Actually, the joke is that the world's largest debtor nation still feels compelled to borrow money in order to fly its president around in a regal fleet, surrounded by hundreds of minions.
Every time I see it, it feels like I'm looking at Manuel Noriega, with that too-big hat and giant chest-full of fake medals. Who do we think we are fooling?
Wait, are you just now catching on that America is the biggest lie on the planet?