On late-night TV, Trump's no laughing matter anymore

[babylonsister]

On late-night TV, Trump's no laughing matter anymore
by Bill Carter @CNNMoney August 16, 2017: 12:43 PM ET


Presidents are inevitably targets for late-night comedy; Donald Trump has become something more. He has inspired a new form of late-night performance: comedy-outrage.

For six months, late-night hosts have pilloried the President for a long litany of incidents ripe for satire, from shoving a prime minister out of the way to attacking his own attorney general. The past weekend's events in Charlottesville sparked an unmistakable outpouring of comedic rage, because the President was so late and, to many observers (including most of the roster of late-night hosts) so wishy-washy in expressing his disapproval of groups promoting things as egregiously and indisputably wrong as racism, anti-Semitism, and neo-Nazism.

It was the nadir, according to Seth Meyers of NBC, who has been probably the most ferocious critic of the President in late night.

"In a Presidency that has essentially just been an uninterrupted series of low moments," Meyers told his audience Monday, "this weekend was the lowest yet. We shouldn't have to shame or press the President of the United States to say Nazis are bad."

Shame and disbelief were recurring themes on late-night shows the past two nights, as the hosts hurled words at Trump as if they were disgusted editorial writers. Two hosts, Meyers and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, openly called Tuesday for Trump to be cut loose from the Presidency.

"I think this is the angriest I have been," Meyers told CNNMoney in a phone interview Tuesday. Meyers said he felt he had to address his audience with a personal message before his show Monday because it might have sounded "tone deaf" to go right at an issue this searing with a comedy monologue.

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[llmart]

1. I agree and feel the same way.

It isn't funny any more. It was never funny to me. If Democrats just sit around laughing at the orange dipshit and think he even cares one whit, they are fooling themselves. Since he is a malignant narcissist, we have to remember he doesn't operate in a rational sense. He's a damaged individual. Do not try to put rational thought to irrational behavior.

Nothing about the place we find ourselves in at this point in time is funny.

[extvbroadcaster]

2. Agree, not rational

Amazing that pundits and supporters twist themselves into a pretzel analyzing Trumps words and actions like they are rational and have some bigger strategy. They don't. He has a severe personality disorder. It's that simple, it explains everything. Like a troubled child on the playground, he has to act out when he feels the other children won't play with him. He was fine as a TV reality show host, and loaning his name out to suckers for condos and steaks and college or whatever he could slap his name on. And he had family around, and bootlickers to tell him he was great. And it all would have been ok had he lost the election. Hillary would be under investigation, but running the country fine with good people at her side. Trump would be on Fox, telling the faithful how great things would have been had he won. And it all would have been ok. But instead Trump won, and now America has to find a way to flush him down the toilet of history before he ruins the whole country. We don't need this stress, but it has to be done, and the sooner the better.

[Cosmocat]

5. Agree and disagree

You are right, Hillary would have been a really good POTUS and surrounded herself with really good people. And, the point I am about to make would not be her fault at all.

But, the sickness that drives the support of 45 would have been here in full, more aggressive and dangerous form had she gotten POTUS - someone would have been killed when she went to fill a SCJ seat.

Functionally it would have been fine, but the country would be in just as much upheaval over them losing their collective minds, and the hapless media putting the responsibility for them being full on crazy on her.

[llmart]

8. You're forgetting...

someone WAS KILLED. Her name was Heather. She is equally as important as any politician out there.

I really can't say if it would have been more aggressive and dangerous and more "out there" if Hillary was President because we all know it was there while President Obama was in office, but because these people are cowards, it was more underground than it is now. Trump stealing the Presidency and riling them up in his "rallies" just emboldened them to come out of the woodwork like cockroaches.

[WinkyDink]

6. Dark humor, gallows humor, is all we have left.

[tblue37]

3. K&R. nt

[ResistantAmerican17]

4. Simply Enough: Trump is Incapable of Feeling Shame

It's his enablers and supporters that have to feel the shame, and failing that, the wrath! He clearly has no capacity for shame, empathy, or intelligent decision making.

[Le Gaucher]

7. I dont think Trump denies Nazi's are bad. He just refuses to call his supporters Nazis.

Which ofcourse they are.

So he talks about something entirely different. Like George Washington had slaves or the intemeffectual Socrates slept with boys.. Or whatthefuckever.. Anything but the gaping holes in his moral fabric.