Let’s play a game today, shall we? Let’s pretend that we’ve just landed here in a spaceship and we don’t know who or what Donald Trump is. All that we know is that from time to time he gets on the airwaves of something called Fox News (which has nothing to do with foxes, from what we can ascertain) where they call him “Mr. President” and ask him questions.
Then what comes from the mouth of this character, who is in his mid-seventies, sounds like something that an 8-year-old child of ignorant parents might repeat in school.
Here is Trump holding forth on climate change, foreign policy, you name it. And remember this at all times: He thinks he sounds smart.
VARNEY: Is the climate changing because of human activity?
TRUMP: In my opinion you have a thing called weather, and you go up and you go down. If you look into the 1920s, they were talking about global freezing. pic.twitter.com/Ef95mIvb2w
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2022
Was that erudite enough for you? No? Well, let’s switch topics. Here is Trump on the Iran Deal.
And you know it has to get worse, right? That’s the pattern. And Trump does not disappoint. Here he is talking about the Big Lie going forward into 2022 and 2024 — which is to say that he’s not talking about going forward at all. He’s talking about keeping himself and the GOP stuck like flies in amber in the past. Terrific way to run a political party.
Varney can barely believe it when Trump claims the 2022 and 2024 elections should mainly be about how he was "cheated" in 2020 pic.twitter.com/P2YTgvrymu
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2022
Even Varney seems like he can hardly believe what he’s hearing.
Now here’s how Trump would be running the war effort in Ukraine. He’s rehearsed this strategy in his bathtub, he knows it’s sound.
Trump says that if he was president he would send nuclear submarines and planes toward Russia and tell Putin "we'll be coasting back and forth up and down your coast" pic.twitter.com/j9KMQ7aczW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 21, 2022
Well, at least he didn’t use the eff word on Fox News. I suppose that’s some form of progress. Watching Trump in the morning reminds me of that old song, “Smokin’ cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo, now don’t tell me, I’ve nothin’ to do.”
FYI, Fox’s Stuart Varney without his stage/set make-up is Ernest. (Jim Varney was an alias who never actually died)
That song starts with, “countin flowers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all”…baby huey can’t count. Oh. And the weather can be easily fixed by firing all the nukes at every cloud passing by. “I’m smart. Not like you, but I’m smart & I want respect.” Frodo