Do you think Barack Obama got a birthday call from Joe Biden? My money's on "yes." I mean, the guys occupied the White House together for two terms. Barry O. has big podcast energy now, so you know he loves to gab given the chance. And president or not, Biden absolutely seems like the kind of guy who calls you up, gives his well wishes, and then traps you in a long conversation about something mundane that happened to him earlier in the week.
But maybe the conversation I'm imagining those two had was not a trap. Maybe Biden did not spend a full 20 minutes recounting the weird new smell in that one corner of the Oval Office. (No, not that one. The other one.) Maybe, instead, it was a strategy session.
"Barry, I've got an idea. I'm gonna wear The Suit," Biden half-whispers, giggling a little.
"Joe, I tell you, you should wear The Suit," Obama responds with a full-throated laugh.
"Not the The Suit, of course. You had to burn that one, right?"
"Sure did!"
"I'll find another tan suit. I'll just wear it. Won't give 'em any warning. I can't wait to see their faces. Oh, and, uh, happy birthday."
Click.
And so today, two days after the 44th president's 60th birthday and just shy of seven years after the Original Incident, Joe Biden strides into the East Room of the White House to deliver the July jobs report wearing it. The Suit. A tan suit. A tan suit! He speaks, and then departs via the South Lawn for Wilmington, Delaware.
The world, of course, is aghast. Various conservative pundits' heads actually explode. Chaos overtakes the streets as the Earth veers off orbit and hurtles into the sun. And Barack Obama and Joe Biden are laughing their asses off the whole damn time, content, at the end, with knowing that they have executed the ultimate troll.
At least, that's what I'd like to believe. But, hey, maybe it's just a damn suit.
