"This is going to be great television!"
- Former reality-TV show host*, Donald Trump, regarding his hostile, disrespectful reception of Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.**
“I’d like to welcome President Zelenskyy to this incredible trap,” James Austin Johnson’s Trump said at the top of the sketch before making a dig at Zelenskyy’s casual attire."
- Via yesterday's Saturday Night Live's opening skit - "cold open" - partially transcribed by The Wrap.
There were a number of hilarious moments, but few of them could dispell the memory, nor the abject horror many Americans felt while watching the original travesty;
well, unless it was Canadian comedian Michael Myers' take on Elon Musk's psychedelic "glitch." Ha, ha, ha.
In other entertainment news:
"This Oscar season, which at one point seemed as if it could be the first normal awards season after the impact of a pandemic and two big Hollywood strikes, has been a mess. But here’s the rub: It may have been an ugly, chaotic awards season — but when you step out of awards season, it’s an uglier, even more chaotic world.
“It’s been a great year for film,” Film Independent Spirit Awards host Aidy Bryant said at the beginning of that show on Feb. 22. “And a bad year for human life.”
This just in!
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(Perhaps "evil" is too strong a word to use... and it's never a word to use lightly. But, for some odd reason, it just felt right as I was searching for a title for this post. Generally words like ignorance or deception will do. Evil is a word expressed by the heart; not the mind.)
I had another post in the works slated for today but it's been well over a month since the Circus from Hell came to town and the news here in the States has grown exponentially grimmer by the day. In other words, we are in desperate need of comic relief!
The latest "cherry" on the shit-sundae being the Trump administration's failed diplomacy towards the leader of, yet, another American allied country. But, it went worse than anyone could have predicted. As far as many are concerned, Trump bombed with French President Macron - his "friend" - as well... but this latest spectacle was so foul it left us all reeling.
Perhaps, the MAGA mind confuses egotism with patriotism and strong-arm with strength... or, perhaps, they've just chosen the wrong words for their motto. Because it is now evident to the world that they never intended to "Make America Great Again." Their motto should read: Make American Billionaires Great (and Screw Everybody Else).
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* One take-away from Wiki's entry for The Apprentice:
"Trump was fired by NBC when the studio disagreed with remarks he made about Mexican immigrants during his announcement that he was running for president of the United States on June 16, 2015."
** Zelenskyy or Zelensky? See here.
