Trump: $83 Million Just My Price For Truth

A federal appeals court has, with remarkable lack of imagination, affirmed the rather modest sum of $83.3 million levied against former President Donald Trump. This hefty figure, it seems, is the going rate for what the legal system quaintly refers to as "defamation" of an individual, specifically former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, back in 2019. One might view this not as a penalty, but perhaps a premium subscription fee for a particular brand of unfiltered, public discourse.

Indeed, in an era where the cost of living skyrockets, it’s comforting to know that the price of truth, or at least the legal ramifications of its perceived absence, remains consistently high. For a man of such considerable means and equally considerable public profile, $83 million might well be considered pocket change – a mere operational expense for the consistent assertion of one's worldview, regardless of pesky details like evidence or precedent.

It merely solidifies the market value of a reputation, or the lack thereof, in the current economic climate. A small price to pay, perhaps, for the freedom to express oneself so... robustly.