The worship of mammon and mammon-makers has brought us to the point where a rich felon purports to rule the world and carve it up to his liking
US president Donald Trump professes to have been saved from assassination by divine intervention so that he can Make America Great Again by generating loads of spondulicks. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Timesinvites the diva to his boudoir aboard his yacht and shows her a statue of Hermes, the Greek god of thieves. “I stole it,” says the tycoon who was the richest person on Earth in his time and once tried to buy Monaco.
With those five words, he puts his grubby finger on the cause of humankind’s current self-made plight. .
During the 2016 US presidential election, some people interviewed for a CNN vox pop said they intended voting for Trump because they hoped that, as he was rich, he would make America rich. It was a throwback to 1980s Ireland whenwas in his political prime and a destitute country gazed at his mansion home, his yacht and his private island and thought he would make Ireland rich too.
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