RIGHT AGAIN! HUTCHINSON MEMOIR CONFIRMS TRUMP MASK THEORY!

Worth more than the thousand words to follow

The stomach-churning image of day-drunk Lord of the Undead Rudy Giuliani leering through his dentures as he attempted to feed off the still-living flesh of Cassidy Hutchinson has naturally captured the national psyche. But today’s bombshell revelations from her still to be released memoir confirm that the essay below, originally published in May 2020, was entirely correct.

“He was worried about his makeup, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to Mark Meadows when he served as Trump’s White House chief of staff.”

The fat inhumanly-hued man in the White House—not pictured above—says that he won’t wear a mask because it’s inconsistent with the dignity of this office, symbolized by the Resolute Desk, to greet foreign heads of state while so protected.

Okay, he didn’t actually say that. He couldn’t get that out if he were reading it off a stripper’s ass. But he did gabble and rave his way through something similar.

This is not the truth.

No, really.

The reason he’s given privately is that he thinks a mask would make him look ridiculous. Note that he did not say, “more ridiculous.” Which one might expect given that he spends an hour every morning styling and lacquering his hundred remaining hairs into what looks like the pelt of a roadkill raccoon in the latter stages of decomposition. Before knotting his comically-overlong cheap made-in-Turkey tie and waddling downstairs to wave his hilarious little ratpaws at the cameras.

But even that is not true. Or specifically true. Trump’s aversion to a simple life-saving precaution is based not on general fear of his own absurdity, but an appreciation of the particular perils of his presentation.

As is widely known, Trump doesn’t leave the Residence without slathering himself in bronzer. He does so not just to bring some color to his pasty wattles, but to conceal the ravages of rosacea, the disease that gives his skin that bumpy golfball texture.

Presumably, the bronzer must evaporate or wear off in the course of the day. Thus, as shown in the illustration above, removal of the mask to slam down hamberders and fries in the evening would expose a pie-hole area a visibly darker orange than the surrounding face, leaving the President with a Homer Simpson muzzle.

You’re welcome, America!

Terence Hawkins

Terence Hawkins is an author and literary entrepreneur. 

His most recent novel, American Neolithic, was called "a towering work of speculative fiction" in a Year's Best review in Kirkus Reviews. "Leftovers" author Tom Perrotta said it is "a one of a kind novel. . . Terry Hawkins is a bold and fearless writer." Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang, said "American Neolithic is overflowing with ideas, the narrative running on overdrive at all times."

His first book, The Rage of Achilles, is a recounting of the Iliad in the form of a novel. Based on the Homeric text as well as the groundbreaking work of neuropsychologist and philosopher Julian Jaynes, it reimagines the Trojan War as fought by real soldiers, rather than heroes and gods. Richard Selzer called it "masterful. . .infused with all the immediacy of a current event."

Hawkins is also the author of numerous short stories and essays. His work has been published in Eclectica, Pindeldyboz, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), and Magaera, as well as many other journals. His opinion and humor has also appeared in the New Haven Register and on Connecticut Public Radio.

In 2011, Terence Hawkins founded the Yale Writers' Conference. By 2015 it brought over three hundred participants from every continent but Antarctica to New Haven to work with celebrated writers including Colum McCann, Julia Glass, Colm Toibin, and Amy Bloom.

Hawkins now manages the Company of Writers, offering authors' services including weekend workshops and manuscript consultation. The Company also coaches first-time authors through the writing and submission process.

Terence Hawkins grew up in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town famous as the setting of Phillipp Meyer's American Rust. He is an alumnus of Yale University, where he served as Publisher of the Yale Daily News. He is married to Sharon Witt and lives in New Haven.

Hawkins is currently at work on another novel.

 

http://www.terence-hawkins.com
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