When it’s justified
Now for a little humor. Donnie from Queens talked to Fox & Friends this morning, to tell them how awesome he is and how awesome his chat to Congress tonight will be. It’s all funny but this bit is hilarious:
DOOCY: Mr. President, you announced via Twitter the other day you’re not going to go to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
How come?
TRUMP: Well, I am not a hypocrite. And I haven’t been treated properly. And that’s OK, which is fine. You know, let…
DOOCY: Well, some…
TRUMP: — everybody treat me…
DOOCY: — some of the left say you just can’t take a joke.
TRUMP: Maybe we’ll have a small — oh, no.
Do they say that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
TRUMP: Well, I’ve taken it.
You know, one of the great misconceptions, when President Obama was up — was — now, a long time ago, five years ago or whatever, I loved that evening. I had the greatest time…
DOOCY: You were there.
TRUMP: I was there.
KILMEADE: You were there — you were there target of the hit.
TRUMP: I was the target.
DOOCY: You were the pinata.
TRUMP: And can I be honest?
I had the greatest time. Now, I can’t act like I’m thrilled because they’re telling jokes. I mean he was telling jokes I’m going to change (INAUDIBLE) the White House, the Trump House and other things.
And he was very — I thought he did a good job. And he was very respectful and it was fun. And I enjoyed it. And I left and I told the press, they were all said, did you have a good time?
And I said it was fantastic.
The next day I read Donald Trump felt terrible about the evening. I loved the evening. I had a great time.
KILMEADE: You said before, I can take hits when it’s justified.
TRUMP: Correct.
KILMEADE: Right.
TRUMP: One hundred percent.
KILMEADE: Can you give me an example of a time when someone was critical of you and you thought to yourself, I deserved that hit, I deserved that column, I deserved…
TRUMP: No, probably I could never do that.
Comedy gold.
I remember his face.
And his body language.
Any wonder kids are scared of clowns?
Yes, he can take a hit when it is justified. Since it is never justified, well, that will never come up. Because he is great, he is smart, he knows things, he is successful, so any negative press is obviously fake.
Sure, he can take a hit any day — IF justified. Like the chance to display Russel’s teapot in a museum.
So much harder to answer a straight question straight, like so:
No, I think bar shootings are bigly bad. Yes, I do disapprove of anti-semitism.
But IF he did, for once, he could sit down and shutup after, for once. Just for a while, please? Try?
Careful there, Donnie, there is more than one definition of ‘hit’. Ask your friends in the CIA.