Enter John Mulaney. He is assiduously non-political — right up until the moment that he isn’t. And then he embarks on a metaphor for the Trump presidency that has been hailed by many as genius: "Here's how I try to look at it, and this is just me, this guy being the president, it’s like there's a horse loose in a hospital ..."
The aesthetic connection between Donald Trump’s golden coiff and a horse’s mane is, of course, immediately pleasing. As is the invocation of something heedless thundering through a finely tuned environment.
There’s the added benefit that Trump’s name is not mentioned once, and yet the entire simile works. The question is ... why? It's art!
