Donald Trump has asked to be allowed to live at Mar-A-Lago permanently, claiming he is an employee and therefore eligible for an exemption prohibiting members of the club from living there fulltime.
Lights up on the Human Resources office of the Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach Florida. Seated at her desk is MARLA, the HR Manager. She is reading through a file, then uses the intercom to buzz her secretary.
MARLA: June, is the next candidate for the open position still waiting?
JUNE: (over the intercom) Yes, he’s still here. I think he’s getting a little jumpy.
MARLA: OK tell him to come in, but June (sotto voce) make sure to buzz me in a few minutes, you know the drill.
JUNE: (over the intercom) Got it Ms. Marple.
DONALD TRUMP enters from the waiting room.
MARLA: Welcome, please have a seat.
DONALD: Any seat? Can I sit where I want?
MARLA: Take your pick.
DONALD looks around sees there is only one other chair, considers it, then carefully sits down.
MARLA: (looking at the file) Now Donald, may I call you Don?
DONALD: I prefer the 45th president.
MARLA: OK, Don, my name is Marla Marple and I’m head of HR here at Mar-A-Lago. I understand you are applying for a position with the club, but it doesn’t say exactly which position.
DONALD: I’ll take anything.
MARLA: (smiling wearily) Yes, well, as you may guess, many people want to work here…
DONALD: I’m totally legal. I have a birth certificate to prove I was born in the USA. Just like that Springstern song says.
MARLA: OK, that’s helpful, but I mean most people who want to work here have a specific job they are applying for. Your application just says “anything where I get to live here and you won’t send me back to New York”.
DONALD: Yes, I can’t go back there.
MARLA: And that’s because?
DONALD: Tax reasons.
MARLA: You owe back taxes?
DONALD: Suuuurrrree.
DONALD looks to see what kind of reaction that gets from MARLA. Her face is noncommittal.
DONALD: I had some problems with my past returns, they were always getting audited, I’d show them to you but you know they are still under audit, but they are perfectly fine, nothing wrong with them, it was a perfect call…
MARLA: What call?
DONALD: Um, what?
MARLA: What call are you talking about?
DONALD: No call, nothing, fake news.
MARLA: All right then. I see here on your application you spent the last four years in Washington D.C., is that correct?
DONALD: I drained the swamp.
MARLA: So you were a plumber?
DONALD sees an in with MARLA
DONALD: I was the best plumber. The bigleyest.
MARLA: I’m sorry, you were what?
DONALD: The bigleyest. You know, better than the best.
MARLA: Oh, okay, bigleyest. Well, sure
DONALD: You know Miss Marple…
MARLA: It’s Ms. Marple.
DONALD: Whatever. Marla Marple. I used to be married to someone with a name very similar to yours.
MARLA: So you’re divorced?
DONALD: No, I’m still married. At least for the moment.
MARLA: To Marla?
DONALD: No, Melania.
MARLA: Marla sounds like Melania?
DONALD: No Melania sounds like, um, Melania. Marla is my former wife.
MARLA: Ah, a first marriage.
DONALD: No a second.
MARLA: Right, Melania is your second marriage.
DONALD: No, Melania is my third marriage.
MARLA: Who was your first marriage?
DONALD: Ivana.
MARLA: So Ivana was on first, Marla was on second, and Melania is on third. Any children?
DONALD: Ivanka.
MARLA: Is that a son or a daughter?
DONALD: A daughter of course. If it was a son it would be Donka.
MARLA: OK, any other children?
DONALD: With Ivana there was also Don Jr. and, um, the slow one. Then with Marla there was Tiffany, we named her after..
MARLA: The singer?
DONALD: No, where she was conceived. And with Melania there’s Barron.
MARLA: Your son is a baron?
DONALD leans in to MARLA
DONALD: And one day he’ll be king.
MARLA: OK, so may I ask, why did you leave your last position?
DONALD: I didn’t leave it, I’m still there, it’s still my job, I’m not a loser.
MARLA: You still have this other job?
DONALD: I won that job in a landslide, everybody knows it. A landslide! Vlad said it would be no problem, just like when I won the first time. But then they had to go and let everyone vote by mail and Vlad said just get someone to screw up the mail system but even that didn’t work so I made a few phone calls, perfect phone calls…
MARLA: Oh the phone call you mentioned earlier?
DONALD: No this was another call, but just as perfect. Except he recorded it…by the way, if I get this job I don’t have to go to Georgia, do I?
MARLA: Georgia? No, we need someone to be the night super, I can’t see us needing to send the night super to Georgia.
DONALD: Good, can’t go there right now.
MARLA: Another tax problem?
DONALD: Suuuurrrreee.
MARLA: OK, well let me explain, the night super job requires you be up late at night, you probably won’t have to do much but you need to be awake and alert throughout the night. Do you think you can handle doing that?
DONALD inhales deeply through his nose.
DONALD: Yes, I don’t think that will be a problem.
The intercom buzzes.
JANE: (over the intercom) Ms. Marple your two o’clock is here.
MARLA: Well thank you for coming in Don. I’ve got one more applicant to see and we’ll let you know.
DONALD: Another applicant? It’s not Joe is it? I’m not losing another job to Joe.
MARLA: Actually it’s a woman applicant I’ve got next.
DONALD: Hillary!!
BLACKOUT
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