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Just Call Him Chicken Little [1]

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Date: 2024-08-25  

Collins Dictionary defines the phrase “Chicken Little” as an idiom used in the US to describe “a person “who constantly warns that a calamity is imminent; a vociferous pessimist.” That’s our Donald. What a better nickname than “Chicken Little” for the man that Obama cheekily indicated may be hiding something more than small hands.

Moreover, calling Trump “Chicken Little” diminishes him consistent with Vice President Kamala Harris calling him an “unserious man.” The man who incites baseless and cruel fear to gain power cannot produce any credible evidence that the “sky is falling” in the US. Indeed, he is a figure that has created a powerful, incredulous fear-mongering trope that has no substance other than his being a “Chicken Little” with aspirations to be the Wizard of Oz.

In the European folk tale, Chicken Little leads a flock of chickens to warn their king of danger, but in most variations of the child’s story of “Chicken Little,” a fox insidiously lures the chickens in to its den, kills them and feasts on their meat. Sounds like Project 2025?

Of course, “Chicken Little” also metaphorically describes Donald Trump as a 5-time Vietnam draft evader. He has always claimed that he had bone spurs in his heel. The “diagnosis” was made by a Queens store front podiatrist who rented from Trump’s father. But here’s the deal, bone spurs don’t go away unless one has surgery. So “Chicken Little” should either produce x-rays of the alleged bone spurs in his foot or documentation of surgical efforts to remove them.

It is a travesty that J.D. Vance is leading a Swift Boat attack against Tim Walz, claiming that he intentionally avoided combat service in Iraq, when Vance’s only combat was with a pencil as a military writer for a few months in Iraq. He could have volunteered for a combat unit or tried out for an elite combat unit in one of the services, but he chose not to. In "Hillbilly Elegy," Vance writes "that he was lucky to escape fighting." I describe this in more detail in my Daily Kos entry, "J.D. Vance: an Absence of Valor.”

Trump-Vance: It’s a ticket of two cowards: "Chicken Little” and “Chicken Littler.”

Back to “Chicken Little" Trump for a moment. During the convention, actress Kerry Washington energetically and flawlessly had Kamala Harris’s grand-nieces teach a lesson on how to pronounce their great aunt’s name. The class for this training consisted of one person, “Chicken Little” Trump who intentionally mispronounces her name regularly to reinforce his racist campaign.

That he can’t bring himself to pronounce Kamala correctly, and needs a lesson from little girls, reinforces how Trump is indeed a “Chicken Little,” a man of dangerously diminished stature.

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