The Wizard of Oz in 2016

Sarah Palin, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Rick Perry have just left LaGuardia Airport.  They get into a cab.

CD:  Where are you going, folks?

PR:  Trump Tower, please.

SP:  We’re off to see the Wizard!

CD:  Huh?

SP:  He channeled the anger of all real Americans and got elected President. They call him the Wizard of Id.

RP:  What, like the old cartoon?  I don’t get it.

PR:  Of course you don’t.  That’s why you need his help.

The cab driver takes them through multi-cultural neighborhoods in Brooklyn.

SP:  Look at all of those strange people!  They don’t look like real Americans to me.  I bet not a one of them has ever shot a moose from a snowmobile.

MR:  You’re not in Alaska anymore, Sarah.

SP:  You betcha!

They pass a group of young men hanging out on a street corner.

PR:  Look at those lazy bums!  They’re just taking advantage of the hammock of dependency!  We need to cut their benefits, now!

MR:  Don’t you ever take a day off, Paul?

PR:  Never!  I can’t rest until I’ve taken away all of the benefits for the undeserving poor.  We need the money for the tax cuts for rich people, anyway.

MR:  Well, they don’t vote for us, so let it rip.

They arrive at Trump Tower, enter the building, and address the receptionist.

SP:  We’re here to see the Wizard!

R:  Who are you?

SP:  Four Republican celebrities!

R:  I’ll let him know you’re here.

Trump descends the famous gold escalator about fifteen minutes later.

DT:  You’re here to ask favors of me.  What do you want?

MR:  Courage!

RP:  A brain!

PR:  A heart!

SP:  To go back to Alaska!

DT:  You’re asking a lot of me.  He thinks for a minute, then turns to Perry and gives him a piece of paper.

RP:  What’s this?

DT:  A certificate of completion from Trump University.

RP:  Will that prove I’m smart?

DT:  Let me put it this way:  it’s worthless, but lots of people paid for it, and you got it for nothing.  That makes you smart.

RP:  Thank you, Mr. Wizard!

PR:  What about me?

DT:  Well, if you’ll agree with me to put off any cuts to Social Security and Medicare, you’ll prove you have a heart.  It’s in our best interests politically, anyway, so it doesn’t cost you anything.

PR:  OK.  Thank you, Mr. Wizard!

MR:  And me?

Trump hands him a small box.

MR:  A box of condoms!  What does it mean?

DT:  You had the nerve to make fun of my size during one of the debates.  It proves you have courage.  Or, at least, you did for a short time.  Consider this a memento.

MR:  Thank you, Mr. Wizard!

SP:  And me?

DT:  Don’t you want to go back to Kansas?

SP:  No, Sam Brownback has run that state into the ground.  I just want to go home to Wasilla.

DT:  OK, you can have a ride on my private plane.

SP:  Thank you, Mr. Wizard!  Isn’t that expensive?

DT:  Don’t worry about it.  My accountants will figure out a way to write it off.  It’s not like I pay taxes or anything.

Trump returns to his office on the escalator.  The others leave happy.