Incidentally delivering his own resignation speech

• Graham Russell and agencies, Trump says he doesn’t want a “poor person” in cabinet roles, The Guardian, June 22, 2017

Pauper videri Cinna vult; et est pauper. Cinna wishes to seem poor, and poor he is, indeed. Cinna vuol sembrare povero; e lo è.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 8, XIX
English translation by George Moody
Italian translation by Giuseppe Lipparini