Trump meets with Lindsey Graham in the Oval Office.
T: Linseed! How are you doing?
G: Fine, Mr. President. Wow, there certainly is a lot of gold in here. I didn’t remember that.
T: Do you know why I put all the gold on the walls?
G: Because you want to be Louis XIV?
T: No, because gold is the color of winners, and I’m a winner. It reminds me of how much I’m winning.
G: Well, you certainly are owning the libs. You’ve wrecked the institutions they controlled. You sent troops to their cities to show you’re the boss. Those are wins, to be sure.
T: You bet. Wait until you see what I have planned for New York.
G: But you lost the elections.
T: Don’t be silly. I won the elections.
G: How? We got killed in New Jersey and Virginia, and Mamdani won in New York.
T: I wanted that to happen. Particularly Mamdani. It gives me something to run against next year.
G: You said you supported Cuomo.
T: Did you really believe that? I play chess when everyone else plays checkers. Just like Putin.
G: And then there is the Epstein thing.
T: Another win.
G: How did you win that one?
T: I fought off a Republican split. Everyone voted with me. That’s a huge win.
G: Of course, you tried to stop it for months.
T: The end is all that matters. It was another win.
G: What about your slumping polls?
T: Fake news. Everybody loves me, except the radical Marxist fascists and the press. That’s the real story.
G: What are you going to do about health care now that you won the shutdown?
T: Work on my concept of a plan. It’ll be great. Everyone will love it. Trust me on that.
G: It didn’t work out so well last time. Are you going to invade Venezuela?
T: Maybe. You never know. We’ll have to see.
G: You won’t even tell me?
T: Never question the great and powerful Oz, Linseed. (Graham leaves)