On CNN, Brit journalist Rob Crilly makes the case for mocking Trump mercilessly. In a post titled “It’s your duty to laugh at Donald Trump,” Crilly notes that
Humor is Kryptonite to [Trump’s] thin-skinned existence.
He is utterly impervious to the usual weapons of politics. Try to wound him with shame or embarrass him with public scrutiny and you may as well try to sink a duck by pouring a jug of H2O over its rear end.
But, Crilly notes, if you make a comment about his allegedly tiny hands (not that there’s anything actually wrong with tiny hands) Trump will lose it completely. And each time Alex Baldwin puts on orange makeup and a wig for Saturday Night Live, Trump watches the show and seethes.
Trump’s sensitivity is easily understood when you realize he is on a desperate quest to be taken seriously. Just remember the face he pulled when he sat beside Barack Obama in the Oval Office on that Thursday after an election. It was the sort of face a three-year-old exhibits when they really, really want you know they are concentrating. Or when they are trying to squeeze out a number two.
Pretty much.
Responding to [Trump] with ridicule is not un-American. It is not demeaning to the office of the President — for there is only one person in all of this who is demeaning the office of the President. …
It is not a sign that you have given up, that you are complacent or one of the winners. When you remember that all Trump craves is to be taken seriously, it turns out that laughing is your duty.
Humor has always been an effective tool against tyrants. And the utterly humorless Trump hates being mocked more than almost anyone in the world.
So make Trump jokes. Post dumb Trump memes. Never give him the respect he so desperately craves but does not deserve. It’ll make you feel better and Trump feel worse. Seriously.
1000% this. I’m not looking to mock him for having tiny hands (does he even? I do not care nearly enough about hand size to have ever noticed) or the implication that he has a tiny penis. I’m just want to mock the hell out of him for being so incredibly insecure he absolutely has to defend his dick size at all costs.
Mmmm, okay. How’s this? Ever notice how conveniently the word “Trump” rhymes with a large number of derogatory words? “Lump”, “mump”, “dump”, “rump”, “hump”, “grump”, “frump”, “chump”, “slump”, “plump”, “stump”…
Oh, I think we all noticed. Of course, making fun of someone’s name rhyming with something else is literally Kindergarten bully humor. On the other hand, it’s also probably the only humor Trump would understand.
“I mean, I do get doing it just because it gets under his skin, but at the same time I hate to contribute to the insecure macho mentality making fun of people’s penis size promotes, not to mention the shaming of fat and elderly bodies.”
Thank you, @Michael Brew.
I had to stick to my guns when it came to saying that size shaming was never appropriate even with an odious asshat like The Rump, even though mine was an unpopular opinion.
I worked with the geriatric population for close to 25 years as a CNA before going to the complete opposite end of the spectrum and working with pediatric patients as an LPN starting last year. There are a lot of elderly gentlemen who have bodies similar to those statues. To imply that it is a disgusting or laughable thing to have such a body is wrong.
I hate to break out this old chestnut, but two wrongs don’t make a right. The Rump is a horrid human being for his body shaming, particularly where women are concerned. However, it would be equally odious for me to ridicule his body type because he said bad things about mine.
Certainly, his actions give us a veritable bottomless Christmas stocking full of laugh (and cringe) worthy material.
I do agree with those who say that calling him a Cheeto gets a pass. He doesn’t have to put on the Deplorable Orange spray tan.
What is amazing is the amount of stuff there is to mock him about without size and/or body shaming. Thrumplethinskin makes it just too easy.
*mispelled tweets
* orange spray tan
* badly fit suits
* not knowing jack sh*t about anything
I think Elizabeth Warren and Clinton did the best job mocking him with his own words during the campaign. Just follow that strategy, and never call him president, just Donald.
[sorry drive by comment, I’m off to bed.]
David
Seth feels a bit guilty about that at times. It came up on Meet The Press.
mrmagnificent said much the same thing. Trump is rich enough to have a whole troupe of butlers, footmen, groomers, shoppers working for him. Surely someone could suggest that he get a personalised colour mix that suits him better and that no one else could ever have. (A bit like the Queen and her lipstick.)
A clever make up artist could ensure that the changeover wasn’t an overnight conversion from Mango Mussolini to Wally the Walnut. Changing the mix week by week for 8-10 weeks would be more or less imperceptible. It’d probably make old publicity shots look as though they’d been done on an old Polaroid.
It really shouldn’t be that hard for someone who knows their stuff to
a) get a better colour
b) apply it evenly and consistently.
Something that would really get his goat – massed protestors turning their backs on his motorcade. I was going to suggest mooning as well, but that’s probably going a bit too far.
