Anybody who knows Trump, knows well than he doesn’t joke. The man has no sense of humor. It’s ridiculous at this stage that the media continues to normalize this man.
Trump doesn't have the capacity to joke, can't take a joke, but is a damn joke himself. That the media continues to play the game Trump wants to play is just an American tragedy
The most sickening thing of all from the Jon Stewart show about the WHCD was his clip of members of the press, including, for God's sake, Wolf Blitzer, saying how funny Trump was, what a great sense of humor he had! The MSM has lost their way, as their audience and credibility circles the toilet. It's not just the WHCD, the MSM as a whole is in thrall to this depraved degenerate and there better be some fierce accountability when this nightmare is over, assuming it ever is. In the meantime the MSM is busy propping up this nightmare because, gee, he's POTUS after all, and the guy is such a cutup!
Smart people aren't always funny, but genuinely funny people are always smart and usually self-aware. Trump is none of those things. He's just a thug who thinks humiliating people is the height of comedy and cries "it was a joke!" like a third-grader when he's caught in a lie or an embarrassing situation.
I agree he's not "joking" – that's the media's way of trying to convince us he's not as vile as he is but just making funny. But there's also a danger in taking these statements way too literally. He says a lot of these things I think because he NEEDS to believe them and is trying to convince himself even if they're not possible and he has no way of making them happen. But as for "joking," he doesn't joke. The media is trying to fabricate a side of him that doesn't exist.
It's so hard to tell when Trump is doing his handlers' bidding and when he's embarrassing the hell out of them. We *do* need to take what he says seriously, but I don't think we need to take all of it *literally*.
One challenge here is that for decades we haven't really taken Republican presidents themselves seriously. Behind Bush II there was Cheney. Behind Bush I -- hmm, I can't really remember. Reagan -- Rumsfeld? Ashcroft? I like to blame Kissinger for everything, but that's not right either.
I'm not sure that Bush I had anyone behind him, but the price for him to become president was to move away from the moderate stance that lost him the nomination to Reagan. I don't think Clarence Thomas was his idea, but he certainly ran with it.
My hunch is that the Democrats on the Senate Justice Committee in 1991 (IIRC, all white men, including Joe Biden) had no idea how to oppose a Black nominee without looking racist -- until Anita Hill's testimony. The Judiciary Committee vote on approval was deadlocked, and the nomination wound up going to the full Senate without a recommendation. The Senate vote was remarkably close, 52–48. (I gave my I BELIEVE ANITA HILL pin to a local activist who was even more furious than I was.)
Truly! No one believes a liar, even when they tell the truth. He told his followers the truth. That he didn’t care about them, he just wanted their votes 🗳️. They wanted to think 💭 that he was joking 🙃. Everything he says is just the opposite, reverse! BAZZARO WORLD 🌎!
When Trump tells a so-called joke, what he is doing is sending up trial balloons to see what he can get away with doing. When the corporate media picked up on his comments in 2020 and kept asking if he would accept the results of the election, they were actually aiding him by making an unheard-of act into a distinct possibility by implying that it was up to HIM to make that choice. And he ran with it, as January 6, 2021, showed us.
The corporate media also has a need to transform Trump's craziness into non-craziness. I gagged last Friday, when some of the people on Washington Week with the Atlantic said that Trump was concerned about his "legacy." In my opinion, Trump is not concerned about his legacy because he is unable to conceive of a world in which he does not exist.
Hi Mark, I wanted to flag a story idea about Trump’s expanding control over critical materials, especially rare earths. There’s a strong investigative angle here around how the administration is using federal stakes, price floors, and deal-making to shape ownership and competition in strategically important industries.A piece on this would help explain whether this is ordinary industrial policy or something closer to a government monopoly over the materials that power semiconductors, defense, batteries, and manufacturing. MP Materials and Vulcan Elements would be strong examples to anchor the story, along with the broader pattern across Intel, lithium, and steel.
I’m impressed by your article. Could you please write an article about rare earths and critical materials? Thank you so much.
The Pentagon’s $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements—soon after investment from Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm—raises questions about transparency, influence, and the rapid push to expand domestic rare earth production.
Anybody who knows Trump, knows well than he doesn’t joke. The man has no sense of humor. It’s ridiculous at this stage that the media continues to normalize this man.
