The Funniest Tweets about Trump’s Unhinged Week: Greenland, “The King of Israel,” “The Chosen One” and More
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It’s only Wednesday, and here’s the week our president has already has:
1. He decided he wanted to buy Greenland, and then insulted and cancelled a meeting with Denmark’s Prime Minister when she understandably refused to sell us the rapidly disappearing island.
2. He retweeted a fringe conspiracy theorist who called the President “the King of Israel” and claimed that Israelis treat Trump like “the second coming of God”.
3. And then just earlier today he cut out the middleman and straight up claimed divinity for himself, looking to the sky and calling himself “The Chosen One” when discussing his trade war with China.
This is all on top of the typical and expected Trump madness—claiming that prominent Democrats “hate all Jews,” calling any Jewish American who votes for Democrats disloyal and stupid, and engaging in a very public (and very petty) feud with fellow jackass (and former press secretary) Anthony Scaramucci.
(Aaaaaaaaaaand breaking: apparently earlier today Trump said he was looking into doing away with birthright citizenship, even though that’s codified in the Constitution. Dude doesn’t know a damn thing.)
Trump’s manifest incompetence has never really been funny. It’s easy to make jokes about how consistently and completely ridiculous he is, but they have the tenor and tone of the jokes Romanians told about former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu—grim commiseration over how frightening the leadership of our country has become. I don’t feel comfortable joking about any of the stuff I just listed out above, especially the rank antisemitism, but when you’re in a situation that feels this hopeless it can help to make fun of it all. So here are the funniest tweets about all of Trump’s latest lies, bigotry and blasphemies. And as always, if any of these comments makes you laugh, consider following whoever wrote them on the cursed catastrophe that is Twitter.
All of you laughed at me for building a scoreboard that tracked the number of days since America last got into a feud with Denmark.
Well, who’s laughing now?
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 21, 2019
1775-2018 Denmark: quietly owns Greenland
1946-2018 Donald Trump: never thinks or maybe knows about Greenland?
2019 Donald Trump: I want to buy Greenland.
2019 Denmark: What? No, of course not.
2019 Donald Trump: THAT’S RIDICULOUS!!!!!— Jeremy Woodcock (@jwPencilAndPad) August 21, 2019
If we take one thing from Denmark can it be their health care system
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) August 17, 2019
2019: Lololol Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark
2024: I think it’s time for a gradual withdrawal of troops from Copenhagen
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) August 21, 2019
One of worst parts of Trump’s presidency is everyone taking strong stances on shit they never thought about 15 minutes before. I’m gonna sit this one out and remain vaguely anti Denmark because I mistakenly think they’re the ones with the wooden shoes and look into it no further
— Mark Agee (@MarkAgee) August 21, 2019
“I’m not going to Denmark because they won’t sell me Greenland” is a level of stupid I naively never thought we would attain.
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) August 21, 2019
Would be great if when we elect the next president, Denmark just straight up gives her Greenland as an inauguration gift.
— Ariel Dumas (@ArielDumas) August 21, 2019
okay so today the president said jews are stupid and got mad when he couldn’t buy greenland
— Megan Amram (@meganamram) August 21, 2019
Lot of talk about where lies the loyalty of the unknowable Jewish heart these days a traditionally healthy barometer of society.
— luke (normal) (@lukeoneil47) August 21, 2019
This is probably the first time Trump ever said no to a Danish
— Will Bunch (@Will_Bunch) August 21, 2019
Always worth repeating: “supporting” Israel because you have fevered medieval superstitions about it being the site of a climactic battle b/t God & Satan, during which all actual Jews will go to hell, is a weird kind of support.
— David Roberts (@drvox) August 20, 2019