Several of the world’s most notorious and corrupt dictators have announced their resignations in the wake of news that the US Justice Department is establishing a new $US$1.8 billion Anti-Weaponisation Fund as a result of legal action taken by the US President Donald Trump and others in his family.

The new fund – attacked by Trump’s opponents as a personal slush fund for the President and his cronies – is to be established using taxpayers’ funds paid by the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and US Treasury Department to settle legal claims launched earlier this year against the two agencies by the President, his sons – Donald Trump Jr and the other one – plus the Trump Organisation. (below)

Their action came in the wake of leaks to the New York Times in 2019 that resulted in stories revealing Trump paid little or no federal tax in the past 15 years. The Trumps had sought compensation for the leak totalling US$10 billion.

News of the new fund prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin (at left in main picture) to address his nation on Russian state TV and quit his post.

“I thought I was a corrupt stand-over merchant, but this new Trump fund… this is something else. A whole new level. I just can’t compete with that so I’m quitting,” Mr Putin said.

Not long after the Putin broadcast, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (at right in main picture) did likewise.

His translated remarks revealed that he was “in awe at the boldness of my good friend and mentor President Trump” whom he said had set “a whole new standard for corruption with his new fund on top of all the other gloriously profitable rorts and cheats he has perpetrated on the American people”.

“I just can’t rival that … ever, no matter how hard I might try, so I’m resigning,” he said.

At this stage it is unclear who will succeed both Putin and the North Korean leader.

A United Nations spokesperson said its General-Secretary, Antonio Guterres, had called an urgent meeting of the global body’s senior officials to discuss the ramifications of the new Anti-Weaponisation Fund.

“This is a whole new challenge for the UN, especially its activities to uncover, eradicate, and track corruption and corrupt leaders around the world,” the spokesperson said.

“For instance we’ll now need to reassess the level of corruption we’ve previously assigned to people like the late Ferdinand Marcos, former president of the Philippines; Slobodan Milosevic as president of Serbia; Iraqi leader the late Saddam Hussein; Bashar al-Assad when he was president of Syria; that very questionable bloke with the funny name from Queensland in Australia; and even people like the late Idi Amin who led Uganda in the 1970s.

“Maybe all of them weren’t nearly as bad as we thought, given the comparison with Trump.

“It’s a whole new ballroom… I mean ball game,” the spokesperson said.

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