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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.
When his constituents look at cheetolini, they don't see an old, demented man, but rather an illusion of everything they want to be: Bold, rich, uncompromising, unafraid to shout his bigotries.
So they overlay this perfect fantasy of what they imagine drumpf to be on top of his actual appearance.
This is why his jokes fall flat with others, not because others aren't telling them right, but BECAUSE they do not have the same hero aura in regressive's minds.
It is 100% a cult, in every way.
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.