From Capt. Fogg at Human Voices:
All people caught up in a huge drama and no longer the people we knew only moments ago with motives, and positions and goals and explanations and narratives. They all jump up, they all sit down.
He inherited, lies the man at the podium, a chaotic mess. He’s the last US president since James Madison to wear a wig, although it’s died and not powdered. He lies outright about it, making up figures, contradicting himself when he mentions a recovery albeit slow, he says, neglecting to mention that it was a recovery from the biggest recession in nearly 90 years and caused by policies he again proposes. We’ve had a rarely equaled economic expansion, rarely achieved employment levels and wage growth is accelerating, but that’s fake news. The real news is bad. He needs it to be. The real news comes from me and none else. And you will believe.