Uday and Qusay Trump motif traces back to Bill Maher

January 7th, 2018 by Charles Cameron

How meta: Trump's complaint about @ABFalecbaldwin's perfectly hilarious parody of Trump is like a perfectly hilarious parody of Trump. https://t.co/oKG2lVvXqv

— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) October 16, 2016

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A second form to keep an eye out for, and one of my own favorites, is the serpent-bites-its-tail motif, or ouroboros.

Discussing Trump saying he’llannounce his “Dishonest and Corrupt Media Awards” tomorroww:–

“I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock,” Trump wrote. “Subjects will cover Dishonesty & Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!

Everyone in comedy took immediate advantage, proposing themslves (!) for awards:

So excited for Monday’s “MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR!” See you on the red carpet, @AndersonCooper! #TheFakies pic.twitter.com/r8pYCj0g9r

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) January 4, 2018

Monday night’s MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS is going to be ???@realDonaldTrump, For Your Consideration: pic.twitter.com/6GT31qdBaL

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 4, 2018

but it was Ari Melber, host of MSNBC’s The Beat, who nailed the ouroboric implications of Trump’s challenge with this question:

Will he be physically able to give an award to anyone other than himself?

It may not feature groovy graphics, like the two late-night comedians’ tweets do — but that explicit Trumpian self-reference really stings!

Enough. I’m getting dizzy, and that’s something my doctors would scribble about it I mentioned it. Gotta save them pencil-wear — I’m not so simple as a list of symptoms, added to a single numbered diagnosis,

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  1. Charles Cameron:

    January 7th, 2018 at 9:21 pm

    I didn’t want to intrerrupt the dizzying (at least to me) flow above, but here are some readings on Trump and projection, aka defensive mirroring:
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    Psychologicl projection:

    Psychological projection is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unconscious impulses or qualities (both positive and negative) by denying their existence in themselves while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is habitually intolerant may constantly accuse other people of being intolerant.

    More:
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    RCP, Trump: The Only Collusion Was Between Hillary Clinton And The Russians
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    Peter Beinart, The Projection President
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    James Fallows, Why does Trump ‘Project” so much — a hypothesis
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    Steve Benen, Donald Trump’s fondness for projection proves to be a problem

  2. Charles Cameron:

    January 7th, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    I suspect the phenomenon of Blaming the Jews for Acting Like Nazis is a kindred phenomenon to projection / mirroring.
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    Need to get my concepts straight, which is not assisted by my daily doses of memory-sapping medicines. I had a fall today, trying to save my computer from my bowl of tomato soup — I think I was more concerned for the soup. Anyway, they had to write the episode up and report it up to the Joint Nursing Command. I hope they don’t cut off my supply of hot chocolate!

  3. Zen:

    January 7th, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    Well projection aside, the two situations are not the same, yet both are troubling.
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    Officials with the Trump campaign and Trump family at various times and purported reasons met with Russian officials and businessmen with ties to Russian intelligence agencies and/or Russian organized crime or had conflicts of interest that would make them subject to influence or blackmail.
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    Hillary and Bill Clinton’s foundation and former President Clinton personally solicited and received multimillion dollar donations or fees from foreign governments and state corporations – including Russia – while these entities had important business before the State Department while HRC was SECSTATE. These funds were not used in their entirety for the purposes reported to the IRS either but that’s small beer.
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    Which is worse? That’s not the right question. The correct question is why are either of these situations considered acceptable and tolerable by half of the respective electorate? Why aren’t both viewed as deal-breakers by everyone?

  4. Charles Cameron:

    January 8th, 2018 at 12:39 am

    Trump Delays Fake News Awards

    U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed his “Fake News Awards” to later in the month, instead of Monday so he can attend the college national championship football game.
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    Trump tweeted last week that he would be “announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o’clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty and Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!”
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    Trump had promised to hold the mock awards show to castigate mainstream news organizations for their coverage of his presidency. But now his fans and the journalists will have to wait another 10 days.
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    On Sunday, Trump tweeted: “The Fake News Award, those going to the most corrupt and biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated.”

  5. Grurray:

    January 8th, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    The issue with how to combine big picture views and day to day administration is an inherent problem with the presidency because the president serves as both the Head of State and Head of Government. Formulating a plan to deal with it doesn’t sound like a bad idea. It would be similar to a Cheng/Chi dazzle/stroke strategy that Chet Richards writes about.
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    To Zen’s question, scale is the issue. Flynn was an advisor. Trump Jr is a nice bumbler. Most reasonable people recognized they couldn’t do too much damage, and they were right. The system worked and caught them.
    Bill and Hillary, on the other hand, put the whole world at risk with their immense global pay-to-play operation. Since they’re above the law, the system can’t contain any damage they do.