TRUMPIAN HISTORIOGRAPHERS

Vanities/The Hive Report*

*A deep dive on a shallow subject. This month...

Only the 45th president could arouse the interest of such a varied cohort of scribes.

MAGNUM OPUS

GENRE

Popcorn drama

Horror-thriller

Workplace comedy

Bodice ripper

Gothic horror

Harlequin romance

FEVER-SPIKING ALLEGATION

Insinuation of Nikki Haley romance

Gary Cohn saved world from nuclear annihilation

Trump used a racial slur

The president has small hands, after all

Vast left-wing conspiracy

Trump can't be impeached

CANONICAL PARALLEL

The Ego and the Id

History of the Byzantine State

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Song of Myself

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

The Stranger

LITERARY HERO

Steve Bannon

Dante Alighieri

Jose Canseco

Reinhold Niebuhr

Ann Coulter

Herbert W. Kaimbach

ANTAGONIST

Kellyanne Conway

Trump bombshell fatigue

John Kelly

Injustice

The Deep State

Martha's Vineyard dinner parties

TRAGIC FLAW

Accusations of lax reporting ethics

Unadorned prose

Not delivering on the Apprentice tapes

Extended promotional tour

Supporting JoDinesh D'Souza

Post-O.J. legal-career nihilism