Look, there's nothing about the disaster the Trump presidency is shaping up to be that we could not avert with a little bit of American ingenuity. Okay, Russian ingenuity, which is only appropriate, given that they got us into this mess.
Trump has this obvious need to live in his own world of alternate facts. The rest of us are somewhat inconvenienced by this preference of his, since he is now the most powerful person in the dull and boring world of the real facts that the rest of us live in. But this is far from an irresolvable impasse of conflicting needs. We could meet all our needs if we just manage the alternate universe better for Trump, by making it more impervious to the real world.
The idea is to come up with a schedule of activities for Trump to keep him busy in the WH, or Trump Tower even better, that we make seem enough like the real world that Trump accepts appearances for reality and quits trying to actually mess with the real world. That might be a tough job if it were anyone else who needed to be taken in, but Trump is amazingly incurious about the real world, so we have a leg up.
It would mainly be the task of managing his media-mediated contact with the real world, because he's already halfway to being a Howard Hughes end-stage recluse. Now, it is true that 30, even 20 years ago, you could not broadcast obviously fake news 24/7 and not be laughed off the airwaves, so I think that we all owe a huge debt of gratitude to Fox News for blazing the trail, for showing that it can be done, because we might have quailed at the prospect had we lacked the example of their success. But I'm afraid that even Fox is too stuck in the dreer of mere reality to keep Trump happy. Fox, and CNN, and whatever media Trump is used to viewing (I'm assuming he's long past reading past 125 characters, and they have to be characters he himself has typed if they are to keep his interest) will simply have to be seized by the govt under eminent domain. I think we're lucky to have the services of the Onion organization to take over content creation of this media empire, because the Onion should basically take a four year sabbatical right now because their stories just write themselves since Trump took over. Mere stenography of govt pronouncements is now Onion-grade material, little to no editing required. So let's cut out the middle man, and just let the Onion write the govt pronouncements and the media input that gets Trump make them.
But in addition to media input, Trump will expect contact with foreign leaders, Congressional leaders and members of his administration. Sadly, most of these people are rather bad actors, even if they could be persuaded to join in. But that's where media control helps us out. We just have the Onion media get rid of the undesirables, people who can't or won't play their roles, by writing them off the show. They can be killed off, or fall from power due to a revolution prompted by their insufficient respect for Trump, whatever. We replace them with characters both sufficiently cartoonish to keep Trump happy as heroes or villains in his alternate reality, and who are acted by people who know that craft. It is true that the Marvel Universe, unlike the Onion, is a successful ongoing franchise that does not face the disaster the Onion faces of being outdone by reality. But they too must be taken over by the govt and repurposed to this great and necessary work. Only Stan Lee can save us right now. We'll even let him cameo as whatever hero or villain in this universe he wants to be.
Yes, there is the question of output, in the sense that Trump still perhaps retains some capacity to register the passage of time and will expect the cause of his pronouncements to create effects he can see in his media feed and responses from world and US leaders. We would have to get a hold of Twitter, obviously, and create a Twitter sub-universe in which his little tweets generate only the desired responses, on Twitter and in the fake media and alternate political universe. Lots of continuity editors required, but still doable even if Trump remains sharp about some details.
Letting Trump do his alternate thing in his alternate universe will free up the real world to go about its business without these little shocks, and God knows what worse will follow if we fail to get ahead of this problem and instead let Trump continue to act in the non-alternate world. Everyone will be better off. Trump will be happy in his alternate universe. The Rs get to push Pence around. The Ds get to try to push Pence around. The politically engaged public gets to either have a good laugh at the show, which will be put out for public consumption, even if unedited Twitter response aren't allowed back at Trump, or they get to pretend that the Trumpverse on display is the real thing. No public policy issue is ever settled, no real drama, just back to our usual routine of domestic non-tranquility. It may be fantasy-based, but at least it's lack of drama keeps it renewable season after season. It's got that over letting Trump intrude into it unedited, since the Trump Show seems headed to a very non-alternate universe crack-up that won't even be delayed until the season-ender.