. Where he says to his crew, “Sondheim, send in the clowns.”

Beacool

(30,504 posts)
18. I thought of the same song.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:10 PM
Jul 2025

I love A Little Night Music, and this is a good version of the song.

PJMcK

(24,789 posts)
23. Sondheim wrote the song very quickly
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:52 PM
Jul 2025

The musical, A Little Night Music, was in try-out in Boston and there was a dramatic problem late in the second act. This is not an uncommon problem in the development of musicals.

Sondheim wrote most of the song in one night and finished it the next day. It has become a standard in the American Songbook and it has been recorded hundreds of times and performed millions of times. He, and now his estate, receives royalties from every distribution stream. Not bad for a song he wrote in two days!

Walleye

(43,889 posts)
10. If only they could be funny once in a while. Like when they say they are "joking". Never funny.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:30 AM
Jul 2025

KentuckyWoman

(7,375 posts)
12. Clowns on the surface. BUT
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:37 AM
Jul 2025

Make no mistake about it, someone is running the plays in the background. There are always players that stay in the dark. However, in days past, they were minor players. Now they have all the keys to our future while the world yells at the idiot act.

Most of my life has been a constant effort to keep a lid on "dark money" and influence. The balance flipped in under 10 years and I'll be surprised if America gets any control over it in my lifetime. I say that hoping I am wrong....

Initech

(107,594 posts)
13. We have a cabinet full of James Bond villains, each more horrifying than the next.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 11:42 AM
Jul 2025

All of them products of the Fox Ministry Of Propaganda. In this circus, Rupert Murdoch is the head ringmaster. Fox needs to be stopped at all costs.

Coolgoober

(237 posts)
15. Hilarious
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:01 PM
Jul 2025

Hilarious MineralMan. I always call trump a clown and my wife says that's too nice (mainly because he's a cruel prick. ) but I tell her he's a clown because he's supposed to be doing a serious job and he's pathetically unqualified. Thanks again for the laugh.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,134 posts)
17. What about the people
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:09 PM
Jul 2025

Who invited the circus to come to town. We saw the greatest show on earth the first time. We did not need an encore.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,134 posts)
24. I believe Americans are very
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 01:02 PM
Jul 2025

Susceptible to a circus parade. Ringling Brothers would unload the trains and march to Madison Square Garden to cheering crowds. Donald comes to town same difference except he couldn’t March 2 feet and the crowd cheered.

MineralMan

(150,692 posts)
25. Yes. That's true, for sure.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 01:12 PM
Jul 2025

People will follow the band wagon to get to the circus. Guaranteed.

Warpy

(114,419 posts)
19. Shakespeare said it better
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 12:49 PM
Jul 2025

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."--Shakespeare, The Tempest

Pops into my head every time I read much about this shit show, something I try to keep to a minimum.

The Madcap

(1,772 posts)
26. Here's a poem I posted in the Poetry subforum a few weeks ago...for your entertainment on this subject.
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 01:27 PM
Jul 2025
Clowns

The circus is in town
In the states and nation
Chaos and distraction
Events always unexpected

Gathered round, the clowns
Making faces, ugly gestures,
Shouting in shrill voices
Just gibberish for the crowd

And what a crowd it is
Sycophantic idiots all
Believing all the shouting
Just because it’s loud

Clowns in pasty make-up
All with jobs not fit for
Every action a mistake
Frantic movements of the hands

--

Gathering together, the clowns look inward
Toward the plump ringmaster in the center
Glowing orange below his eyes
He points with tiny hands
Outward toward the crowd
Raising his voice in guttural words
That mean nothing but confusion
And cold-blooded instruction

All the clowns must follow
Every one of them plays the fool
Every clown must bend the knee
Or absorb the punishment
From the ringmaster
In the center, ostracizer
Who cannot guide the circus
From town to town.

--

Who really owns the circus?
Who casts the guiding orders?
Who is the Great Decider?
There can be only one

Behind the curtain away from view
He stands with hands on the wheel
With a smirk of supreme confidence
The Little Bald Man pulls the switch

The fall of the circus begins…
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