Philip Roth, the author, died this week. His themes were of the Jewish-American experience. His friends thought of him as a gifted comedian. He once described his mother, a housekeeper of the old school, as one "who raised cleaning to an art form." But before he left us he offered his takedown of our celebrity apprentice in the Oval Office. He uses phrases such as "humanly impoverished" - "callow and callous killer capitalist." "Trump is ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art - incapable of recognizing subtlety or nuance - destitute of all decency and wielding a vocabulary of 77 words that is better called Jerkish than English." A man of words - we shall not hear from him again.
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