A few years ago the Huffington Post featured an article I wrote called “Visiting the Foxhole” that detailed my guest spot on the O’Reilly Factor arguing against Bill’s assumption that Obama was given a free ride by late night comedians, and was being handled with kid gloves regarding the talk show monologues. Bill was wrong, as the Obama jokes soon began to flow. I told him that if he were a man he would put me on his show again and tell people how right I was. That following Monday Bill did just that and opened the segment with that very statement.
Now we are onto a different kind of target, one that at least half the nation would throw darts at without any reluctance, and this will reflect in a constant onslaught of jokes throughout his term. Trump is a liberal’s nightmare and a monologue writer’s dream. One of the most potent forms of humor is tension-release and no one creates more tension than “The Donald”. His voice is a tenor but he acts like a “Soprano”. Making fun of Trump will serve more than just laughs, the essential comic relief will help with the post traumatic president disorder caused by his constant controversies that the media will force on us on a regular basis. Conflicts of interest, family faux pas, midnight tweets, administration infighting, KKK support, the list is endless. In support of billionaire Trump the Clan now only wears high thread count sheets.
Many voters have not given up on preventing Trump from becoming the president and are hoping for miracles with a voter recount. If they really want to come out ahead they should have the count done by the same guy who did Trump’s taxes. Trump himself seems reluctant to reside in the Whitehouse, which makes sense because if you plan on leading an evil empire a tower is much more apropos. At this point it time I have flimsy hopes that the next few years we will be making fun of how the Electoral College fooled everyone and appointed Bernie, but in the meantime I will focus on Trump’s recent Thanksgiving speech; “When you are famous they will let you do anything. I walked up to the Turkey and grabbed the breast.
Here’s to hoping that no matter how this turns out, the healing power of humor will help us get though the term.