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From Mary Trump: On Thursday, Donald hosted outdoor industry executives at the White House Rose Garden, also known as the new White House parking lot, and signed executive orders aimed at expanding hunting and fishing access because we don’t have enough of that. Among the guests was, unsurprisingly, Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris. Naturally, Donald used the occasion to remind us what exactly happens when we give almost unlimited power to a venal, deeply insecure, pathetic child. Donald: I’m doing another Biden disaster. That means you can sell a lot of fishing rods, Johnny. You’re going to sell a lot of rods. I could have made it so you couldn’t sell. You couldn’t sell anything. I could have banned fishing. I’ll tell you what, the power of this office is crazy. I could have banned fishing and driven Johnny right the hell out of business. Okay? I think I’m going to do that. Maybe just a quick audit just for a day or two till he calls me and he says, Please, president, please. You’re putting me out of business, sir. Well, to be fair, there is something crazy about all of that. Mostly, perhaps, that Donald actually would do that because he’s insane. And I don’t know about you, but I think it’s absolutely hysterical to joke about bankrupting an entire industry and everybody who works in it just to play a joke on an obscenely wealthy friend of yours.