The Triumph of Trump

                           (An intimate interview with Senator Bushton)

          We’re trying to get hold of Sen. Bushton who just left the Towers, where he has been conferring with the newly elected president of these United States of America.  Rumor has it that Senator Bushton is being considered for a cabinet post.  I think I see him now getting out of the chauffeured limousine with the newly elected president’s logo on the door.  I’m pushing through the crowd now and…. Senator, Senator, can we have a moment?

              AH.  MY FAVORITE REPORTER.  YES YOU MAY.  HOW CAN I BE OF

SERVICE?  LET’S STEP INSIDE THIS PHONEBOOTH AWAY FROM THOSE ANNOYING  PBS AND CNN REPORTERS AND WE CAN HAVE OUR PRIVATE CHAT.

          Thank you….As you know, the result of the presidential election was a shocker…I mean a REAL shocker to the majority of the people.  How do you account for him being elected when all the polls show Hillary winning by a landslide?

           I BELIEVE TRUMP WAS AS SHOCKED AS ANYBODY…BUT YOU CAN’T CLAIM ELECTION FRAUD.  TECHNICALLY, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE TO RIG THE ELECTION.  NO, WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS THAT MANY LIBERAL WHITES HAD HIDDEN PREDJUDICES THAT CAME OUT WHEN THEY CAST THEIR BALLOTS.   THEIR THINKING WAS, “HE’S GONNA LOSE ANYWAY SO WHY NOT EXPRESS MY TRUE FEELINGS”.  IF TRUMP CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE ALL OF THE TIME, AND YOU COMBINE THAT WITH THAT WHITE-LIBERAL-WITH-HIDDEN-AGENDA VOTE, YOU WILL FIND HE’S IN.  YOU CANNOT UNVOTE, AS FAR AS I KNOW.

           Tragically, you may be right. I see you are getting the full treatment from him with that limo and chauffeur.  Rumor has it that you are being considered for a post in the new administration.  Is that true…and if it is…what cabinet post are we talking about?

          YES, I AM BEING CONSIDERED FOR A CABINET POST…SECRETARY OF DEFENSE OR SOMETHING, OR OTHER.

          My next question is: how can you be considered for a cabinet post, especially when you did nothing to help, while others who did and were more deserving, were jettison after the election?

          AS OF THIS MOMENT, EVERYTHING I AM TELLING YOU IS OFF THE RECORD.  CLEAR?  I’M GIVING YOU AN INSIGHT BECAUSE I LIKE YOU AND YOU CAN DIG UP THE DETAILS LATER, BUT RIGHT NOW, EVERYTING I SAY DOES NOT BEAR MY NAME, AGREE? 

          Definitely.  I value your leaks and nothing you say will be in print.  So getting back to the question: why were those people dumped?

          HE DOESN’T NEED THOSE PEOPLE ANYMORE.  THEY DID THEIR PART AND TRUMP DOESN’T LIKE PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT SOMETHING IS OWED THEM.  BY APPOINTING PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO DID NOTHING FOR HIM…NOW, I OWE SOMETHING TO HIM.  CLEVER, HEY?  BESIDES, HE CAN HARDLY  TOLERATE STRONGER PERSONALITIES THAN HIMSELF SITTING AROUND THE TABLE.  ACTUALLY, HE DOESN’T NEED CABINET MEMBERS.  ALL HE REALLY NEED ARE MIRRORS SITUATED IN THE EMPTY CHAIRS FACING IN HIS DIRECTION.  I THOUGH THAT WOULD BE OBVIOUS.  

          No…but why you, and why Defense?   According to the records, you have absolutely no experience in Military matters at all.

          I DON’T KNOW.  I GUESS IT’S BECAUSE ALL GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES ARE HUGE ORGANISMS THAT CAN EXIST WITHOUT A HEAD FOR YEARS.  SO THE HEAD OF AN AGENCY, WITH NO EXPERIENCE, SHOULDN’T AFFECT THE COURSE IT TAKES, SHOULD IT?  TRUMP SETS THE POLICY AND THE ORGANISM WILL SLOWLY GO TOWARD THAT DIRECTION OR NOT.  NO TELLING WHAT WILL ACTUALLY HAPPEN.  BUT I AM THERE FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE THAT IE SOMETHING GOES WRONG, HE WILL HAVE SOMEONE TO BLAME.  MY PERK IS THAT I WILL HAVE A HAND IN AWARDING CONTRACTS.

