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The Veepiest Moments of the Trump Era

Teh_Lurv

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As awful as the Trump administration was over the past four years, it was also filled with really stupid moments. Politico looked back and compiled a list of all the inane events that got publicly aired during the Trump Presidency (it's a long list.)

Maintaining the normal veneer of smooth competence proved impossible in a White House that struggled from the start to find disciplined aides, and where the boss' whims and ego made even Veep's Selina Meyer seem levelheaded. As for keeping it hidden, not even close: Trumpworld's constant leaks and backstabbing ensured that all of America saw its dirty laundry.

Veep executive producer David Mandel watched the presidency unfold with an uncomfortable sense of recognition. "They're either taking from our show or doing their own version of it," he said. "It's the reason we left the air," he said. "It's fun to write about a crazy president, it's not so fun to live in a country with a crazy president as the body count rises. Incompetence is very enjoyable on the small screen."
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A few of my favorites:

Aug. 21, 2017

For weeks, Americans waiting for a near-total solar eclipse have been hearing one repeated piece of advice: Don't stare straight into the sun. At around 2 p.m., when the eclipse is at its peak in D.C., cameras pan to the White House balcony to reveal Trump—with no eye protection, and an aide audibly shouting "don't look!"—staring straight into the sun.
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March 22, 2018

Trump calls Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson "Marillyn Lockheed" while announcing new tariffs on China.

March 6, 2019

Trump refers to Apple CEO Tim Cook as "Tim Apple" in a White House meeting.
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Nov. 25-26, 2019
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In a White House ceremony, Trump refers to Conan, a special operations dog involved in the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as a male. The White House later declares that Conan is female. But then it corrects itself, saying Conan is, indeed, a boy. The back-and-forth leads to speculation that the White House is trying to cover up for Trump's initial mistake. Some online observers even zoom in on Conan's crotch to determine the sex. The Pentagon finally officially declares Conan a boy.
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‘Every Day Was Like a “Veep” Episode’: The Veepiest Moments of the Trump Era

“They’re either taking from our show or doing their own version of it,” says the HBO show's executive producer.
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Make me re-watch Sean Spicer's Dancing With the Stars Cha-Cha routine ERA if old.
 
The Albatross

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The Trump presidency has just been too crazy to satirize properly.

What's particularly amazing is like ... how Republicans used to get made fun of for jingoism and extreme patriotism, y'know like the silly photoshops of the Bald Eagles, American Flags, Guns, and the candidates face ironically poorly photoshopped onto it....... But that's just *become* the conservative aesthetic in real life now. Like, golden shovels and Trump standing with two thumbs up, etc.

There's just so many stupid moments in this presiidency that would have been HUGE news otherwise. One thing for me that still flies under the radar is that Trump insists on calling the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic the 1917 flu. It's just one of those things he's just factually wrong on, he's off by a year, but he did it so much early on that it became, like, a thing for him to insist that it was 1917. And so now it's like *his thing* and his supporters are supposed to go along with it, like, it's a troll of the libs or something to just factually get a date wrong and insist on it. There are *so many* of these things you can't even count. Another is like when he congratulated the Kansas for the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl last year. Kansas City is in Missouri... but... like... his supporters insisted it's perfectly normal to congratulate Kansas for the win, not the state the team is from (even if Kansas football fans in East Kansas might cheer for Kansas City it's just so bizarre).

The Geraldo thing about ... honoring Trump by calling the vaccine "The Trump," and then he seriously riffs on it, like "Oh, did you get your Trump yet?" referring to the vaccine, and he says like, that's a nice way to honor this president. And he's 100% serious.

I think one of the Rockstar leads said they're thankful they didn't have to make a GTA game during the Trump presidency, and I'm with them. For instance in GTAV there's this fake presidential candidate, Jock Cranley, and he's like a mix of ... Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, and Arnold Schwartzenegger... He's a stunt double sleezy sex obsessed politician. But his interviews in the game are below the level of insanity of a typical Trump interview, it's just insane. He can't be satirized properly. I think this is why that comedian on Twitter who pantomimes over Trump statements is so effective... Like, Trump is crazier than Alec Baldwin's impression of him, so really it's better satire to just have this person do his actual words.

The man fucked a porn star named Stormy Daniels and then had his sleezy attorney pay her off for it and PROBABLY used campaign funds to pay for it. It's insane.
 
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Joeyjoejoeshabadoo

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The Four Seasons press conference was just the cherry on the Sundae. It was so perfectly stupid, from the president "quickly" deleting the initial tweet to Giuliani and crew pushing forward with the the press conference to the fact that the media called the election just prior to the conference causing legitimate media to bail on the press conference. It was just so good.
 
