trump is serious!!!!!

[RayThom]

How about Lord Dampnut as Chuck "The Bayonne Bleeder" Wepner?

Hey, little person, where's the boxing ring?

[Scooter]

[Lord Jim]

If Donald had been there, he probably would have been asking Joe for pointers on how to deal with the press...

[Scooter]

Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?

[RayThom]

Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?

That snot funny.

[BoSoxGal]

That's not even photoshop, is it?!?!

Look, lots of people pick their noses - but most grownups know better than to do so in public. Shouldn't this be a litmus test for President, someone who knows better than to pick his nose in public?!?!

eta: Upon closer inspection I see that it IS photoshopped - phew!

[Joe Guy]

Yes, that's fake nose...

[BoSoxGal]

[Scooter]

[Scooter]

[Lord Jim]

Wes should certainly approve of this post, since it's a Youtube video:

[Scooter]

[BoSoxGal]

Clearly I should be watching Colbert!

[Scooter]

Trump’s magic words: ‘A lot of people don’t know that’

The presidential learning curve has been steep at times for Donald Trump, America’s first amateur leader. We’ve all been witness to the president learning things that many of us have known for quite a while.

This awkward process of discovery has, however, produced a phrase of underappreciated beauty: “A lot of people don’t know that.” These seven words are Trump’s way of saying, “I just learned something new, and I’m going to assume others are as ignorant as I am.”

Today, for example, Trump held a joint press conference alongside French President Emmanuel Macron, where the U.S. president declared, “France is America’s first and oldest ally. A lot of people don’t know that.” If you watch the brief clip, you’ll note that the first sentence was part of the prepared text, but the second sentence was ad libbed.

Trump probably wouldn’t admit this out loud, but I’m reasonably sure he said this because he considers this rather obvious historical detail – already familiar to much of the country – to be an interesting bit of trivia that only recently came to his attention.

It’s reminiscent of remarks Trump delivered in March when he said, in reference to Abraham Lincoln, “Most people don’t even know he was a Republican. Right? Does anyone know? A lot of people don’t know that.”

Referring to the president as “Captain Obvious,” the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank noted soon after just how frequently Trump reflects on what he assumes others don’t know.

That Bill Clinton signed NAFTA: “A lot of people don’t know that.”

What a value-added tax is: “A lot of people don’t know what that means.”

That we have a trade deficit with Mexico: “People don’t know that.”

That Iraq has large oil reserves: “People don’t know this about Iraq.”

That war is expensive: “People don’t realize it is a very, very expensive process.”

Whether he thinks “people” are incredibly uninformed, or whether he’s simply oblivious himself, will remain a subject of some debate.

Occasionally, though, Trump will reflect on things “people don’t know,” because the purported fact is simply wrong.

The Republican has argued, for example, that “nobody knows” that the murder rate is at 45-year high. Of course, in reality, “nobody knows” that because it’s not true. As Milbank’s column added, Trump also believes that “a lot of people don’t know” that U.S. taxes are the highest in the world, which would be fascinating, if his point weren’t completely wrong.

In other words, the president is fascinated by details that are already widely known and details he made up.

[Crackpot]

They forgot the "healthcare is complicated one.

[RayThom]

My father used the same tactic. It allowed him to stay comfortably ignorant making him feel superior without really trying. His signature admonition, "ah, you dope ya' ", still resonates to this day.

I can almost feel Lord Dampnut using the same words on the little people who surround him.

Sad.

[Big RR]

Do we have the same father? My dad never used the "dope" line, but he tried to come off as the only one who knew the way it really was, and had a mission to educate the rest of us.

[BoSoxGal]

http://pushtrumpoffacliffagain.com/

[Bicycle Bill]

http://pushtrumpoffacliffagain.com/

I really expected one of the sound effects would have been “Scream 3: Man, Gut-wrenching Scream And Fall Into Distance” —
a/k/a “The Howie Scream”.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

http://pushtrumpoffacliffagain.com/

It could use some work....

There's no way to toss him for distance like Slingshot Santa...