I have to return to this absurdity, because there’s just so much absurdity in it.

It’s the fact that he tweeted it that’s so grotesque – that it’s right there for all to see.

You know, a normal person wouldn’t see it as flattering in the first place. A normal person wouldn’t see a clip with her head perched awkwardly on someone else’s body as a compliment. It’s not a compliment, is it. It’s a statement that Trump’s body is not all that glorious, along with a statement that his general self-presentation is not all that great. The alternative body is relaxed, comfortable, cool – not herky-jerky and flailing like Trump’s body. The alternative body doesn’t flap its hands up and down and back and forth the way Trump flaps his. The alternative body doesn’t lean forward to hide its gut so that it looks like a teetering clown-doll the way Trump’s body does. The alternative body is an improvement on Trump’s in every way, and a normal person would notice the implied insult. Trump has apparently received it as an artistic and very welcome enhancement of his glory.

Amusingly, the alternative body is an improvement in much the way Obama’s would be. It’s the body of someone who gets some exercise and doesn’t eternally sit on his bum watching tv and screaming insults on Twitter. Trump moves awkwardly and slowly when he does move, and his body seems to hinder him. The guy in the bomber jacket not so much.

So it’s weird that he would tweet it as if it were a compliment as opposed to the other thing.

It’s also weird that he would tweet it without realizing that most people are going to think “Does he seriously think that represents him???”

And it’s weird that he would tweet it at all, even if it were unambiguously flattering. It’s weird for a president to spend time tweeting “he’s so hot and strong and manly” flattery of himself that way. It wouldn’t be weird if he were 5, maybe 6, but no older than that. He turns 74 next month.