Trumpiana: Red card vs Trump card!

Offense is the name of the game in his deck of cardsLegend has it that a young George Washington chopped down his father’s prized cherry tree. And when confronted by his angry father, 6-year-old George confessed, “I cannot tell a lie.

”True or myth, ‘America first’ President Donald Trump has no such qualms about telling fake stories about ‘America’s first’ president — as three-story tall banners hung on the front of the Department of the Interior building describe the duo.Confronted about his annual financial disclosure showing he made more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, Trump pivoted to what the CNN called “a colorful but fake anecdote.”Washington had two desks in his office, he said. “And they were right next to each other. One was for business and one was for the presidency. He had two desks, in the same room. And so you’re allowed to. But I choose not to. I don’t talk to my kids about, you know, this stuff.”Claiming historians had debunked the two-desks tale when Trump delivered it more than six years ago, CNN suggested “it was part of Trump’s long history of fake history” that he has deployed “for years now for a variety of tactical reasons.”

It’s not known whether Trump took offense at being called out by “fake news,” but he was mighty miffed when America’s star player Folarin Balogun was shown the red card in a World Cup game. He promptly called FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who had given him a tailor-made appease (oops peace) prize, to get the suspension reversed.“All I did was ask for a review because I didn’t think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I’m good at this stuff.

I didn’t think it was a foul,” said Trump calling the reversal of the referee’s “horrible” call “a really brilliant decision.”Trump also claimed that he didn’t know what a red card was before the US-Bosnia match even as Politico pointed out that Infantino had introduced him to the yellow and red cards pulling one of each out from a case during a 2018 Oval Office meeting.Infantino even joked to an amused Trump that the cards might come in handy beyond the soccer field suggesting “That could be used for, I don’t know, the next media session.”In the end, fired up by Trump’s intervention Belgium put on a dominant display to end a promising US campaign and launch a hundred memes mocking Trump.One post on X mocked the American team, saying, “The US played with the team, FIFA, Trump, ICE, MAGA, the judge, EVERYTHING AND YET THEY STILL LOST 3-0 TO BELGIUM LMAOOOOOOOOOO.”Before the match, a meme depicted the suspended player holding a Trump card showing his middle finger to the referee.

After Belgium’s victory, another user posted, “Belgium trumps USA.”Now well versed in the use of cards, Trump showed a red card at the Nato summit in Turkey, scolding France, Germany, Italy and Britain for not joining the war against Iran, and calling Spaniards “hopeless.”Hours later, he reversed the decision saying there was “tremendous love” among leaders after they heaped praise on Trump for helping ensure allies boosted their defense spending.He even posted a picture of himself addressing the summit captioned ‘DADDY’S HOME,’ a reference to what NATO chief had called him at the last summit to butter him up.Then he showed the red card to Tehran after the US and Iran traded strikes following reports of Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz calling Iranian leaders “liars,” “scum” and “sick people.”The ceasefire deal is “over” as far as he is concerned, he declared.

Days later Trump changed the card to yellow saying the US and Iran had agreed to keep talking despite increased strikes against each other.Less than 12 hours later, he changed the card to red again with an ominous warning that he had ordered the US military “to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” should it act on its threat “to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME!”Trump then showed a yellow card to the now not so friendly Supreme Court asking it to reverse its “absolutely insane” birthright citizenship ruling.He will ask for “a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump posted on Truth Social claiming, “Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with “Deliveries starting at $4000.”Newly empowered by the top court to fire heads of independent agencies at will, Trump also showed the red card to two Democratic members of a bipartisan elections commission that certifies electronic voting equipment and maintains the federal voter registration form.But then a federal appeals court showed him two yellow cards ordering Trump’s name to stay off the Kennedy Center branding and building pending the outcome of a case challenging the renaming of the center.Declining the arts institution’s motion to stay a lower court’s decision, the court rejected a claim it would suffer ‘financial decline’ without Trump name as unsupported by facts.And a New York judge followed with a red card ruling that the writer E.

Jean Carroll should promptly receive a $5 million jury award from Trump for sexually abusing her in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store in 1996, and defaming her after she described it publicly in a 2019 memoir.The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals made it redder rejecting his lawyers request to stop the money held in an escrow account from being transferred to Carroll as Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision declining to review the case.Would Trump finally pay or would he pull out another get out card from his long sleeves?(By arrangement with The American Bazaar, www.americanbazaaronline.com)