Plinkerton

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None of these compare to the Four Seasons thing. That was like something that the Veep writers would have scrapped for being too stupid and I still can't fully believe its real.
 
BWoog

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When Trump spoke with Putin and said "I don't see any reason why Russia would interfere with the election."

And then when he got dragged for it that week, said "I meant to say wouldn't and your all stupid for thinking I meant would!!"
 
Sheepinator

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So many.

Bleach. Fucking bleach.

This NATO summit photo op, where he was going to be at the front anyway, but the clown never reads notes so he probably didn't realize that, so he pushes his way to the front then struts like, "Yeah that's right, I'm all that."

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The orb.

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Bragging to the Boy Scouts about a yacht sex party.

COVFEFE.

Talking top secret North Korea stuff (iirc that was the topic) at a Mar-a-lago dinner table with guests all around.

All the times he has denied saying something that he said, not only when there are recordings of it, but he claims to have recordings of it which he then never releases.

And that Four Seasons Landscaping debacle. You can't make that stuff up.
 
ElectricBlanketFire

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There was the time he complained about water pressure and that you have to the flush the toilet "10-12 times" clearly referring to himself.
 
Gernau Morat Gurgeh

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The Albatross said:
The Trump presidency has just been too crazy to satirize properly.

What's particularly amazing is like ... how Republicans used to get made fun of for jingoism and extreme patriotism, y'know like the silly photoshops of the Bald Eagles, American Flags, Guns, and the candidates face ironically poorly photoshopped onto it....... But that's just *become* the conservative aesthetic in real life now. Like, golden shovels and Trump standing with two thumbs up, etc.

There's just so many stupid moments in this presiidency that would have been HUGE news otherwise. One thing for me that still flies under the radar is that Trump insists on calling the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic the 1917 flu. It's just one of those things he's just factually wrong on, he's off by a year, but he did it so much early on that it became, like, a thing for him to insist that it was 1917. And so now it's like *his thing* and his supporters are supposed to go along with it, like, it's a troll of the libs or something to just factually get a date wrong and insist on it. There are *so many* of these things you can't even count. Another is like when he congratulated the Kansas for the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Super Bowl last year. Kansas City is in Missouri... but... like... his supporters insisted it's perfectly normal to congratulate Kansas for the win, not the state the team is from (even if Kansas football fans in East Kansas might cheer for Kansas City it's just so bizarre).

The Geraldo thing about ... honoring Trump by calling the vaccine "The Trump," and then he seriously riffs on it, like "Oh, did you get your Trump yet?" referring to the vaccine, and he says like, that's a nice way to honor this president. And he's 100% serious.

I think one of the Rockstar leads said they're thankful they didn't have to make a GTA game during the Trump presidency, and I'm with them. For instance in GTAV there's this fake presidential candidate, Jock Cranley, and he's like a mix of ... Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, and Arnold Schwartzenegger... He's a stunt double sleezy sex obsessed politician. But his interviews in the game are below the level of insanity of a typical Trump interview, it's just insane. He can't be satirized properly. I think this is why that comedian on Twitter who pantomimes over Trump statements is so effective... Like, Trump is crazier than Alec Baldwin's impression of him, so really it's better satire to just have this person do his actual words.

The man fucked a porn star named Stormy Daniels and then had his sleezy attorney pay her off for it and PROBABLY used campaign funds to pay for it. It's insane.
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That's the thing, satire works by exaggerating a characteristic to absurdity to reveal something. But when the reality is so utterly awful and ridiculous it's really hard to make it work. Same thing with Brexit - it's hard to make it any more stupid than it actually is
 
Sheepinator

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And this, my favorite speech from the Clown.

"I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don't have a musical instrument. I don't have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we've broken a lot of records. We've broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don't need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important."
 
aett

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My wife and I are currently watching Veep for the first time. We're in season five now (recounts!) and the similarities, especially around every aspect of the election, are blowing our minds.

The most frustrating parts are when something bad/crazy happens and people freak out like it means the end of the Presidency. We're like "no it fucking doesn't!"
 
Saoshyant

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Sheepinator said:
And this, my favorite speech from the Clown.

"I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don't have a musical instrument. I don't have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we've broken a lot of records. We've broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don't need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important."
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The brain truly is more important. His syphilis riddled one can't seem to form any coherent sentences, though.
 
