George Conway has come up with the best description of a ‘President’ Trump I’ve seen. A “Ding-a-Ling President!” That’s what Trump was the first time around, and it’s sure as hell the way he is now. Merriam-Webster defines it as a foolish or crazy person – and notes synonyms like “nitwit’ and “kook.” Sounds about right to me when I think of Trump.
I’m more blunt in my language so “dumbass” works just fine. In Trumpty’s case he comes by much of it naturally since at his best he’s been of average intelligence. Clearly his ‘best’ is long, long gone. That was evident even in his first term in the WH. Worse, some of his ignorance has been willful. He simply refuses to listen to reason and learn. His TV show was carefully crafted to make him look smarter and more capable than he actually was by that point in life. What brains he had were used to con people including relatives. He’s still got the capability to think up new cons. That’s bad of course but he’s got the powers of the Presidency which, thanks to six Federalist Society groomed Justices has been expanded far beyond what our founders envisioned or would have approved of.
And he’s a freaking DING-A-LING! This article by HuffPost spells it out as it describes Trump’s thoughts on the flood in Texas and what he had to say to the victims. Daughter-in-Law Lara gave him a fluff-job (at least she didn’t sing!) interview on Fox and as you’d expect Trumpty fumbled when given a chance to be like other Presidents. You know, offering empathy, offering hope, promising help and so on. The part about ‘bells’ of course stands out:
“There can be nothing worse, losing a child, to start off with — and the way this happened,” Trump began, before pivoting to talk of the warning system, which is now coming under increasing scrutiny, saying: “There was very early warning. They warned a day before, they warned even two days before, they warned four hours before.”
Then came the eyebrow-raising comment:
“Maybe they should have had bells, something, go off,” Trump said. “But it’s pretty dangerous territory when you think of all the times that they’ve had this problem.”
You’ve probably seen other commentary on Trump and the bells. Stuff where it seems he doesn’t know about their history of use as a warning. Comments that he seems to think such an idea is new. Even that HE has come up with an idea for warning people. (Trump as you know is personally responsible for EVERY good thing that has EVER in history been thought of or done) Well, since according to The Texas Tribune local and state officials were too effing cheap to install one even by using part of a ten million dollar grant from the Biden administration (intended for a warning system like sirens – they ‘repurposed’ it!) maybe some locals should have created a warning system using church bells! I’ll bet they wish they’d done so now…
But it’s bells. Trump Bells. HELL”S Bells. And more idiocy coming from Trumpty, which in turn led to a priceless tweet from nemesis George Conway in which he says:
“More evidence we have a ding-a-ling president,” he said.
I don’t have the ability to embed the tweet from Conway but if you use the link to the article I provided you can scroll down to see it – and it includes Trumpty himself blathering his bullshit. I hope (If there IS a god it will happen) Conway’s tweet goes viral: Please, PLEASE let it happen. Trumpty will go bonkers. Maybe we can all help by starting to call him our ‘Ding-a-Ling President.” So much the better if some of our elected officials do the same in both chambers of Congress. They can probably get around the rules about ‘disparaging comments’ by citing Conway calling Trumpty a Ding-a-Ling.
Trump IS one. Has been all his life. After first reading the linked article I flashed back to high school and a song that got play on pop radio. It became a staple at Chuck Berry concerts with the audience doing the chorus for him. Maybe someone can do a new, Trumpy version? Listen to Berry perform it. He doesn’t include all the verses as some of them got the song banned in some places back in the day. (the church one, and the one being a kid playing on the kitchen floor with the neighbor girl) Perhaps a Trumpty version could include a Stormy Daniels verse?
The way I see it Trump’s dad give him his first “Ding-a-Ling’ – the Trump Org. That was bad, but twice now just enough voters have given Trumpty a second “Ding-a-Ling” and I defy anyone to tell me that’s not the way he’s treated the Office. I will close by saying this: Dictators (and wannabe dictators) HATE being mocked. I think “President Ding-a-Ling” when referring to Trumpty can catch on. So again I say to anyone reading help make it so.
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What upset everyone “back in the day” was that when Berry referred to playing with his “ding-a-ling”, it was a winking reference to a certain body part…
Well, yes but most folks thought of it as tongue-in-cheek humor and didn’t mind the clear implications. That’s why Berry’s cover (the original came out in the 1950s) became so popular. It was wink-and-nod naughty humor. However as I noted some took the verse (altered a bit into a school in the attached video) way too seriously, as was the omitted verse about playing in the kitchen. I’m an old enough fart that though I never engaged in it (way too shy and awkward) grade school kids “playing doctor” freaked many adults out. And those who were devoutly religious and thought society had become way too tolerant of sexuality REALLY freaked out.
Having said all that we know all too well about Trump and his sexual misconduct. I’d be willing to bet it started very early in life.
Still, I’d love to see a remake that invokes Stormy Daniels, maybe little bells with mushroom heads?