The golden age our president promised us has arrived.

Never in the long history of our country have we seen a period of such innovation, boldness, and growth in any area of our economic, social, or political lives.

Today, Trump’s name will take its place alongside others that history will never forget.

It is an achievement that is almost impossible to comprehend. That is due in part to the fact that what is now happening was supposed to be impossible. Obstacle after obstacle stood in the way. For centuries, other men have sought to achieve what Trump has accomplished—and yet, he has outshone them all.

Indeed, I am reminded of the famous Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, in which he tells an apocryphal tale he asserts occurred when he was a young boy.

Cellini, a famed Renaissance-era goldsmith and sculptor, wrote that he witnessed a small lizard run into his family’s hearth, directly into the fire, and then emerge unscathed. Immediately afterward, his father slapped him across the face and explained that he did so so his son would always remember what he had just seen.

Consider yourself slapped across the face.

Consider that your country has run into the fire. Thanks to Trump, however, it seems unlikely it will emerge unscathed. Indeed, it is unclear whether it will survive the ordeal at all.

No work of Cellini or any other artist or craftsman matches the genius of what Trump is achieving in the area of his greatest gifts.

When it comes to corruption, Donald Trump is Michelangelo and da Vinci plus Bach and Mozart combined. He is a genius. He is creative in ways that make past generations of American grifters, robber barons, and mafia bosses seem like pikers.

Day in and day out, he has been robbing our country blind, in plain sight, and in ways no one else would dare to attempt.

Indeed, it is fair to suggest that if you took every other corrupt figure who stole from our public coffers from the first days of........

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