Ron Howard
the Opie from Andy Griffith
who grew up to create
the sitcom "Arrested Development"
about a dysfunctional family
has made the online video
"TRUMP-rested Development"
in which he contradicts
the candidate's best lies
(since nothing he says
is truthful
but only a few
are very special "foundational" lies
complete with little lie rivulets
and nesting lies
simultaneously precariously holding his world together
and threatening to tear it apart).
“I was the one who got him to produce
the birth certificate
and I think I did a good job”
Trump brags at the first debate.
"But he really didn't"
says Howard.
“Secretary Clinton also fought it
I mean
and now everyone in mainstream
is going to say
‘Oh, that’s not true.’ It’s true.”
“But it wasn’t”
says Howard.
Then Trump denies
ever saying pregnant women
were inconvenient for a business
and the video cuts to him
saying that exact thing
in an NBC interview
and ends with him explaining his efforts
to build a relationship
with African-American voters
with the subtitle
"Footage Not Found."
Maybe after he loses
he'll deny he ever tried
to run for president
(though everyone else
would love to forget it).
This poem © 2016 Emily Cooper.
