I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 5 days ago

I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him

Reposted from @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)

HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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starshine.bsky.social•5 days ago

thats right

3fecta.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Gorilla Channel. We can at least start there.

jennp421.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes! I said something like this to some friends recently.

litzz11.bsky.social•5 days ago

Dang this is like the 3rd thing like this I've seen today! Here's one like it, a comment on the New York Times' story about Trump bashing the Federalist Society as he attempts to wrest control of the judiciary.

It's really not a bad idea.

elkmovie.bsky.social•5 days ago

I don’t think it would take that much effort, you sell him on some sort of White House renovation that requires him to work out of a new facility near MAL while they’re doing it and you get Republicans - who just want the photo op anyway - to fly down regularly for meetings

lsaffs.bsky.social•5 days ago

The whole world would be happier

editr.bsky.social•5 days ago

Words fail me that this guy is the leader of the free world

cacaobyproduct.bsky.social•5 days ago

10000%

I think all narcissists like him and the rest of the ceo class would

ethanf97.bsky.social•5 days ago

“Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.”
-Kurt Vonnegut

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump was never happier than when he was tweeting insults about the couture at the Met Ball

mmwritessf.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's what's happening. Trump is not the president. He's not doing ANY of the work a president should. The Project 2025 guys are simply telling him what to say. He just golfs and gets in front of the camera.

Which is why he knows nothing of what' happening when asked by the press.

cmtallday.bsky.social•5 days ago

Actually, this is a characteristic of all MAGA type men over 60. If it’s not on the television or the desktop monitor * tuned to Fox 💩,* it isn’t real.

virginiaopossum.bsky.social•5 days ago

💯

balthazaarpaine.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm pretty sure that's already happening. Miller and Co are running the country while they let him post on truth, sign EOs and take softball interviews.

dotskyy.bsky.social•5 days ago

This sorta happened in Portugal with Salazar (fascist too, so is a precedent)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/portugal-former-dictator-salazar-book-b2007149.html

julie-peyton.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m not a big fan of verbing nouns, but in this case I will make an exception.

beccasmullet.bsky.social•5 days ago

Jimmy Kimmel proposed this early in Trump's first term, and I thought it was utterly brilliant!

edgarallandoh.bsky.social•5 days ago

My wife has been saying that since '16.

uofagrad97.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can we try that?

josephusbrown.bsky.social•5 days ago

Holy shit they’re actually gonna Gorilla Channel him

cyesterling.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh.my.god. this is brilliant! Better yet, Peter thiel can run it and have his network state wet dream too. Kill two birds with one stone. All in one nice package.

shinikage221.bsky.social•5 days ago

Gaslight every dementia addled politician into thinking they're still in power when really they're in a nursing home in Florida.

danielwaites.bsky.social•5 days ago

Also I think the Apprentice basically WAS the Truman show, but it wound up fooling everyone else instead

danielwaites.bsky.social•5 days ago

Well arguably this is what happened to Elon and it still did not work out well

dueledge.bsky.social•5 days ago

Solve the issue like the ending of Eric. Make him the super double supreme CEO of America and let him do a televised address every day.

theczexan.bsky.social•5 days ago

If only there really was a “deep state” to do this

bacchus666.bsky.social•5 days ago

Honest to God, I want out of this timeline.

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•5 days ago

This has always been my big tipoff that he’s not really running the show as much as he is being the pawn of tech capital. If he was really in the hot seat, he wouldn’t have run again, because he fucking hated it.

jimbotexan.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's obviously always hated doing the actual work parts of the job (or any job, because he's never had a real one), but he clearly also did not want to go to jail.

wormfood-local-510.bsky.social•5 days ago

While that’s true, he could’ve avoided it in theory by just endorsing and running someone else

bowlerhatscience.org•5 days ago

the fact that many of us independently thought of this 10 years ago is telling

litzz11.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wasn't this the entire plot point of the series "Made For Love," where everyone think they're in these beautiful mansions and gardens but really it's a VR cube?

whdevreaux.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, I had the idea of a fake Twitter app for his phone that would interact with a server in the basement of the White House that would populate his timeline with fake sycophantic tweeters.

sharky.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hear me out: INVISIBLE AIR FORCE ONE

thinkingsabrecat.bsky.social•5 days ago

Really what Donald Trump needs is the Ludovico Technique and to watch Monty Pythons the Holy Grail for 43 times till he realises he is a Meme

remainingjedi19.bsky.social•5 days ago

Fox propaganda network is just an arm of the Russian propaganda machine. #FoxIsElderAbuse #FraudsOfAFeather

haethre.bsky.social•5 days ago

and he would LOVE it

midlifecrsisactor.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is the only solution.

gchernack.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’ve argued this since 2016.

yappydagger.bsky.social•5 days ago

Suggested this in 2017 and I share your conviction.

thatac.bsky.social•5 days ago

The VR headsets they put on cows to keep them happy...

kimmasters.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, but not designed by Tulsi.

bddigeser.bsky.social•5 days ago

No kidding

rkemb.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just looking forward to the day that Trump goes off to a lovely farm in the country.

halftank.bsky.social•5 days ago

He’s too fucking stupid to follow along with the normal brief.

lauraclemens.bsky.social•5 days ago

I’m beginning to think that his medical report said ‘normal visual acuity’ and it meant for his age, and he actually needs reading glasses at the very least and he cannot read this stuff in a printed format anymore

dappledlight.bsky.social•5 days ago

I suspect he’s functionally illiterate.

lauraclemens.bsky.social•5 days ago

He can read a teleprompter when he decides to and his handwritten speech notes, which he writes in a very large hand

Not sure how much written stuff he is able to mentally process and assimilate

People do tell him what executive orders they are handing him, he should be able to read this himself!

nopipbutcpip.bsky.social•5 days ago

My suspicion has been some level of dyslexia.

alicedyeforme.bsky.social•5 days ago

He's needed glasses for decades but refuses to wear them because that's a sign of bad genes or other dumb vain eugenics nonsense.

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