No. 226: KATHY GRIFFIN / Her bread and butter was mocking her status as a D-list celebrity. We hung out in the aftermath of Trump's siccing the Department of Justice et al on her.

The comedian had a work ethic that was less try-try-again & more a Nietzschean what-doesn't-kill me. That was put to the ultimate test when the President used his powers to make her life miserable.

FIRST, there was an assassination attempt at a presidential campaign rally in July, which led to two deaths, a spectator’s and the perpetrator. Then this month the Secret Service nabbed a guy with no fixed address who was lying in wait to gun down the same candidate—either that or he had taken the worst possible time in the worst possible place to go camping and hunting some sub-tropical game.

Much has been rightfully made of Donald Trump’s vows to sic the Department of Justice on all but his most ardent fans. In his most eloquent, scripted moment, he eggs on his base supporters by promising to be “your retribution.” They buy this bullshit rationalization though the payback would be his alone.