2074 King of the Purges

2075 King of the Purges.

Pop quiz: which dictator was best known for purging his henchmen?

a.               Stalin

b.              Hitler

c.               Franco

d.              Castro

e.               Papa Doc

f.                 trump

g.              All of the above

Two choices are acceptable answers, (g) and (f).

Actually, all of them were pretty good at it, but (f) has done more in less time than any of the others.

The latest is the outgoing head of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen.  That’s unusual. Most good looking blonde women have staying power. No way to explain that. (clears throat.)

Nielsen’s sin?  All she did was separate parents and children at the border and put them in separate but equal cages.  Not enough. Forced resignation.  Also gone:

--the Secret service director

--the administrator of the Small Business Administration

--the Secretary of the Air Force

--the Deputy Chief of Staff for Communication

--the Principal Deputy Press Secretary

--the Secretary of Defense

--the Secretary of the Interior

--the Vice President’s Chief of Staff

--the White House Chief of Staff

--the Attorney General

--the Environmental Protection Agency administrator

--the Deputy Chief of Staff

--the Deputy National Security Adviser

--the other Deputy National Security Adviser

--the Homeland Security Adviser

--the Secretary of State

--the White House Director of Communications

--the Secretary of Veterans Affairs

--the National Security Adviser

--the Deputy Director of the FBI

--the other White House deputy chief of staff

--a personal aide to the president

--an Associate Attorney General

--a White House speechwriter

--the White House Staff Secretary

--the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

--Omarosa

--the other-other National Security Adviser

--the Secretary of Health and Human Services

--the Director of Oval Office Operations

--Bannon

--Scaramucci

--Spicer

--Comey

--the CIA Director

--the other-other-other National Security Adviser

This is not the complete list.

People have said no one wants to work for trump.  That’s not true. There are people who would wear a pink slip from this guy as a medal of accomplishment.

Highlight of your career as toilet swabee in the White House? Getting fired for not being tough enough on dirt and grime.  Secretary of State? Wow, ReXXon, could you please unretire and run the Gasateria under the Ed Koch Bridge on the Queens side?

And let’s give that blonde lady a weekend show on MSNBC.  Even if it’s she who wrote the “Anonymous” Op Ed column on reigning in trump’s “worst instincts.”

Probably, Lewis Carroll’s Queen of Hearts should be on that list of purgers.  It’s the first cinematic mention of the phrase “off with their heads.”

Some of these people were purged because they were too competent. Most were fired or forced out because they were insufficiently trumpian. And since that changes for the worse every day, watch out, Huckabee and DiVorce and even Bolton should update their resumes.  

But Pence, you have no problem, at least not in this situation. He can’t force you out. Oh. Wait. Maybe he doesn’t know that and will try.

SHRAPNEL:

--Headline in the papers yesterday: “Chunk of Planet Found Circling Dead Star.” That may not be true.  Maybe Earth just took a selfie.

I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®

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