The Corrupt Tao of Trump (in seconds)

His golfing is but a metaphor within the allegory of his shadowy cave of corruption.

The metaphor within the metaphor inside the allegory is described by the video's narrator, Australian sports commentator James Dampney, in his column:

"You see two caddies or on-course officials in red vests walking ahead.... One of them slows down before bending over and rather sheepishly dropping a ball onto the first cut of rough, a few feet short of a bunker and clear of the much thicker rough on the Scottish layout."

And so it has always been, in conformity with his inner corruption. Unfailingly someone has been there, at Trump's any-cost side, assuring, as it must, that only ethical rot shall carry the day — accountants cooking books, lawyers rigging injustice, politicos cowering and caddies cheating.

Mass enablement has for Trump avoided troublesome bunkers ahead and steered him clear of life's thicker roughs – those which others of conscience traverse not happily but freely, for that's what human decency does.

From the failure of true glory, as Byron noted, wealth, vice, corruption. And barbarism at last — say, Trump's ramrodding the ugly brutality of big beautiful bills. But let's not wander farther into the underearth cavern housing each of his depravities. Infinity has no exit.

Yet also at last, eternal seconds on tape — a perfect portrait of Trump as Dorian Gray.

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