The Epstein Memorial Ballroom

By now you've likely heard about tRump's "improvement" to the White House Rose garden. You know, the part where he buried it and most of the accompanying lawn under plain concrete and threw some picnic tables over part of it. No flowers. No trees. No grass. No shade. Just, well, tacky.

Perhaps you've also heard about his "improvements" to the interior of the White House, covering everything he can with gilt.You know, because nothing personifies his values like a thinnest film of gold over whatever he can hide under it. Again, tacky tacky tacky.

Does it even bear mentioning that he hid the portraits of our recent Presidents up a staircase and along a hall where only very special people with very exclusive clearance are even allowed to set foot, never mind set eyes on them for who knows how long into the distant future? It can't be claimed to be political, exactly, since both Republican and Democratic Presidential portraits have been thus relocated, as if anyone who still lingers in living visitors' memories for comparison to him must be as erased as much as possible, with only his own likeness worthy of being prominently displayed. Let's face it though: we have not had any President of his caliber in the White House in living memory. Twice impeached, narcissistic, unintelligent (thinks Alaska is part of Russia), vengeful, convicted of 34 felonies, he is truly in a class of his own! Or at least we hope so.

Now he's busy planning a huge - I mean really YUGE - ballroom as an addition to the White House. Such an addition, in fact, that it will dwarf the White House into obscurity. Go ahead, look at the renderings of what he has planned, see what I mean. We hear no justification for why we need such a thing added. Comments have been made that this is meant as a distraction from the Epstein scandal, something to distract the country from the likelihood of tRump having availed himself of the party favors in the form of access to underage girls, from his years long buddy Jeffrey Epstein at his frequent parties. I don't need to describe the sordid details further, right? We've all heard them, whether we choose to believe the worst or not. The point here is the likelihood of his using one tacky disgrace to distract from a deeper disgrace.

I'd like to pass along a suggestion I heard earlier. Let's start referring to that proposed YUGE disgrace of building a proposed gilded ballroom as a distraction from a much worse disgrace as "The Epstein Memorial Ballroom!" Let us never forget!