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Who’s the Dummy?

Calvin Trillin

March 15, 2019

A protester holds up a Trump puppet during a demonstration outside Trump Tower.(AP Photo / Mary Altaffer)

A wall, Trump says, will keep us safe From every scary Guatemalan. And count on Fox to back him up, Like Pravda always backed up Stalin.

But Pravda got the party line That it was ordered to expound From Stalin. Now with Trump and Fox, The flow’s the other way around.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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