Washington has become Nero' court

 

Jeffrey St. ClaIR>>

The French politician Claude Malhuret unloaded on the Trump administration this week: “Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.”

+ This is an insult to Nero, who wasn’t a war-monger, but a poet, a musician (and not only as a fiddler while Rome burned), an actor of Greek tragedies who spoke two languages and always kept his lions well fed. Nero presided over numerous infrastructure weeks and instigated one of the largest public works projects in the history of Rome, after the Christians (there’s plenty of evidence to suggest it) set fire to merchant shops near the Circus Maximus and the great conflagration quickly spread across the insula (blocks of shoody wooden apartment buildings) and up the Palatine and Caelian hills, leaving 70 percent of the city in ruins