Trump doesn't have the capacity to joke, can't take a joke, but is a damn joke himself. That the media continues to play the game Trump wants to play is just an American tragedy
The most sickening thing of all from the Jon Stewart show about the WHCD was his clip of members of the press, including, for God's sake, Wolf Blitzer, saying how funny Trump was, what a great sense of humor he had! The MSM has lost their way, as their audience and credibility circles the toilet. It's not just the WHCD, the MSM as a whole is in thrall to this depraved degenerate and there better be some fierce accountability when this nightmare is over, assuming it ever is. In the meantime the MSM is busy propping up this nightmare because, gee, he's POTUS after all, and the guy is such a cutup!
I've never seen an individual so lacking in a sense of humor.
Smart people aren't always funny, but genuinely funny people are always smart and usually self-aware. Trump is none of those things. He's just a thug who thinks humiliating people is the height of comedy and cries "it was a joke!" like a third-grader when he's caught in a lie or an embarrassing situation.
I agree he's not "joking" – that's the media's way of trying to convince us he's not as vile as he is but just making funny. But there's also a danger in taking these statements way too literally. He says a lot of these things I think because he NEEDS to believe them and is trying to convince himself even if they're not possible and he has no way of making them happen. But as for "joking," he doesn't joke. The media is trying to fabricate a side of him that doesn't exist.
The only time he doesn't lie is when he is talking about the next, horrible, illegal, unconstitutional act that he and his lickspittles are planning.
He will stop at nothing. He must be stopped, by massive voter turnout, legal action, and hopefully, by the new Congress.
The news media simply can’t help but sanewash and sanitize what Trump says. He’s pathologically abnormal but media treat him otherwise.
If he says he is going to do something good for America it is a LIE. If he says he is going to do something awful for America it is the truth.
It's so hard to tell when Trump is doing his handlers' bidding and when he's embarrassing the hell out of them. We *do* need to take what he says seriously, but I don't think we need to take all of it *literally*.
One challenge here is that for decades we haven't really taken Republican presidents themselves seriously. Behind Bush II there was Cheney. Behind Bush I -- hmm, I can't really remember. Reagan -- Rumsfeld? Ashcroft? I like to blame Kissinger for everything, but that's not right either.
I'm not sure that Bush I had anyone behind him, but the price for him to become president was to move away from the moderate stance that lost him the nomination to Reagan. I don't think Clarence Thomas was his idea, but he certainly ran with it.
My hunch is that the Democrats on the Senate Justice Committee in 1991 (IIRC, all white men, including Joe Biden) had no idea how to oppose a Black nominee without looking racist -- until Anita Hill's testimony. The Judiciary Committee vote on approval was deadlocked, and the nomination wound up going to the full Senate without a recommendation. The Senate vote was remarkably close, 52–48. (I gave my I BELIEVE ANITA HILL pin to a local activist who was even more furious than I was.)
Truly! No one believes a liar, even when they tell the truth. He told his followers the truth. That he didn’t care about them, he just wanted their votes 🗳️. They wanted to think 💭 that he was joking 🙃. Everything he says is just the opposite, reverse! BAZZARO WORLD 🌎!
When Trump tells a so-called joke, what he is doing is sending up trial balloons to see what he can get away with doing. When the corporate media picked up on his comments in 2020 and kept asking if he would accept the results of the election, they were actually aiding him by making an unheard-of act into a distinct possibility by implying that it was up to HIM to make that choice. And he ran with it, as January 6, 2021, showed us.
The corporate media also has a need to transform Trump's craziness into non-craziness. I gagged last Friday, when some of the people on Washington Week with the Atlantic said that Trump was concerned about his "legacy." In my opinion, Trump is not concerned about his legacy because he is unable to conceive of a world in which he does not exist.
Hi Mark, I wanted to flag a story idea about Trump’s expanding control over critical materials, especially rare earths. There’s a strong investigative angle here around how the administration is using federal stakes, price floors, and deal-making to shape ownership and competition in strategically important industries.A piece on this would help explain whether this is ordinary industrial policy or something closer to a government monopoly over the materials that power semiconductors, defense, batteries, and manufacturing. MP Materials and Vulcan Elements would be strong examples to anchor the story, along with the broader pattern across Intel, lithium, and steel.
I’m impressed by your article. Could you please write an article about rare earths and critical materials? Thank you so much.
The Pentagon’s $620 million loan to Vulcan Elements—soon after investment from Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm—raises questions about transparency, influence, and the rapid push to expand domestic rare earth production.