All in the Trump Family

Donald Trump is in the Oval Office, contemplating the portrait of Andrew Jackson. He looks grim.

Kellyanne Conway enters the room.

KC:  (in an obnoxiously whiny voice) Mr. President!

DT:  What, K.A.?  Can’t you see I’m busy?

KC:  You don’t look busy.

DT:  Shows what you know.  What do you want?

KC:  Jeff Sessions is here, and he wants to see you.

DT:  I don’t want to talk to him.  Tell him I’m not here.

KC:  Why?

DT:  He screwed up that Russian thing royally.  I’m pissed off at him.

KC:  What do you want me to tell him?

DT:  I don’t know . . . tell him I’m in Florida playing golf.

KC:  But that would be a lie, er, alternative fact.

DT:  Don’t be a dingbat, K.A.  Just do as I say.

Conway leaves.  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner enter the room.

IT:  Hi, Dad!  How’s it going?

DT:  Not very well.  The crooked media putting out fake news about me, the conservatives are on my back, and now I find out that Obama has bugged the Oval Office!

IT:  That’s terrible, Dad!  How did you find out about the bugs?

DT:  It’s all over Breitbart.  I know it’s true;  that guy would do anything to bring me down.  Sticks his head under the desk.  Hellooooo, Barack!  I know you’re in there somewhere!

IT:  We need to talk to you about a couple of things.

DT:  I’m just dying to hear them.  What?

IT:  We need to start making some progress on government support for day care.

DT:  Not that woman thing again!  I agreed to support that for the purposes of the campaign, but we won, and now it’s over!  I’ve got more important things to do.

IT:  But Dad, you promised!

DT:  The right is all over my back as it is.  I don’t want to hear another word about it!

IT:  But Dad. . .

DT:  Stifle yourself!

JK:  I need to talk about the Middle East.

DT:  Another favorite topic.  Just do what my buddy Bibi wants and you’ll be OK. He’s a real butt kicker, like me.   He’s my kind of guy.

JK:  That’s the problem.  How am I supposed to come across as a credible mediator if you’re always sucking up to Bibi?

DT:  You’ll figure it out.  Don’t be a meathead.  Now I have to get ready for a meeting with Shinzo somebody, so you need to go.  They leave.

Trump picks up a briefing book, stares at it for a minute, sighs, and then puts it down.  He then picks up his phone and starts tweeting furiously about Obama and Arnold Schwarzenegger.