The president is actively flaming out on the internet; Sean Spicer is hiding in the fucking bushes waiting for people to leave him alone; Kellyanne Conway and the rest of the Trump administration’s band of trained, dancing bears is in the frostiest internal ring of hell—cable news—defending the Comey firing to pundits and broadcasters. Who else is there?
Well, there’s good old bear-fearing Betsy DeVos, the education secretary who, in a standard 2017 posture, seeks to destroy the organization she ostensibly leads and plans to do so while smiling ghoulishly and wearing a huge fucking brooch or something. What is she up to? She’s giving a commencement speech at the historically black Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. How did that go?
It did not go well! It particularly did not go well when she mentioned her plans to visit school founder and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune’s gravesite.