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President Trump has started a new endorsement scheme that allows products to describe themselves as ‘by appointment to the President’. The scheme appears to closely follow the ‘By Royal Appointment’ scheme used by the British royal family.


The President says that he is prepared to endorse ‘all American’ products, in return for a suitable fee and a lifetime’s supply of the product. He will only endorse one product in each category, to be decided by an auction-style bidding process. He plans to use the proceeds to fund his Trump 2028 campaign.


The first endorsement will be for trainers. The President is all out of his five hundred gold dollar trainers and figures that it would be easier to take royalties from an established brand. He has insisted that the winning trainer brand should produce special edition ‘The-Donald’ trainers in his trademark shade of orange, and with the tag line Run, Donald, Run (2028).


Other products likely to receive endorsements soon include pistols, revolvers, shotguns, rifles, semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, howitzers and bazookas. The President’s office has clarified that, in view of the amount of money involved, all of these products are considered to be separate categories for the purposes of endorsement.


Products unlikely to receive an endorsement include Trump Fruitcake, Trump Crackers and Trump Nuts.


Photo by NIPYATA! on Unsplash





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Fueled by culture wars and a lack of dictionaries, President-elect Trump has said he will refuse to transition. He said the trans community was a threat to the national identity, as opposed to himself, who was just a threat.


None of his cabinet would transition to government, and would resolutely stay in a camper van beside the Washington monument. Trump insisted he would keep men out of women's sport, and back where they belong, lurking around the changing room, offering spa days at Mar-a-Lago. An aide confirmed: 'Fortunately we do not have a gender neutral White House. It's always been men-only.'

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Breakfasted on cold veal pie and then on to the Admiralty.


I understand that the King is greatly vexed with the Archbishop of Canterbury who had been lax in disciplining of his lay preachers, a John Smyth, who had administered beatings to boys in his care. The King was heard to utter ‘who will rid me of this timorous priest?’ Shortly afterwards, he received a letter of resignation. We must give thanks that the Sovereign is the Head of our Church of England.


News has come from the American colonies. It appears that the bellicose blowhard, Trump, is yet again stirring trouble. He intends to tax goods arriving on their shores. Outrageous! That is solely the purview of our government.


What times we live in.


Image credit: "Samuel Pepys, diarist" by lisby1 is marked with Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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