Saul Fox, mad Trumpian, has now tried to explain (see this post for background) the movements of two ancient, priceless, Israel-owned ceramic oil lamps. So let’s see.

Fox used his pull as a major donor to the Israeli antiquities authority to get the Israelis to send said lamps to the States, for use in a Trump-era White House Hanukah party.

So far nothing seems amiss.

But then we’re told the State Department vetoed the use of the lamps in the party. Does that make sense to you? I mean does it make sense that the big ol’ American State Department busied itself with the question of whether these lamps would be an appropriate addition to a holiday party? Or that “paperwork” on the lamps took so long for State to process that they overshot the party’s date?

So that’s the first part of this fakakte story what listen I swear to God keeps getting more by the day fakakte.

When the lamps were [eventually] released from State Department custody, Fox [says he] sent a courier to retrieve them and bring them back to his California home, where he locked them up and “sort of forgot about it” right as the pandemic hit and travel slowed to a stop …

First of all, Israel made clear to Fox it wanted them back right away, which okay. Of course Israel wants its priceless antiquities back that they didn’t even get used in the party for God’s sake. But Saul here decides to take them home and then – since they were nothing important, just priceless antiquities that belonged to another country – forgot about them. Plus we all know air traffic entirely ended for the duration of covid.

Are you on board with Saul’s rendering of events?

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So couple years later he’s invited to a Mar-A-Lago party, Trump having been thrown out of the White House. Saul brings the lamps that what he forgot all about with him, to show his beloved in a little ceremony in his office at the resort. Look at these precious lamps, Don!

In place of the awe Saul must have expected from our most cultured president, there was RAGE!

Trump … responded with a passionate outcry, according to Fox, who said the former president slammed his hand on his desk.

“Well, how come I only got 25% of the Jewish vote?” Fox recalled Trump saying. 

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Trump holds onto boxes and boxes of state secrets; his loyal retainer holds onto precious Israeli artifacts. Is anal retentiveness a heretofore overlooked constituent of Trumpianism? Can this behavior help us understand the phenomenon?