As you might have heard, yesterday, the whole world laughed at Donald Trump. Okay, technically, the world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly laughed at Trump.
Here’s the clip of Trump bragging that in his first year in office, his administration “has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” followed by audible laughter from the crowd.
The moment the UN General Assembly LOL’d at Trump’s boast pic.twitter.com/3ZWnbdiFve
— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) September 25, 2018
He tried to play it off, saying “It’s so true … I didn’t expect that reaction but it’s okay.” And the laughter got louder.
Added bonus:
And here is Germany literally laughing at Trump after he says the country could become totally dependent on Russian energy pic.twitter.com/1NLa99tGLN
— Marcus Gilmer (@marcusgilmer) September 25, 2018
This is so embarrassing. This is the man that the majority of American (electoral) voters chose not just to govern us, but to represent us. And he deserves to be laughed at.
But perhaps even more embarrassing is the ways in which Trump’s supporters have tried to reframe the reaction.
Nikki Haley, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., basically tried to say that the world leaders weren’t laughing at Trump, but with him. Because he’s so … honest?
“They loved how honest he is,” Haley told Fox & Friends. “It’s not diplomatic and they find it funny. … When he goes and he is very truthful, they kind of were taken back by it.”
Folks, we got a real-life “Boo-urns” on our hands. https://t.co/c905m6kQOd
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 26, 2018
When Fox News tweeted out the speech, they went even further and split the clip into two parts, editing out the laughter in the middle.
Fox’s Twitter account clipped what Trump said immediately before AND immediately after the laughter.
The laughter appears in neither clip. https://t.co/ERLsut7DY2https://t.co/LFUUKuMA5m pic.twitter.com/1Kj5wO3e0Z
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) September 25, 2018
Yup, Fox News went full “lalalala I can’t hear you.”
And then Trump himself followed it up with this propaganda endorsement.
This is some deranged dictator shit pic.twitter.com/NrCwdnR1io
— Priyanka Aribindi (@priaribi) September 26, 2018
Trump has repeatedly said that the world is laughing at us. He’s been saying so since long before he ever took office. But as a Brookings Institute analyst told the Washington Post, “It’s never been true,” even though Trump has said so about every president in recent decades. Now, though, “It’s the first time I’m aware of that people actually laughed at a president. I think it is going to drive him absolutely crazy. It will play to every insecurity he has.”
The only thing scarier than Regular Trump is hurt-feelings, antagonistically insecure Trump. Batten down the emotionally vulnerable man-baby hatches.
(image: ANGELA WEISS/AFP/Getty Images)
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