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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBest description of Trump that I've heard in a long time.
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Stonekettle
@Stonekettle
Trump is the TruckNutz of politics, the fake orange rubber dangle on the Rollin' Coal trailer-hitch of America.
keith shelton
@porkchopsuit
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Hes the Frank Zappa of politics, well without the talent of course.....
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Best description of Trump that I've heard in a long time. (Original Post)
Arkansas Granny
Nov 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)1. That's perfect!
"The TruckNutz of politics, the fake orange rubber dangle on the Rollin' Coal trailer-hitch of America." A dead-on description of Trump's tasteless fake machismo.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. And CWO Wright is the Dogs Bollocks! (nt)
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Not to belabor a good metaphor
The TruckNutz are on a truck rolling down a muddy, pot-holed road the driver hates, but he keeps voting against the highway levy because freedom.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)4. I don't care what the context....putting Frank and the orange
abomination in the same sentence is horribly WRONG.
Frank was a genius and very much a progressive voice in the world.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,342 posts)5. and that hitch is duck-taped on
That trailer hitch is held on with Duck tape (or is that Huck tape?) and bubblegum 120V mig welds. Most of the world has scars on their shins from that damned hitch *always* in the way.