Commentary: Will someone please get Donald Trump a paint set?

Since the beginning of 2017 right up until the end, much of what I read, listened to, or learned had to pass through the filter of Donald Trump. He has been the elephant in my mental house. I really don’t want him there, but he’s been impossible to ignore. Everything is overshadowed by his size, his noise, his rants. It happened just now when I was reading what is probably the least political thing I’ve read in a long time, Elizabeth Gilbert’s sublime book about creativit