{"id":66257,"date":"2025-04-30T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T15:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=66257"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:02:13","slug":"remembering-one-of-his-most-fabulous-monologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2025\/04\/remembering-one-of-his-most-fabulous-monologues.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Remembering One of His Most Fabulous Monologues<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">While everyone is busily summarizing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/04\/30\/trump-approval-rating-polls-tariffs-immigration\/\">the first 100 days<\/a> of Trumpscheisse.2, the staff here (namely el se\u00f1or A. Robert Lee) can&#8217;t help recalling pre-Trumpscheisse.1, when these words fell from the Dear Leader&#8217;s lips like the last delirious words of Dutch Schultz. Think <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Words_of_Dutch_Schultz\">&#8220;The Last Words of Dutch Schultz,&#8221;<\/a> a Burroughs screenplay about a bootlegging mob boss who was shot while urinating in a Newark bar.<\/h5>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"881\" data-attachment-id=\"66256\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/screenshot-206\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,881\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Famous Last Words of a Dopified Rat (not unlike those of Dutch WhatsHizName)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750-255x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg\" alt=\"Famous Last Words of a Dopified Rat (not unlike those of Dutch WhatsHizName)\" class=\"wp-image-66256\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"478\" data-attachment-id=\"63615\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/screenshot-88\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,478\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Screenshot&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Screenshot&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1-300x191.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/aaaarf-the-prez-enh-750-1-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While everyone is busily summarizing the first 100 days of Trumpscheisse.2, the staff here can&#8217;t help recalling pre-Trumpscheisse.1, when these words fell from his lips like the last delirious words of a rat. Makes me think of &#8220;The Last Words of Dutch Schultz,&#8221; that Burroughs screenplay about a bootlegging mob boss who was shot dead while urinating in a Newark bar. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-news","9":"category-political-culture","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/like-a-dopified-rat-bdr-750.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-heF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66257"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66462,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66257\/revisions\/66462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}