0
0
The Trump experience really is like a three ring circus—acrobats, lion tamers, people swinging wildly on the flying trapeze, and all the grotesque curiosities of the freak show along the edges of the tent.
************************
First, there’s Trump and his taxes. Finally—finally—after all these years, the NY Times had dug up the info. Finally we had the bastard dead to rights. Outrageous tax refunds, not paying a single cent of taxes for so many years. The cat was out of the bag, and he couldn’t outrun this one, could he?
But not a word has been spoken about taxes since the big COVID news. Could it be that when Trump said, “I’d do anything to distract people from my taxes,” that he really meant that this included contracting COVID, being put on oxygen, being helicoptered to the hospital and going on three experimental drugs, and spreading the virus around Washington, infecting almost any Republican whose title was higher than dog catcher.
************************
Although the White House is no more interested in contact tracing than it is in testing, let me offer some thoughts about who got it, who hasn’t, and in both cases, why and how.
Melania must have gotten the virus from someone other than the Donald. How do I know? It’s pretty clear that she never lets him within six feet of her.
Stephen Miller has finally tested positive. Of all the low-lifes Trump surrounds himself with, it’s serious karma that the man who thought it was a good idea to break up migrant families and put children in cages became infected. He’s infected others in countless ways, so this is a classic case of payback.
So far Mike Pence has tested negative. Some may attribute this to his pious manner and his close ties to the Almighty. But I have it otherwise from my sources in Heaven. Apparently God cannot keep Mike Pence at arm’s length, no less six feet away. Although we might think that the virus cannot pass through the Pearly Gates, I am told that if Pence became COVID-positive, the Heavenly Father is concerned that Pence would pass it on to him.
Finally, isn’t it notable that of all Trump’s allies and toadies, the people who literally as well as figuratively are close to Trump, William Barr has remained COVID-free. What this tells me is that although we have said that COVID has no boundaries and knows no shame, there are limits even for this mass killer. Apparently, there are people that even COVID wants nothing to do with. A spokesman for the virus has announced, “Trump, no problem. Stephen Miller, we’re so glad to have him join the family. But the stench coming off Barr was just too much to bear. Ugh, we’re staying away.”
