As we all expected, Donald Trump hasn’t been taking this whole public impeachment inquiry hearings thing very well, despite the fact that it was his own party that demanded they be made public for all the world to see after illegally and frankly immaturely storming the closed-door hearings several weeks ago.
It was bad enough for Donald when transcripts of the closed witness testimonies were coming out in droves proving just how positively fucked he truly is. But it seems that he’s taking the whole ordeal even worse now that Americans are able to watch these witnesses bury him in guilt in real-time.
As a result, Donnie has gotten a little manic. Frankly, his mental health wasn’t in what I’d call a “healthy” state to begin with. But now that witness after witness is just confirming what a corrupt piece of shit he is, he’s really fallen off into quite a tailspin — resulting in one of his now-infamous Sharpie-fueled temper tantrums.
After the downright damning testimony of European Ambassador Gordon Sondland yesterday, who Trump was eager to put on the stand just a few weeks ago, Trump got his panties in a bunch as we say down here in the south.
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So he scribbled some notes on a pad with his handy, dandy black Sharpie and braved that gaggle of reporters waiting for his response.
Of course, what he actually said to the reporters was ridiculous enough. However, it was the state of Trump’s hand-scrawled notes that grabbed the attention of Americans across the country.
“I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zellinsky [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] to do the right thing,” the paper Trump held read, written in thick, black permanent marker.
Of course, the photograph of Trump’s notes quickly went viral and were memed and parodied in some pretty hilarious ways.
However, the best I’ve personally seen yet didn’t come in the form of a joke but rather a comparison.
And not a comparison by just anyone either. A comparison by former White House photographer Pete Souza, who photographed Trump’s predecessor and apparent sworn enemy, Barack Obama.
In a post shared to his Instagram Souza shared a photo of Trump’s “presidential” notes alongside a similarly styled photograph of Obama during his presidency — and the difference speaks volumes, y’all.
While Trump had a few half-sentences worth of nonsense scrawled on a blank sheet of white paper, Obama’s similar photograph features a lined yellow notepad full of relatively neat and well thought out, legitimate notes.
“Great storytelling image by Mark Wilson of Getty Images showing comrade minus’s handwritten remarks today,” Souza captioned the images. “Swipe to see an almost identical image I made of President Obama a few years ago.”
It’s really no wonder Trump hates his predecessor so badly. It must really suck to be so painfully inadequate.
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