Autopenned

 To me the question is whether it would be more disrespectful to simply not display portraits of the presidents with whom the Tangelo Terror disagrees instead of the path he has taken. In what's left of the White House, the convicted felon has mounted plaques beneath his predecessors. Two of them in the case of Joe Biden, who is depicted as an autopen, a saucy and somewhat hypocritical jab at the instrument used by chief executives all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. Forever picking at nits, the guy who was impeached exactly twice as many times as Joe Biden insists that his use of the machine during his first administration was for unimportant correspondence and birthday greetings to Jefferey Epstein. 

If you missed any of the attempts at comedy in the guise of "decoration," Biden's begins with the phrase,  “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History” and continues on a second plaque, “Nicknamed both ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left handlers.” The sign below Obama's portrait refers to him as “one of the most divisive political figures in American history.” It also pointedly includes the forty-fourth president's middle name: Barack Hussein Obama.

All of this use of someone's Home Depot gift card rings just as tacky as the guy who made a point of putting a gold placard outside the Oval Office, probably to make sure that he could find the place with a head full of giraffes. I understand that he even had his staff put tiny gold labels on the backs of all his shoes that read TGIF. Toes Go In First.

Which brings us back around to the truly horrible part of all this: It defies satire. Each new pronouncement on "Truth" Social brings tears to the writing staff of Saturday Night Live. Their jobs are essentially now just transcribers of whatever terrible notions pop into that giraffe-filled brain. Like the "Patriot Games" he has declared to be a held as a celebration of The United States' Semiquincentennial in which high school athletes from each state and territory will compete. He went with "Patriot" Games because "Hunger" Games was already being used. Hopefully this won't obscure the opulence of the Ultimate Fighting Championship he plans to hold somewhere on the White House grounds not currently under piles of rubble to coincide with his birthday on June 14. That same day will now be observed across the country in the National Parks that remain open as a free day, which might limit the crowds in attendance for the spectacle at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

I would feel much better about myself and my capacity for political satire if I had made most of this stuff up. Instead, like the rest of you, I am anxiously awaiting the moment when the president of the United States is not simply shorthand for idiot.