TRUMP GOT COVID

yeah as I mentioned upthread the Rosie O'Donnell thing was the one time he actually nailed a punchline of any sort. maybe also the "because you'd be in jail" thing too but that was more terrifying than funny. he's just an utterly absurd person, like Tommy Wiseau it's not so much the things he says as it is the broken mind that produces such bizarre non-sequiturs

Whether he is leaning into that or oblivious idk. I think he knows he gets more attention as a human clown than a regular old hateful asshole

I thought his early republican debates were funny. Just seeing the mainstream GOP in a panic over what to do about this insult comedian on the stage, derailing their whole strategy.

Oh he's definitely a clown but I think describing him as "funny" gives him way more credit that he deserves, since that would imply wither being able to come up with something witty or delivering something in a clever way and I don't think I've ever seen a good example of him doing either.

An insult comic who only punches down is just a bully.

When the target was the bushes...

yeah I guess that was fun

I mean, overall it was horrifying. For a moment it seemed like he was destroying the GOP, not America

he did destroy the GOP

the problem is that he did it by parasitically taking over its body rather than by obliterating it and the country said "come embrace me, malignant hate entity"

solely because the dumbest man to ever hold elected office said something that made people clap, once. imagine all the good things we could have done!! imagine if we had President Jeb!

Jeb also said something once that made people clap iirc

"trump is not technically funny!" --haters and losers itt

The schlockiness of the performance — trump’s performance of himself — can be sorta funny. Like the helicopter video with the epic music.

― treeship., Friday, October 9, 2020 3:11 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean, as I noted upthread (or maybe in the other thread) what was really funny about this was that the high production value schlocky helicopter video was followed by a video speech in which he said stuff like "Maybe I'm immune, I don't know!"

It's hard for me to think of any Trump moment where it's just like "that was a great joke." The humor is almost always partly horror. Like when he did the exceedingly long tangent about Steve Scalise getting shot at the baseball game and complimented Scalise for the fact that his wife cried when he got shot, and that Melania wouldn't have cried if Trump got shot. That's the epitome of Trump "funny" to me.

It's like Rodney Dangerfield but without full self-awareness.

It was a joke, it was meant as a joke, it worked as a joke, but it was also just like "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?"

these post could easily be read as you making the argument for trump being funny, which he obviously is, tho his routine might not be yr cup of tea

i'm already on record ITT saying he's funny. easily the funniest president of the mass media era.

low bar

His showmanship is all he’s got. Surely that’s the one thing we can’t take away from him.

yeah I guess that was unintentional damning with faint praise. But he's funny. Sometimes it's also a Howard Stern kind of funny, but it's just deeply jarring to see that in the context of the White House (maybe funnier in a way in the moments you can sufficiently detach yourself from it, which is not always possible)

it is extreme dark comedy but thats a big part of its allure, its abjectly nihilistic

I thought his early republican debates were funny. Just seeing the mainstream GOP in a panic over what to do about this insult comedian on the stage, derailing their whole strategy.

it's a deeply lynchian humor imo

joke was on us

was just gonna say if he were never president I'd love to have him on the stage at every future republican primary debate shit-talking everyone else

Such comic timing too. ‘She should be running’ is all-time imo.

If he loses this time, being on stage for future GOP primaries is still on the table.

just sitting there with an idiot grin plastered on my face, reveling in how the GOP and everyone who voted in lockstep w them *deserves* this. after W, Palin, the Tea Party/ Obama derangement—finally these ppl were getting their comeuppance.

Would have been better if said comeuppance came before he was elected because, er, joke's on us?

Such comic timing too. ‘She should be running’ is all-time imo.

― pomenitul, Friday, October 9, 2020 2:10 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was seriously hilarious

Kaufmanian maybe

Love how Trump's handlers defend being cagey about his condition because of HIPAA. Which only really applies to health care providers/recordkeepers/doctors/etc.

Otherwise you're violating HIPAA for posting that your cousin broke his leg

Would have been better if said comeuppance came before he was elected because, er, joke's on us?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, October 9, 2020 4:15 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

im pretty sure this is what will was implying

def. we were completely owned. a truly shocking amount of ownage.

“Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is being kept under close watch by doctors as he enters his second week in the hospital battling the coronavirus, making his case the most serious among senior Republicans in contact with President Donald Trump”

goodnight sweet prince

Trump directly killing Christie is just too perfect.

had a feeling Chris wasn't gonna bounce back as quick from his COVID on account of his asthma and also the whole being a fat tub of lard thing

"there are going to be deaths no matter what" *monkey's paw lowers one finger*

come on christie, you haven't groveled enough for him. you must die for trump

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/1/1f/T%27Pau%2C_2267.jpg/revision/latest/top-crop/width/360/height/450?cb=20081213211012&path-prefix=en
This combat is to the death.

two thousand person event

Chris Christie should absolutely be the POV character for any future movie/series dramatizing this era

(obviously trump should never appear)

I would watch a Chris Christie-POV Trump satire, if only for the all-Springsteen diegetic soundtrack.

I would watch a Chris Christie-POV Trump satire, if only for the all-Springsteen diegetic soundtrack

Track listing:

Born to Run (a High Fever)
Badlungs
41 Coughs
I'm on Steroids
COVID Days
Brilliant Vaccine
(My Viral Load Is) Goin' Down

Of course Christie is gonna bounce back, he's a fuckin weeble man.

(obviously trump should never appear)

― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, October 9, 2020 7:42 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

trumps gotta be in it for the scene, as detailed in christies book, where he delivers a report trump requested that hes been working on day and night and trump throws it directly into the trash

“Trump Says Fallen Soldier Lackey Knew What He Signed Up For

lmao ymp