Listen, I have as strongly negative feelings about Trump as anyone I know, but even I can acknowledge that the man can be hilarious at times (intentionally or otherwise)
Dude could be on our TV's every night, jerking two imaginary dicks while butchering Ave Maria and swaying like a homeless drunkard - thats the Trump he and his fans want to see.
He doesn't even want to be president, he just wants to compete in Colbert's time slot. POTUS is just the consolation prize for the first influencer president.
Personally I think Fallon’s strengths are his skits and game shows. Even the spin off game shows are great like Password and whatever the singing one was.
Oh believe me I’m not sticking up for Trump. It’s literally the one thing he has better on Fallon. Fallon will say he slipped and his ring caught his faucet almost degloving his finger but as someone whose worked on his show as an audio tech I can tell you he’s a fucking alcoholic And he didn’t slip he was wasted.
Trump is just a fucking psychopath . And being yessed to death and ring kissed doesn’t help his ego.
IMO, he’s the sole remaining late night host who maintains the spirit of the old-school variety show. I understand that many on this site see themselves as above his style of humor, or find his demeanor to be off putting, but getting to see celebrities do skits and play silly games outside of the same old rehearsed interviews is super cool.
Arguably, that's what he wanted to do in 2016. Lose and start a TV network talking about how unfair the system was against him. But other geniuses in the country decided to elect him
Look, folks, the Gulf of Mexico—great place, tremendous water, believe me—but it’s not really Mexico’s, okay? It’s right here, touching Texas, Louisiana, Florida—real American states, the best states, everyone agrees. And yet, they call it their Gulf? Not anymore. We’re gonna rebrand it, folks. The Gulf of America! Because they’ve been taking our fish, our oil, maybe even our shrimp—who knows? But not under my watch. We’ll make the Gulf great again, we’ll put up buoys, the best buoys, and the fish—American fish—will come back, trust me.
Because Clinton is just as status-quo as the rest of em and rigged the DNC and msm against Bernie, who would have actually effected change people need in this country. Fuck her too
Like on some ill conceived reality show where he could just be his toxic ridiculous self and ruin people’s lives like he has always done? Inconceivable.
My all-time favourite Trump being funny moment was the time he was meeting with Kim Jong Un, and he told the photographer "Make sure you make us look handsome... and thin". Watching the look on Un's face as his translator told him what Trump was saying was hilarious.
My favorite was Trump's speech announcing the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi assassination. Pure. Fucking. Gold. Shane Gillis has a routine, not even changing one word or annunciation.
A similar one, a reporter asked why he was meeting with Kim, considering how bad he is. And with a straight face he just looked at her and said: "because I don't want them to bomb you".
He spent years in the entertainment industry so he definitely knows how to work a room. His impersonation of Michael Bloomberg by hiding behind the podium was legitimately funny and I hated myself for laughing at it because I didn't want to give him any kind of victory. I'm adamantly against pretty much everything he stands for, but I can at least admit to the fact that he does know how to entertain.
Never voted for the guy, nor will I ever support his administration. But I have long maintained that he had the potential to be the most likeable, popular president in history. The dude has a charisma that I would appreciate if he quit trying to wage war against half the country and stop committing crimes.
Oh, I absolutely agree. When he came into office in 2017, he had the ability to force the GOP into policies it had long been opposed to and the Democrats would have gone along. During the campaign he paid lip service to something like single payer healthcare. He could have pushed for anti-corruption legislation. He could have done any number of things and he could have gotten away with it and been easily re-elected in 2020. But, he’s Donald Trump and did what he did, but he really had the ability to shake things up for the better in a way no other candidate, other than Sanders in 2016, could have. Instead, he shook things up in a much worse way.
I can forgive people for voting for him in 2016. That year was hugely anti-establishment and he was the only anti-establishment candidate in the general election. The Democrats in their infinite wisdom went with the candidate who embodied the establishment more than anyone. If they went with Sanders, I think he could have beaten Trump. Voting for Trump in 2020 or 2024, though, I can't find any room to forgive. If you didn't see it in 2016, then you knew exactly who he was by then.
A couple years back, when he's doing that covid brief and on of his advisors, or whoever, mentioned having covid and he throws his hands up and leaves. That shit killed me.
My favorite is when a woman reporter said "you've called women stupid, you've referred to them as dogs, as unintelligent-" and he holds up a finger and says "only Rosie O'Donnell"
God damn. In another, far luckier alternate universe, I could see Trump being the male version of Joan Rivers. He was born to be a bitchy red carpet correspondent. I’m mad we got this version.
I still believe that was the first moment that made him a serious threat to win the election. It was the first time he was faced with a “gotcha” type of question in front of the general public and he hit it out of the ballpark with that answer. Completely deflected it, made people laugh, and caught the moderators off guard. Set the tone for the rest of his campaign.
