DONARUDO
WEEK 025 / 073 — The Decree of December Seventh
 Chapter 3 — The Front-Runner · Dec 1 – Dec 7, 2015
Night highway into a low California city, police cruisers with flaring light bars, a helicopter searchlight cutting the dark, faceless crowds behind barrier tape, heavy ink shadows, smoke-choked halftone sky.
December 2nd, 2015. Gunfire in San Bernardino. Fourteen fall. The war changes shape again.
California shooting looks very bad. Good luck to law enforcement and God bless. This is when our police are so appreciated!DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
Dark tower office lit by a wall of television screens; on every screen a slim dignified man, graying close-cropped hair, calm bearing, speaks from behind a desk; a heavyset silhouette watches from shadow, long necktie catching the glow.
December 6th. The departing king speaks to the nation from his desk. In the tower, judgment waits.
“BIG NIGHT ON TWITTER TONIGHT. I WILL BE LIVE TWEETING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECH AT 7:50 P.M. ( EASTERN). MUST TALK RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM!”
DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
Extreme close-up of thumbs hovering over a glowing phone screen in total darkness, harsh light carving deep chiaroscuro across the knuckles, screentone glare, speed lines radiating from the screen like a weapon being drawn.
“Is that all there is? We need a new President - FAST!”
DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
Low angle shot of an imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner, mane haloed by harsh light, jabbing a finger forward, jagged speed lines.
“Well, Obama refused to say (he just can't say it), that we are at WAR with RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.”
DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
Imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner, reading a paper at a podium on the floodlit deck of a giant warship at night, vast halftone crowd below.
December 7th. Seventy-four years after Pearl Harbor, on the deck of a warship, he unseals his most terrible decree. The whole world turns to face him.
Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration:DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

Gunfire in San Bernardino drags the campaign onto a darker battlefield, and when the departing king answers the nation from his desk, DONARUDO live-tweets his verdict in real time: not enough, never enough. He names the enemy the king will not name, in capital letters. Then, on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, from the deck of a warship, he reads aloud the decree that will make the whole world his audience.