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NaNoWriMo 2017: Master President

INT. WHITE HOUSE PRESS ROOM If it were possible to cram any more guys with cameras and mics in here, it'd be done already. Reporters are pushed all the way to the base of the dias boldly marked wityh the seal of the President of the United States. Carefully sculpted around the edges are leaping, twisted flames, in crazed orange and alizeron crimson. A tiny man with an old-school trilby sporting a CNN press-card in the band (MARVIN EKTO) elbows his way to the front. MARVIN EKTO Coming through, coming through! Step off, peon! My spot, my spot! Throughout the room similar displays are underway. Fox News correspondant VERNARD GUILE works his way off to the right where the way is clearer. MSNBC's CLINT ETCH, virtually Marvin's twin down to the trilby (except Clint's is a deeper blue) tries muscling up in Marvin's wake, but only makes it to the second row. Stealthily, making as few ripples as possible, reporters from a host of other outl