Oscar Wilde Saw Trumpworld Coming

Tie o’ the Day #1 is an ALFANI. Button-down, pocket-bearing shirt is a houndstooth Bugatchi.

In a recent Letter to the Editor in The New Yorker, a writer references an 1891 Oscar Wilde essay called “The Decay of Lying”. In his essay, Wilde tells us that “the true liar” can be recognized by his “frank, fearless statements, his superb irresponsibility, his healthy, natural disdain of proof of any kind!” Alternative facts, anyone? Policy by Twitter, my friends? Can you say OLIGARCHY?

In the same issue of The New Yorker, on the same Letter to the Editor page, another writer talks about the idea bruited around that Trump acts like a child. This writer says, “This is an affront to children everywhere: children are not inherently narcissistic, ignorant, cruel, or vindictive. They tend to accept other human beings with an open mind and heart, without prejudice. Would that a five-year-old were our President.”

Ponder that, folks.