Challenge #01840-E016: Toxic, Useless, and Ugly
"A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds." -- Knitnan
"I will work so hard," he said. "I won't even have time for golf. I won't have time to tweet. I'm talking bloody knuckles. I'm talking wearing out the grindstone with my nose. I'm talking twenty-four-seven. Hard. Sweaty. Work. For you. For all of you." And then he spent more days on the golf course, on holiday, or on leave than any other leader to date.
"I'm not a racist," he said. "I am the least racist person in the world. I don't even know what prejudice is. Look at me. I've hired five black people in as many days," who had quit, in outrage, but that wasn't important right now. What mattered was the sound bites. "I strive for equality in everything I do. I want it. I need it like air. I just want to make things completely fair." Two days after gaining office, he signed into law a ruling that allowed any person of authority to deport any person of colour that they deemed 'suspicious' to any country of their choosing.
"I'm a thorough-going feminist," he said. "I'm all for women everywhere. Equal work, equal pay. Hell, those moms who choose to stay at home? Heroes. They should get a medal. They should at least get paid. I mean -what- motherhood is like four degree jobs going at the same time. You should get paid for that. You should honestly get paid for that. It's a lot of hard work. A lot of it. And hard work should be rewarded." One day after gaining office, he signed into law what the news called the "Back to the Kitchen Bill" that made it illegal for married women to seek employment in anything other than daycare, cleaning, or kitchen staff jobs that were not the head chef. Two days later, he classified teaching as a daycare job. And lowered the minimum wage threshold for women. Publicly stating that women "would just get pregnant and quit anyway."
He said a great many things. His actions spoke the opposite. He proclaimed to love his fifth wife with utter devotion, just like he'd done for the other four. And for his entire term of office, the sexual assault claims never stopped. The allegations of affairs never stopped. And yet, even when he was caught, publicly, groping a woman who was actively fighting him off, she got jail time because the leader was capable of spinning so many words into the air that they seemed to warp reality itself.
It became a crime to 'lead men on' and any violence that happened to a woman was legitimised. It became a crime to be the wrong colour, and any violence was casually ignored. It became a crime to be "the wrong type" and their deaths were ruled suicides, regardless of the circumstances.
But everyone agreed, when the country was blighted and ruined by his actions, when the population was nothing more than narrow-minded brutes without an idea in their heads, that there was one lie that covered them all. One lie that they all believed at the time, and didn't realise how badly they were paying for it.
"I will make this country the greatest," he had said, and gutted any kind of glory out of it.
[AN: The temptation was so strong to put up a pic of a Google Correction saying, Did you mean Donald Trump?]
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