Trump is much more than a GOAT.  In fact, he is a GLOAT – Greatest Liar Of All Time – and some of his greatest are the lies that he tells about himself.  As a bored again Christian he often portrays himself as, if not the saviour of mankind, at least the saviour of America with his miracles and his love of his people.  (Remember too that he had to wander around in the wilderness for 4 years and be charged with a back-breaking 34 counts before he was resurrected.)  As a fisher of men though, his arm span is not large enough to describe his self-declared achievements. 

He has constantly sought immortality through his executive orders, riding roughshod over convention and law.  He has appended his signature tag, that is in desperate need of defibrillation, to so many fatuous orders and boldly signed them with his Sharpies that by now they must be Blunties.

He is so desperate to be the greatest President ever that he has started economic and physical wars with enemies and allies alike but which he is incapable of ending.  Starting so many wars also gives him the dubious claim to the Nobel Peace Prize for ending all of them (eventually).

Having failed to gain that recognition, he is using his prestigious talents in the art of interior design (according to himself) to convert Federal buildings into something akin to the interior of a Dubai nightclub.  Suffering from ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyper Decoration disorder – he soon ran out of marbled bathrooms and wall space for his gold tat in the Whitehouse.

So, to set his greatness in stone, he has or intends to undertake monumental works.  After all, they will remain long after he has shuffled off, whereas no amount of executive orders can protect his tacky décor choices.  Without a plan, and after a night of Stormy tossed dreams, he woke up with an idea for an erection – he was going to build an enduring legacy, a grand ballroom.  He promptly smashed the old one down before anyone could object.  With the courts threatening to stymie him, he pivoted disgracefully and declared it to be an emergency and that he was building a huge secure Fuhrer bunker below his gold and marble grandiose erection.  In addition, he has teased plans for a huge Arc de Trump and immortalising himself as the 5^th president on Mt Rushmore.

To further promote his legacy, he has moved on from trashing his predecessors, particularly Obama and Biden. Like a delinquent graffiti artist, he now actively tries to get his tag slapped onto everything from airports through to the Kennedy Centre and everything in between.  It looks like he’s moved on from the blame game to the name game.

  

His latest brain fart occurred on 27 August when he posted on Untruth Sociopath his ranking of the greatest presidents, naturally with himself at the top and Obama and Biden stone last.   But in line with modern thinking on how to bring up kids and avoid hurting their delicate little egos, he should just get a participation certificate at best.

Men, when they are young, tend to wake up with a morning glory.  Unfortunately, that joyful event dissipates with age and Trump is well past that age.  However, it would seem that he has replaced that with his peculiar mental hard-ons that he wakes up with in the wee-wee hours of the morning.

His recent debacle surrounding the reflecting pool is a case in point, or a pointed case, whatever the case may be.  No I am not talking about him using guys he knew who proved to be singularly unqualified, or that the price increased 10 fold over what he originally sold his idea at, or that he blamed all and sundry for their aggressive attacks on his pool liner, or that he forced his Justice Department to arrest and try one man with the most heinous felony of merely touching a part of floating loose liner, or, or . . .

No, the bit that proves that this was just a random ill-formed thought bomb that he woke up with was that he wanted the liner to be coloured patriotic American flag blue.  He triumphantly trumpeted that aspect thinking that his opponents would turn green with envy at his decorative skills (they’re lucky he didn’t choose gold) when in fact it was his pool that turned green. 

If he was so offended by the green algae then why didn’t he just also paint the oval WW2 War Memorial pool that sits at one end of the reflecting pool blue as well?  Obviously, his nocturnal thoughts are like a morning glory that focuses the immature male brain on the problem in hand to the exclusion of wider considerations and future downsides.

On Sunday, 19 August, Infantino the Terrible awarded Trump his last ball and gave him a golden shower which took Trump back to the heady days of 2013.

