The 2024 Presidential Election

7 Reasons You Should Not Believe the Presidential Polls Regarding Trump

Don’t fall for the banana in the tailpipe — again

Toni Crowe
Brain Labs
Published in
5 min readSep 1, 2024

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Donald Trump holding a bunch of bananas near the tailpipe of a car.
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One of my favorite movie scenes occurs in Beverly Hills Cop, where Eddie Murphy is placed under the care of two new police detectives after successfully escaping his previous police babysitters by sticking multiple bananas in their car’s tailpipe. The bananas in the exhaust pipe caused their car to stall and they could not restart it.

The new crew tells him they will not fall for the banana in the tailpipe. He mocks the latest team by saying in a sing-song voice, “Oh, you are not going to fall for the banana in the tailpipe.” Then, he proceeds to bewilder them with a trick just as egregious as the banana in the tailpipe.

I feel like America has already had our tailpipe stuffed twice with the last two elections regarding polling where Donald Trump was a participant. We don’t want to do this a third time.

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Toni Crowe
Brain Labs

Sharing the hard lessons I've learned in life. Best-selling author. Humorist. Editor. Writing whatever interests me . Owner: No Air. Editor:MuddyUm.