I often rebelled as an editor at various sites when writers wanted to joke about Donald Trump travelling in diapers or some other physical issue other than his health. I would scold them, saying that we all age and that come age 50 we start to feel it. There was a lot to criticize about Trump and we didn’t need to go there, so stop. I still have that policy but then again, I am not Barack Obama’s boss, never will be, and Barack Obama can do whatever he damn well wants. He’s earned it.
Yesterday, Obama was campaigning for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania. He clearly looked through his big bag of fcks and saw that he had absolutely none to give and laid it out against Trump. True, he went after a diaper joke… sort of. But he had a lot more to say. We’ll start at the smelly point.
“I remember changing diapers. Do you think Donald Trump ever changed a diaper?” he asked the crowd, which responded with a mixture of laughs and “no”s. One supporter responded with, “His own!”
“I almost said that,” Obama replied, chuckling, “but I decided I shouldn’t say it.”
Alright, alright, he made at least a token attempt to stay on the classy side.
Going purely off memory, I recall reading something about Trump decades ago and he did say that he “didn’t like” changing diapers back when his kids were babies. How totally typical! I didn’t like changing my daughter’s diaper when she was a baby! But I did, over and over again. I did it because I really liked picking her up afterward, totally clean and baby-powdered happy. You had to get through changing to get there. It was worth it. Just like it’s worth it now to tell her to have her 17 year-old self home by 11:00., definitely worth it.
But Donald Trump just doesn’t seem to be that guy. I am in no way attacking anything about poor Barron Trump because I want to know if you ever saw Barron when Trump went to the Super Bowl or a rocket launch? No! Barron was a teen boy living in the White House for God’s sake! Take the lad to a football game, take him down to NASA, make living in the White House at least sort of cool for a teen boy probably wanting to go out at night with friends. I suppose it’s possible that Barron was quarterback, played guitar, had straight A’s, and dated the cheerleading team – we’d really never know. But still…
Obama did get serious and went after Trump on the economy and did something he rarely does – he bragged. After mentioning that Trump did have a good economy for the first three years pre-COVID, Obama said; “Yeah, that was my economy! We had 73 months of positive job grown when I handed it off… He didn’t build that!” (Referencing the old cliche that he never actually said in context.)
Obama also somewhat scolded black men for hesitating on whether to vote for Trump, in effect saying that they had to be kidding themselves if they think that life will be better for them under Trump. NO ONE else could possibly have gotten away with such a line.
But then again, he’s Barack F’ing Obama, two-term president, with a good economy, and he gets to do whatever he hell he wants with his big bag of…
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Look, a man of color, even one as erudite as Former President Obama, won’t be considered funny by trump’s supporters when he makes jokes about their cult leader. They will however become irate. These people are unstable as it is so adding fuel to their fire of instability is going to start yet another bonfire with these foolish people. Hammer home the fact that trump received a strong country with a strong economy in 2017 and left office with a country in a complete shambles. Leave the poop jokes to those of us who don’t count.
And yeah, I get it. He did not make the joke. He did however let it get a good laugh and did not call the joker on it. Barak Obama is a bigger man than what he showed those folks.
This diapered pissant traitor is worshipped? FOR WHAT??? All I can surmise is half of our voting public are whiny spoiled brats, who, while enjoying the fruits of the nation OTHERS DIED TO GIVE US, are TRAITORS and whiny little bitches. That’s my theory and I have the receipts.
Since you have the receipts, you don’t have a theory, you have the FACTS!!!
So glad he went after orange crybaby menace about diapers and the great economy that he inherited from President Obama and then ran into the ground. That being said, he cannot take credit for that economy but should take the blame for the shit he handed to President Biden, including the botched response to covid. That includes giving putin supplies and not giving ppe to Blue states because “they didn’t vote for” him! Also the near meeting at Camp David with the Taliban and the botched withdrawal, etc., etc., etc…..he must take the blame but he’s too much of a baby to do so Sad!
YES JASON .. saw it before I really understood that he was remarking on an
event in TUCSON MUSIC HALL just the other day. SEE @SethAbramson for whole
story but apparently STENCH WAS SO BAD someone in Trumps ORG sprayed
a deodorant …right into ATTENDEES EYES… Six were injured and TWO WERE temporarily BLINDED!… MORE ON ATTENDEES EYE BLINDNESS at #TucsonMusicHall RALLY….via Seth Abramson
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