Truth In Satire

No, Mr. President, “Cocked And Loaded” Is Not A Thing

It’s either “cocked-and-locked” or “locked and loaded,” but not the embarrassing malaprop uttered by this moron

Allan Ishac
Extra Newsfeed
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2 min readJun 21, 2019

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“Did I say ‘cocked and loaded?’ I meant ‘mocked and bloated.’” (Credit: news.yahoo.com)

Donald Trump’s vocabulary is armed and dangerous. As he got ready to bomb Iran on Thursday night, the president tweeted that the U.S. was “cocked & loaded” and ready to retaliate.

And, yup, he once called Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, “Tim Apple”…while Mr. Apple was in the room. (Credit: indianexpress.com)

Oops, idiot alert. The expression is “locked and loaded,” but this is the moron president we’re talking about, so who’s noticing?

Here are some other embarrassing POTUS malaprops we’re likely to hear from him … if we haven’t already:

  1. “This hurricane is so big we might have to evaporate the entire coast of North Carolina.” Forget about “evacuation,” let’s just put them out of their storm-driven misery by evaporating the whole damn state.
  2. “There was nothing with Stormy Daniels. I’ve always been monotonous.” Yes, he’s been incredibly monotonous, but monogamous? Not so much.
  3. “America’s affluence around the world is so much bigger now than with Obama.” He…

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Allan Ishac
Extra Newsfeed

Author of The Mystic In The Mews (themysticinthemews.com). Satirist. Humor writer. Former advertising creative director. Visit me at allanishac.com.