Award-winning political humorist Lewis Black was spot on when he eerily imagined what a Donald Trump presidential run might look like. During a 2011 Daily Show segment, on Comedy Central’s Back in Black, the political comedian, in his boisterous and hilarious way, went off on Trump. Here is the clip. It’s Lewis Black perfection:
Some of the excerpts from the above Daily Show clip includes:
How a Republican can become president:
That’s right. Donald Trump came out as a birther, which is Republican for, ‘I’m running for president!’
Trump and foreign diplomacy:
Finally, a leader who talks to other countries the way they deserve — like a bookie from Staton Island.
Trump selling bullshit:
That’s what [Trump] is best at. Putting a bow on a turd, marking up the price, and selling it so hard, you want it, even though you know it’s just a turd with a bow on it.
Trump running businesses:
Trump bankrupted his casino. A CASINO — where the House always wins!
Trump being POTUS:
It’s time to let Donald Trump come in! Put some gold leaf on the border—and marble columns around Florida. Throw up his name in lights over the Midwest and sell this whole place to the Chinese before they realize it’s half broken. This is what I’ve been waiting for all my life—a president who will tell the truth about being a lying asshole!
On Tuesday, Lewis told The Morning Joe team that the day after the 2011 rant, Trump’s people called him and said Trump wanted to talk with Lewis about the rant. When asked if he talked to Trump, Black answers, “NO!” (Like in, ‘Why the fuck would I give him an audience?’) Black added, “I didn’t have time!” When asked if he can believe what’s happening today, Black says,
“No. No, I can’t believe it. The pivotal moment for me was the moment, watching CNN — which I watch to get a good sense of what’s it’s going to be like when I have a stroke...so I was watching, and Sarah Palin was in the foreground and Donald Trump was in the background. And I thought, how am I going to make this funny? What is my job now? How do you satirize what is already satiric? This was the point in time as far as I’m concerned when we the American people reached the point where reality and satire finally intersected. That’s it. What’s extraordinary, and you guys discuss this everyday, is this is fiction. We are living in fictional times. This would be better in a book.”
Lewis Black has never been one to mince words, but that dash of humor helps the medicine go down. We’ll take more, please, Lewis.