Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

I have a catamite following me with freshly mixed Negronis.

Looking at the Trump clips in the Kimmel clip, I see Two-Scoops is leaning into the "Four Years Ago Things Were Better" thing, so hey hey COVID Nostalgia...

this is the america i know and love! maybe trump IS the right person for the job...

https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/stupid/indiana-meth-069345

APRIL 17--An Indiana woman is facing a narcotics charge after she called 911 to report purchasing an inferior batch of methamphetamine and say that she wanted to file charges against her drug dealer, police report.

As alleged in a probable cause affidavit, Sarah Harris, 34, twice dialed the police emergency number to declare that her meth was “not what it was supposed to be.”

The drug, she later explained to police, left her feeling as if she was having a heart attack. Harris said she had snorted a line of the meth and felt “something different when it touched her skin and nostrils.”

Harris noted that she and a friend had “smoked a bowl of normal meth” before she eventually obtained the meth that led her to call 911 earlier this year.

Make Meth Great Again

xps I assumed Pacino said it that way in case it was the wrong envelope again

Coincidentally it turns out that Moonlight actually won AZ in 2020.

xp or he forgot his readers and wanted to reserve space for a correction

There is a bit of the last words of Dutch Schultz in how Trump speaks, especially in that Gettysburg address (sic).

it helps that jimmy's jokes are the funniest of late night. he must have some good writers. and he's less polite than the rest. he calls trump a scumbag and the like.

― scott seward, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:55 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was pretty shocked to see Blaire Erskine show up during one monologue, I know her from Twitter and she's very funny. no surprise that a late night production that would hire her would wind up being a lot sharper than the others. much better than Colbert which might as well be written by the Krassensteins

Maybe it's because Kimmel seems the closest (of the Late Night hosts) to the type of guy who might be a Trump fan.

― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:55 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I've thought this as well, especially if you know him primarily from The Man Show (which I'm assuming Trump does). I disagree that he's like Rogan though, maybe they're both guy's guys who revel in dumb humor but Kimmel seems way more down-to-earth and skeptical

i think he has actually evolved? it can happen. i never watched The Man Show. the promos back then on MTV were enough to make me never want to see it. he just seemed like a random morning radio zoo crew guy back then.
i remember when he had a kid who had medical problems and he brought it up on his show and i felt really bad for him and saw him as a human. years ago.

Rogan replaced Kimmel on the Man Show, which is why I made the connection

weird. i don't remember that. i mostly hate rogan for making me never want to watch old episodes of newsradio which i loved.

the other reason it's easy to be surprised by it is that Adam Carolla never did evolve and is some douche conservative still

he was on some stupid talk show once talking about how liberals were making it impossible to police because they essentially didn't let cops aggressively take action and kill the person they're chasing, so they do things like chase vehicles over long stretches including neighborhoods.

he was too stupid to realize that over-aggressive policing is why you'd find a cop ripping after a vehicle at 80 mph in a neighborhood.

"We wouldn't have had to run over your kid if you'd let us take out the bad guys with bazookas."

ooh he apparently made a documentary called "No Safe Spaces"

sounds great.

Joe Rogan was of course the lvp of that Newsradio cast. I just remember an interview with Maura Tierney where she talked about how she was having a bad day on set one time because Rogan was really unpleasant to her, and Phil Hartman came over and gave her a very empathetic pep talk. I don't know why anyone would be mean to Maura Tierney.

Fwiw, when Kimmel started his late night show in 2003 (mere weeks before the invasion of Iraq), he was the only guy in late night network TV doing anti-Bush material (albeit kind of soft-sold -- he wasn't Jon Stewart) and one of his first weekly co-hosts was Janene Garofalo promoting the launch of Air America. Of course, one of the other co-hosts was Don King talking up "George Walker Bush" every night, although Kimmel seemed to regard it in a "look at this jackass" kind of thing.

As someone who watched The Man Show, Kimmel’s delivery was the main thing that made the whole thing read like satire to me

I only watched a couple of episodes and I genuinely thought he was a dolt. His current persona/show is thus a lot more interesting to me than it would be otherwise.

Don't forget his other gig on Win Ben Stein's Money. I mean I suppose being fully embedded with that dude for years might turn you into a complete leftist as well.

News

In Trump's NY criminal case, prosecutors file their so-called "Sandoval" notice—disclosing uncharged prior bad acts they intend to use at trial to impeach his credibility.

The list in the document rattles off the NYAG civil fraud case, the E. Jean Carroll case, and more. pic.twitter.com/rlkeE3TisN

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 17, 2024

Don't forget his other gig on Win Ben Stein's Money. I mean I suppose being fully embedded with that dude for years might turn you into a complete leftist as well.

Wetting his beak.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has found a new way to press for badly needed cash.

In a letter received by Republican digital vendors this week, the Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign.

“Beginning tomorrow, we ask that all candidates and committees who choose to use President Trump’s name, image, and likeness split a minimum of 5% of all fundraising solicitations to Trump National Committee JFC. This includes but is not limited to sending to the house file, prospecting vendors, and advertising,” Trump co-campaign managers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita wrote in the letter, which is dated April 15.

They add: “Any split that is higher than 5% will be seen favorably by the RNC and President Trump’s campaign and is routinely reported to the highest levels of leadership within both organizations.”

Holy Pay to Play, Batman!

They invited him in...

A two-bit grifter until the end.

You have to kick up to the Don

Trump National Committee JFC

Fuck you, pay me.

I can’t stop reading that last paragraph in Tom Hagen’s voice

Isn't that last line the same one used on garden-variety MAGA rubes? "President Trump will be personally reviewing a list of patriots later this week, and he hopes to see your name on it!"

smacks of desperation

He's under indictment for more than 90 felonies. Of course he's desperate. He sees delaying his trials until after November and winning the election as his best chance to escape that jeopardy. If he loses to Biden, he'll still delay in every way possible, but the writing is on the wall.

Makes we wonder (not really) whatever became of good ol' Tom DeLay...

*me

you guys, i can feel it. he's just about to get his comeuppance.

Just sitting quietly for hours on end in a room without a television or snacks is his comeuppance

no way his uppance comes very soon. it'll drag out interminably, but even as he pays hundreds of millions to ensure that he'll be stuck in that process for years, he will hate being stuck there with a passion.

I'm sticking with my $5 bet that there will be zero IRL consequences by the end of April.

"Just sitting quietly for hours on end in a room without a television or snacks is his comeuppance"

its something anyway. he's not in control and you know that just enrages him. which i am all for. but he deserves so much hell. he has created a lot of pain for people as president and beyond.

Karen McDougal might testify? that's gonna be awesomely awkward

It's like the final Seinfeld episode, all the ghosts coming back to haunt him

I keep thinking Karen McDougal is someone from the Whitewater case. But I guess that her name is not Susan.

I had the same reaction.

me three

me boys

you can't fight Karen McDougal uphill, me boys!

"I paid a lawyer and was marking it down as a legal expense ..."

I'm not a legal person but I'm guessing that the defendant outright confessing to his role in a major campaign finance violation, tax fraud etc in front of all the US media outside the courtroom is not a good move for his defense team.

Yeah, it's apparently admissible.