Asians aren’t the only ones who can be crazy rich

Based upon what’s been reported in the news recently, one has to believe that Americans never have been more prosperous. Whether Donald Trump can be credited for that can be debated, but what is indisputable is that some people have lots of money and are running out of ways to spend it.

We’re not talking about Paul Manafort’s $1,000 ties, a California congressman spending $600 on airfare for the family’s rabbit, an Ohio State assistant football coach dropping $600 at a strip joint or $150,000 payments made to various presidential bimbos. All that is chump change barely worth reporting. The real wealth is in the hands of Americans all over the country who aren’t currently under investigation by anybody.

Just in the past two weeks, for instance, it’s been reported that:

■ In Delaware, a man paid $410,000 for an old license plate because it has the number 20 on it.

A number like 20 “generates quite a stir and a buzz,” said John Wakefield of Delaware Tag Traders. So that clearly explains why it’s worth $410,000, which is a lot more than the one that sold three years ago which only had the number 14 on it and went for just $325,000. But in case you’re still wondering why any license plate would be worth more than, say, the $79 I just paid for my new Ohio plates, he added: “It’s a Delaware thing.”

■ In Kentucky, a ham at the state fair was auctioned off last week for $2.8 million.

The ham weighed nearly 18 pounds and brought two winning bids of $1.4 million each. Both bidders intend to donate the money to charities. Left unanswered is why, if they were in the mood for ham, they didn’t just donate the money, skip the $147,368-a-pound ham and go to Bob Evans for breakfast.

■ In Pebble Beach, Calif., someone bought a used car with no GPS for $48.4 million.

The car was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO and as if that’s not enough to justify the price, both Phil Hill and Gianni Bulgari once sat in it. Hill, the legendary Formula 1 driver, used it as his practice car and Bulgari, whose family made lots of money by selling crazy expensive jewelry, drove it in a race.

• And in Los Angeles, a man known as the “Shoe Surgeon” took some crocodile’s skin, 24-karat gold and 2.32 carats in diamonds and crafted them into a pair of basketball shoes valued at over $100K.

Which then were “gifted” to LeBron James, who makes $100 million year bouncing a ball.

Based on these stories, it’s obvious that there still are plenty of crazy rich Americans, too. Or should that be rich, crazy Americans?