Trumpie the Clorox Clown Builds a Fort

     Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that discussion.
     "What about if I make a fort from the couch cushions in the Oval Office? Would they fit under the Resolute Desk?"
     "Uh, I'm afraid not, Mr. President."
     "Everyone's laughing at my bunker! What do I do?!"
     "Well, here's an idea..."
     Yes, Donald Trump who, when he threw his MAGA hat in the ring by promising to build "a beautiful wall", finally got around to fulfilling his campaign promise by building a wall... around the White House. Which is something banana republic dictators do. Obviously, this is a direct response to the protests across the street in Lafayette Park that freaked out Captain COVID last weekend and led to him fleeing to his bunker after turning off all the lights.
     So Trump's response is to spend taxpayer dollars building a wall around the White House, literally making the Peoples' House a gated community, so he can't look outside from the Executive Mansion and see them. Of course, a more cost-effective alternative is to simply not look out the window and ignore the protesters as he's been allowed to do since this right wing turd theater began in 2017.
     But Trump can't do that. He can't not look. He's obsessed with the protests because they're the first evidence he's ever seen with his beady, jaundiced eyes that not all Americans are on board with his fascist agenda. They're literally surrounding the White House even after being shot with rubber bullets, tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed. Like the tide coming in every night, you can push them away then they inevitably encroach.
     So Trump's solution is a hyper-expensive version of, "If I close my eyes, you can't see me."
     Of course, a real president who was actually elected by the people and not the swaggering little goon in the Kremlin wouldn't have let it get to this point. But even if they had, this would still provide a teaching moment for even a half-assed, low octane president. In fact, the protests across Pennsylvania Avenue are so vocal, so persistent, that Bunker Boy even called off his planned golfing weekend at Bedminster.
     Instead, he was only secure enough to simply walk across the street and play the part of the world's worst Gideon Bible salesman in front of St. John's after Hope Hicks instructed Bill Barr to tell the Capitol Police to clear the area of undesirables (that would be the American people). Far be it for him to actually go across the street and talk to these people and get more than a sense of their grievances. Even Barack Obama and George W. Bush, two mediocre, right wing assholes who have brutally suppressed their own share of protests during their time in the White House, seem to grasp it. Today, Jimmy Carter grasped it, making Donald Trump universally condemned by every living former occupant of the Oval Office, a first in American history.
     And if Gen. Lafayette, our ally during the Revolutionary War and Jefferson's old friend, could see our people protesting the current government in the park named in his honor, he'd applaud them and maybe even lead them in insurrection. Trump is King George III, as mad as they come, and the American people are so angry at his complete lack of leadership and the brutality that ineptly seeks to supplant it, that even he can't ignore the evidence.
     He's now officially under siege in the waning days of his failed dictatorship.