For those who don’t know the context, the Roger Steele intelligence report of 2017 reported that during Trump’s visit to the Miss World pageant in Moscow in early November 2013, he arranged for prostitutes to perform a golden shower routine on the bed that Barack and Michelle Obama used during their visit to Moscow years before.  For those of you who don’t know what a golden shower is, SMAC’s lips are sealed – that’s what Google’s for. 

This, of course, was delicious and salacious and any other kind of -cious kompromat (Russian term for compromising material useful for bribing) and fed the story of Russian interference in the 2016 US Presidential elections.  Trump, as is his wont, denies it and goes so far as to say that he wasn’t even there.  The latter is a proven lie and as James Comey, erstwhile FBI Director who investigated Trump, points out that when someone lies about one thing in an investigation, all bets are off concerning his credibility, not that it’s ever worried Trump before – it’s his standard operating procedure and he probably secretly gets off on it.  Trump just says they’re tall stories after all Comey is 6’ 8” (2.03m for advanced nations) and throws shade on Trump.

Some more context to the photos: No Trump rally would be complete without a “Sir, . . .” or a “Daddy, . . .” story.  Now those are truly tall stories, just like Trump’s claimed current height of 1.91m (6’ 3” for backward Americans).

It is doubtful that Trump reads and, if he does, he definitely doesn’t read for meaning.  In fact, he probably considers it demeaning, after all possessing the world’s greatest intellect means that nobody can teach him anything.  So, it is quite ironic that he is going to build a huge presidential library.

Ok, ok.  A presidential library is more than your bog-standard library.  They have become a feature of every president of the United States since Herbert Hoover (31st president, 1929–1933). It’s more like a time capsule of what went down during the tenure, or reign in Trump’s case, of the president with the focus on events surrounding him.  Naturally there will be a lot of memorabilia alongside all the documents and records. 

For Trump it will be the ultimate brag wall and include such historic pieces such as his fake FIFA Peace Prize and tacky gifts from sycophantic tinpot dictators.  It will be a completely immersive experience of life inside Trump’s arsehole.  There will be lots of merch like personally signed MAGA* caps and probably a complete box set of his 900 plus rallies.    

It is another one of his grifts – it is to be built on 2.6-acre prime waterfront real estate worth $67 million and previously owned by the Miami Dade College.  The Board of Trustees of this public institution magnanimously decided to give it back to the state and then, in late September 2025, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis grifted it to Trump’s presidential library foundation.

T⁴ (Trump, The Tacky TACO) has already teased what his library will look like.  A foreplay of the library was presented on the Trump Library Foundation’s website.  It is roughly a 50-storey glass building that looks more like an hotel or office block, the upper blocks of which Trump has already teased will so be – another Trump grift in plain sight.  Naturally the exterior will prominently feature Trump’s name emblazoned in gold and massive portraits of himself.  The ground floor will be given over to a display of military jets and the Qatari grifted Boeing 747 presidential jet.  There will be a massive golden ballroom room, a replica Oval Office complete with his tacky gold tat on the walls and finally a massive auditorium with a 5 times life-size golden statue of Trump in a defiant pose.

From small beginnings great libraries grow – maybe.

The books are as fake as their owner, just like the old Texan saying – all hat, but no cattle.

Size matters a lot to Trump.  It’s the only metric he’s interested in.  Superlatives are his stock trade when talking about himself and, in the negative sense, about others.

So let us put aside the many disastrous issues surrounding his latest pet project – the Lincoln Reflecting Pool. Let’s forget about the no-bid contracts that were issued to ‘great guys’ he knew and that it is running at 7 to 10 times what he originally stated, just like his ballroom; or that the new surface coating is lifting; or that the pool immediately turned Iranian green; or that they tried to spin it that it was blue when it was actually green by taking a photo from such a low angle that it reflected the sky.  These have been tediously discussed and lampooned and dissected on many news channels and podcasts.  SMAC wishes just to focus on the early impress conference that Trump held on 23 April in the Oval Office to brag about the gargantuan job that only he could undertake.

In that presser, he pulled out a large cardboard poster comparing the pool size to well-known American buildings bearing the headline – OUR POOL IS BIGGER THAN SKYSCRAPERS. 

