Creature From the Green Lagoon

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington

A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence.

That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them.

That essence is slimy, stinky and unrelenting, as reflected in the mass of algae that infests the Reflecting Pool in........

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