The Trumpy Col­or Chan­ging Silk

After the elec­tions in the USA, we have a dif­fer­ent situ­ation com­ing. I don’t want to go into the polit­ic­al debate, that is not my busi­ness as a Ger­man. But it is nice that this Mr. Trump is in the spot­light and so prom­in­ent now, because that opens the doors for new (scary) presentations!

Here is one idea for the next year. Folks, get out your old dye-tubes and buy the neces­sary silks, and you can wow them away with a nice pat­ter idea.

Basic­ally, you will per­form the old col­or chan­ging silk, the clas­sic way, the soph­ist­ic­ated way, or whatever. In emer­gency, per­form it the way you did for dec­ades in the man­ner good old Joe Doeini showed you at the club in 1953 …

I found a little silk that was prin­ted as a dol­lar bill. Google it out and you will find a deal­er that will hap­pily send these shelf-warm­ers to you. Also look for a silken small US-flag in your flag-pro­duc­tion (the flags on the strings). Remove that flag and you are ready to go.

Poke the bill silk into the dye-tube and show the flag. Now talk about the USA, the great coun­try it is (was?), blab­labla. Then talk about what now with the new pres­id­ent might hap­pen … and start to poke the silk into the fist, pulling out the dol­lar silk, like in the clas­sic­al col­or chan­ging silk routine.

Steal the tube and show the dol­lar bill silk. The USA, that nation, piece by piece has changed into a »dol­lar bill nation«, because of the bil­lion­aire lead­er it has now. But where is that nation now? Shrug your shoulders, look up into the heav­en and with a ges­ture say: »Who knows …« (thereby open­ing the hand and show­ing it empty as in the usu­al col­or chan­ging silk routines).

Don’t go into the suck­er explan­a­tion … or do so and make some really sharp and soph­ist­ic­ated punch lines, but without insult­ing anybody.

There you have it – an up-to-date and top­ic­ally cor­rect present­a­tion of that age old trick: chan­ging a nation into $$$ 😉