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He is George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr., glistening from helmet to boots, sashed and bemedaled, ivory-handled pistols snug at the hips, and he talks to us as to a theater-full of GIs just finishing combat training in Louisiana about to embark for the war in Africa.

Gantz is largely unknown to Israelis, who observed from afar his bemedaled military career.

Granted, it is possible to derive a glimmer of I-told-you-so satisfaction from the total collapse of the establishment theory that a race of bemedaled generals and oil-industry titans could contain Trump.

At best they have allowed their reputations for integrity, their bemedaled uniforms, their intellectual pedigrees to be used as glittering props, the false facades of a Potemkin presidency.

Sacha Baron Cohen — as a tyrant who's a bemedaled megalomaniacal mashup of Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi, with a little bit of Kim Jong Il thrown in for spice — has made a movie that is sharply satirical and consistently hilarious.