{"id":17675,"date":"2018-06-06T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T00:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:53","slug":"isolation-and-madness-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/06\/isolation-and-madness-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Caretaker President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17686 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/alltrump-640x552.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDonald J. Trump, Caretaker.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t really his job.\u00a0 He&#8217;s just living in that mansion for a while until the real president returns.\u00a0 But while we wait for that day, The Caretaker grows steadily madder.\u00a0 We watch with horror as he falls prey to the same evil forces he invented and pulls the rest of his world into his twisted unreality.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"character\">Delbert Grady<\/span>:<em>\u00a0 Mr. Mueller has a very great talent. I don&#8217;t think you are aware how great it is. That he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"character\">Donald J. Trump<\/span><em>: He is a very willful boy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"character\">Delbert Grady<\/span>:<em>\u00a0 Indeed he is, Mr. Trump. A very willful boy. A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold, sir.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"character\">Donald J. Trump<\/span>:\u00a0<em> But my attorney-general.\u00a0 He, uh, interferes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"character\">Delbert Grady<\/span>:<em>\u00a0 Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don&#8217;t mind my saying so. When my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I &#8220;corrected&#8221; her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump, Caretaker.\u00a0 He&#8217;s always been the Caretaker, wielding his axe, obsessed with keeping his mad promises to &#8220;correct&#8221; things that need to be &#8220;corrected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen King, please write a happy ending to this ongoing horror novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump, Caretaker.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t really his job.\u00a0 He&#8217;s just living in that mansion for a while until the real president returns.\u00a0 But while we wait for that day, The Caretaker grows steadily madder.\u00a0 We watch with horror as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2018\/06\/isolation-and-madness-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17704,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}