BY CHRIS DEATON, Weekly Standard
President-elect Trump lifted his eyes from the phone long enough to notice the man standing in his doorway. “Kanye, Kanye, come on in!” he exclaimed. “I’ve just been fighting all these—the media, they’re so biased. Rex Tillerson, widely respected, and they’re spreading lies about him. It’s unfair.”
Kanye West sauntered toward a chair before Trump’s desk, shrugged his shoulders, and sat.
“Screams from the haters—got a nice ring to it,” he grinned.
“I know. I know I’m winning when they say these things,” Trump responded. “But who else was there? I couldn’t pick Mitt. Rudy was out.”
“Colin. Powell.”
Trump shook his head.
“Austin. Powers.”
Trump reflexively smirked and looked down at his desk, and then his face was dour again.
“I can’t catch a break, Kanye. We’re assembling the best cabinet in history, ever—Newt said so this morning—and I get no credit. It’s all just, CNN this, New York Times—still failing—that, and …”
