Much commentary has been spent on the decision of Ukrainian comedian-turned-"president” Zelenskyy, on the advice of his British handlers, to wear a suit for his appearance at the White House last Monday, Aug. 18, accompanied by the seven European dwarves. What came to the mind of one astute observer, however, upon seeing the nodding and idiotically grinning Ze in the Oval Office, in his strange suit jacket, was Shakespeare’s Malvolio in Twelfth Night:
She did commend my yellow stockings of
late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;
and in this she manifests herself to my love, and
with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will
be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and
cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting
on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a
