November 21, 2020
As my family tries to muddle through social isolation like everyone else, we have taken to binge watching The West Wing. We missed it the first time around twenty years ago. This leads me to an episode I call “West Wing Nut.”
In the last episode of “West Wing Nut,” the mortally wounded and titanically flawed President bunkers down in the White House, depressed after his attempts at overturning a fair and decisive election have come to naught. His claims of vote rigging, fraud, corrupt public officials, and so on have not worked. He has invited election officials to Washington from several swing states in hopes they would decertify their results, but to no avail. He knows he has lost. Then, the President latches onto a monumentally evil idea. What if he could kill President-elect Joe Biden by giving him the coronavirus?
Trump decides to take a two prong approach to infecting Biden. The first is to infect those people closest to him. He hosts a series of super spreader events all over the country. He encourages attendees not to wear masks. He doesn’t care if anyone attending gets COVID. He is immune, and is strung out on steroids. He feels like Superman. His ultimate objective is to get the Secret Service sick, and he succeeds. Over 100 Secret Service agents contract the coronavirus, and it is only a matter of time before someone in Biden’s detail gets it. They will infect Biden, and that could be fatal.
The second approach is to make the White House a toxic waste dump of coronavirus to the point that it becomes virtually uninhabitable. He is willing to sacrifice his wife, two of his sons, and countless staff in the pursuit of leaving the virus anywhere and everywhere in the White House. Biden will move in, contract the virus, and die. Trump will then make a triumphant return, once again claiming that the election was stolen from him, and reassume the presidency.
The plan almost works except for his colossal stupidity. Don Jr. dies. Rudy Giuliani’s son dies as does Senator Chuck Grassley. He accuses them all of being losers. Joe Biden wears a mask, gets the first vaccination from Pfizer, and accidentally misappropriates Donald Trump’s dosage. Trump’s immunity wears off as does his hold on the American psyche. He is last seen at Mar-a-Lago having gained 100 pounds and playing golf by himself. Melania has divorced him, and he is estranged from his youngest son. He is broke and besieged by creditors and attorneys. There is no Trump Library, or USS Trump, or Trump elementary. No credible historian wants to write his story.
The end.
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