By Laurie Baron
SAN DIEGO-What’s the difference between the Oscars and Donald Trump? Although both love publicity and self-praise, the Oscars can admit when it made a mistake. *
After Faye Dunaway erroneously announced that La La Land had won the Academy Award for Best Picture only to learn that Moonlight really won, delegates to the electoral college reconvened to cast their votes for Hillary Clinton.
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Mike Pence strongly condemned anti-Semitism before visiting the St. Louis Jewish cemetery where gravestones had been vandalized. Something tells me this is just the beginning of Pence atoning for Trump’s crimes of omissions.
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President Trump refuses to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner. That frees up the organizers to invite Barack Obama to deliver this year’s monologue.
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President Trump plans to increase US military spending by ten percent. Now America can boast that not only is its military budget larger than the next seven countries combined, but that its armed forces are ten percent larger in case China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan ally with each other and attack the United States.
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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.