Chitty Chitty Trump Trump?

This week in unprecedented fashion, we combine two regular fixtures: "Flush it Thursday", "in the Toilet Thursday" or "Thursday's in the Loo" with an extra special edition of not to be mistaken for Tuesday's With Morrie, it's Tuesdays With Trump...

By the end of this post, the wisdom, logic or lack thereof in combining those two elements of content, shall be readily evident, or not?  Now, please sh*t back and relax....

Last week, political cartoonist and satirist Rob Rodgers created the cartoon below, shortly before he lost his position of 25 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, resulting in this tweet...
And as you shall see, that lampooning was tame... In the last few weeks, there have been many references to AG Jeff Session's enforcement of the Trump Administrations "zero tolerance" immigration policy.  Here are just a few...
"The words “Abu Ghraib” have become synonymous with torture, a black eye for America that has damaged US national security... Donald Trump’s policy of ripping children away from their parents at the border is a new black mark on America that could also undermine US national security... This land has always attracted people seeking a better life. This is a nation of immigrants, and immigration makes America stronger." - Michael H Fuchs - The Guardian
Mr. Fuchs op-ed is well taken, and now this...
"Previously, those attempting an “irregular” crossing were given a misdemeanour ticket; now, all adults who cross the border (even those set on making an asylum claim) are placed in custody ahead of criminal prosecution. Their children, meanwhile, are placed in detention centres under the care of local authorities. The result of Sessions’ crackdown has been the separation of almost 2,000 children from their parents in a period of just six weeks."
Photo courtesy of Quartz

Above, occupancy is now up to 2400 in the white tents of Tornillo, Texas. Speaking of Moving West....
"The Trump administration has blamed a law passed by the Democrats, although no legislation mandating that families be split up exists. True, the current law does not prohibit the practice, but the decision to enact familial separation as a matter of course can be laid nowhere else than at the door of the attorney general, and ultimately the president." -  Will Gore - The Independent
Amongst many references to POTUS being the Vulgarian Childcatcher from Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang...
"The similarities are stark, go around round up kids in cages, pretending to be nice then steal all the kids for nefarious reason. Trump you are "the Childcatcher" - Democratic Underground
We never thought it would actually come to this, and now a memorable clip from Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang featuring The Child Catcher....



Several kinder, gentler lampoons of POTUS Trump's face superimposed on The Child Catcher exist at FreeThought and SillyBunt, amongst others.  Finally and mercifully, this doozy from which we take the title for today's post, but it's not the image that grabs one...

Fort Cass, Dacau, Manzanar, Tatura, Rab, Tuol Sleng, Estadio Nacional (Santiago), Sujiatun, Gaza, Bukchang, Vorkutlag, Long Kesh, GTMO, Abu Ghraib???
Child's play!  Wait till they get a load of me! Already 2000 happy innocents, filling fast, reserve now at TRUMP TORNILLO TENTS!!
Naming off a veritable plethora of infamous internment and concentration camps, followed by a promotional prospectus for the latest international RE development project?  What have we come to? Oh the in-humanity of it all??

Coming full circle to our lead in paragraph... humour, lampoon and sad but true facts in today's unprecedented crossover of Trump and Toilet content?  Talk about stinking the joint up?  Calls for a double flush? Speaking of which, looks like somebody dumped out six weeks ago, and had to find a way to clean up, all leading to this...
"President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to end his controversial policy that has resulted in thousands of family separations and brought criticism from Democrats and Republicans. The order aims to end the separation of most migrant families by detaining them together while they await their court dates in criminal and immigration court. It also directs Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to find housing for these families and to build facilities if necessary." - NPR
Hot, steaming, fresh off the press, and replete with denial, which is not a river...
"It is unfortunate that Congress’s failure to act and court orders have put the Administration in the position of separating alien families to effectively enforce the law." - June 20, 2018 Executive Order
Looks like somebody finally smelt what was being dealt? Ah, but it gets much more odiferous...

More to come on Tuesday in Trump's Reversal?

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