The first problem is he’s comparing rhinos to polar bears.  They are completely different beasts.  Why not compare their volumes?  The One World Trade Center has 130x the volume of the Pool.  What about comparing it to the height of the Burj Kalifa in Dubai which is 35 % taller than the pool is long?  Then, although he had touted a dark blue paint, a somber contemplative color as befitting the idea of the pool, his poster showed a light blue sparkling pool like his pool at Mar-a-Lago in Florida because Trump likes bright things.

Finally, he just couldn’t resist tweaking its dimensions, after all, this is a big project for a big man.  Judging from the scaling of his picture, the pool is 2100-2150 ft long, ~5% more than its actual length. Its width is also about 120% wider than its true relative width. 

Capping it all, just to show what a bunch of clowns the chief clown surrounds himself with, the scaling misses out the 500 ft increment.

Finally, he just couldn’t resist tweaking its dimensions, after all, this is a big project for a big man.  Judging from the scaling of his picture, the pool is 2100-2150 ft long, ~5% more than its actual length. Its width is also about 120% wider than its true relative width. 

Capping it all, just to show what a bunch of clowns the chief clown surrounds himself with, the scaling misses out the 500 ft increment.

He has once again been proven to be as shallow as the Pool (average about 0.5m) and, like his medical examinations that falsely declare his height to be 6’3”, his penchant for showmanship based on lies, exaggerations and spurious information has been bust yet again.

Many people have had a species named after them and it is normally considered an honour.  If Trump had known about it, he would have sought that honour as he likes to put his Trump stamp on everything except it would have to be on something dominating like a new species of lion.  Well, he got this unsought-for recognition except it was for a micro-moth discovered in California in 2017.  Since there is mutual animosity between the state and Trump, it’s a reasonable assumption that the discoverer had a wicked sense of humour.

PS.  He also had another unflattering species named after him, the Tetragramma donaldtrumpi – a species of fossil sea urchins.  All we need now is a newly discovered version of pond life to be named after him.

(For those of you that can’t figure out a lot of Shakespearean English like me, wherefore means why.  And for those who don’t follow Trump too closely, and I don’t recommend it, he leaves a foul smell behind, literally and figuratively)

Trump has a predilection for frantically marking his territory like a junkyard mutt.  His whole commercial life has been about branding and selling you stuff or aspirations that you don’t really want or need.  We’re talking about Trump Towers, Trump Airlines, Trump Steaks, Trump University and much, much more.

Now that he’s become President again – the first time was just a vainglorious TV reality show called The Apprentice President – he’s taken his grifting and branding to a new level by selling Trump smartphones, Trump UFC Medallions, Trump Stablecoins, . . . – the list is endless.  But he’s gone further by redecorating Federal buildings in his trademark trashy gold Arab chic and planning to add monuments in his name.

The Kennedy Center is a prime example of Trump’s egregious behaviour.  He decided that he wished to place his Trump Stamp on it.  Using his executive powers, he fired the board and replaced them with toadies who then elected him Chairman.  On 18 December 2025, the board voted to append his trashy name to that of Kennedy’s.  Meanwhile, in the background he had lined up the contractor who prepared the new signage. The next day a contractor, who was locked and loaded, arrived on site and added Trump’s name within a few hours – a preplanned assault to make it fait accompli before anyone could do anything about it.  The only thing wrong in Trump’s eyes was that his name was not in gold.

Job done, or so he thought.  The popular backlash was immediate and massive.  Booked performances pulled out to the extent that Trump closed the Center for ‘renovations’ for two years.  One of the planned décor ‘improvements’ was to replace the theatre armrests with cold unyielding marble ones – really!  He even showed off samples he had produced.

The judicial blowback took a few months but on 29 May a judge ordered that his name be removed within 14 days.

A typical Muslim salutation is Peace Be Upon You.  But they are not going to apply that to Trump anytime soon.

