#MEANWHILE: @POTUS: Don, what do you think of our ace in the hole?

@DonaldJTrumpJr: You mean @VP Pence?

@realDonaldTrump [nods once by bowing, then raising his nose over his son below him].

#DJTJr: Can you nominate me Dad?

DT: What about Eric?

@EricTrump: Anything in that top hat for me pops?

DJT: Let me speak with Evanker [sic] first guys.

ERIC TRUMP: Okay Dad.

DJT: Ivanka says do it.

DJTJr: Do what? Nike?

POTUS: Bill Gates.

ERIC TRUMP: Bill Gates might say something like, “#BoycottTheRiot in your soul” and then to a third intern in the server room in Seattle, “That ought to put a damper on his passionate ‘flame’.”

DJT: Who is it? What ‘flame’?

GATES: Could be a flicker of love, I’m not sure–he’s kind of selfish and has a high opinion of himself. I don’t see him as a candidate for Microsoft.

DJTJr.: How about the Foundation?

POTUS: That thing?

ERIC TRUMP: [observing, waiting]

POTUS: Boycott the sucker.

DJTJr: Your, uh, our foundation?

POTUS: You want to donate to it, go ahead. The Foundation is dead to me. It’s dead to me. Let me boycott it guys. Ivanka, let me do this.

Speculative Fiction by:

John Rubens

Nov. 21, 2019