As a writer, perhaps the most vexing task is naming characters. You’d like it to mean something for the larger plot but not be too ridiculous or on the nose. The writers of America: The Reality Show, are, in my opinion, lazy. They don’t even try to hide it.
Look at the cast of characters and the etymology behind them.
Trump is a trick card in bridge. He’s spent his whole life tricking people.
Pence is a plural form of penny. The VP is about as useless as a bag of pennies.
DeVos is a Dutch surname which means ‘the fox’. Betsy Devos is in charge of the education henhouse.
A bolton is an extra part that is fastened on to a machine with a bolt – an add on. They added Bolton as national security advisor to turn up the heat on Iran.
Mnuchin means rest. The Secretary of the Treasury sits on the President’ tax returns. His act of doing nothing, resting, violates the constitution.
Flynn comes from Gaelic and means reddish. The President’s National Security Advisor got indicted for lying about meetings with Russians, reds.
Kushner means furrier. Furriers strip the valuable pelts off animals, leaving the carcass to rot, which is kind of like stripping off U.S. policy, intelligence, technology and selling it for parts to foreign despots.
Pecker means penis. David Pecker made a living off other men’s penises as the head of AMI and its flagship publication the National Enquirer. He’s also, apparently, a dick.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a three fer. Sarah, a biblical name, means princess. Huckabee is a place name from Old English meaning crooked river. Sanders derives from Alexander which means defender of men. Could there be a better name for somebody who lies like a river to protect crooked men?
Bernhardt is too blindingly obvious. Just say it: burn hard. David Bernhardt, our Secretary of the Interior and former coal lobbyist, speeds up the burning of our planet.
Conway doesn’t need much explanation as Kelly Ann has been conning her way through life.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the writers of America The Reality Show replace Trump’s legal team with Dewey, Cheatam & Howe or hire Will Kriegverlieren as his next Secretary of Defense. The writers of our show are not mystery writers, they’re dramatists crafting a morality tale with plenty of foreshadowing.
We, the audience, trained by decades of film and television, are expecting the twist or reveal. The only reveal will be that the truth has been staring us in the face the entire time. Why else would they have named a character Reality Winner and thrown her in jail for leaking to the American public that the 2016 election was hacked?
Wes Clark Jr. 
Spot on
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