Of course people who don’t applaud Trump are traitors … just kidding.
“Yeah guys, lighten up! The president was just ‘joking’ about treason,” said Noah. “Yeah. Just like when he was ‘joking’ about Obama helping ISIS, or when he ‘joked’ about how the Russians should hack Hillary’s emails, or my favorite ‘joke’: when he said police should rough up people in custody. Protect and serve, whatever.”
45*’s moronic malevolence has made us all a bit crazy, but WaPo’s Dana Milbank may have finally lost it and we’re not even dicks like Nico Pitney.
Conversely, the president is angry when he does not hear clapping. At a Republican congressional retreat last week, he complained that during his address, Democrats “sat there stone cold, no smile, no applause.”
By Monday, he had a solution: “Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”
But perhaps there is a different solution, short of sending two-thirds of Americans to the electric chair. I propose a national service program based on applause. We’ll call it AmeriClaps.
Millions of AmeriClaps volunteers will applaud Trump daily. In exchange, Trump will agree to cease governing, leaving that to members of Congress, governors and a board of overseers selected by random digit dialing.
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Getting the clap may be preferable than any form of enabling the dysfunctional White House. But it does suggest that we let them devour each other.
...as one White House adviser told New York’s Olivia Nuzzi, “You hear them say things like, I’m serving the country” . . . “That’s code for, I hate the fucker.”