Ella Gale, “Trump Shows off His Own Circle of Hell” (2019)
McSweeney’s

Ella Gale, “Trump Shows off His Own Circle of Hell” (2019)

“I’m the first guy to get a whole circle, it’s terrific. They evicted the Kennedys to put it in. Nobody, and I mean nobody else got this much abyss. Moody Judy Iscariot lives in a studio apartment in Satan’s mouth. Sad! Welcome to Mar-a-Lava.

Look at my pit. I have the deepest pit with the sharpest knives. These other guys, they have shallow fork holes, it’s pathetic. You should have seen how many demons came to my desecration. Packed like sardines. The noise was incredible. Biggest horde ever. They all wanted a piece of me. Good thing the pieces grew back. Very powerful agony!”    —McSweeney’s (September 20, 2019)

Sighting Citation:

“Ella Gale, “Trump Shows off His Own Circle of Hell” (2019).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. September 2, 2020. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/ella-gale-trump-shows-off-his-own-circle-of-hell-2019/.