Lost Lemurian

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Infrastructure Week absolutely seems like a running gag that came from a writer's room, but they declared so many Infrastructure Weeks.

And this photo op should've ended his presidency.
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The Albatross said:
What's particularly amazing is like ... how Republicans used to get made fun of for jingoism and extreme patriotism, y'know like the silly photoshops of the Bald Eagles, American Flags, Guns, and the candidates face ironically poorly photoshopped onto it....... But that's just *become* the conservative aesthetic in real life now. Like, golden shovels and Trump standing with two thumbs up, etc.
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4chan became a Nazi hellhole because people couldn't recognize the satire in those images. When they made it onto Twitter and Facebook, the Boomers never stood a chance. They looked at a poorly photoshopped Trump face on the Emperor of Mankind killing orks with photoshopped sombreros and thought to themselves, "This is an inspiring and unironic expression of American patriotism". We live in wild times.
 
jph139

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I mean, the Mooch Saga, maybe? Like he's gotta have one of the quickest turnarounds, was in and out in like a week, and everything about the dude is just... satirical "generic slimeball banking dude" come to life.

If you were making the Trump Era into a TV show, though, it would barely merit an episode, that's how brief a blip it was.
 

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It's like they did 2017 and early 2018 and got bored and said fuck it.
So many classics are missing. The Axios interview is a Veep as it gets. Trump trying to read a graph: "We're better than...the world".

aett said:
My wife and I are currently watching Veep for the first time. We're in season five now (recounts!) and the similarities, especially around every aspect of the election, are blowing our minds.

The most frustrating parts are when something bad/crazy happens and people freak out like it means the end of the Presidency. We're like "no it fucking doesn't!"
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Murders aside, it's also funny rewatching the early seasons of House of cards. Wasn't the grand nefarious scheme to get the president to step down in season 2 was to get him to lie about seeing a matrimonial therapist and taking sleeping pills? Oh la la...That might get a day of coverage in the real world.
 
BarryFishFinger

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That whole Goya (?) food thing with him standing there gurning over a selection of foods, advertising shit on the resolute desk. That was a moment.
 
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Sheepinator said:
And this, my favorite speech from the Clown.

"I have broken more Elton John records. He seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don't have a musical instrument. I don't have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No, we've broken a lot of records. We've broken virtually every record. Because you know, look, I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don't need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really, we do it without, like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical – the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth, right? The brain. More important than the mouth is the brain. The brain is much more important."
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What is this even in reference to? Why is he comparing himself to Sir Elton John? Why does any of this matter? OH MY GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU BRAINLESS BOWL OF ALPHABET SOUP.
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I had to actually stop watching Veep cause the shit was too on the nose for comfort. Been waiting this entire orange fucks presidency so I can go back and finish.
 
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5 years ago, if I watched a Veep season showing Trump presidency, I'd have called it far-fetched and derided the writing.
 
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jph139 said:
I mean, the Mooch Saga, maybe? Like he's gotta have one of the quickest turnarounds, was in and out in like a week, and everything about the dude is just... satirical "generic slimeball banking dude" come to life.

If you were making the Trump Era into a TV show, though, it would barely merit an episode, that's how brief a blip it was.
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The Mooch actually hadn't started at his position yet when he got fired.
He lasted -15 days.
 
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Trump's White House staff quickly discover that the president prefers to work with papers over computers, and has a habit of tearing up his papers when he's finished reading them. Legally obligated to preserve Trump's memos, files and other correspondence, his staffers spend hours each day taping ripped documents back together again.
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Kind of wondering if he got this habit from hiding criminal activity, to the point that he literally can't stop acting like a con man.
 
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It's in the Twitter thread, but the reason for Trump leaving is INCREDIBLE.
That guy still holds the NCAA wrestling record for longest pin streak. Trump thinks he could beat him and the guy said there was no chance of that.
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It would be nice but that happens about half way through the exchange, I doubt it's the reason.
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Remarks by President Trump at the Presentation of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dan Gable | The White House

Oval Office 12:38 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. And today it's my privilege to present our nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential
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Seems more likely that trump is just an asshole, based on the fact that he objectively is.
 

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That time he went to stare at the fucking sun

Every time he tried to hold Melania's hand in public and she's like nah

That time he went to the Alabama game and got booed

Drawing on the picture of the projected hurricane path with a sharpie

That time he made the cabinet tell everyone what a fantastic job he did - it looked like a hostage situation

There's a ton of veepiest moments. But don't let that divert you from the fact that Donald Trump is a piece of fucking human garbage.
 
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