On the “small hands” thing:
I’ve always enjoyed it as an illustration of Trump’s ridiculous sensitivity to the wrong interpretation of a damning insult.
It is now a running joke about his penis size only because he chose to make it one. Spy Magazine used to refer to him as a “short fingered vulgarian”, accurately invoking the “deep pockets, short arms” adage about wealthy people who are unwilling to spend their own money.
In other words, the insult was that he was a cheapskate misappropriator of other people’s money, with tacky personal taste to boot.
Since he couldn’t refute that, he spent the next 28 years defending his hand size, and linking it to his penis size, and the rest of the world started joining in.
I for one will continue to refer to him as ShortFingeredVulgarian Trump because I am implying nothing about his genitals or his hands when I say that.
Due to past events, I’m gonna mostly sit this discussion out. My heart has been softened.
One comment though: I don’t find penis size jokes funny at all, and I also think they’re very problematic for various reasons. However, I do believe Donald should #ReleaseTheDickPics
Just because the people deserve to know that he’s not lying.
I find the stubby-fingers thing hilarious because I also have stubby fingers and toes, relative to hand size; I always have little bits of glove sticking past the ends of my fingers, and toe socks are never gonna fit – my big toes approach circularity. Those are literally the only issues with the stubby digits. For a presumed adult, Trump really is hilariously sensitive to finger-length jokes.
@Mish
’twas indeed me. That came with my suggestion to petition the White House to have him release his birth certificate and prove he is neither a lovecraftian horror from the deep nor a poorly programmed robot planted by Putin to undermine the US.
His ego is definitely the best target. And mockery is one of the few things that even foreigners can do. Activism is tricky if you’re not a US citizen, but taunting Trump from across an ocean ? Heh.
Re : Body-shaming. I can’t think of a single context in which a penis size or fat joke can be justified. Any kind of body-shaming, really. And just because it’s him, doesn’t make it fair game. But by all means, please do make fun of the hair. The hair is fair game. It was through a conscious (if misguided) choice that he paid a fortune to make it look like a swamp monster immigrant made its nest on his head.
Just be careful not to stray into bald-shaming territory. That would kinda defeat the whole point. It’s not about why he’s got fake hair, it’s about how ridiculous (and ridiculously expensive) the fake hair is.
True, his hair piece is a great allegory for his business enterprise. He pays a huge sum on something that looks sketchy and ultimately fails while he insists it’s completely legit and pretends no one noticed.
@Kevin,
Mooning would not be going to far.
I regret not being able to attend this time around, I’m sure it will be lot’s of fun. I’m hoping for the biggest blac bloc ever – all wearing red clown noses.
There was once an old geezer called Trump,
Who dressed like a great big frump.
For president he ran,
‘Cause he’s a great big ham,
And now we’re all saying, “Truck Fump”!
(With apologies to Wonkette.)
I also am uncomfortable with fat-shaming, but I think it’s fair to point out the hypocrisy of his behavior and comments, including his own hypocrisy judging women’s bodies, considering his own size, and behavior (saying “she must have eaten a lot) while skoffing bacon cheeseburgers).
Just a thought?
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DJT is a scary clown.
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This man does a lot of projecting!
What he means is that now that he’s won, the world is gloomy.
Nice of him to grace us with the boon of his mere existence, though.
OT : does someone have heard about the next Scott Adams horror ?
I have heard hearsay of a stalker application, but I did not find it on his blog, so I want to have a double check before starting going livid and explaining to people why he should be put in prison.
when it comes to body shaming & generally mocking trump, just ask yourself if you are also hurting his victims/innocents thereby*. If you are mocking his behaviors, ie his trying to censor the press from showing his neck, I think thats different.
(*ie men with micropenises already suffered enough, and it might not even be true anyway)
If I make a joke that wanders into actual body shaming (with the inherent splash damage) instead of just laughing at him for his unbelievably fragile masculine ego, I hope you all will call me out for it. That’s certainly not my intention.
How about some more Tweet-mocking?
Getting together, talking, and having a good time are such sad things. So, so sad. And it’s really all the UN ever does. It’s just one big international party. Tragic.
Celebrities are not people. Or, maybe they’re people, but they aren’t PEOPLE.
You’d think GENERALS and ADMIRALS would be PEOPLE, not just people.
Change thinking into what?
I’m a fan of movement, but I didn’t know about the time record. How do you set it?
@epitome
Y’know, your comment made me realize how sorely we need spoiler boxes. I think my eyes are bleeding from all the stupid and the many best words.