The Photo

A picture is worth a thousand words? How about a picture that launched a thousand words? Or maybe a million words. Or a dozen rumors?

If you don't know who the two people are in the above photo, check the obits page, because you've been reported dead.

Apparently the photo appears in the latest edition of  Vanity Fair and naturally leads to a story about The Donald, and his former communications director, Hope Hicks, who is now currently an aide to Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the president and his son-in-law. Hope Hicks is a natural beauty, who surely only comes out if her hair is just so.

Is the photo a surveillance photo taken by the gumshoe hired by Melania Trump to get some dirt on her husband, President Trump? Is Hope Hicks gently leading the president toward a room they just rented at a Washington, D.C. motel? Probably not, but there are those who wish it were true, maybe even The Donald himself.

The photo was taken on March 29, 2018, and was taken just after a handshake on what was her last day at the White House as the communications director. Therefore, it is not an example of flouting social distancing rules adopted a year later because of the coronavirus.

The Vanity Fair story is about how Ms. Hicks, despite not holding the title of communications director, is considered to be the architect of the president's rambling presence at the daily coronavirus briefings. Let the president be the president, as if anyone has to give him advice to do that. It is after all the only advice he'd ever take.

Considering how long Ms. Hicks was in the job before the current reincarnation, one has to wonder what the future holds for her after this White House stint is over, however long it lasts.

Model, weather girl, newscaster are all jobs that would seem to be ones she's already vaulted past by now. But how about author?

Anyone who works at the White House, for any administration, is certainly a prime candidate to write a book about their experiences, and perhaps dish a little. Certainly after this term, or the next, Ms. Hicks's photo could be seen gracing the dust jacket (certainly the front) of a book of yet-to-be-determined length, launched by her photo.

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