Iran has a Supreme Leader and America has a Supreme Dealer, or so he claims. Trump’s biggest mistake in this deal was committed on day one – he took out the Ayatollah, a direct descendent of Mohammed. As a result, there was never going to be a soft exit option. Iran is going to extract the maximum advantage of any ‘peace’ deal and humiliate Trump along the way irrespective of the pain their country has to suffer. This intransigence, which is not based on dollars and cents, is something that Trump doesn’t understand and hence is incapable of dealing with.

Although largely militarily irrelevant in a conventional military sense, Iran has used a few cheap drones on ships along with a number of strikes on America’s Arab allies to shut down the Straits of Hormuz as well as the whole region. Although Trump has routinely threatened total obliteration, he dares not put boots on the ground. In fact, he’s become a tired toothless old dog who’s just yapping and jumping up and down behind the fence and Iran knows it. He dares not place ships in the Straits apart from the odd quick patrol and the downing of a single F15E aircraft over Iran, with its botched rescue that cost over $500m in aircraft losses, has made Iran a no-fly zone except for cruise missiles and unmanned drones.

The two sticking points for Iran have been control of the Straits and nuclear enrichment to some defined extent – the latter is essentially an Obama deal that Trump tore up in his first term. All the progress in talks that Trump announces almost daily are just mirages and are typical Trump exaggerations and lies in his normal attempt to own the news cycle. In fact, CNN has tabulated that Trump has made 38 false claims about imminent deals/surrender since mid-March. At the slightest pretext Iran snatches the deal off the table and laughs at him while loosing off a few random drones to rile him.

The bully boy, Trump, has met his match in China and a devastating opening salvo was fired in World War XI.  There have been prior skirmishes initiated by Trump in his trade war with China and the rest of the world but China kept it’s cool while Trump conducted his in-your-face international ‘diplomacy’ on Truth Social and ad hoc pressers. 

Trump has a history of denigrating whole countries and their leaders through social media, via pressers and even face-to-face.  In his first term, as one childish example, he kept on getting into handshake powerplay contests with President Macron.

The most egregious was during a White House televised press conference with Zelensky of Ukraine on 28 February 2025.  First, a right-wing journalist, Brian Glenn, attacked him for not wearing a suit and tie while JD Vance looked on with a smirk.  Very soon Zelensky was attacked by the tag team of Vance and Trump and then kicked out of the White House.  Trump has routinely sided with Putin forgetting that the US signed security guarantees when Ukraine gained independence from the USSR (note: it was not part of Russia but the USSR) in return for handing all nuclear weapons to Russia thereby losing one huge bargaining chip.

Ever desperate to be admired as the greatest world leader, he was hoping that he could parlay the state visit into another trophy for his boast wall.  It was not to be.  Instead, he was humiliated straight from the get-go when he was greeted by a minor flunky and 250 little kids – shots fired.  And it was downhill from there.  The exquisite denouement came on the final day when they were seated either side of a low table for a televised press event.  The cushion of the chair that Trump sat in was significantly lower than Chairman Xi’s high chair while Trump had to sit in the low chair like the man-child that he is. 

This was a deliberate snub and showed who was really in charge.  Game, set and match to Xi and trump (the lack of capitalization is deliberate – a sign of the times/future) knows it.  China would not have done this 10 years ago.  Instead of Making America Great Again, all trump has succeeded in doing is to hasten the fall of the America Imperial Empire by a few decades.  His natural friends in Europe and Canada shun him and are moving everyday to delink themselves from an unreliable ally who they can’t trust anymore.  We see this with Europe withdrawing their gold reserves held in the US, the preference for new fighter aircraft and early warning planes to be European, the withdrawal at government level, initially, from American software suites and cloud services to regain their sovereignty which they ceded to the US slowly over the last few decades.  The list goes on.

The move by Xi was minor in the greater scheme of things but it is the canary in the coal mine.  We can see why he’s called chairman Xi!  While trump raucously threatens total annihilation of Iran, China quietly delivered the total humiliation of America.