Much has been made of the president's environmental policies. Global warming is no big deal, or doesn't exist. If national park land in Utah holds oil, reduce the size of the park and drill, baby, drill.
This is somewhat the opposite of how Los Angeles handled its water needs decades ago. They expanded the size of the county to include where the water would come from. Just like years ago the mammoth set of three co-op high rises, North Shore Towers off the Long Island Expressway, that had foundations in two counties, Queens (NYC) and Nassau, found itself eventually completely in Queens when the politicians declared all the land was in Queens County, thus allowing the residents to vote for the mayor, and most likely vote Democratic. Gerrymandering is not exclusive to either party.
Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day and the guess is that someone, the guy on the left with the green tie and green pocket square, just rendered a recital at the piano of Irish songs. If Lawrence Welk was still alive, this guy would be on the show telling you about Irish eyes. Which Irish songs he sang we don't know, but there is a bar in NYC on 33rd Street, just west of 5th Avenue, opposite the Empire State building, Foley's, that is filled with sports memorabilia everywhere you look that has famously excluded Danny Boy from its jukebox. If you want to hear Danny Boy on St, Patrick's Day, you need to go somewhere else.
Seen in the photo above, just behind first lady Melania, appropriately dressed in a green frock are the flags of the United States and the Republic of Ireland. Notice the three colors of the Irish flag. They are green, white and gold. There are songs about these three colors.
On Friday night, Lee Goldberg, the Channel 2 weatherman told the audience that on Saturdays night, the Empire State building was going to be lit in the colors of Ireland, "green, orange and white. My Irish-American wife likes Lee, so she forgave him for describing gold as orange, symbolic of Northern Ireland and England. She reasoned Lee is Jewish, and to forgive is divine.
In the center of the photo, as always in the center of all things in the White, is certainly President Donald Trump, holding what looks like a green hedge pilfered from in front of one of the NYC buildings bearing his name. You'd almost expect 'Trump' to be carved into the topiary.
A closer looks revels that the glass vase is holding an abundant array of shamrocks, so abundant that the president's face can't be seen. He's having fun.
But who now says the president isn't a Green President?
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