sal mo solomon, glad you're back. >> good to be here. >> you can correct me if i'm wrong, i'm hearing that you're starting to get alittle bit annoyed by the comparisons that people are making to a particular character who has green hair in your book -- >> yeah. >> to another guy who's sort of orange. you wrote the book, why are you getting annoyed by the comparisons? >> that's on purpose. that's the deliberate satirical idea, one of the characters says what's happening in america is the d.c., like comics, it's taking over d.c. >> yeah. spot character of the joker who has very, very white skin and green hair, and he's running for president. that stuff i'm not -- what i'm saying is it's a minor character. it's in the background of the story. the story is about somebody else. and that's just part -- he's like cackling at the edges of the story. >> that doesn't surprise me that anything that is trump-like is going to get -- >> all roads lead to trump. >> please don't say that. please don't say that. >> you could be talking about baseball. and it goes back -- >> i think you're right about