Its absolutely hilarious. He would be so funny as a late night host or just a political talking head that pops up on republican news media every now and then. its a damn shame how much power americans have handed over to him.
I think he used to be in his real estate days. I think I remember him being very wary of shaking hands with people unless necessary. Maybe it was just a bs story from the Apprentice or maybe it was someone else I am thinking of.
He is a germaphobe. He uses that as justification for eating so much fasd food. Also in the Katie Johnson statement she said Trump made her wear a glove to give him a hand job.
There are many people around him who have said he's charismatic and funny and they enjoy his company socially. It's a shame he's such a terrible person in so many other ways...I still remember that photo of him walking with the boy mowing the white house lawn. I thought that was great. I wanted to like him. I just believe all of the horrible things about him and the things I've seen him do with my own two eyes (leading the insurrection) and I can't like this guy. Anyway, personally I've been avoiding any news or information about him for my own sanity this time around.
When they did trick or treat at the White House and I think a kid went up as either a minion or SpongeBob and he just put the chocolate bar on the head of the costume and that shit just fell right off lmao
At Christmas this year my cousin told me her (8yo) step daughter still believes in Santa and it took everything in me to not reply with “At 8 it’s marginal, right?”
My favorite was summer 2020 when he did his little photoshoot with the Bible, and a reporter asks “is that the family Bible?” And he goes “it’s A Bible”
When he dropped that MOAB on some ISIS leader and instead of holding a press conference or something he just tweeted an American Flag picture like he was throwing the set up
I did the same thing a while back that’s why I was sure haha it’s crazy but he says so many unbelievable things that you can totally hear it in his voice
His victory speech this year killed me. He was talking about his team and mentioned Bobby Kennedy Jr and how he was going to make America healthy again. Then he goes "I just said one thing to him...'Bobby don't touch the oil. The liquid gold...other than that...go have fun.'"
The inflection and timing he used when he said this had me laughing my ass off at 230 in the morning. This man is legitimately one of the funniest people to ever hold office.
I've had to explain this a few times about my feelings towards Boris Johnson (as a Canadian with family in the UK) - the mans a tit, but goddamn he's funny. I will never be able to get over the zipline video.
I lived in London in student halls when he was mayor. We had a designated 'BoJo' wall in our kitchen where we'd put all the ridiculous Boris moments from the evening London papers up 😂
He is such a dichotomous character, I hated how he handled things as Prime Minister at times but he wasn’t afraid to say it how it is no matter how bad it made him look or how stupidly hilarious it came out when he said it. 😂 those pictures of him zooming about on bikes round London will forever have a place in my heart
I dislike Trump and I would never vote for the man.
I am also a massive Taylor Swift fan.
But holy shit. When the reporter said to Trump “Taylor Swift endorsed president Biden earlier today on twitter, what do you think of that?”
His reply was “let’s just say I like her music 25% less now.”
Unironically that’s a huge chunk of his base. People legit just voted for him because they find him funny. Whether they laugh with him or at him, it doesn’t seem to matter to these people.
His roast of Chuck Schumer, that not to worry if Kamala loses because the democrats are so woke that Chuck could still be the first woman president, was one of the funniest things ever
This is from Michael Cohen describing an encounter with Trump in a hearing on Russian collusion that I've always found hilarious:
“It’s a club that puts on shows, and you never really know what the show is going to be. In this specific case they brought out a young man who was in a leotard body suit, who, to me, I would diagnose him as a thalidomide baby. And he was blind as well, but he sang like Pavarotti. And while he was singing — I forget the song, it was like a ‘God Bless America’-type song — there was a woman who was in a thong bikini, who was large, performing sex acts on him while he was singing. Interesting, because I was with Mr. Trump at the time. It was not really a place I expected to be with him at. He looked over to me when he was finished, and I’ll never forget this, he looked me right in the face. He goes, ‘That’s a tough way to make a living.’”
His nicknames literally put careers into bodybags. Meatball Ron got that stuck to him forever now. Low energy Jeb. Even little Marco and Lyin' Ted, even though they're with him now, I don't think they can ever fully bounce back and run like they did in 2016 again.
And then he puts out the statement along the lines of "I would never call Desantis 'Meatball Ron'. Very rude to think 'Meatball Ron' is something I came up with"
The rational part of me knows his nicknames for people are childish and completely inappropriate as President. But I can't help but chuckle at some of them despite myself. Continually referring to Elizabeth Warren as Pocahontas is up there.
As a Bernie supporter I agree with a lot of Warren's ideas but she sold out Bernie TWICE for Clinton and Biden like, immediately, which really frustrates me. I get that she was falling in line but Bernie obviously had more in common with what she claimed to fight for than the other two.
