For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.
His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.
This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.
Is he? I thought it was just other people saying he should
He explicitly implied he was considering running on Charlemagne’s show. Wouldn’t mean much for most people but Jon has always aggressively shut down any such suggestion and here he brought it up.
Choose one
Implicitly explied.
Go watch the clip. In the context of Jon Stewart it’s weird. He hasn’t given the idea serious thought since the rally to restore sanity in ancient times.
Even Jon Stewart cannot defy the rules of logic.
Either he explicitly said “I am running for president” or he implied it by saying something other than “I am running for president.”
No! Schrödinger’s cat for president!
He clearly implied. Leaving no room for confusion or doubt that he implied what he implied.
The implication was explicit. He’s considering running. No one thinks he was implying he would run for a spot on Sesame Street, or as Chief of Staff, or any other position.
You don’t think that works well enough, especially in the context of Jon’s relationship with the subject in the past?
If you must interpret the meaning of his words based on additional context, then he was implying.
If there is no need for interpretation, then he was being explicit.
You keep using these words… I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
His relationship to the subject in the past has been an utter lack of interest in running for any kind of office, and has never even attempted it on a local level or expressed a desire to.
How about we all get the dick of celebrityhood in general out of our collective mouths and just let the man tell us what he has planned if he has something planned.
Whoa, I was just discussing why I would go easy on the poor word choices here. Calm down.
He’s not, he wisecracks about it here and there to farm a little engagement, but I don’t think anyone expects him to suddenly become the wiley dealmaker and negotiator between members of the parties he despises. A lot of people on the left have the same exact celebrity infatuation as MAGA do, it just takes a slightly different form. Liberal audiences are engaged and laugh at thoughtful irony and scathing shower-arguments delivered to captive audiences. The right laughs at MAN FALL DOWN GO BOOM.
Even if he were suddenly to pull off his mask and show that he has electability (political capital), he would be running on a liberal platform not much different than establishment dems have been doing for years because they have the same base: liberals. I mean, honestly a lame-duck Stewart administration would be preferable over literally everything we are looking at on the horizon, but I do think we can do a lot better than more celebrity worship.
Stewart’s rhetoric is cathartic to libs and leftists frustrated with the right, but he’s never been a champion of socialism or a radical, it’s just jokes. He admits this, it’s his power and strength and putting him in the seat of power would actually take that strength away.