By Laurie Baron
MARGATE, New Jersey‒ In several interviews Donald Trump said he was not bothered about being compared to Hitler. He added that he would be offended if he were compared to someone weak and with low energy like Jimmy Carter.
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During a hearing on the constitutionality of Affirmative Action, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia commented: “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.” Clarence Thomas agreed and remarked that he might have been elected the first African-American president if he hadn’t gone to Yale.
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Bibi Netanyahu condemned Donald Trump’s proposal to deny Muslims entry to the United States. Netanyahu decried such religious discrimination and reminded Trump that Palestinian Muslims need a country to immigrate to when they are evicted by Israeli settlers.
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At his arraignment Robert Lewis Dear who killed three people at a Planned Parenthood Clinic, defiantly shouted, “I am a warrior for the babies!” In the tumult no one heard him also yell, “I am a Fiorina fighter for fetuses.” In the eyes of the law, however, he will be found guilty as a cold-blooded murderer.
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Donald Trump has called for building a wall around the North Pole to stop the United States from being flooded by cheap foreign goods manufactured by low-paid elves. He also noted that Santa sounds like a Latino name to him.
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Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. Currently serving as the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey, 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.