10 Things Trump Cannot Do
In an interview with Vanity Fair this week, the president’s chief of staff, Suzy Wiles, said of Trump that he had “an alcoholic’s personality” and “operates [with] a view that there’s nothing he can’t do. Nothing, zero, nothing.”
In the lusty American spirit of taking on a challenge, let’s take a stab at coming up with a few things he maybe cannot do.
10 Things President Trump Cannot Do
Break off his love affair with Vladmir Putin. As Jack said to Ennis in Brokeback Mountain, Vladmir, “I can’t quit you.” After all, the Russians fought against the Nazis.
Laugh at himself. He just can’t. Suzy is wrong.
Change the climate by firing all the climate scientists. What did Trump say when asked how to respond to Hurricane Florence? “Pay her as much as we did Stormy Daniels!”
Tell the truth. This is something even little kids can do. Perhaps he used to dream about it when he was a little kid. Perhaps it’s what he wanted to do when he grew up. As his mother told him when he was very young, “focus on what you can do, Donald.”
Become a woman. Some who are seventy-nine might do it, but Donald cannot. As his Deputy HHS Secretary said this week, “Men can never become women, and women can never become men.”
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