Trump at Play | The American Spectator

Humor is a sign of intelligence. A fool not only doesn’t know how to make people laugh, but he also doesn’t understand the joke. He clings to literal interpretations and gets angry often. Part of the problem with the postmodern left is that it has lost its sense of humor; they’re all like copies of Greta Thunberg — always serious, angry, scolding everyone. The left today is like your mom when you come home from school with muddy feet and start jumping on the living room couches. Actually, it’s worse. After all, you always love your mother. And I can’t find any way I could start loving Kamala Harris without being under the influence of ayahuasca.

Much is written about Trump’s virtues and defects, but I think not enough emphasis is placed on the most characteristic aspect of his second term: he is showcasing his extraordinary sense of humor every single day. The meeting with Messi and other soccer players at the White House was yet another example of the great comedy show.

The guy greets the soccer players and, with everyone lined up and listening attentively, starts talking about how they are crushing the ayatollahs like cockroaches. Without missing a beat — perhaps taking advantage of the fact that the guests were from Inter Miami — he also commented that the Cuban communist regime only had a couple of weeks left. The footballers’ faces will go down in the history of Trumpism, where the impossible becomes real.

Without a doubt, my favorite moment of Trump’s humor was Ahmed al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House last November. Trump wanted to present him with his own perfume, Victory 45-47, which is already amusing in itself: the president creating a fragrance to commemorate his two great electoral victories.

But then, to hell with protocol, he started spraying it on al-Sharaa and his companions as if he were forcibly baptizing them. When he finished, he gave him a second perfume — a feminine one — and said it was for his wife. He immediately paused, then asked, “How many wives? One?” al-Sharaa replied shyly, “One.” Trump burst out laughing, patted him on the back, and said, “With you guys, I never know.”

In the last few hours, Trump has provided another truly hilarious moment, this time talking about interpreters. “I had an interpreter recently that wasn’t good, talking to a very strong person from a different part of the world,” he said. “And I could tell — even though I don’t speak the language — I could tell the interpreter was not good.” “When you go ‘uh, uh, uh’ when I give a long-flowing, beautiful sentence — and in this case it was a woman — and she gave it in about one-fourth the time.” Finally, he said, “Well, their language may be efficient, but it’s not that efficient.”

The best presidents of the United States have been funny. In fact, the great Ronald Reagan, as you know, had an extraordinary sense of humor. Trump, in his second term in the White House, is showing himself to be much more natural, and his humor is strikingly similar to Reagan’s. When someone is truly funny, humor emerges at the most unexpected moments. It’s impossible to forget when, entering the operating room after being shot by John Hinckley, Reagan removed his oxygen mask and said to the surgeons, “I hope you are all Republicans.”

Another characteristic of a good sense of humor is that funny people make you laugh even when they don’t intend to. Trump flies into major rages two or three times a week. My favorite moment of the day is when he’s really angry and someone puts a microphone in front of him. This week he got angry with the fool of a president of Spain, and the string of insults reached such a fever pitch that he almost threatened us with nuclear holocaust. Simply brilliant.

He also had his share of laughs the day he received Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. Trump laughed at something Joe Biden had done in the past: “Remember Biden? He travels for 20 hours, gets out, and he gives a fist bump. No. When you get off the plane and you meet the future king and one of the most respected people in the world, you shake his hand — you don’t give him a fist bump, right?” “Trump doesn’t give a fist bump,” he also said. “I grab that hand. I don’t give a hell where that hand’s been.”

In the midst of a stressed world with thousands of problems to solve, bad news, and despair, for one of the most important people on the planet to be able to laugh at himself and others is a true blessing. We are witnessing it — and laughing — live. Years from now, we may be able to say, “I saw Donald Trump play.”

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