“We have prevailed,” Trump declared Monday, even as the country remains in the throes of a pandemic. To this charletan for whom the mere appearance of success has always been more or less synonymous with success itself; whether he’s gilding everything around him, constantly boasting of his various accomplishments and aptitudes, or posing as his own publicist to embellish his sexual exploits, Trump has clumsily applied a flashy veneer to his life and although he spend most of his time watching TV, he claims to be the “hardest working” president in American history. But the success he is now attempting to lay claim to is a much harder sell. The grim reality now facing the U.S. is one impervious to his spin!"