It might be funny for Tweety Trump to say he'd be President for another 10 years to some people, but if anyone thinks he is joking, they are wrong!
Tweety Trump surrogates and spokespersons and most Republicans say he doesn't mean the ugly things he says or his lies or his false clams or his verbal stumbles. He's just incompetent or foolish or being funny or sarcastic.
Maybe the day he set up a fast-food cheeseburger and fires buffet spread for the Championship Clemson Tiger college football team was a joke? But when he says cops should be rougher on people they arrest, it's not funny or sarcastic, but it IS stupid! When Tweety calls people who disagree with his policies or statements or behavior "human scum," it is NOT humor.
"Trump Pokes Fun at Himself. Why Do Only Some People See It?"
His self-aware sense of humor is a powerful weapon. If you can spot the joke.
By JOANNA WEISS November 09, 2019
"Joanna Weiss is a writer in Boston and the editor of Experience magazine.
There’s a common conception, among foes of Donald Trump, that the 45th president tweets every day in a kind of fevered state: alone by his bedroom TV set, wrapped in a smoking jacket or maybe a satin Snuggie, typing in fits of narcissism, defensiveness and self-aggrandizement. And maybe that is his mood, much of the time. It certainly has been for most of this past week, as the president took to Twitter to attack the “degenerate Washington Post” and the “Impeachment Hoax”—and to drum up votes for “very loyal” Sean Spicer on Dancing With The Stars.
But if you’re paying as much attention to all of his tweets, not just his angry, appalling and self-serving ones, you'll find some striking moments when Trump isn’t just raging outward, but making fun of himself—even showing a wry acceptance of the caricatures favored by the left"
Really!? Come on man! Of course we can see Tweety's humor when he is "winning," getting his way, or when people are praising him. But everyone can be funny when they are stroked.
My gut feeling is that even when Tweety is his nastiest self, he is funny, he is laughing at his victims! Nell Scovell gets it.
"He has challenged his followers to find the secret meaning behind his famed “covfefe” accidental tweet. He’s made light of the notion that he would seek a third term, joking about leaving office “in six years, or maybe 10 or 14 (just kidding).” In August, as he was floating the purchase of a certain Danish territory, he tweeted a picture of a gold-plated Trump hotel photoshopped onto a craggy shore, along with the words, “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” He makes cracks about himself in person, too; at a rally in Louisiana this week, he poked fun at the rambling rhetoric that sometimes gets him into trouble: “I do my best work off script ... I also do my worst work off script.”
These were genuine, self-aware, sometimes even self-deprecating jokes—if you were in the mindset to receive them. Of course, many Trump opponents aren’t. And given his impeachment-triggering behavior and his penchant for crossing the lines of decency, it’s no surprise that many find Trump to be no laughing matter, or have trouble finding lighthearted spots in an ongoing stream of hyperbole and bile. One New York Times column called his “A Presidency Without Humor.” Comedy writer Nell Scovell, who has written jokes for David Letterman and Barack Obama, once declared that if Trump does have a sense of humor, it’s confined to the instances when he “clearly chuckles at the misfortune of others.”"
Tweety Trump is clever and "funny" in a very evil way.
"For Trump and his defenders, a little gentle self-mocking does more than just warm up a room. It can neutralize his opponents’ attacks. And it can let Trump off the hook even when he probably isn’t joking, as when Marco Rubio argued last month that Trump was only kidding when he declared that China should investigate Hunter Biden.But it’s most powerful when it makes his supporters feel that they’re in on Trump’s jokes in a way the establishment isn’t."
This is a way to recognize Tweety's tool box, and if we can, use it against him as he plunders our country and destroys our Democracy. Tweety's sarcastic humor is a weapon we need to defend against to bring sanity to the Presidency.
"For Trump and his defenders, a little gentle self-mocking does more than just warm up a room. It can neutralize his opponents’ attacks. And it can let Trump off the hook even when he probably isn’t joking, as when Marco Rubio argued last month that Trump was only kidding when he declared that China should investigate Hunter Biden.
But it’s most powerful when it makes his supporters feel that they’re in on Trump’s jokes in a way the establishment isn’t."
Tweety is using his humor to disarm you . . . will you allow him to take your soul?
" . . . even on days when he’s under attack, he often finds ways to slip in notes of self-awareness, sometimes accompanied by a built-in commentary on the political environment. In a recent press conference with the president of FIFA, he joked about wanting to “extend my second term” until the United States hosts the World Cup in 2026, then turned to the press and quipped, “I don’t think any of you would have a problem with that.” On the day of a contentious meeting with congressional Democrats, as the impeachment inquiry accelerated, Trump posted a photo of a frowning Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Steny Hoyer, accompanied by one line: “Do you think they like me?”
Here's a BIG logic stretch of why Tweety's humor is helpful to Tweety as a weapon.
"In evolutionary psychology, Greengross says, this idea is known as the “costly signaling theory” or “handicap principle.” If someone with high status is able to thrive in spite of highlighting a weakness, he’s actually displaying strength."
I'm not as smart as the author, J. Weiss, and do not know Greengross works, but I am pretty sure Tweety is not showing "strength" when he lashes out, with humor or no humor. Greengross study, as I read Weiss synopsis, does not apply to Tweety. Tweety has high status, BUT he is not of high character, given he cheated on ALL his wives, wants to date his daughter, and confessed to grabbing women by their genitals . . .NONE of which is funny or ethical or moral.
