​A gold throne for King Donald

By Ed Raymond

fargogadfly@gmail.com

Why not put all of our gold at Fort Knox to common good?

With all of the gold and marble Donald Trump has been splattering and gluing around the White House and Oval Office, why don’t we put all of that gold in Fort Knox, Kentucky at work on Capitol Hill and the White House and the new ballroom? Why not have the Secretary of the Treasury bid on the solid gold toilet put up for auction at Sotheby’s in New York City on November 18? The bidding started at $10 million according to experts on gold toilets, but price is no object to provide a golden throne for King Donald in the Oval Office bathroom, since he has added all those gold decorations to the walls, fireplace, furniture and doors to the office of the most powerful man on Planet Earth.

The artist Cattalan, who had previously gained notoriety — and $6.2 million — by taping a banana called “Comedian” to a wall and selling that piece of “art” to a crypto financier, created two toilets of 18-karat gold each weighing 227 pounds. (Even Hollywood wouldn’t buy this story!) One toilet was sold to an unidentified private collector. The other toilet has a rather checkered history. Installed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2016, more than 100,000 art enthusiasts and gold-diggers used it with a flair supervised by guards and plumbers. It was later offered to the Trump administration — and rejected by a rare person with brains in the White House. It was then installed in Winston Churchill’s Blenheim Palace Museum, where it was stolen by some imaginative thieves, thus causing a flood in one of the rooms. If interested, read more history. Was it melted down and then sold on the gold market? One of the two is being auctioned off. It could be the one owned by the private collector.

How exciting! A dollar coin with Trump on each side!

As King Donald attempts to turn the little White House into a vacation cabin imitating, copying, and resembling Mar-a-Loco (which has gold decorations resplendent in every room), I’m surprised he has not mentioned the 147.3 million ounces of gold we have stored at Fort Knox in 368,250 gold bars each weighing about 27.5 pounds. Couldn’t we spread that gold in his $350,000,000 Trump (Dump) gold ballroom? What a spendy and splendiferous man cave for billionaires, pardon seekers, sickofans and crypto buyers to genuflect, worship and kiss-ass a man dollars can buy! The Fort Knox gold is currently valued at $468 billion, which is about half of the gold held by the Divided States of America stored in facilities.

When I first viewed the gold decorations despoiling the walls, fireplace and furniture in the Oval Office, I thought the White House Mall and Mercantile office looked like a cheap thrift store graced with “Closing” and “Going out of business” signs. Trump the grifter, his wagon filled with cheap Trump wines, perfumes, pardons and other wares traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue hawking his “stuff” over X, Y and Z, has added another dimension to his list of unhealthy and mind-boggling characteristics of the sexual predator, jerk, prick, malignant narcissist and socio-psychopath. He has nominated himself as the autocratic designer and decorator-in-chief for the world. His next step should be padding office walls so he doesn’t hurt himself while ranting as decider-in-chief. Please add chief of coups, insurrections and revolutions to his political resume. Two people who knew him well said Trump was a “moron” and “too dumb” to be a leader. It was his Secretaries of Defense and State during his first term.

Should a man who lies only when his lips move lead the DSA?

Why did the Lyin’ King recently take cognitive and other tests at Walter Reed? Trump’s niece Mary, a practicing psychologist and consultant with a PhD, also wanted to know. So, she took the same tests her uncle took: the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), another cognitive test and then an MRI during a complete physical.

“I am not a neurologist or a neuropsychologist, but I have been told that a doctor only orders that protocol (the MoCA) if they’re concerned that the person may have suffered some kind of stroke or something,” Mary said. After taking the test, she used only four words to describe his condition: the president is “not a well man.”

Did you watch him the day the seventy-nine-year-old fat man kept falling asleep during a press conference and he refused to help a fainting man who fell to the floor behind him? Really weird — and terrifying — for a man who is near the nuclear button. He admitted the cognitive test “was hard”, but soon bragged he would have a better score than Democratic Representative AOC!

“Once again we have Donald bragging about the results not just of the MRI which he aced, but also the cognitive assessment,” is Mary Trump’s overall summary of the present Great Leader’s mental condition. “In all seriousness, Donald Trump is not a well man. We need to continue to focus on the ways he is deteriorating cognitively, psychologically, emotionally and intellectually.”

