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- politics@lemmy.world
“The last 10 years of Donald Trump worming his way into our brains have been weird,” said Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening. “But yesterday might have been the weirdest weird that ever weirded. And I’ll just let this actual 100% real, we did not make this up or change this footage in any way, CSpan report sum up the times we’re living in.”
Colbert then played a clip of CSpan reporting that Trump took questions outside the White House after having McDonald’s delivered via the food delivery app DoorDash. Trump talked about a number of topics, including the war in Iran and a controversial AI-generated image he posted to Truth Social that depicted him as Jesus.
“Even CSpan can’t make that sound normal,” the Late Show host said. “If you just woke up from a coma and that report was the first thing you saw, you’d ask the doctor to put you back in.”
In a rare move, Trump has since deleted the image, but “the damage has been done”, with even some staunch supporters now wondering if he’s the Antichrist, at least according to a report from Wired. “It’s an interesting theological question,” said Colbert. “Who are any of us to judge whether – yes, yes he is.”
Over the weekend, Trump also posted a long message on Truth Social criticizing Pope Leo XIV, calling him “weak” and a “loser”.
“Why would you start a beef with the pope?” Colbert wondered, as according to a new NBC poll, Pope Leo leads most public figures in the US in approval ratings. “It’s gotta piss Trump off to learn that the most popular guy on the planet lives in a palace dripping with gold and wears an insane hat and it’s not him.”
Idk, maybe if we joked less about it politicians would get more serious about removing him from power. I used to love Colbert and Stewart but after 20 years of hearing the same jokes and shit just gets worse i cant watch it anymore. Trump rapes children, there’s nothing funny about that. He blows up innocent people around the world to create distractions from his investigations. And he has widespread support from people who do not give a fuck about ruining the country as long as they make a profit this quarter. There’s nothing funny about that. And it clearly doesn’t hurt trump at all, he’s still president still raping children and stealing billions in taxpayer money in the open.
Exhibit A on gallows humor that works in this situation: https://youtu.be/m1r9VtdIMDM
I agree I don’t care much for the jokes from Colbert and Stewart, but I wouldn’t say comedy is the problem. These c9medians seem to think making jokes about hypocrisy is pushing the envelope when its not even the minimum.
That’s a fair criticism, so I’ll only say that before there was a Colbert or Stewart, there were stupid fucking loons who went all dictator on their people and a population that supported their idiocy and cheered them on.
Mussolini was famously a fucking idiot who could barely tie his shoes if they weren’t done for him. Same with Hitler.
So not having satire ripping them a new one every week didn’t stop them from happening, or what came after. It won’t here either, but at least it can entertain some people and reach some people with humor that seriousness couldn’t.
If people want serious, mainstream news, well, that’s still there, maybe just not in the US though.
Yeah im not saying Colbert should stop what he’s doing, i think for young people it’s very educational. He’s doing a great thing.
But as grown ass adults we need to stop looking to comedians for leadership. We shouldn’t sit at home and bitching at the TV while watching Colbert or Kimmel or Stewart. We need to be taking action, showing up to town halls, or more generally engaging in civics.
Absolutely agreed with that. The satire shows should be a treat, not the main course of political discourse/learning.
I think you’re right. Satire is for when there’s a subsurface level of corruption that needs to be brought to light in an entertaining way.
These times are not for satire. These times are for protests.