TRUMP -Immortal He-Man Thunder-God, Strongest of All Warriors, Greatest and Bravest of All Time

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Casey Hutchinson. Lord. And here I thought Marat-Sade was dark and twisted.

So President John Wick hears that dangerous insurrectionists are gathering at the Capitol with AR-15s, right, and so then he’s all, like, I’m not afraid, take me to the Capitol!, ‘cause it’s not like bullets can even hurt him, right, but his Secret Service detail refuses to take him there, so he leaps across the divider and grabs the steering wheel and fights the Secret Service, sudden real-life hand-to-hand combat in a moving car!

It was already striking that the news in Joe Biden’s second year in office is usually about Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump and TRUMP and TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP, and you turn on NPR or open Politico and get the impression that Donald Trump is the actual, literal center of the universe, the mighty pivot holding the whole vastness of cosmic existence on his shoulders — great shoulders, amazing shoulders, the very best shoulders, believe me, everybody says so, they’re just incredible — but the sudden turn to florid and febrile action hero stories is just a fascinating piece of social psychology. He’s suddenly the President Whitmore of Independence Day: He’s a combat pilot! He belongs in the air! He’s what’s-his-face, the dude who married Ally McBeal, fighting the terrorists on Air Force One. Get off my plane! Don’t mess with Donald Trump, punk, ‘cause he’ll straight-up go hands on.1

But then he also threw ketchup at a wall, see, so he’s simultaneously a dark and petulant anti-hero.