What It Takes

Always be closing

[The Throne Room at Mar-a-Lago. The Throne platform has been lowered considerably from where it was in previous episodes – just about six steps up, and the staircase is now a mini-escalator, not turned on at present. TRUMP is seated on the throne in his usual suit; his flunkies PINSY and DIBS are seated on the Supplicant’s Bench. DIBS is working some kind of control panel. All watch Secretary of Homeland Security KRISTI NOEM, who is wearing a bikini and riding a mechanical bull on easy mode. She smiles broadly and waves one arm in the air, holding the cowboy hat she wore on Meet the Press. There is no music. After about 20 seconds the bull slows and stops. NOEM blows out air, laughs nervously.]

NOEM: [Half-heartedly] Whoo! [To TRUMP] Sir, can I get down now?

TRUMP: [After a moment] OK.

[NOEM climbs down. She stands in front of TRUMP.]

NOEM: How was that?

[NOEM looks around.]

Can someone get me a towel?

TRUMP: We got someone here you should meet.

NOEM: It’s not Corey, is it?

TRUMP: [Looking off] Bring her in.

[STEPHEN MILLER, in his usual modified SS uniform, enters; on his arm is INGA GOEBBELS, the Teutonic chanteuse from “Swiftboating.” She is now dressed in a dirndl like a serving girl at Oktoberfest, has her blond hair in braids, and seems to have had some cosmetic work done that accentuates her resemblance to Brigitte Nielsen ca. Red Sonja.]