Her confidence bristling like a colorful, plastic tiara, the first daughter wanders farther and farther into the limelight.
She's emboldened by the incompetence that is her sire. If ignorance and poorly-placed confidence can gain so much, then she is all in. And her dutiful husband follows at a safe distance, speaking when he finds the temerity to add his simple-mindedness.
Queen Ivanka follows the large orb that is her leader into the dark, but potentially profitable, land that is the North. She finds the moment historic, for it is when a North Korean Trump Tower gains momentum. She feels the grandeur and can utter only "surreal" when asked about the moment.
What is surreal? That she is there? That prince Jared is allowed to tag along? That TrumPutin heels so dutifully as Kim stage-manages the journey of his legitimacy? All those things, and more. Flattery is the coin of the realm in TrumpWorld, and the autocrats of the world have perfected the art.
TrumPutin and his queen are the perfect recipients of Kim's attention: glowing in the light of his insincere attention, floundering in the ocean that is his diplomacy, happy to give away the country's ideals for a really good location of another gilded hotel.
McConnell, Cornyn, Thune, etal. crowd around their leader, nodding at all he says, nodding forcefully at the strongest untruths.
The Republican Party will become the party of health care, Trump says, showing no sign that he disbelieves his own invention.
As he always does, Trump makes his declaration convinced that everyone will think he is telling the truth. It took until the end of his inaugural address to understand that he says only what is expedient and that he neither knows nor believes anything.
So, the Republican Party will become the party of health care. They will promote health services based on their notion of Christian sharia, priced to ensure Big Pharma prospers, HMO's prosper, and HCA and other hospital conglomerates prosper. Sales of luxury cars and yachts shall not falter as a primary policy point of part of Republican health care. Coverage will be limited to the healthy, and pre-existing conditions will be designated as socialist.
Yes, Republicans will become the party of their own health care. They welcome Trump as their spokesman and accept their position as his progeny.
