The Joke That Spiraled Down America Into Drinking the Kool-Aid With Trump
And if Trump wins a second term the p̶r̶a̶n̶k̶ joke never ends
It was in 2011, at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, both President Obama and Donald Trump were in attendance. A dinner where the sitting US President and the press become the roast and the roasted. But in 2011, a joke that evening could have triggered Trump to run as president.
On that night, Trump’s own sense of public humiliation became so overwhelming that he decided, perhaps at first unconsciously, that he would, somehow, get his own back — perhaps even pursue the Presidency after all, no matter how nihilistically or absurdly, and redeem himself. — Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, wrote in 2015
Trump the man and the president, a figure in American history who will someday be the subject for historians to analyze, and if he loses the election, be the subject of late-night talk-show jokes.
The joke that could be the reason why Trump ran for president?
“Donald Trump has been saying he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising, since I just assumed he was running as a…
