Peg Round, Hole Square: Perfect Fit! [UPDATED]

peg round, hole round: doesn't fit at all

An important op-ed piece in the Washington Post compares the president’s denial of illness to the cultural habits of Soviet politics:

After Brezhnev’s death by heart attack in 1982 at age 75, Yuri Andropov spent 15 months in office before dying of kidney failure in 1984 at 69. His replacement was Konstantin Chernenko, who was already seriously ill when he took over at age 72. Both leaders, like Brezhnev, hid the reality of their condition from the public. In February 1985, Chernenko was shown on television receiving the results of elections to the Supreme Soviet in a peach-colored office that was in fact the disguised foyer of his hospital room. Party officials congratulated him on claiming victory with 100 percent of the vote; the ill leader, laboring to breathe, read a short speech praising the country for successfully fulfilling all of its plans. A month later, in March 1985, he died of a combination of severe emphysema, congestive heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver.

One catch, though: ORANGE MAN. The Washington Post was warning in October of 2020 that Donald Trump was intolerably concealing his health problems from the public.

“This trend has a disturbing parallel with America’s contemporary predicament and Trump’s efforts to conceal his battle with covid-19.”

The piece also warns that “Trump has refused to wear a mask,” which is just like being Konstantin Chernenko.

Anyway, let the record show that the Washington Post won’t allow the President of the United States to conceal his health problems without speaking up about it.

UPDATE:

The Washington Post, today: