Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Yeah, c'mon, the right wasn't going to suddenly toast Kimmel for a good job, so fuck it, it was a well delivered line.

Any chance to platform Trump as a whiny asshole more outraged about an awards show than atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza is a good thing.

it really does make the right upset that virtually nobody famous likes them, that's why people like Aaron Rodgers make up conspiracy theories about Jimmy Kimmel and why people like Kid Rock and the Kevin Sorbo were able to make a second career catering to these idiots (though that does sometimes come at the expense of your first career, as the Dilbert guy found out). maybe the whole Trump thing really is that simple, he was the first household name who actually (pretended to) like them

I knew I should've qualified my sentence! And it was a good line.

It also shows that the George Stephanopoulos interview with Nancy Mace pissed Trump off majorly.

that interview was horrific, hopefully Stephanopoulos is not the last person to ask why they are so willing to support a rapist

I mean this is a journalist's dream right? Trump has done so many utterly indefensible things, now actual juries are finding him liable so you can't say "its all politics", all you have to do is hold their feet to the fire

Oh, his followers are still saying it's all politics. They will believe he is being persecuted for political reasons even as he is led away in leg irons.

it generally seems to be the opposite, holding him accountable is the thing they fear the most, especially if they can't balance it out with similar crimes by the Bidens

xp

I think that is what the top brass clearly wants but for individual reporters there's no bigger dream than bringing down a president or presidential candidate

All interviews with politicians should be by Isaac Chotiner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLbfGSB5cs

he's so dumb. and weird.

'zuckerbucks'! that's pretty good

what on earth is he talking about

He just riffs and riffs and riffs with zero concern for making any sense

whatever he's literally saying, his reckless rudeness conveys that he inherited a blessed $400,000,000 and is therefore worth more than almost everyone else who's ever lived, so get on board pro-life sunday church-goers, amen

Wow.. a new low

Trump mocks Biden's stutter. #classy pic.twitter.com/4nzO552DHE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 9, 2024

That’s an old low

You really got him, Donnie, ZING

good point:

Writing in The Atlantic, John Hendrickson, who has described himself as a lifelong stutterer, noted, “More than Trump’s ugly taunt, one thing stands out to me about these moments: the sound of Trump’s supporters laughing right along with him. This is a building block of Trumpism. The man at the top gives his followers permission to be the worst version of themselves.”

yeah i don't think a lot of his followers need him to be the worst version of themselves. they are probably good at it all on their own.

well, he got a good laugh out of it, so I'm sure we'll hear plenty more.. he's testing out material

makes it even sadder that he lost by seven million votes to a stutterer ;_;

i can tell you're lying
cos when you're replying

Good news, everybody! The usual Trumpian business brilliance has affected an organization that he certainly won't be needing to do anything major in the next few months in particular...

RNC fires dozens of employees after Trump-backed leadership takes over

To be replaced by some neo-Nazi teens.

Trump said: “There’s nobody that’s better, smarter or a better leader than Viktor Orbán. He’s fantastic, he’s a non-controversial figure because he says, ‘This is the way it’s going to be,’ and that’s the end of it. Right? He’s the boss. No, he’s a great leader.”

nothing controversial about autocracy I guess

Keep talking, pal, right into jail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyfwZVAzGw

he did say that Orbán is a better leader than him, a rare display of humility

Yeah Orban the leader of an economy smaller than Alabama.

Good advice

Donald Trump’s second White House chief of staff tried to stop him praising Adolf Hitler in part by trying to convince the then president Benito Mussolini, the Italian fascist dictator, was “a great guy in comparison”.

“He said, ‘Well, but Hitler did some good things,’” the retired marines general John Kelly told Jim Sciutto of CNN in an interview for a new book.

“I said, ‘Well, what?’ And he said, ‘Well, (Hitler) rebuilt the economy.’ But what did he do with that rebuilt economy? He turned it against his own people and against the world. And I said, ‘Sir, you can never say anything good about the guy. Nothing. I mean, Mussolini was a great guy in comparison.”

Okay that’s a little too on the nose

Pretty canny move on Kelly's part, Trump apes a lot of Mussolini's gestures, whether consciously or unconciously.

apes is right

Kind of insulting to Mussolini tbh.

"Hitler did some good things" should be immediately answered by "get the fuck out of here."

"Yeah, he killed himself."

what if Trump became a vegetarian in emulation of der fuhrer

what if Trump became a vegetable and Hitler ate him.

What if Trump lost one of his balls in emulation of Hitler.

Pretty canny move on Kelly's part, Trump apes a lot of Mussolini's gestures, whether consciously or unconciously.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, March 12, 2024 2:17 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've spent the last eight years waiting for the good people of the USA to aid him in aping Mussolini's ultimate gesture.

His balls are well past their sell by date.

So he can afford to lose one.

xxp I can't think of anyone (in this country at least) who more richly deserves it.

He really is a master aper, all those hours watching The Gorilla Channel paid off.

One of the great apers

People come up to me, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they say, Sir, we have never seen a better aper.

No it's "Sir, we have never seen a better diaper."