The caption's wallpaper depicts the Trump demolition of the East Wing, clearing space for a privately-funded, gilded ballroom. It is an instance of a central theme: despoliation of the public trust, or rank brutality, in service to power, in patent violation of the law.
Last week, that pattern of contempt reached a near apogee with the White House announcing its determination to withdraw the nation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Read more, here. . . .
