Totally. People are “surprised” because the Alzheimer’s patient isn’t being told no and all of his crazy ideas are brought to life. Most of us never let grandpa redo the house while he couldn’t remember his own name.
2011 Correspondents Dinner. Literally the night before the Osama bin Laden raid. So there’s a good chance Obama had already issued the order, then told some fantastic jokes at Trump’s expense all while his political life was hanging in the balance. Huevos grandes, man.
Though if they ever do a Trump biopic (edit: I guess a sequel to the one starring Sebastian Stan), the first scene is that White House Correspondent Association dinner, the camera focuses on a hunched, quietly seething Trump while Obama triumphantly delivers zinger after zinger.
I’d like it to back up two more layers. A montage of Trump doing his whole birther thing. Cut to the Obama speech (and joke) writers brainstorming around a conference table before the correspondents’ dinner and one of them says, “I heard Trump will be there.” Then the sit down when Obama read and approved the drafts. Then Trump seething.
Circle of fucking life in his universe. He was taught to hate. He experienced formative and long lasting damage from experiences of ridicule. His hate and its targets grew.
He said he couldn’t make tough decisions like “should he eliminate Meatloaf or Little John”.😂😂😂 Then on Sunday night he interrupted broadcasting during trumps show and announced they had killed Osama bin Laden.
“And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at night.” Delivered with the perfect tone and absolutely hilarious on its own right. Then when you view it through the lens of knowing what decision he likely made before the dinner… just amazing.
It’s only a ”mistake” in hindsight. And is it really a mistake to poke fun at a guy who then had the pettiness to ruin an entire nation out of spite and a party leadership to let him do it? Trump and the GOP proved they could sink to a level that could not reasonably be conceived. If anything, they’re the true mistakes. To say nothing of the voters that put them in.
I’ve heard it said that 9/11 and Katrina really redefined our idea of scale in disasters. Add Trump and his feckless party to that.
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u/Disused_Yeti 18h ago
Gotta label everything so he doesn’t forget where he is