Thursday, October 22, 2020

J K!, or: Politico explains it for you.

Trump is occasionally lanced by outsiders who don’t realize the context of a long-running gag. In Prescott, Ariz., he told a story about calling the head of Exxon and asking for $25 million in exchange for policy favors. The bit, a regular feature of his rallies, is about how Trump could do that if he wanted but he doesn’t. A video of the fake Exxon call went viral, politicians like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) demanded an explanation, and Exxon put out a statement explaining that the call never happened. (That is correct; the innocent explanation here was that Trump regularly brags about how he doesn’t solicit bribes, and the reporter who tweeted the comments didn’t understand the peculiar context.)

You know, when the reporters have to explain the "joke" to the audience.... (yeah, we're still on that.)

Is two weeks long enough to bring on Stockholm Syndrome?

(To paraphrase Obama this week, imagine what FoxNews would do with Obama making a similar "joke" on the campaign trail, much less repeating it until it was a "long running gag.") 

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