On March 6, in the Rose Garden, while thoughts popped into his head and out of his mouth, like candies from a Pez dispenser, President Trump mused about his scientist uncle, John Trump.Citing the genius of his MIT kin, Trump said, “it’s in my blood. He and I have good genetics. He used the scientific method, and as you know, the first two letters in ‘method’ are ‘ME’, so maybe I should have run for genius instead of president. I would have been a game changer. Just think about Venus de Milo. She was born without arms and still went on to invent the Venus Fly Trap.”
Later in his soliloquy, he pointed to a cousin killed in the first World War. “Heroism, he said, it “rubs off like bronzer. That could have been me on the battlefield. So far, I haven’t awarded myself the Postpartum Medal of Honor, but I could. It’s right there in Article II like everything else.