Poop on the President
by Kitty Felde
In EPISODE FOUR of The Fina Mendoza Mysteries, Fina and Abuelita watch as the State of the Union address is interrupted by a bird that poops on the head of the president.
It almost happened in real life.
Or did it?
Just a bit of corn.
It happened in 2022 when President Joe Biden visited a bioprocessing plant to talk about ethanol and gas prices. He was standing next to a huge pile of corn and a bit of chaff landed on his jacket.
But it looked like bird poop and social media and news organizations went crazy.
Feathered fiend poops on Biden's shoulder inside Iowa - the Daily Mail
Even Snopes, the website that debunks rumors, weighed in.
Of course, I do like to remind everyone:
It was my idea first!
(photo courtesy of the Richard Nixon Foundation)President Nixon and the Pigeons
President Nixon was worried about bird poop.
Before the 1973 inauguration, Richard Nixon noticed the many birds hanging out in the trees along Pennsylvania Avenue and feared that one or more of them might let loose as he passed below on the car trip from the Capitol to the White House.
The president reportedly ordered the 1973 Inauguration Committee to spray a chemical deterrent along the parade route. The Environmental Protection Agency called the substance "practically nontoxic." However, $13,000 of the sticky substance was applied far and wide...including onto the birds themselves.
It made the birds too heavy to fly and the parade route was lined with dead birds.
Not a good start to his troubled second term.
