When I sat down to write the following clerihew, I thought I had plenty of time to polish it before putting it up here on the blog. After all, what could the continuing Trump family saga/comedy/farce possibly conjure up in a couple of weeks to upstage it?
[Cue search warrants, claims of espionage and dirty tricks.]
I’m going to pretend that the last week or so just never happened. OK?
In July this year, Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first ex-wife, died after an apparent fall downstairs at her apartment in Manhattan.
Among the outcomes of that event was that Donald Trump’s testimony at a court case in New York was deferred until after Ivana Trump’s funeral and burial. That cause a big enough stir in the media. And then….
Ivana Trump was buried on a golf course. Near the first tee of the Trump National Golf Club at Bedminster in New Jersey. One of Donald Trump’s golf courses. Setting aside the (to me) bizarre idea of a rich guy burying his ex-wife somewhere on his own golf course, the next rotation of the rumour mill was that Ivana Trump was buried there to reduce the amount of tax incurred by the property.
Now it’s true that the property that contains the Bedminster golf course is also partly zoned as a cemetery and as a farm (both of which do attract tax breaks), but it’s unclear whether that makes a significant difference to the total tax burden. So my clerihew asks:
R.I.P. Ivana Trump.
She tumbled downstairs with a thump.
Bedminster-buried, will she stay
Reducing taxes in NJ?
Clerihews 