On January 10, 2025, Judge Juan Merchan, unable to send Donald Trump to prison, wished him “Godspeed” as he resumed his presidency on the day when 12,000 California homes burned to the ground. Reelected by voters who voted for him like a kid putting a rabbit’s foot in their pocket they probably missed his threat, the month before his election, to deny California water the next time fire struck the state. I will never again contaminate snow by putting his image in my front yard. If I’d built one this winter it might have looked like this.