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The Secret Life of President Donald Mitty.
Taking a Gander
It was required reading in my middle-school English class, and there was no question about it—James Thurber’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a great short story. Ben Stiller brought it back as the title character in a 2013 movie, and Donald Trump is living it for real, today.
“Vroom-vroom!” went the supercharged engine of Trump’s 24-karat gold golf cart as it hurtled along the cart path near the fifth green at Mar-a-Lago. The sky was blue, but in the mind of the man gripping the wheel, an apocalyptic tempest raged. Generalissimo Donald J.
Mitty tilted his red hat down over his eyes and…
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