In the Trump World Order, Everybody Bows Down - by Joy Ann Reid
Out: the middle class, Europe, compassion. In: the 1 percent, Russia, domination. And those sons. And a “First Lady” who isn’t the wife.
JOY-ANN REID
12.23.16 5:23 PM ET
Welcome to Trumpworld, where unwilling Rockettes are forced to high kick in short skirts for the president’s pleasure while a creepy band of accused domestic abusers looks on and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings solemn hymns in the background. Over in the VIP tent, a crew of gleaming Wall Street bankers and corporate raiders do Veuve Clicquot toasts to their plans to sell Yellowstone Park to capped-teeth mining magnates while finally freeing themselves from “social insurance and healthcare for the poor.”
The casting call at Trump Tower will deliver a kakistocratic tour de force for our four-year reality show, including a vague send-up of J.R. Ewing at Foggy Bottom, the ghost of George Wallace gleefully ripping up copies of the Voting Rights Act at Justice, a pretty brown lady at the UN, a black guy doing “urban housing” and a paranoid Colonel Klink knock-off phoning Moscow to dish the latest conspiracy theories from the National Security desk in the West Wing. Let’s not forget the rumpled white nationalist gurgling in the president’s ear about never forgetting Euro-Christian civilization and our white-haired national preacher V.P. tut-tutting working women to embrace motherhood and let the men do the jobbing as his friends in Congress place their birth control on the high shelf. Meanwhile, the First Lady will be silently glimmering on the cover of Women’s Wear Daily, while the president’s wife shuts down Saks Fifth Avenue in New York for a jaunty day of dress shopping, and her lawyers sue “unhelpful” bloggers into the dust.
The president’s sons will be there too; muscling D.C. maître-d’s for the best tables and perhaps forming 501c3s with their college buddies to extract “charitable donations” from the magnates—foreign and domestic—who’ll want to get next to dear old dad. If the “mainstream media” catches on, they’ll just shut down one “charity” and start another. After all, up-sell, fail and move on to the next mark is how The Boss did it with the banks that lent to him over the years.
The money should start rolling in properly by January, as bookings at the family hotels around the globe go from nothing to breathtaking, once foreign diplos get the message. And if any bad guys threaten the new American Brand Name, no worries: the commander in chief can simply deploy the U.S.A.’s military finest to guard the Trump luxury properties with their lives.
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