2 May—Here’s a very easy multiple-choice test about the picture below, which was taken just the other day in the Cabinet Room of the White House. It certainly can’t be of a presidential cabinet meeting, even of Trump’s Second Cabinet of Unqualified Misfits. So what can be going on in the photo? The baseball caps on the table emblazoned with “GULF OF AMERICA” on the front (and “47” on one side, an American flag on the other) may or may not be a clue. So study the picture carefully before answering.

_____ A council of clowns
_____ A conclave of monarchists
_____ A daisy chain of loyalist flunkies
_____ A powwow of opportunist hangers-on
_____ A Trump marketing op
_____ All of the above
_____ All of the above and then some

For extra credit, answer this: Can you believe it?

Don’t worry if you couldn’t complete the test. In the spirit of Connecticut public education, you passed anyway . . .