Instant Karma: Donald Trump bashes Biden for his age — then forgets name of his own doctor (video)

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/17/instant-karma-donald-trump-bashes-biden-for-his-age-then-forgets-name-of-his-own-doctor-video.html

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[Brainspore]

@Carla_Sinclair

still crowing about the rudimentary memory test he “aced” during his presidency that, according to his own boast, asked him to identify a whale.

Honestly that’s no small feat unless it was a pretty famous whale. Keiko the orca from Free Willy had that distinctive collapsed dorsal fin and Moby Dick had the albinism thing going on, but I doubt I could identify most other cetaceans on sight…

[Otherbrother]

Also Monstro, that Twitter Fail Whale, and Brendan Fraser in his Oscar-winning role.

Yeah, it was probably the Fail Whale, knowing Trump and his interests.

[Anselm]

@Brainspore

Honestly that’s no small feat unless it was a pretty famous whale.

I don’t think the point was individual whales. The challenge for Trump probably was to point to the whale picture and say “whale”, not “Mr. Baleeny W. McBaleenface of the Barents Sea”.

Here’s a practice sheet in case you’re ever asked to identify a bird:

[anon65652885]

They misspelled “berb”.

[vernonbird]

@Carla_Sinclair

Mika Brzezinski later quipped. “The name of Trump’s former White House physician-turned-U.S. Congressman is Ronny Jackson, not Johnson.”

Either way, the man is a jackass.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he goes to get his name changed, so as to not contradict his lord & saviour.

[Shuck]

@Carla_Sinclair

“No, actually, they don’t know him. They don’t know Ronnie Johnson.”

Okay, that’s pretty funny - to question someone else’s mental acuity by suggesting they don’t know the guy you can’t name, but the rest of it is also hilarious. Trump accusing anyone of not knowing things, such as the definition of inflation, when you know damn well that Trump would absolutely fail the most basic general knowledge quiz… Normally when Trump says people don’t know things, it’s because he just learned some basic fact, but I don’t remotely believe Trump has any real understanding of what inflation (or any other economic term, for that matter) means.

[MagicFox]

Don’t forget Dale the Whale, Mr. Monk’s criminal nemesis…

[chenille]

Just two weeks ago we had a story about karma where someone stole a package and then died in a car accident. I think it would have been better if they had been the one who forgot their doctor’s name.

[Bonivus_elderheart]

@anon65652885

They misspelled “berb”.

Huh. I always thought it was speled ‘birb’. what do I know…

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

This Stephen Colbert take on the “Ronny Johnson” story is great:

That's Not His Name

[Mister44]

The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (Official Video)