The Trump Treasury Department is planning to celebrate the country’s 250th anniversary in 2028 by putting a silver one-dollar coin in circulation. On one side will be an image of Trump with the word “LIBERTY.” On the reverse side will be an image of Trump with the words “FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!” It will establish a new world record by being the first coin among thousands minted around the world with the same leader commemorated on both sides. The coin might be sold for a high price to raise funds for his third term campaign.

One of 195 countries has failed to pledge to fight global warming

You have one guess. Perhaps you remember the president of that country was called the “most dangerous man in the world” by a niece named Mary who has observed him closely for a half a century. And with her background of studying mental disabilities, has now declared him, and I repeat: “not a well man.”

One of our brightest leaders, President Barack Obama, declared in 2015 that the Divided States of America would assist the world in containing global warming to relatively safe levels. Our most ignorant and stupid president, the Lyin’ King Donald Trump, withdrew us from the Paris pact in his first term in 2017. President Joe Biden rejoined in 2021.

The man who is not well (but is the world’s greatest con man), told the United Nations in September of 2025 the DSA was dropping out again from the Paris Agreement with this statement: “The climate crisis is the greatest con job perpetrated by the world.”

In other words, the richest country with the world’s most powerful military will allow Communist China to replace America as the leader of countries that are trying to save the planet from an environmental disaster when the Tropical Zone becomes uninhabitable, and the people march to relative safety in the Temperate Zone. China is replacing us as world leader. It just powered up a single solar power installation that has 162 square miles of solar panels. Miles!

Jill LePore in her column “American Frequencies” discusses the communication skills of many presidents, including Trump: “He riffs, he cusses, he dodges, he weaves, he raises money; he spreads lies. He is lurid and profane, he targets his political opponents, threatening them with prosecution, prison, and execution. He is the world’s most outspoken troll, and its most dangerous. He posts day and night, about everything from taco bowls to possible peace-fires. He is getting worse.”

Will a young brown Muslim New York Socialist be a national leader?

Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old and one of 3.1 million immigrants living in New York City, has just been elected mayor of our largest city. He came to the city when he was seven. My question is, will his election attract half of the 90 million young eligible and registered voters who did not vote in 2024 to the voting booths in America in 2028? If he does, it will be the biggest Democratic landslide in history. Mamdani was elected because he preached the policies of 84-year-old Independent Jewish Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and 36-year-old Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, called AOC by almost everybody, who was born in New York City of Puerto Rican parents.

Here are some of the issues they emphasized during the campaign: healthcare, childcare, minimum wage, college costs, free buses, income inequality, expensive housing, homelessness, Medicare and Medicaid, poverty, affordability of living costs, support of public and private unions, increase taxes on those making more than a million dollars a year and rent stabilization.

Here are some facts about the city: 26% (or 420,000 children live in poverty). Of the city’s 880,000 children in the public schools, 154,000 are homeless each night. NYC’s inhabitants are 30.9% White, 28.7% Hispanic or Latino, 20.2% are Black or African-American and 15% are Asian. More than 800 languages are spoken in the city and nearly four million residents speak a language other than English.

The New York City education system is the largest in the Divided States of America with 880,000 students, 1,500 schools and a $41 billion budget. Mamdani has promised to recruit more teachers and expand resources for more than 150,000 homeless students, but he admits he is still learning about the huge district. In wealthier neighborhoods, parents raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for their PTAs, athletic programs and music activities while in low-income areas, families may live in shelters, temporary housing or in the streets. It’s almost impossible to program special education programs in poor areas.

Another fascinating fact: New York City has a population of 8.5 million at night and 15 million during the day because of workers commuting to the city. The annual budget will be over $116 billion for the Mamdani administration to manage. One would not guess the makeup of his transition committee that will recommend major administrative staff members. It is composed of five women! That means diversity, equity, inclusivity (DEI) and the acceptance of the LBGTQUIA+ community.

Yes, we have New York Trumplican billionaires yelling “Communist! Socialist! Muslim!” Find a sentence for me where Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani say they desire to take over all of the means of production of the country. They are Democratic Socialists who are really Democratic Capitalists.

Google “United Nation’s Happiness Survey” and see which countries are in the Top Ten of the “Happiest” and what their form of government is.