This president: I have at times been asked why I do not mention the American president by name in these jottings. My reply can be found in the words of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who when speaking of the 2019 mass murders in Christchurch pointedly refused to speak the name of the alleged assailant in public. She would not give him the privilege of having his name uttered, since a name is of itself an affirmation of a kind. Hers was a rare and noble approach. I, in turn, do not speak the name of this man, this president, this monarch, this vigilante, this strongman, this misunderstood patriot — pick your poison — because I find him very literally unmentionable in the Jacinda Ardern vein. I wish to confer no legitimacy. It is my very personal way of imposing needed ostracism. And I will not relent.