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Dick Polman: Time to harp on Trump and his handmaiden

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26.08.2026

I’m not qualified to write original lyrics for Natalie Harp: The Musical, so I’ll just crib from Karen Carpenter’s crooning. Feel free to sing along with the Natalie actress:

Why do stars fall down from the sky Every time you walk by? Just like me, they long to be Close to you…

The actor who plays Trump would lap it up and call her “my Natalie” (which is how the deteriorating octogenarian describes her in real life), then maybe she’d soothe him with honeyed words from a Hallmark card, something like “you are all that matters to me” (which is what the handmaiden wrote in real life), then maybe he’d croon “you’ll never leave me” (which is what Trump said in real life), then maybe they’d sing a duet while crafting a social media post that depicts the Obamas as apes (again, real life)…

The possibilities are endless. This show has all the makings of a Broadway hit. And all because Georgia senator Jon Ossoff slipped three little words into a recent speech:

“…While the sailors on the Lincoln fight (Trump’s) war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings. He golfs and........

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