Yes we can imagine
When President Obama said that he has been to “57 States,” very little mention in Fake News Media. Can you imagine if I said that…story of the year! @IngrahamAngle
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2018
I know this one! I can explain!
I don’t mean I know the “57 states” slip of the tongue, I never heard of it; I mean I know why it wasn’t headline news while the idiotic things Trump says do get covered.
It’s because Obama is not a bumbling brain-rotted malevolent ignorant fool, so his misspeaking on one occasion isn’t worth reporting because it’s not a pattern. One verbal fumble doesn’t mean anything, it’s just random.
Trump, on the other hand, can’t talk at all without making a hash of it. That is worth reporting because unfortunately he is occupying a position with way too much unilateral power, especially the nukes.
Also, no, if Trump said “57 states” it would not be the story of the year; it probably wouldn’t be a story at all because there would be too many more substantive howlers and eruptions to report that hour.
It got enough coverage for Snopes to look into it:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/57-states/
I remember the savagely partisan coverage of it on Fox. It was tan-suit territory for a couple of days.
I can’t agree with that. I don’t think that Trump’s brain is rotten, because if it was by now it would be dribbling out of his ears.
I think it more likely that God installed it back-to-front. For a bit of a joke.
Ever the humourist, is God.
And no, if the Stable Dotard claimed to have visited 57 states, it wouldn’t even be a blip outside of the MAGAsphere, where it’d be taken as gospel that the Deep State was ginning up seven new Democrat states to unbalance the Senate and take their precious bodily fluids.
Also the difference is, if you point that out to Obama, he’ll say “Yeah, that was a weird slip-up. My bad.”
On the other hand, if you point it out to Trump, he’ll claim that he never said that, it’s fake news, and that whoever reported it is a lying liar for an organisation that is the enemy of the people. And then he’ll point out that even though he didn’t say that, if he had said it he still would have been right, because reasons.
#5; He’d just invent some more.North Virginia, South Virginia, East Virginia, South Carolina, East Carolina, West Carolina, and East Dakota.
Uh, AoS – there already is a South Carolina.
Not at this rate of flooding…
iknklast; whoops! My mistake, I meant North.
Rob; too soon? I’m not saying you’re wrong, mind.
Hang on, there’s a North Carolina, too. I’m going to bed, I need sleep. Apologies to all Carolinians.
Yes, insensitive. Of course, history has shown that if you don’t discuss bad events right at the time, later on no-one cares and it gets fobbed off. At the time you get told it’s ‘too soon’. So, yeah…
I wasn’t criticising you, Rob, sometimes a touch of insensitivity is what it takes to make a point hit home, and more people should be prepared to do it. Besides, I can’t exactly claim to be Mr. Tactful myself. I could write the book on foot-in-mouth disease!