It's been said more than once that the most accurate fictional portrayal of Washington is not The West Wing or House of Cards, but Veep. Maybe that was really true before American politics completely lost its mind. Now the president can be found in Montana, slurring his words as he tried to decry the "anonymous" figure from his White House who penned a New York Times op-ed admitting El Jefe's elevator doesn't go all the way to the top floor. These days, of course, the show is unscripted. Forget Sorkin—it's some combination of WWE Smackdown, The Real Housewives, and Survivor.

As if to remind us of the good old times, though, Son-in-Law-in-Chief Jared Kushner popped up Thursday night with a true Veep-ian gem.

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Hey, it’s Jared. I’m outside. Can someone let me in? ... Jared KUSHNER, the president’s son-in-law ... I’m here for the NAFTA negotiations ... Can someone unlock the door? ... There are reporters out here asking me about the op-ed, & it’s getting awkward. pic.twitter.com/in0FHsTtIr — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 7, 2018

As the Dauphin is currently negotiating a trade deal with Canada to replace NAFTA, it's tempting to see this as just another goofy pooch-screw from an administration of know-nothing incompetents. But it seems just as likely this kind of logistical snafu would've happened under, say, President Obama. Except no one would've known the person representing the U.S. in the negotiations, and there wouldn't be cameras there to capture it.

This is a boilerplate bureaucratic fuck-up transformed into a full-on News Event because the reality TV presidency must be captured in full, at all times. It's always newsworthy. After all, we're always coming off some drama from one of the contestants.

Of course, it's not truly reality TV to the millions of people whose lives have and will be derailed or worse by the malevolent dimwits who joined this administration. Kushner, an encyclopedia-entry example for "nepotism case," deserves only mockery and scorn, and should be shunned from civil society if we ever make it out the other side of his father-in-law's tenure as the world's most powerful man. But we can also giggle at this Mike McClintock-ass moment.

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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