Trump is known as the biggest liar ever. He’s not exactly known for his jokes, but he’s made quite a few. At least he and his brain-addled supporters think he and his jokes are funny.
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’" he said.
"When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]," Trump continued, mimicking the motion. "Like, 'Don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head.' I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?'
“When a rallygoer suggested shooting immigrants in May, Trump made a joke”
“How do you stop these people? You can’t, there’s —” Trump said, cutting himself off as a rally attendee yelled back, “Shoot them.”
Trump paused and smirked, before responding, “That’s only in the Panhandle can you get away with that statement.” The crowd cheered for nearly 10 seconds before Trump continued.
He made another one yesterday and it may be his best:
I think it is highly unlikely Trump really believes that last part of this. I think he knows the opposite is true, that the people who like him like him because he is mean. I believe that he thinks his being mean is the trademark that made him famous on the apprentice and meanness is a major part of his rally schtick:
From The Washington Post:
Donald Trump said Sunday that the protester who interrupted his rally at a convention center here on Saturday morning was “so obnoxious and so loud” that “maybe he should have been roughed up.”
Mercutio Southall Jr. — a well-known local activist who has been repeatedly arrested while fighting what he says is unfair treatment of blacks — interrupted Trump’s rally and could be heard shouting, “Black lives matter!” A fight broke out, prompting Trump to briefly halt his remarks and demand the removal of Southall.
“Get him the hell out of here, will you, please?” Trump said on Saturday morning. “Get him out of here. Throw him out!”
Whether it’s locking desperate immigrants in cages or telling rally goers to rough up a protester Trump knows his MAGA supporter love his cruel streak.
There are all kind of jokes. They strike people as funny for different reasons. Some of the most humanizing are the self-effacing type. If you’re famous making fun of yourself, your mistakes and foibles can make you more relatable.
Trump makes fun of other people and he thinks it is amusing when he encourages violence. Rather than being self-effacing these “jokes” are self-aggrandizing.
So did Politifact:
Here are a couple:
"See, he’s smiling. See, he’s having a good time. Oh, I love the old days, you know? You know what I hate? There's a guy, totally disruptive, throwing punches. We're not allowed to punch back anymore. I love the old days, you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They'd be carried out in a stretcher, folks. Oh, it's true. … The guards are very gentle with him. He’s walking out with big high-fives, smiling, laughing. I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell you,"
March 2016. At a rally in Kansas City, talking about someone who had rushed the stage, Trump said, "I don't know if I would have done well, but I would have been out there fighting, folks. I don't know if I'd have done well, but I would've been — boom, boom, boom. I'll beat the crap out of you."
We’re going to help you out, have a good time
Here’s one you may have forgotten:
It reminded me that he wore the same jacket when he went to the CDC to put on his little big dog and little pony show with the doctors, and inspired this tweet.
Trump's Disease and trumpian humor
None of Trump’s jokes fall neatly and completely into the categories listed by Onion founding editor Scott Dikke: Irony, character, reference, shock, parody, hyperboles, wordplay, apology, madcap, meta-humor, or misplaced focus. An article in HUFFPOST lists nine types: physical, self-deprecating, surreal, improvisational, wit-wordplay, topical, observational, and dark. Trump’s humor has elements of many of these but because he has a twisted mind he adds his own twist to them.
Just as Trump has so many characteristics of several psychiatric disorders he deserves his own diagnosis named for him. This would be a precedent. At least 13 diseases are named after the scientists who discovered them, not the patient who was first diagnosed which would stigmatize them. But what the hell. Trump deserves to be stigmatized in the annals of medicine.
Lyme disease is named after a town in Connecticut. Poor Lyme, forever tarnished for being the epicenter of a disease that made thousands of people miserable. Ebola was named after a river near the place where it was discovered so not to stigmatic the village (personal communication from one of the doctors who named it, Dr. Karl Johnson).
I suggest that Trump is such an anomaly as a person and a leader that he ought to have his own disease and his own brand-name humor so if or when someone else comes along we have the accurate name to apply to them.
One of the characteristics Trump’s disease is employing and orgasmically enjoying trumpian humor.