We were not the only ones to think of Scaramouche and the Commedia dell’Arte when learning of Anthony Scaramucci’s appointment to the White House staff. The association prompted the King of Jesters to contemplate at long last the sorry state of the republic for which we weep. You will note that ever since this tragicomedy began, back even before the primaries of 2016, the KoJ has remained silent, but always barely able to contain herself.
The thugs have taken over the White House, and the Thug-in-Chief has surrounded himself with a cast of schoolyard bullies. Starring in this one-act opera buffa are:
- Steve Bannon, the Irish thug, the classic Irish bully-boy, but with a lovely head of hair, possibly red at one time
- Tony Scaramucci, the Italian thug, the scary Joe Pesci-like wiseguy, short, high forehead, thin lips stretched over sharp teeth, given to colorful language
- Gary Cohn, the Jewish thug, Conan to his friends, all forehead, more bull than bully, always seen conjoined with Lord Blankfein
- Steven Mnuchin, the Jewish Munchkin, a thug to many thousands of dispossessed homeowners, known to us as Et tu, Mnuchin?, a Yale man, through and through
- Donald Trump, the German thug of thugs, a classic bully if there ever was one, failed business man, failed husband, failed parent, failed hair
It’s an ecumenical bunch. The first four members of the cast all hail from, you guessed it, Goldman Sachs. Poor Donald, who would never have been hired by GS for anything resembling a real job, is now left with hiring them instead, desperate to show how worthy he is of their company. Now, they work for him, see.
