Saturday, October 5, 2024

Carl Hiaasen's "Potussies" spring from the pages of fiction into real life

 
Photo and headline New York Times, 9/30/2024
“Those beautiful ladies from North Carolina are here again without their husbands,” Mr. Trump observed at a rally in Mosinee, Wis., on Sept. 9, veering off from a rant about the 2020 election. He gestured toward the rafters and a row of a dozen impeccably coifed women in brightly colored pantsuits, as if they had wandered in from an Easter gala. 
The women waved and blew kisses at the former president, who speculated that the women had attended “249 or something” rallies. “That means they have money,” he said approvingly.

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Hiaasen said he based the character of Mastodon on President Donald Trump. 
When he is at his Palm Beach residence, Casa Bellicosa, which Hiaasen said was inspired by Mar-a-Lago, Mastodon spends his time tweeting, baking on his state-of-the-art tanning bed, and being worshipped by a group of elderly society dames known as The Potussies.

Excerpt from Amazon Book Review
Squeeze Me is the story of a bumbling President (code name Mastodon), a philandering First Lady, Burmese pythons, a group of Palm Beach socialites/presidential groupies who call themselves the POTUSSIES, and a wildlife wrangler named Angie Armstrong. After a founding member of the POTUSSIES is found dead (and during charity ball season, no less!), the President attributes her murder to the "rampaging immigrant hordes," but the real culprit is something else entirely.

Robert, Michael, were you unaware?


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