Irony died years ago, but former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has decided to exhume its corpse and drag it through town behind a team of bath salts-besotted Clydesdales.
Speaking on—I don’t know, some fucking Bizarro World Fox show—McEnany said she thought the country is a tinderbox now, and so President Biden should have refrained from commenting on the Derek Chauvin trial trial. Because, you know, the famously reticent Donald Trump wouldn’t have said anything—and certainly nothing that would have “inflamed tensions.”
Tweet ‘n’ transcript below:
MCENANY: “We heard Judge Cahill go on to caution elected officials and say, ‘I urge you not to weigh in’ just hours before or half a day before the president himself weighs in. Look, I’m glad he at least waited until the jury was sequestered, but I think that the country is such a tinderbox right now, especially in Minneapolis. There’s so much hurt, so much pain, and I think it’s the role of the president of the United States to stay back, to not inflame the tensions. I like that he called the family of George Floyd. President Trump did, too, but it’s such a tinderbox moment, and I think he should have just reserved comment and said he’s praying for the family, as we all are.”
By the way, here’s what George Floyd’s brother Philonise said during a May 2020 interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton about Donald Trump’s “condolence” call:
"It was so fast. He didn't give me the opportunity to even speak. It was hard. I was trying to talk to him but he just kept like pushing me off, like, 'I don’t want to hear what you’re talking about.' And I just told him I want justice. I said that I can’t believe that they committed a modern-day lynching in broad daylight. I can’t stand for that. I can’t. And it hurt me, you know, and I just don’t understand, man. Why do we gotta go through this? Why do we got to have all this pain, man? I love my brother. I’m never going to see him again.”
Oh, but hey, he called him. He may have thought he was ordering Little Caesars, but it’s something, right?
I’m sure Donald Trump will be faxing a statement to the media through his crack communications team, which I can only assume has been whittled down to just him, Don Jr., and a Tony Montana-sized mound of crushed Adderall. And I’m certain it will be refreshingly even-keeled and not at all embarrassing. Because, you know, that’s what ex-presidents do. They respond to watershed events in U.S. history by screeching about the plight of the murderous white man.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t have feckless flacks like McEnany around anymore to explain to the consensus reality community what he “really” meant.
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