Dominatrix Donald posted a video--a Deep Fake AI product--showing him sitting in a gold chair and laughing as President Obama is wrestled away, arrested by some sunglass wearing men in dark suits, in the Oval Office.
Stephen Colbert showed this to his audience and there was a momentary stunned silence, not because anyone thought this video was anything other than bogus, phony an obvious fake, but because the Donald posted it. Because Donald seemed to think it was somehow effective, in some way, to some purpose.
What was he thinking?
And Colbert reacted, in what could have been a spontaneous expostulation, just as Mad Dog did: "What the Fuck is Wrong with this guy?"
Colbert got a little more analytical:
“Whenever Trump is backed into a corner, he needs to change the subject and throw red meat to the carnivorous base. And their favorite cut is filet of Obama.”
And we all move on.
Clearly, Trump has never gotten over being humiliated by Obama at the White House Correspondents' dinner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeGpLg0b3DE&t=9s
Obama, of course, is everything Trump could never in a hundred years be: He is poised, articulate, suave, urbane and genuinely funny, not to mention, physically, he is lean and sinewy and played basketball to relax. A three star general spoke on the Seacoast about his meeting with Obama and he mentioned, rather unplanned, how physically impressive Obama is in person. He radiates strength, agility and sinewy vitality, or did when he was in the White House.
Trump is, of course, corpulent, hunched, painfully unathletic. His sport is golf although he might do photo ops for tennis. He is that species of rich boy whose father bought him all the best equipment, a football uniform all decked out, but he simply was not a player, could not take a hit and was all show, no sinew.
Trump kept insisting his "investigation" of Obama's "fake birth certificate" had uncovered incriminating and disqualifying evidence Obama was not born in Hawaii but rather Kenya, but of course, this was all a bald faced lie. Obama waited for the perfect moment to reply--the WHC dinner--and when he did it was with devasting effect. The withering disdain was wrapped in laughter and Trump simply hunched over and had to take it.
But now, Trump is trying to respond.
Like so many of his trolls, Trump thinks if you shout, "You're a doo-doo face!" or its equivalent, that will make your target just fall over dead or immobilized. "You're a left wing, arrogant, elitist" will function as a paralyzing sting from a jelly fish.
Which leaves an educated person somewhat at a loss.
You've been trained to listen to argument, consider the evidence presented, analyze its weaknesses and present evidence of your own, but what do you do with "You're a doo-doo face!"
Or with a fake video of the arrest of Obama, a dreamscape of a mind turned to, or revealed to be, mush.
