Among Thieves

Archaeological treasures sent by Israel to the USA during the Trumpster presidency have vanished into the black hole that is the great man's private toilet-paper library in Florida. The ancient artefacts were not even used for their intended purpose of augmenting a White House event, after concerns emerged that they had been acquired in accordance with British Museum values (looted, in Standard English) from occupied Palestine. Their return was delayed by the pandemic, and after that they somehow ended up as house-guests of the Trumpster and his head-tribble. Much as the ancient Philistines were occasionally pressed into ill-paid service as instruments of the divine wrath against the wayward Hebrews, so it seems the Trumpster been suffered to perform a similar chastisement upon the Righteous State. It remains as yet unclear whether the epitome of present-day philistinism will receive a suitably Biblical reward.