George wanted desperately to live. His greatest sorrow was that he knew he would not see his son marry, nor would he get to hold a grandchild. But he thought, at the very least, he would be granted the pleasure of seeing Trump marched out of the White House in 2021. That denied, he asks this of you: Wear a mask — they really do work; practice social distancing — sacrifice a little today for a better future. And, when it’s available, take the vaccine. Most importantly, he would remind you to hold your family close.

Millions of people spent the last four years longing for the soothing, rational, literate time in American history that was Barack Obama’s two-term tenure as president, a relatively blissful era compared to the blood-soaked, shit-streaked nightmare that we just went through. If there was one criticism of the guy who some fantasized would save us from the daily terror and just be president for life, though, it was that he didn’t publicly condemn Donald Trump enough until the tail end of the 2020 campaign (it wasn’t until September 2018 that the 44th president even denounced his successor by name). In his new memoir, A Promised Land, Obama mentions this, writing, “I confess that there have been times during the course of writing this book, as I’ve reflected on my presidency and all that’s happened since, when I’ve had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it, too cautious in either word or deed, convinced as I was that by appealing to what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature I stood a greater chance of leading us in the direction of the America we’ve been promised.” Which is fair! But as luck would have it, Obama has apparently been holding out on us with the next best thing, something we probably could never have imagined possible until hearing the words “Obamas” “producing” “Trump” “comedy” “series.”

Yes, in news that will assuredly send Trump into an unhinged tailspin once he notices it, Barack and Michelle are reportedly producing a comedy series for Netflix “based on the chaotic transition of power when Donald Trump became president in 2016.” The show, titled The G Word With Adam Conover, is a collaboration between the comedian and the former first couple’s Higher Ground Productions, based on Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, which was born out of a September 2017 Vanity Fair article. The book covers the historic chaos and mismanagement that occurred in the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Energy during the handoff between the administrations. While Obama team members had prepared briefing books for their successors, among the Trump people who showed up to fill the posts, of which there were very few, basically no one was qualified. (You may recall that Trump’s first energy secretary, Rick Perry, thought his job entailed overseeing the oil and gas sector, when it actually involved active nuclear warheads.)