jester

Created by a solo developer known only as LocalThunk, card game Balatro - which takes its name from the Latin for jester or buffoon - is one of the year's biggest success stories.

Trump is a jester inside the palace, playing at the role of king, but mocking the very idea of principled leadership in the process.

“And I’m the court jester,” customer Scott Richardson chimed in.

“I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they’re laughing with me or at me,” he told Men’s Health in 2012.

She could: She plays the Fool — usually a male role — the court jester whose comic antics soften the sting of bracingly honest commentary.