         Are you talking about corruption in office and you haven’t even been appointed yet?

          THERE IS CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE.  ESPECIALLY IN THIS NEW ADMINISTRATION.  TRUMP PERSONIFIES CORRUPTION.  AREN’T YOU AWARE OF HIS TRACK RECORD?  HERE’S A MAN WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THAT EXTRA DOLLAR, HONEST OR OTHERWISE.  I ASSURE YOU, THERE WILL BE BIG TIME CORRUPTION, SO WHY NOT BE A PART OF IT AND BE RICH?  HE WAS NEVER PART OF THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW.  HE HASN’T A CLUE ON HOW THEY LIVE OR WHAT THEY DO IN THEIR SPARE TIME.  HE LIVES HIGH UP THERE IN A GOLDEN TOWER… AND LOOKS DOWN.  HE DOESN’T MINGLE WITH ANYBODY…EXCEPT RICH FOLK…LIKE I’M GONNA BE.  AND IN MANY WAYS, HE’S LIKE PUTIN, CLEVER AND RUTHLESS.  THEY BOTH PAY NO TAXES, YOU KNOW.

          That is terrible.  I can’t believe a United States Senator can even think that way, let alone speak it.  I never thought you would be corrupt. I am sadden and very disappointed at you, Senator.

         AND WELL YOU SHOULD BE…BUT THAT DOESN’T CHANGE REALITY. 

          I guess you’re right…. If it be true, and that you MAY be appointed to a cabinet post, what do you think will be the foreign policies of the new president-elect?

         YOU HAVE TROUBLE SAYING HIS NAME, DON’T YOU?  I NOTICED YOU HAVEN’T MENTIONED HIS NAME AT ALL.  NOT ONCE.  YOU THINK YOU MIGHT CHOKE ON IT?  BUT DON’T FRET.  MANY DO.  ESPECIALLY THOSE IN HIS OWN REPUBLICAN PARTY.

         AS I SEE IT, WE HAVE MANY ENEMIES IN THIS WORLD AND WE NEED A NASTY DOG TO EAT ANOTHER NASTY DOG.  TRUMP (I DON’T HAVE ANY TROUBLE SAYING HIS NAME AT ALL) COULD JUST BE OUR NASTY DOG.  THE LATEST RUMOR IS THAT PUTIN THINKS TRUMP IS A EUNUCH AND COULD EASILY BE MANIPULATED, ALTHOUGH, HISTORICALLY, SOME OF OUR MOST CLEVER, AND POLITICALLY WISE PEOPLE WERE EUNUCHS.  HE DEFINITELY WANTED TRUMP TO BE PRESIDENT.  IT’S LIKE HAVING HIS OWN MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE.  I DON’T DOUBT THAT PUTIN IS FRIENDLY TO TRUMP AND VICE-VERSA…AND FOR A GOOD REASON.  THEY’RE VERY MUCH ALIKE.

          Do you believe that there will be more trouble ahead with Russia and ISIS because of the election?  Is there a danger of atomic warfare?

          OF COURSE THERE WILL BE ATOMIC WARFARE!  IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE SO, YOU ARE LIVING IN A FOOL’S PARADISE.  PEOPLE THOUGHT THE ELECTION WAS ABOUT JOBS, MIGRATION AND TERRORISM, PEOPLE WHO ELECTED TRUMP CERTAINLY THOUGHT SO.  NO, MY FRIEND, WHAT THEY GOT IS A MAN WHO ISN’T AFRAID TO USE THE BOMB.  HILLARY WARMED THEM, BUT THEY WEREN’T LISTENING.  BUT THEY WILL WHEN CITIES LIKE OMAHA, BUTTE, AND DENVER DISAPPEARS IN A BLINDING FLASH.  THAT’S WHERE MOST OF THE SILOS ARE…BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION… THE TROUBLE IS NOT WITH THIS PIDDLING LITTLE PIPSQUEAK OF AN ISIS WHO COULD HARDLY STAND UP TO JUST ONE DIVISION OF THE U.S. ARMY, NOR RUSSIA, WHO CAN’T EVEN PASS THE G.N.P. OF CALIFORNIA.  PUTIN MAY BE A DICTATOR BUT HE’S CERTAINLY NOT CRAZY.  CRAZY LIKE A FOX, MAYBE.  COME ON, NOW. WHO IS OUR REAL THREAT?  WHO CAN SHUT DOWN WALMART IN A MONTH?  WHO SUPPLIES OUR STEEL, OUR CLOTHES, OUR AUTO PARTS, AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, RARE MINERALS TO MAKE SOPHISTICATED WEAPONS?  WHO JUST CAME OUT WITH A SUPER FIGHTER JET THAT PUTS OURS TO SHAME?  WHO COULD RAISE AN ARMY TO MATCH ALL THE ARMIES PUT TOGETHER?  AND HAVE NO COMPUNCTION TO SACRIFICING TWO THIRDS OF THEIR POPULATION, AS THEY DID MANY TIMES IN HISTORY, TO WAR AND STARVATION, AND END UP WITH THE SAME POPULATION AS OURS? 

