The 24-Karat Cult of Personality

Panel 1: Hill hearing room. A giant gleaming 24-karat Trump coin is on a witness stand, sunglasses on, smirking. Democratic lawmakers furiously point at a chart labeled “ILLEGAL FOREIGN MINES,” showing a strip-mined rainforest. The coin shrugs. Panel 2: Outside the Capitol. A MAGA merch stand sells the same Trump coins under a banner: “LIMITED EDITION: BANNED BY THE SWAMP.” Trump, in salesman mode, winks and whispers to the vendor: “Nothing sells like persecution.” In the background, a tiny, ignored sign reads: “Actual miners still unpaid.”

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