By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO-President Obama is visiting Greece, Germany, and Peru to assure their leaders that Donald Trump will not radically alter American foreign policies and to ask which of them will grant political asylum to Hillary Clinton.
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Democrats are demanding that Donald Trump withdraw his appointment of Steve Bannon as his administration’s political strategist. Republicans are demanding that Bannon not wear his white sheet and hood while serving in the White House.
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Rumors are circulating that Sarah Palin be appointed Secretary of the Interior. Palin responded that if she gets appointed, her first act will be to privatize the National Parks and open half of them to drilling and mining and the other half to development as Trump casinos and resorts.
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Donald Trump requested security clearances for his adult sons, Ivanka, and her husband. When critics charged that this was blanket nepotism, Trump retorted, “Wrong! It’s aristocracy.”
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Laura Ingraham is on the short list for Donald Trump’s Press Secretary. Resentful that he wasn’t being considered, Alec Jones blamed space lizards for infiltrating Trump’s inner circle.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com San Diego Jewish World points out to new readers that this column is satire, and nothing herein should be taken literally.