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A Little Trump Noodling

Since reality went THUMP and Trump is now the president elect, I feel a bit more free of reality-based restrictions on what I post here, and have been playing with what Bruce Schneier calls “movie plot” scenarios, scenarios that make more sense on a movie screen than in reality.  After all, Trump’s election is one of those, a plot for one of the most horrifying disaster movies ever.

In this particular scenario, the Secret Service agents assigned to Trump security are caught whoring it up in a government-paid apartment in Trump Tower, with the very high-class prostitutes paid for by the Trump organization.  Further investigation reveals that the prostitution ring is run by Trump’s wife - who is immediately deported - and the Trump administration becomes just another typical republican scandal factory from there.  Throw in some sort of international event, starting the same day as the news of the prostitution ring being cracked hits the papers (and triggered by that publicity), and you have either a full-fledged comedy, or an epic disaster, or both, depending on how you write it and cast it.  I personally wish that Rodney Dangerfield was still around to play Trump, the tweets would be far more hilarious than anything Trump himself could ever hope to send.

So let’s look at the potentiality of this scenario in reality: we already know that the Secret Service has a history of this sort of behavior, and doing it in a government-paid-for apartment in Trump Tower is a rather obvious trope and makes for great footage.  Trump happily pays for it out of his companies because he knows he is going to need all the help he can get when his core voters wake up, realize they have been conned, and turn on him.

Anybody who has dealt with “modeling” knows that models are treated only slightly better than prostitutes (or maybe not as well), so that part of it falls into place nicely.  The fact that Trump is completely amoral and would happily marry a gorgeous prostitute himself and give her a place to work is no stretch of the imagination either, because it would bring in more money than the rest of his shell-game companies put together, an obvious play on the part of a street con turned politician.  Plus, since Melania is the brains of the pair, watching Trump himself stumble around stupidly while the world crumbles around him would be worth the price of the movie ticket  - The Three Stooges couldn’t hold a candle to that level of idiocy.

The sad part of this is that my noodling here could never even compete in Schneier’s movie-plot contest, let alone win it.  The reason I say that is because the above scenario is not really any stretch of the imagination - it could easily be very close to reality given what those of us who don’t get our world filtered by Faux Noise have seen of the Donald.

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