         Are you saying that Putin and our newly elected-president is gearing up to confront China?

          WHAT DO YOU THINK?  HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY TRUMP AND PUTIN IS SO COZY?  WHO HAS A COMMON LAND MASS WHERE ARMIES CAN TRAVEL ON FOOT WITHOUT TOUCHING WATER?  I STATED WAY BACK IN ONE OF OUR INTERVIEWS THAT THE NEXT WAR WILL BE  RUSSIA, WITH THE AIDE OF THE U.S., SET AGAINST THE SLEEPING GIANT THAT IS NO LONGER ASLEEP.  ALL THESE SIDE SHOWS, TO FIGHT A FEW SHOP WORN TERRORIST WHOSE ONLY THREAT IS KILLING AS MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE AS TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN THE STATE OF MAINE, IS WHAT IT REALLY IS…SIDE SHOWS. THE CENTER STAGE IS: WEAPON TESTING, REINSTITUTING THE DRAFT,  ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, BY OPENING THE COAL MINES,  GETTING INDUSTRIES BACK WITHIN OUR BORDERS (WE CAN’T EVEN MAKE OUR OWN UNIFORMS PRESENTLY, LET ALONE WEAPONS), PREPARING THE PEOPLE FOR THE REAL STRUGGLE THAT LIES AHEAD.  THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT ATOMIC WAR IS NOT ONLY FESIBLE, BUT VERY LIKELY…WITH DONALD AT THE HELM.  HE DOESN’T BLUFF.  OF COURSE, IT HELPS NOT EVER SEEING PEOPLE KILLED; HIS ONLY CONNECTION WITH BLOOD IS WHAT GUSHES OUT FROM HIS STEAK WHEN HE CUTS IT.   YOU NEED A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF LIKE THAT, WHO WOULDN’T HESITATE, WHILE DEEP IN HIS BUNKER, TO SACRIFACE MILLIONS OF LIVES TO MAKE AMERICA REALLY GREAT AGAIN….  

         My god…aren’t you worried at all?  How can you be so calm when you state that atomic war is inevitable?  I cannot believe that the newly-elected president would wipe out cities and kill millions just to make America, “great again”? 

         I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I’M IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING MY BUNKER BUILT.  AND WHEN THE DUST SETTLES, I WILL CROSS THE THRESHOLD AND ENTER A BRAND NEW AMERICA WITH THE GREATEST LIVING PRESIDENT OF ALL, DONALD TRUMP.  COME TO THINK OF IT, HE MAY BE THE ONLY PRESIDENT ‘LIVING'.  THAT WOULD SAVE A LOT IN TREASURY AGENTS SALARIES, WOULDN’T IT?

          I am beginning to think you’re as mad as the president and the rest of his entourage.

          WELL, I MUST BE GOING.  I HAVE TO CONSULT WITH THE CONSTRUCTION CREW AND SEE IF THEY GOT THE WINE CELLARS, IN MY BUNKER, SET IN PROPERLY TO AVOID THE RADIATION.

         What about Hillary? What will happen to her?

          WELL, IT CERTAINLY MAKE THIS CLICHÉ: “NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED”, INTO AN AXIOM, DON’T YOU THINK?

         Thank you, Senator Bushton, for your time.  And since I cannot afford a bunker, due to my pay grade, I sincerely hope to see you at the president-elect’s first state of the union address at the capitol…that is, if I’m still alive.  Thank you again.

         THE PLEASURE WAS ALL MINE.