{"id":7095,"date":"2019-10-19T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2019-10-21T05:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T09:44:12","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-hamlet-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/7095","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Hamlet"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week brought in an avalanche of impeachment evidence, and I’m no longer sure what’s supposed to be a distraction from what.<\/p>\n

Should I be focused on the emoluments violation<\/a> of him hosting the G7 conference in Doral? Or should I be keeping my eye on the fact that Trump businesses kept two sets of books<\/a> so they could commit tax fraud? Is this week’s top story Mick Mulvaney’s “Get over it”<\/a> press conference? Or is that just cover to keep me away from the newest Giuliani story<\/a>? Or is all of it to keep our minds off of the Gordon Sondland testimony<\/a>? I only have one anagram in me; it’s hard to know where to start.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the English teacher in me is not at all conflicted about this week’s most pressing evidence that the Republican president is not fit for office. It recently came out that President Trump sent President Erdogan of Turkey a letter so unhinged that it prompted a near-universal response of “Is This Real?”<\/a> (click the letter below for a larger image):<\/p>\n

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Upon receiving this letter, President Erdogan reportedly threw it in the trash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From Hamlet<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n

This smugness unto Erdogan came not wanted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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