The King of the Elephants: Making the Jungle Great Again

By Michael Truman

The King of the Elephants making the jungle great again. Is about events leading up to, during and after the 2016 general election and events leading up to the 2020 general election.

Using animals as the main characters. Bears representing Russia,Koala bears representing North Korea, sheep representing Israel, Elephants representing Republicans and donkeys representing democrats.

The story is set on a golden gated ranch on the far Western side of the jungle. Way beyond the desert overlooking the Pacific ocean.

The main character is an overly ambitious know it all, extroverted little pony by the name of Kanye.

Kanye and the rest of the animals in the jungle have been having some very heated and down right ugly arguments lately

Why? What should have been an easy obvious and clear thing for even the dumbest of animals to see. Have now become a major divisive issue involving all, every animal, not only here in the Golden State but throughout the entire length and breadth of the jungle.

These animals trust Kanye with just about every aspect of their lives. Still there is one major thing Kayne was not able to convince these animals. That Elephants makes better leaders than donkeys.

Animals in This part of the jungle. Always voted for and supported the donkeys. No matter which jackass is elected to run.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796076219

Michael Truman

Michael Truman is an immigrant who lives in isolation in the mountains. He writes in between meditation, prayers, and fishing.

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Copyright © 2020 by Michael Truman.

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Rev. date: 05/12/2021

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Contents

Chapter 1 A Pony among Thoroughbreds

Chapter 2 Black’s and Kanye among the Crowd of Elephant Supporters

Chapter 3 Kanye Trumping for the King of the Elephants

Chapter 4 Who Won the Debate?

Chapter 5 You Can Lead the Crowd but You Can’t Make Them Think

Chapter 6 A Very Grateful And Appreciative Victory Speech By The King Of The Elephants

Chapter 7 Spliff Talk In The Great White Forest

Failure will never overtake me if my determination

to succeed is strong enough.

—Og Mandino

Chapter One

A PONY AMONG THOROUGHBREDS

On a golden-gated ranch, nestled in the far western side of the jungle way beyond the desert, there lives a little pony, a very tiny little pony. His name is Kanye.

To give you an idea how tiny of a pony he is, some of the bigger dogs on the ranch are even bigger than little Kanye.

He is by far the children’s favorite animal to ride and play with on the ranch. Even some of the puppies and kittens love to play with little Kanye, not to mention the foals. They think that he is just one of them.

Yes, Kanye has a huge following among the younger animals and visitors to the ranch. And it seems as if his popularity is growing by leaps and bounds every day.

Kanye can be often seen playing with the young cubs, foals, kittens, puppies, and children on the ranch. Their parents trust him, and these young animals see him as a funny, playful older version of themselves.

Yes, Kanye is the go-to pony for fun and laughter on the ranch, and everybody loves him.

Even though Kanye is very little in body, he has several advantages over most of the animals on the ranch. He knows every crevice and corner on every acre of the ranch and its surrounding areas. He also knows all the animals by name and character.

He knows all the hideout spots for all the wild coyotes, diamondbacks, wild mustangs, foxes, bears, wolves, mountain lions, and other creatures that frequently pass through or near the ranch in these parts of the jungle.

Kanye is literally one tenth the size of a horse. Because of his nonthreatening stature and his pleasant, jovial demeanor, along with his straightforward honesty, he usually manages to easily convince and win over individuals to his way of doing things.

Even though Kanye tends to be a little rambunctious at times, he is a natural leader. He is a very wise, experienced, and accomplished pony. He tends to readily speak his mind and is very blunt despite the fact that he has an opinion on every issue and likes to beat it down everybody’s throat.

Somehow this overbearing pony manages over time to gain the trust, confidence, and loyalty of most of the animals on the ranch to the extent that when the mares sees Kanye playing with their young fillies or colts. They are very happy to let him do so, and the same thing goes for the rest of the animals on the ranch. They want him to pass on his acquired skills, years of wisdom, and his accumulated knowledge to them.

