I kinda knew that was a bit of a reach. OK, not to be too pedantic:

There’s an idiom (in English), “you don’t want to know how the sausage is made,” being an oblique reference to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle,” a contemporaneous novel about the American meat packing industry in the early 1900s. Ostensibly a call to socialism, the fallout was the foundation of the USDA, a regulatory body over farm+to-market processing of meat and dairy. Everyone but the meat packers won with that.

Playing off that, there’s a character in Terry Pratchett’s Disc world series, one C.M.O.T. Dibbler, an avowed Saleman. His schtick is to “sell the sizzle,” with further subtle textual references to Mr. Sinclair’s works and a damning view of capitalism and sausage-stuffng.

Thus, we have Trump. Grifter extrordinaire, shameless self-promoter, malignant narcissist, and a putz never to be voted for, now an achievéd of the highest office in possibly the most influential nation of the 20th century. Galling, to be sure, but here we are.

Edit: again, thumbs