Trump’s humor? I suppose they mean like imitating someone’s palsy for laughs? Laughing at violence towards your opponents?
Trump doesn’t know how to joke, and him laughing at things doesn’t make it humor. He just happens to have a fawning audience who are parasocially mated to his speech and body language, that they recognize Trump’s cues that he wants laughter, which they oblige.
And of course that doesn’t work for other candidates even when they say the same things - It’s a cult of personality, not politics.
Trump has a fawning audience, true, but unfortunately he also is a pretty funny guy who can think on his feet. During the debate, his quip that “I don’t know what he just said and I don’t think he does either” was 100% perfect. You can really see how his entertainment background sets him apart from other politicians. (All this, of course, is in service of the worst policies, which is too bad.)
No. You just think a bully is amusing. Some of us don’t.
It’s a prepared line.
Lol, how can you think that’s an off the cuff line after hearing multiple speeches from the gibbering moron? It’s way to concise and understandable than anything he would have thought of himself.
It’s the joking of a bully and the laughter of his sycophants. His GOP imitators don’t have the demagogue charisma because they’re too educated. They can’t pull off the stupid bully act because they’re rich bullies.
I saw a town hall recently with a bunch of democrats giving speeches and they were all doing it too, making fun of people and trying for low effort zingers. It just didn’t really work, seemed forced. Like junior high kids trying to gain social capital by making fun of people. But in general it seems like the strategy is to try energize the Democrat base with populist tactics rather than taking the high road and hoping that regular Americans actually want something different.
