As Donald Trump produced his multitrillion-dollar Sharpie pen – surely, the only sharp tool in this US president’s toolbox – to sign his One Big Beautiful Bill on July 4, political leaders across the world must have been in awe.
The bill, critics estimate, will cut healthcare for 17 million poor Americans, amid other cruelty. Children relying on lunches served by their schools will go hungry across the land.
What did Trump have to say about this as he signed his bill into law, flourishing his signature at a ceremony on the South Lawn at the White House?
“The largest spending cut, and yet, you won’t even notice it,” Trump said, skating over the expected impact of cuts to Medicaid and food security.
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“The people are happy, they’re happy.”
Perhaps he was referring to the monstrously wealthy who’ll get big, beautiful tax cuts that will make them even wealthier, though, knee-deep in their billions, they’d be unlikely to actually notice it.
Overhead screamed a flight of warplanes and B-2 stealth jets, the like of which only two weeks ago dumped bunker-buster bombs on Iran. A president who lusts after a Nobel Peace Prize can never have too many warplanes at his White House celebrations.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and NSW’s Chris Minns could take a lesson.
