Trump’s 2nd Inaugural address, quoted liberally in this episode, is a master class in sustained paranoid surrealism. But while he can run, he can’t hide — from the Earth.

With the global heatwave in its 24th month, with the worldwide storms and floods and wildfires and starvation and wars….Trump is a comedian falling through space. There will be a moment when nature’s apocalypse overwhelms his entertainment, say — three tornadoes hit the White House simultaneously and the Presidential portraits fly away on an atmospheric river out of American air space.