However recently, Kanye and the rest of the animals in the jungle have been having some very heated, downright ugly arguments, especially with the rest of the ponies, zebras, horses, mules, donkeys, geldings, wild mustangs, and thoroughbreds.

Some of them have even stopped talking to him completely. Why?

What should have been an easily obvious and clear thing for the dumbest of animals to see have now become a major divisive issue involving all, every animal, not only here in the Golden State, but throughout the length and breadth of the jungle.

These animals trust Kanye with just about every aspect of their lives. Still there is one major thing Kanye is not able to convince these animals. He has not been able to, up to this very moment, convince these animals that elephants make much better leaders than donkeys, especially in these parts of the western side of the jungle where the elite, wealthy thoroughbreds, the stubborn, mule-headed donkeys, and the wild mustangs seem to like to make their dwelling.

Some of these world-renowned thoroughbreds are blockbuster movie stars, famous gold- and platinum-selling artists and wealthy sports personalities that live lavishly on the far western side of the jungle beyond the desert, grazing on lush green ranches overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

These Oscar-winning, Grammy-winning, Academy Award-winning, Emmy-winning, Super Bowl-ring-wearing, championship-ring-wearing thoroughbreds always vote for and support the donkeys no matter which jackass is elected to run.

Kanye has been tirelessly working to trump up support for the elephants deep into the donkey territory, and these stubborn jackasses are adamant that they are having none of it.

However, what has made things so interesting and surprising to many animals in the jungle is the fact that never before in the history of the jungle that the donkeys elected a jenny, a female donkey to be their leader, and never before the elephants elected an elephant with no previous political experience to run for the position of commander in chief of this the greatest jungle in the world.

The jungle is now treading in new unprecedented direction, and animals and their matriarchal and patriarchal leaders from all over the world are watching with anxiety, to see how things will eventually turn out.

What should have been a no-brainer—a male elephant versus a female ass for leadership—have now become a major publicity stunt for some thoroughbreds and donkey supporters in order to boost their now-diminishing careers and increase viewership and commercial revenue for their job, just over broke, just over bills media networks.

We are even seeing some of the top thoroughbreds, elite horses coming out and giving their voices in full support for the queen of the donkeys and urging, actually pleading, the jungle residence not to vote for the newly elected king of the elephants. They are spending their own resources to bring across their message.

They have been heavily and consistently campaigning, not so much in support of the queen of the donkeys because they hardly, if ever, mention her in their arguments.

Their main purpose is to show the entire jungle what kind of hell will eventually break out, the economic and also the climatic disasters that will eventually take place if they should ever elect such an obnoxious elephant to become commander in chief of the free jungle.

Without realizing it, they are really making it extremely difficult for the queen of the donkeys. Their protest against the newly crowned king of the elephants are proving to be very counterproductive for the queen of the donkeys because they never ever mentioned what she will be bringing to the table. But nights, days, weeks and months, they are talking on all mediums about the king of the elephants.

Through the grapevine, the cup and the string, fire dances, smoke signals, the bull horn, they are blowing the conch shells and other ancient devices such as loudspeakers, phonographs, and Skype, along with the ever present news carrier pigeons and their tweets which is only bringing more attention and traffic toward the king of the elephants, and he is making it loud and clear. What he is going to do once he become leader of the jungle?

His messages and mission are well known and is being talked about by every creature throughout this jungle. His name is being trumpeted and echoed through all mediums of communication in all the jungles of the world.

I don’t think one member of the entire jungle population can tell you one of the policies that the queen of the donkeys said that she would implement once she becomes leader of this jungle, can you?

It is during one of these heated debates between the lone Kane and the rest of the animals on the ranch that he decides that right now will be the perfect time to gallop down to his favorite get away spot—a mineral spring deep in the heart of the jungle.

On his way to the mineral spring, Kanye looks at Bigredmoe, who is one of the biggest, tallest, most splendid-looking, most powerful, and indeed the fastest-running