Donald Trump was recently heard speaking some serious bull. But it’s not what you think. He was referencing the horrific bull shark attacks in Florida. His unwieldy comments, described by one political writer as a “bizarre rant,” included “There’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand a young woman’s swimming. She really got decimated, and other people, too, a lot of shark attacks.” He incongruously worked in, “I don’t like sharks.”

The Trumpified remarks were inadvertently timely, as we approach the anniversary of the greatest shark story ever told,…