As Stanford University professor Tomás Jiménez put it to the New York Times, Trump has turned the "dog whistle into an air horn".
Her home and office telephones were constantly tapped, an intrusion she liked to counter by blowing an ear-splitting whistle into the mouthpiece.
He mocks some of the more incredible accusations leveled at him by the authorities: that he had repeatedly turned off the phone service of the actress Kristy McNichol, and that he could "whistle into a telephone and launch a nuclear missile from Norad".
And his inability to prevent what he sees as the destruction of his family and his future drives him to a desperate act that turns the last third of "If I Want to Whistle" into something like a nerve-racking, grimly absurd replay of "Dog Day Afternoon".
"Water Music" asks a pianist not only to play his instrument but also to turn a radio on and off, shuffle cards, blow a duck whistle into a bowl of water, pour water from one receptacle into another, and slam the keyboard lid shut.
Cliffhanger, it is called, and off the blue tees it is 175 yards over the vertical rock cliffs of Hopeful Canyon to an island green that, if you overhit, will only serve as a trampoline for your ball to whistle into belts of firs.