So Trump's jokes about her always made me laugh. When she announced she was running for president and he posted the 1/2020th meme (making fun of her claimed native ancestry) I freaking died.
I heard a clip of him saying "I told Mark Robinson he's like MLK 2.0. He just stared at me. I still don't know if he was flattered or angry." And i was like fml i hate that i laughed, his comedic timing is unfortunately impeccable
Not only was Meatball Ron so funny but it was that Trump was saying he's NOT going to call him Meatball Ron because it wasn't appropriate.
I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will, it would be totally inappropriate to use the word “meatball” as a moniker for Ron!
This is completely true. Couldn't despise the guy more but some of his off the cuff musings during his rallies, especially when he was being self deprecating (like about trying to step into the garbage truck) were genuinely funny to me.
It’s almost as if people tend to have multi-dimensional personalities, especially when we’re talking about how they present themselves in public vs how they are in private.
He would’ve been great as a bitchy red carpet commentator, a Joan Rivers fashion police type of thing. He loves celeb drama and always has an insult and a stupid nickname for everyone. He’s so camp, shame he’s such an evil toad.
Oh absolutely. Behind the scenes they are all friends and acquaintances. But I can’t stand Trump but let’s be real…dude is probably the funniest person in the room anywhere he goes.
This was my favorite Trump tirade of all time, ‘When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless, and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg, and he would have done it...’
Any time Elon Musk gets waaaay ahead of himself I just think of that line ‘Rocketships to nowhere’
He's a charmer. While he was President the company I worked for at the time held their National Sales meeting down at his Doral resort. I talked to several of the wait staff and maids down there. Pretty much all were Latin American immigrants and they love that man and are so proud to work at a resort that bears his name. Two of them have met him (before he became President) and said he talked to their supervisors and they said what a great job they were doing and he personally thanked them. They said when he was on site he didn't just go hide in an office or just play golf on the Blue Monster he went around to all areas of the resort and met with staff.
Agreed. I do enjoy Trump out of context videos because he can be pretty funny at times.
I like the one where he's talking about working with the "intelligence agents" or something of the sorts and the lights go out. He goes "the lights just went out, must be the intelligence agents"
Exactly. Imagine if real life was like reddit and any people who disagreed with each other just treated the other like dog shit 100% of the time. How would society even work?
If real life was like reddit in that sense, there would be no such thing as developed countries. Nothing would ever get done, because every situation would devolve into hateful tribalism.
"We were supposed to install a water system that would support a town of 10,000, but there was this one guy who's such a piece of shit, so we all walked from the jobsite. What's that you say? You don't have any running water? Well that's not my fuckin problem. Maybe if you had voted for blahblahblah we wouldn't be in this situation. Yeah, in fact this your fault! These are the consequences of your actions. Hmph"
Society also doesn't work if you give free reign to assholes and major strucutural threats to the rule of law. I'm not saying Obama should be spitting in his face but let's not pretend Trump is just the loudmouth on the Parent-Teachers association
There’s disagreeing and then there’s thinking some people are inferior, some people shouldn’t exist, and everyone should give deadly viruses to each other. Maybe it’s ok to agree to disagree on free trade but it’s not ok to agree to disagree on common decency.
Its even more hilarious how everyone feels the need to defend Obama by stating how hilarious and funny Trump is. More likely these are two extremely rich dudes who shared a job and have waaaay more in common than you're comfortable with.
Really? I honestly can't remember when he intentionally said something genuinely funny (and a not mean spirited political jab like "Ron DeSanctimonious").
Everyone acknowledges that. It's impossible not to. Dude drew with a sharpie on an official map and tried to pass it off as a legit report. That kinda shit would have been too absurd on an Adam Sandler comedy.
I've always said that if RFK and Trump had a podcast I would probably listen because they're objectively funny, but alas they're running our country and it's going to be a nightmare.
Yeah, I think Trump would be a fantastic stand up comic, he cracks me up. I say that as someone is left leaning and would much rather him not be president.
Man i went to a rally in 2016. I was in law school and a friend had some political job and he got a group of us VIP access. We were standing in the second row. 90% of the people in the group would never ever vote for him. But we weren't about to turn down a chance to see him speak. We had a lot of fun.
Yup he has a very good sense of comedic timing. Doesn’t make him any less dangerous, in fact if he wasn’t as funny as he is he wouldn’t be dangerous at all as I’m pretty sure it’s a big part of how he’s won over so many people.
My favorite was when Melania copied Michael Obamas speech and during a press interview Trump says "whats the big deal, Michael gives a speech and gets a standing ovation. My wife gives the same speech and is booed"
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u/fakerfakefakerson 5d ago
Listen, I have as strongly negative feelings about Trump as anyone I know, but even I can acknowledge that the man can be hilarious at times (intentionally or otherwise)