Turkish Journalist Sedef Kabaş said “There is also a saying that is the exact opposite: ‘When cattle go into a palace, they don’t become the king; but the palace becomes a barn’ — and, evidently, was arrested for it. The strange thing is that I heard this as “an old Turkish proverb” … since the quote comes from January 14th 2022, I’m not sure old really applies.

It then got repeated with all sorts of things and places – oxen, stables … and clowns with circuses. When a clown goes into a palace, they don’t become the king; the palace becomes a circus.

It would have made a great old proverb, although it looks like we’ll have to wait a few hundred years.