John Oliver’s brilliant Plan to educate Trump, in the only way he’s sure to see it – on cable TV, begins tomorrow morning, during commercials on Trump’s favorite shows!
John Oliver should be shackled to his desk! He went on a three-month hiatus and look what happened! The impossible, the improbable and the unthinkable happened, and they continue to happen – and it’s only Sunday!
John concludes – in part, that Trump doesn’t operate on a shared concept of reality. Like alternate facts, he has an alternate reality, which would be okay if he ran a comic book store, or manned the Tilt-a-Whirl. As if Trump’s disregard for facts and fertile imagination aren’t enough, he receives help from Alex Jones of Infowars, and Steve Bannon formerly of Breitbart. When Trump broadcasts a gem, such as our GNP is ZERO, and claims he saw Muslims celebrating 9-11 with his own eyes…His eyes were reading Alex Jones, and the ugly fantasy Jones creates becomes Trump’s reality. We elected him? A reporter expresses frustration saying.”This is what makes covering Donald Trump so difficult, what does he mean when he says words?”
John examines four questions that tell us how we got here.
1. HOW did you get a pathological liar in the White House?
2. WHERE are his lies coming from?
3. WHY do so many people believe him?
4. WHAT can we possibly do about it?
While most of us are wringing our hands as Trump appoints his cabinet, insults allies and gets chummy with murderous dictators, John Oliver and Last Week Tonight are doing something!
We know that Trump is an inveterate cable TV watcher, so he is obviously more likely to get a message through a TV commercial, than through some boring old security briefing…Am I right? That’s why viewers of MSNBC, CNN and FOX NEWS in the D.C. area will be treated to charming informational commercials geared to The Donald from 8:30-9:00 AM. Oliver promises to run the ads until he is forced to stop. Everyone pray that Trump doesn’t record his programs and skip the ads!
A friendly cowboy The Donald will have already seen will give him 60 second tips. One day he might talk about the nuclear triad or explain global warming versus weather. Another day he might remind Donald about his daughter Tiffany, or talk about the inner cities and who really lives there. As a man of the world, The Donald needs to know which fork to use when, and just maybe (eye roll) the finer points of female anatomy.
Apologies for the length of this one, as there was simply not a good place to break it up.