Before we touch on the amazing Pritzker the Fool and his twin Brandon the Fool, can we please mention the original fool, Gimpel?

Gimpel the Fool was his name in the short story by the superb Isaac Bashevis Singer. Gimpel was a simple bread maker in the village of Frampol.

Yet Gimpel was not so much of a fool as to think he’d become president of the United States by thwarting his country’s immigration laws against the wishes of the people, who don’t like illegal migrants crossing illegally into their country, and then demanding benefits from taxpayers.

Gimpel was the butt of many jokes in Frampol, cuckolded as he was by the shrew he married, the deceitful and manipulative Elka who was unfaithful with half the village. But as Gimpel himself says in Singer’s story, he was more than content in his foolish state. He lived in fantasy: