

Of course, moderation is best in all things. When I read news reports about Joe Biden’s White House I feel pleased that America is making healthier choices - but there’s also an unnerving, dull quality, like I’ve just ditched my 12-soda-a-day habit and I’m trying to convince myself that tap water will be fine, thanks. Now we’ve come crashing back to a world of tan suits and exactly seven almonds.

Someday I’ll scare my great-grandchildren when they inquire about my dessert preferences and I blurt out, “PRESIDENT GETS 2 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM, EVERYONE ELSE 1!” These images - at once unsurprising and completely unfathomable - will be etched in my mind forever. “ Executive time.” Well-done steak with ketchup.

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Imagesĭonald Trump is a man so bizarre that reports about his behavior inside the White House instantly took on a mythic quality. Then-Vice-President Joe Biden is photographed in the Oval Office in 2014, thinking about all the rad stuff he’d do if he were president.
