"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount"---Chinese proverb.

[Atticus]

Trump is not a tiger, folks. You can just get down and walk away like you did when the mechanical "horsey ride" at the mall ended.

The pony required quarters to function. Trump requires blind adoration.

The horsey didn't follow you home and attack you when you stopped "feeding" him. Neither will the Trumpy tiger.

Just walk away.

[gab13by13]

1. Excellent analogy,

spot on.

[Maeve]

2. We referred to those as "quarter horseys"

The Meijer store had "penny ponies" so that was where we went when the kids were with us (4 cents versus $1)

Another term for the Drump would be "paper tiger" but I like your analogy

[panader0]

3. Kicking for the proverb. It's a good one and worth remembering.

Fits the trumpers very well.

[Jerry2144]

4. Or

Paper towel

[Harker]

5. He or she who stands behind a horse's arse should expect to be showered with road apples.

There's a modern proverb for you from upstate New York.

[OxQQme]

6. I've Got a Tiger by the Tail

[Mopar151]

7. Texas tigers?

Joe Rogan - When he's right, he's right!

[2Gingersnaps]

8. Right, "tiger" isn't the feline I think of as applied to tRump.

[Aristus]

9. There once was a lady from Niger

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
She went out for a ride
And came back inside
With the smile on the face of the tiger.

[marble falls]

10. Of course 45 would be dismounting at around three minutes, it'd be a Stormy and expensive ...

... ride.

[Martin Eden]

11. Trump's voting base is the "tiger" they fear

As long as a high percentage of R voters adore TFG as their Dear Leader, dismounting can be political suicide in the next primary.

Like it or not, the R Party is saddled with the most disgraceful POtuS ever to befoul our national politics.

If decency and good sense prevail in the American electorate TFG will be an albatross around the neck of the R Party, dragging them down to ruin.

Most deservedly so.

[KS Toronado]

12. I agree

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Actually ... the TIGER is the CRIMES, компромат, and lack of ethics; not tRump

Hundreds of Republicans, RepubliCons, RepubliQons, and RepubliQanons are implicated in the Insurrection and rigging the elections by gerrymandering and dirty tricks. This is beyond the nearly 700 non-organizers already charged with Capitol offences.

There are so many so deep into crimes, minor crimes in most cases, but career ending crimes.

And tRump has a lot of компромат on them, I expect.

This is how coverups occur and Big Lies get rolled: people are in so deep that their best bet is actually to keep covering it up and denying it, in the hopes it will go away.

This is the tiger they are riding.

[Thunderbeast]

14. Follow the money!

Rubles laundered through campaigns and shell corporations are funding the whole criminal enterprise. I hope that the DOJ uses RICO laws to bring it down.