"lingering like a fart in a public elevator"

[SunSeeker]

This is the best description of Cohn's departure that I have read:

Gary Cohn sacrificed his reputation and dignity to get tax cuts for his rich friends. Tariffs were the straw that broke the camel's back, not Trump's bad behavior or his defense of racists.
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Cohn's departure from his role as Donald Trump's chief economic advisor, chased from the halls of power by the president's 30-year, broken-record call for tariffs, has all the stuff of martyrdom to it, like the story of Saint Thomas More if he didn't really believe in anything.
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Cohn will not see mankind crucified on a cross of tariffs; Gary Cohn cannot be expected to endure any more.
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Instead, he tendered his resignation, but will supposedly stick around the White House another two weeks, perhaps lingering like a fart in a public elevator, or maybe rattling his bones and chains up and down the halls like the Ghost of Initiatives Past alongside Infrastructure Week and Jared Kushner modernizing the federal government.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/gary-cohn-sacrificed-his-reputation-dignity-get-tax-cuts-his-ncna854511

[gratuitous]

1. Greater love than this hath no man, that he will secure fat tax cuts for himself and his friends

The poor you shall have with you always, and guys like Gary Cohn are here to make sure of it, just in case Jesus got it wrong.