Thanks for that clarification, Lighter. That makes sense, and makes me think the Irish word connection is possible.

(An aside: I was driving on a busy road between home and the next city and saw a very large truck coming towards me and laughed out loud when I saw a very large sign hand-painted above the cabin which read "Pogue Mahone". It still makes me laugh. Most people who read the sign would not have known what it meant.)

As for my feeling that Trump and his cronies are building their own downfall, I expect that their self-constructed entanglement will sneak up on them and take them by surprise. Everything will appear to be going according to plan and then they will be caught in a web of their own making, and the job of the right-minded people to clean up their mess will be a lot simpler, more easily accomplished. I think democracy and working for the good of the country will reassert itself more easily when people see this tangled mess of selfish COTUS (Centre Of The Universe Syndrome - my name for them) people caught in their own web.

I also keep thinking what Hollywood will make of this when it is all over.