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The Mystery of the Republican Stone Faces
There is a deepening medical mystery surrounding the Trump administration and key members of his party, and it is one that has failed to gain the appropriate attention.
After having watched all of Trump’s various defenders and spokespeople for four years, I am left with a burning question. I am not sure what exactly is going on, but as a retired elementary school teacher with no medical training, I strongly suspect some type of contagious neurological disease has been making its way through Trump world.
I have this theory because there is obviously something wrong with the facial muscles of everyone who speaks in defense of the President.
Take the truly beautiful Kaleigh McEnany, for instance. Today I saw her on the news. She was asked by a reporter why her boss refuses to support the use of face masks. She said this,
“President Trump has always supported wearing masks.”
And she did not laugh. She did not smile. Or smirk. Or wink. Her face remained perfectly frozen. She kept her straight face. It was eerie.
Then there is Mark Meadows, POTUS’s current Chief of Staff. Trump has been accused of being almost functionally illiterate by a whole host of people who know him well. They say his intelligence briefings have to be full of pictures, or he…
