J. D. Vance always sounds like the Grinch talking to Cindy Loo Who about how he has to take the tree up to his workshop to fix that one light.

My son's great disappointment in learning that the tooth fairy wasn't real (spoilers!) was grounded in the idea that money wasn't coming into the household, but was just being shuffled around the family. Trump hasn't yet reached the complexity of thinking of a 4 year old.