Trump Humor

Donald Trump should be an easy target for political humorists, but I’ve mostly been disappointed in the quality of the anti-Trump satire.

That may be because comedians think he’s a raging conservative, so their jokes based on that theme strike someone like me (who fears Trump is a big-government populist) as senseless.

After all, clever humor should take something true and then mock it by taking it to an absurd extreme. Indeed, this is why I can appreciate even anti-libertarian humor if it’s well done.

Fortunately, we have foreigners who are willing to do the job that American humorists won’t do. Beginning with the Netherlands (from what I can tell), some clever people in other nations have produced videos “welcoming” Trump.

Here’s the Dutch version.

The Danes also got into the game.

And since I’m a big fan of Switzerland, I obviously can’t resist sharing the Swiss version.

By the way, there are many other examples for anyone who wants to kill some time seeing how other nations introduce themselves to Trump. Just do a search on YouTube.

Meanwhile, we presumably remember how the Obama Administration wanted to seize our guns. In the same spirit, the Onion has an amusing look at how the Trump Administration wants to take away our facts.

Alarmed at the prospect of unconstitutional overreach by the Trump administration, millions of fearful Americans have already begun stockpiling facts before the federal government comes to take them away, sources confirmed Friday. “I know my rights as an American, so you’d better believe I’m getting my hands on as many facts as possible and keeping them somewhere safe where this First Amendment–hating president of ours can’t snatch them all up,” said Pittsburgh resident David Edelman, 38, adding that he was worried that President Trump planned to not only suspend production of facts, but also seize existing ones, leaving Americans and their families completely defenseless. …A spokesperson for the Trump administration dismissed such fears, saying that the president merely wanted to keep facts away from certain dangerous people.

The videos and the article from the Onion are good additions to my sparse collection of Trump humor. Previous examples can be seen here, here, here, here, and here.

April 19, 2020 addendum: I had to remove links to a couple of videos that disappeared from YouTube.

But I’m compensating by adding one from Portugal.

And one from Luxembourg.

I haven’t seen any from some of my favorite places, such as the Cayman Islands, Monaco, and Bermuda.