SIMON SAYS

Born in South Side of Chicago, Politico's chief political columnist, Roger Simon has grown up in a world where politics is a contact sport. He started his career at the Chicago Sun-Times, and has been featured in "Best Newspaper Writing in America" multiple times. National Press Club judges say, "Simon's writing is witty, specific and based on sharp observations of politics and the media."

On August 25, 2015, he published an article on his Politico Column titled: Politics 2016: Bring in the clowns. Roger Simon doesn't blatantly accuse  Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump as being stupid. Instead he cleverly hints that his showmanship and aggressive ego is powerful, and if the people don't stop it we will be electing a clueless egotistic clown in office. In hopes to inform the future voters of America, Mr. Simon encourages the public that Donald Trump: "is currently popular not because people are dumb, but because Trump is entertaining in a political process that rewards good entertainers." 

Roger Simon depicts Trump as: "a showman, a pitchman, who is selling one product: himself." Even though Trump presents himself as having excellent showmanship, Simon ensures its just his pure ego being bottled up. Much like clowns, Trump is giving entertainment under a mask, and sadly quite a intelligent entertainer. Simon refers to a time when ABC's George Stephanopoulos interviews Trump about his "build a wall" plan. Stephanopoulos repetitively asked Trump how he was going to carry out his plan specifically, and in response he just said, "George, it’s called management." “First thing we have to do is secure the border — it’s called management.” Simon uses the metaphor: Did I say it was like wrestling with an eel? It was more like punching a pillow, to explain Trumps tricky showmanship.

Donald Trump's: "I want to make our country great again," slogan might be a catchy pitch line, but Simon Says: Trump’s ego is so pure, so distilled that you could almost bottle it. Trump's popularity is America's nightmare, and Simon's article: Politics 2016: Bring in the clowns definitely stamps candidates like Donald Trump into the Clown Car.