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For all his talk about cards, Trump is a remarkably bad player. Not that he'd improve if anyone dared to try giving him tips.

Where I see him and his appointees is not at a poker table. Instead, they're incarnated as Harry Lime in the Ferris wheel sequence from _The Third Man_, looking down at the people below, calling them "dots," and wondering how much money there'll be for each dot that stops moving. No one in the administration has Orson Welles's flair, and that's a lonely stroke of luck.

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