But with Trump, the buck stops with everyone, everywhere. Take the piggy bank: Once a simple symbol for savings, it’s been transformed under Trump into a Daliesque container of grotesque impossibilities. “We have the cards, don’t forget, we’re like the piggy bank that’s being robbed, we have the cards,” he said at a campaign rally in Fort Wayne, Ind., in 2016. He was talking about trade with China: How the Chinese were trying to rob our piggy bank full of cards. The piggy bank “had people running it that didn’t know what the hell they were doing.” It’s being attacked by Japan.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2019 22:39 UTC