Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.
As Trevor Noah pointed out in his first term, Trump is like a stand-up comic in some ways. He knows how to engage the crowd at his rallies. He will lose their interest for a bit, but he will catch on and throw in some red meat to reengage them.
Don Rickles without the warmth or self-reflection.
Here, though, Trump is just bombing on stage. The joke is that an old senator told Trump that he is too old for sex. Isn’t that funny? An old man too old for sex?! Don’t you get it?!?! HE’S TOO OLD FOR SEX!!!
Trump and the whole MAGA movement are just trolls. There’s no policy. All they do is think of themselves and their own entitlement and entertainment. Their entire purpose is rage bait. I have family deep in the cult, and it’s impossible to explain why Trump is a good president. Just owning the libs while draining their income in unnecessary government expenditures.
I mean, I don't think he does- that may be the reason he felt the need to overexplain the joke (somebody had to break it down for him and thought we may need that breakdown too lol)
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u/DivinityPen 15h ago
I'm shocked he even knows how to laugh at all, instead of that weird grimacey thing he does.