"The Visionary" (1989)
at Mar-a-Lago
Where is the 47th President of the USA this weekend? Do you really need to ask? He's at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida of course. He flew down there from Washington DC aboard Air Force One - a Boeing 747 - on Friday afternoon and he will be flying back on Monday morning.
It is the same most weekends. And why does he do this? Well, it is mostly to rest and relax, play golf and meet up with his chums. Apparently, he has taken to hosting dinners at which guests pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of dining with him.
The cost of each flight alone is about $1 million but there are many other costs surrounding security. The bill for these weekends away falls on American taxpayers. No thought is ever given to the blatant waste of aviation fuel and the 47th president's personal carbon footprint.
One might have imagined that a president's "to do" list would be as long as your arm, requiring very long working weeks at the political grindstone - but not so with #47. Effectively, he only puts in half a working week though I imagine that he still takes classified documents to his private mansion, scanning them briefly as he sits on what Americans sometimes call "the john".
As the Mar-a-Lago weekends are now part of an habitual presidential pattern, many of #47's fans now know when and where to wait for his motorcade - ready to wave and cheer.
One of them is a 31 year old landscaper and food delivery worker originally from Indiana. He is called Bradley Collier. After a recent presidential motorcade passed by he said, “Today was special.” This time, the limo seemed to roll slower and closer to the 'sidewalk', giving Collier a better glimpse of the president. “There’s nothing cooler than that,” he said, "other than Jesus Christ.”
Has there ever been a lazier president than the current incumbent? His time sheet speaks for itself and yet, as in the pitiful mind of Bradley Collier, #47 has in the eyes his doting support base taken on the character of a messianic figure who can do no wrong in spite of the evidence stacked against him.
By the way, the painting at the top in its ostentatious gilded frame is not some kind of jokey internet meme. It is genuine and hangs upon the barroom wall at Mar-a-Lago. In Trumpworld, truth is not only stranger than fiction but more horrific too.
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