Sunday, October 4, 2020

Is President Trump's Covid-19 Illness Fair Game For Comics?


Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' following the president’s diagnosis 


 * Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' 
 * Trump announced on Friday at 1am that he and Melania tested positive for virus 
 * Poking fun at the show's coronavirus precautions Rock said: 'I haven’t had so much stuff up my nose since I shared a dressing room with Chris Farley!' 
 * He called for the end of the presidency and the launch of a new political system 
 * 'You realize there’s more rules to a game show than running for president? Trump left a game show to run for president because it was easier,' he joked 
 * The cold open saw Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey spoof the presidential debate 

Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' following the president’s diagnosis. 

The show’s Season 46 premiere hit the ground running with jabs at the president, who is being treated for COVID-19 at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland. 

'President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID,' Rock, 55, joked as the small live crowd laughed. 


WNU Editor: Not funny ..... 'President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID.' Will there be the same response if he had said former Vice-President Biden is in his basement because of the onset of early dementia, and my heart goes out to dementia. I wager not.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Midway through his rally in Battle Creek, Mich., this week, President Trump’s trademark vindictiveness bumped up against the limits of decency as he began to disparage a dead man.

Turning his attention to Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), the widow of former congressman John Dingell, the president suggested that rather than looking down from heaven, as Debbie had previously told him, perhaps John was “looking up” from hell.

The crowd murmured, the crowd grimaced, the crowd groaned. There were cheers and applause, too, but the pockets of hesitation from some of his most loyal supporters underscored a striking note of discomfort with the president’s mean streak.

Anonymous said...

The Dingell's have it coming. They are exactly what is wrong with America. They are as corrupt as the day is long on St John's Day in Anchorage.

John bequeathed 'his' seat to Debbie. We have had it on the Republican side. Murkowski gave his darling daughter his seat by appointment. That turned out well, NOT!

"Legacies are a central part of Congress. But that doesn’t make them a good thing. Dingell, because his father was in Congress, grew up in D.C., attending Georgetown Prep and prowling the halls of Capitol Hill. He even went to college and law school in D.C., spending only a few months living in Michigan before he took his father’s seat. Then, he was permanently ensconced in his House seat for decades before taking a D.C.-based lobbyist as his wife.

In Dingell’s defense, commentators will point to his furious defense of Detroit. Again, bringing home the bacon and trying to steer policy to help local industries is an honored tradition inside the Beltway. But it’s also corrupt to have a member of Congress working to bail out, subsidize, and protect a pet industry at every turn. But that’s what Dingell did."

Defend Dingell. Lower yourself. Defend him.

Dingell did what he did and now look where Detroit is. IT is like New York City is going to be.

Anonymous said...

@6:06 PM

You're right. Sadly 6:52 and posters like him, along with the WNU Editor (especially the Editor) tend to develop selective bias when it comes to these things. "Oh, that was taken out of context," etc is a common thing that pops up on this blog.

What's funny is that I support Trump over Biden; I just don't like the guy, and his faults are glaringly obvious. People like the WNU Editor are free to hold their opinion, and express it, just as everyone else is free to disagree; but the selective hearing and double standards is blatant.

Anonymous said...

"develop selective bias when it comes to these things"

You (8:26) are a liar. You missed or ignored the mention of the Murkowskis.

Try again. Better luck lying next time.

Is there a claw back clause in your contract where your boss takes back money if you fail at trolling?

I would hope that troll farms are at least as honest as Wall Street. Probably too much to ask.

Anonymous said...

andy, ole sport
the issue: is it ok to belittle the ill?
if Chris Rock can do it and Trump has done it, then what is good for the goose is good for the gosser. What the fuck has you comment to do with anything