esquire.com – First of all, lay off the set decoration.

It was a perfectly lovely, multicolored pile of trash in front of which He, Trump gave his latest big-boy Teleprompter economics speech on Tuesday afternoon. On the television, it gave his preposterous Creamsicle ‘do a grayish tint, indicating gravitas, or at least very bad lighting. And, to be entirely fair, given the various policy papers that have rolled out of the Speaker’s office over the past couple of weeks, if there was any prominent Republican who should have been standing in front of a mountain of recycled garbage, it was Paul Ryan.