Waiting For Trump

If you are waiting for Donald Trump to become something other than the deluded narcissist that he undoubtedly is and thence to provide actual leadership in the face of a global pandemic, you will wait and do nothing just like the characters in Samuel Beckett's 1955 Theater of the Absurd play.

Waiting for Godot

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishWaiting for God‧ot /ˌweɪtɪŋ fə ˈɡɒdəʊ $ -fər ˈɡɑː-/(1955) a play by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett about two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a third man, Godot, who never comes. The play is a typical example of the Theatre of the Absurd, and people use the phrase ‘waiting for Godot’ to describe a situation where they are waiting for something to happen, but it probably never will.

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Book World: Like Vladimir and Estragon, we wait for our Godot. And wait. And wait.

Steven Levingston, The Washington Post
Published 3:19 am PDT, Saturday, April 4, 2020