“Is this a joke?” “Not yet, but it will be.” I, Claudius (Jack Pulman)
Well, at least he’s not wallowing in false modesty. Is he?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom somehow got his donors to pony up $97.000 for a bronze statue of… well, him (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/revealed-gavin-newsom-secretly-funded-monument-to-himself-inside-san-francisco-city-hall/). It is currently on display in San Francisco City Hall.
Back to ancient Rome: Asked why he didn’t have a statue in the Forum, Cato the Elder replied that he would rather have people asking why he didn’t have a statue than have them asking why he did.
I do wonder what our country’s founders would have thought of her officials coming on like Third World tin-horn tyrants.