Before the unveiling, the figure was blessed. Pastor Mark Burns — Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and a candidate for Congress in South Carolina’s 3rd District — assembled a circle of evangelical and Jewish clergy at the foot of the gilded statue and consecrated it. A 22-foot effigy of Donald Trump, wrapped in gold leaf, now stands at his Doral golf course in Miami. The president boasted about it Thursday morning on Truth Social with the all-caps line: “The Real Deal — GOLD.” (Photo Furnished by Paul Mendlowitz)

He sits there like a monument to political absurdity, wobbling on the wall of the republic, waiting for gravity to do what gravity always does. The old nursery rhyme was supposed to be about a foolish egg. But America, in its infinite talent for self-humiliation, has promoted the egg to the presidency and then acted shocked when the shell began to crack. Humpty Dumpty was never meant to be a statesman. He was meant to be a warning. That, of course, is precisely why he became irresistible.

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