Synopsis
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Background
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Tom Lehr’s song introduction is bizarrely relevant to President Trump’s firing [1] of Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke
“[A] few years ago, a motion picture version appeared
of Sophocles’ immortal tragedy “Oedipus Rex”. This picture played only in the so-called art theaters, and it was not a financial success.
“And I maintain that the reason it was
not a financial success… was
that it did not have a title tune which the people could hum, and which would make them actually eager to attend this particular flick.”
Song: Oedipus Rex Singer: Tom Lehrer From the 1959 Album: An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer
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The Saga of Trump’s Stinky Secretary of Interior Zinke Who Belongs in the Klinky
Dedicated to Kiran Stacey, the Financial Times reporter whose article “Donald Trump Announces Departure of Interior Secretary” inspired this song.
Zinke’s surely a schnook
‘Cause of the lolly he took
At Interior he was inferior
Drilling oil I the Alaska interior
Oh, Zinke rinky dinky schminky
Your ethics they are stinky
Bridge: Slinky Interior Sec Zinke
Your soul’s controlled by Halliburton’s pinky
Once a Congressman from Montana
His cowboy Aires no winna
At despoiling our parks no beginna
Lobbying pals made him a sinna
No winna
The sinna
The Interior Sec Zinke
His ethics they are stinky
The Prez’s tweet made you incomplete
Oh Whitefish Boy Zinke
Slinky Zinke
Even your horse thinks you stinky
An environmental polluter today
Please take dinky Zinke away
Who road horse Tonto—a dear
In traffic that took forever to clear
Intent on causing great fear
Filthy air would our lungs sear
A Whiefish “alleged” crook
To create Interior Donnybrook
Oh please take that Zinke away
A disgrace at Interior today.
— Joel Solkoff, Aged Bard for DC Cabinet-level reporters
https://joelsolkoff.com/book-store/books/the-politics-of-food/
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