The Buck Stops Over There
Satire · Commentary, not transcript · Volume I, Me, Me, Me

Special executive brag-sheet edition

I did everything!

And if anything went wrong, congratulations: you have just discovered the work of somebody else.

Front-page miracles

One man accepts all available credit

Responsibility, regrettably, is handled by another department.

Exclusive self-assessment

I fixed the country before breakfast!

Caption: Nation asked to applaud while checking whether it can still afford breakfast.

I built the beautiful thing!

Caption: Public supplied land, office, money and legal authority; modesty supplied separately.

I alone understood it!

Caption: Experts relieved to learn expertise may now be inherited through an uncle.

I won — therefore I’m right!

Caption: Election victory reportedly promoted to universal peer review.

Interactive blame desk

Choose a failure. We’ll find an adult.

The office keeps the power and forwards the consequences.

Responsibility successfully routed to

The press

They reported the original timeline, thereby causing everyone to remember it.

Final test: accept one consequence

This feature is not expected to survive contact with executive confidence.

Source note

This is caricature and commentary, not a quotation archive. It riffs on repeated self-credit and blame-shifting in TIME’s 28 September 2026 interview with President Donald Trump.

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