Happy Pi Day! On this important day in the mathematics calendar for millions of folks, geeky or not, how can we take a short break from all the daily negative news affecting tens of thousands of people in TrumpLand (and soon probably millions of workers in other parts of the world), thanks to a felon’s yo-yo tariffs and Elon’s DOGE cuts?

In the aftermath of this week’s mass layoffs at the Department of Education, with nearly half of the staff, or about 1,300 employees, being notified that they’d be terminated in three months, how many local and foreign-born math educators would be affected by this “unlawful” plan by the “anointed or chosen one”?

To keep mathematically and emotionally sane, what about poking fun at the “very stable genius” felon-president, by composing some pikus (or pi-related haikus) on this beloved math day?

Below are five pikus that leverage on the history of π and Trump’s idiocies and idiosyncrasies.

π Club Membership

Trump failed to recite
A hundred digits of π.
Pi Club: “Try again!”

Monetizing π

Trump wants to trademark
π to earn some royalty.
Math geeks up in arms.

Holy π

Holy votes demand
An executive order
For π to be three*.

* 1 Kings 7:23 & 2 Chronicles 4:2

π = 22/7

Thus decreed King Trump:
“Thou shalt make π rational!”
Tariffs for sinners.

The Tau Manifesto

Trump wants to dump π.
It’s an unnatural choice.
Tau as the new pi.

Piku-fully yours

© Yan Kow Cheong, March 14, 2025.