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Trump's Interview With Axios's Jonathan Swan Was Frost/Nixon Mixed With Spinal Tap
What in the unshirted fuck was this country thinking in handing executive power over to this gruesome bag of old sins?
By Charles P. Pierce
Aug 4, 2020
Watch the whole thing and judge for yourself. Ill sit here and wait.
(...whistles...plays cribbage on phone...eats light breakfast...remembers half-forgotten prayers...avoids thinking of phrase nuclear codes...)
You done?
What was your favorite partand, by favorite, I mean the part that put so much ice in your aorta that it likely wont thaw for years. Was it It is what it is, for the massive death toll of the pandemic in this country? Was it Why cant I? when Jonathan Swan calls him out for fudging statistics? Was it the extraordinarily strange business with the charts? Was it his blowing off the memory of John Lewis while he blithely doubledand tripleddown on his support for alleged child sex-trafficker Ghislane Maxwell? Was it Swans own transparent incredulity; the man ran through a panoply of facial expressions that made Buster Keaton look like one of the heads on Easter Island. Or was it one of those terrifying moments when looking into the face of the president* of the United States was equivalent to staring down a well that went dry decades ago. Drop in a stone and wait for long minutes until you realize, finally, that there will be no splash, just the dull thump of rock on lifeless dirt.
This was Frost/Nixon mashed up with Spinal Tap. This was deplorable in ways of which not even Hillary Rodham Clinton could have dreamed. It was the worst argument for democracy since the German federal elections of 1932. It was an offense against reason, against wisdom, and it rendered every compliment ever directed at the American experiment into a sad, bedraggled parody. What in the unshirted fuck was this country thinking in handing executive power over to this gruesome bag of old sins? How did we all come to this? And, make no mistake, this is a disaster thats on every damn one of us because thats the way this country works.
Its pointless any more to make this demand but, Lord Jesus, get this guy out of there. Put the 25th Amendment on his ass. Impeach him again and then remove him. Write him a note from his doctor saying that there are fatbergs clogging all of his major blood vessels, especially those that bring blood to his brain. Anything to get him out of the job for which he was manifestly unfit at the start, and for which he is increasingly unfit temperamentally, emotionally, intellectually, and physically.
SWAN: Oh, youre doing death as a proportion of cases. Im talking about death as a proportion of population. Thats where the U.S. is really bad. Much worse than South Korea, Germany, etc.
TRUMP: You cant do that.
SWAN: Why cant I do that?
It is what it is. And we'll still be lucky if we all live through it.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a33509703/donald-trump-axios-jonathan-swan-interview-video/
Cirque du So-What
(25,940 posts)More like prefrontal lobotomy.
(Yes, I am familiar with the satirical documentary)
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)uprooting trumpism and snuffing it out, in the cradle.
Will require an overhaul of our culture and institutions that support it.
Reeducation camps anyone? Or Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
We must never again allow this to take over our country. We are dealing with mental health problem, I fear, among some portion of our population. Oh, and they are armed.
underpants
(182,825 posts)yonder
(9,666 posts)"...fatbergs clogging all of his major blood vessels" is another good one.
coti
(4,612 posts)drops a rock into the pit and waits for the return sound- only to realize there is no bottom.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)if you can watch that and still think he has his marbles in order, your brain is as scrambled as his.
We need more scrutiny and in depth reporting on the people running for president in the future.
No more covering for these empty vessel's (Reagan and trump and W) No more Crooks (Trump and Nixon) No more Liars (all of the R's)
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)Just finished watching it this morning. Boy howdy, it's a must see video, and I only hope it gets wide distribution.
Totally off topic, and I guess it's the camera angle, but the short fingered vulgarian's short digits were truly on display.
mcar
(42,334 posts)I saw a few clips and you are so right - boy howdy!
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)when the orange anus declined to praise John Lewis....I never really knew him and he snubbed me by not attending my inauguration thingy.
Hekate
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robbob
(3,531 posts)Sorry, dont get it? The jazz legend?
Hekate
(90,708 posts)robbob
(3,531 posts)Chakaconcarne
(2,453 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Afterward a photo showed a bruise on the back of his hand that could have been from an IV. His health condition is being withheld from the American people. How serious is his condition.
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