#150 Ah, those madcap Democrats and perverts.

“It is time to update the Government’s design language to be both usable and beautiful,” the man of wealth and taste just said in a (yet another) Executive Order, establishing an America by Design initiative meant to “improve comprehensively the visual presentation and usability of Federal services provided to the public in both digital and physical spaces.” Translated from the original Trumpedegook, this means gilding everything that isn’t nailed, and a few things that are. There will be a national design studio, led apparently by one of the founders of Airbnb. In a surprising move for this administration, the guy went to RISD and actually has a background in art. That should put the fear of god in the Cabinet of Curiosities, where the only qualification has been the lack of qualification. 

Meanwhile, in a curious coincidence on the design front, according to X “The wait is almost over!” for the T1 Phone. That, you will recall, is the TrumpyPhone, made not in America, it was finally admitted, but now touted as made by “American hands” out of, probably, the purest beautiful American gold, or at least the purest beautiful American gold paint. No doubt an eager audience of cutting edge tech bros is champing at the bit to get their tiny MAGA hands on one of these babies so that they can throw away their evil made-in-China iPhones. 

Take that, Tim Cook. All that kowtowing was for nothing.