A brief, fitting letter to The LA Times regarding djt's vanity projects [View all]

[allegorical oracle]

To the Editor:

"Columnist Jackie Calmes nails it ('As we approach July 4, the capital is, fittingly, a mess,' June 4). This piece reminded me of the 'Great Gatsby' party some months ago, where the president entertained guests amid giant martini glasses brimming with scantily clad women. But here’s what F. Scott Fitzgerald had to say about these sorts of gatherings and people:

'They were careless people … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.'

Thanks to your columnist for ringing this bell."