So, I just read that piece in the Times about Trump and his butler.
nytimes.com
My first thought was, “When was the last time a presidential candidate in the USA had a butler?”
Reaching the end of the article, my thought was, “I think I read about these kind of people in The Great Gatsby, or maybe the Forsythe Saga.” The bits about Trump Sr. telling a staff member to crawl on the gravel to find a penny — “his eyes were incredible!” — and Trump Jr. handing $100 bills to the Hispanic groundskeepers — “they love him.” — were just so over-the-top rich-people behavior that they sounded like fiction. But they aren’t. I have no doubt that Trump acts every bit like the rich, selfish aristocrats depicted in British novels and in Gatsby.
Alouette is right, Trump is the new Sun King.