Honorable mention: “ All talk, no action or results” B is for “But her emails”
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In the same profile, Conway provided some examples of alternative facts: “Two plus two is four.
#alternativefacts are just regular facts that wear all black and smoke clove cigarettes.- Jessie January 22, 2017 The phrase quickly became a trending Twitter hashtag, then a meme, then a Dove deodorant ad campaign, then the centerpiece of a New York Magazine profile of Conway, in which she told reporter Olivia Nuzzi, “Excuse me, I’ve spoken 1.2 million words on TV, okay? You wanna focus on two here and two there, it’s on you, you’re a fucking miserable person, P.S., just whoever you are.” The first weekend of Trump’s presidency, Kellyanne Conway told Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that White House press secretary Sean Spicer was just presenting “alternative facts” when he made blatantly untrue claims about the size of the crowd at Trump’s inauguration. Each one was born from something horrible - cruel or grossly stupid - and each one was a tiny, dumb, tasteless victory against despair. We’ve already got enough memorable, pervasive memes to fill the world’s scariest children’s book. In The New Republic, two weeks after the inauguration, Jeet Heer outlined the broader case for making jokes about the Trump administration: “Jokes, even political jokes, aren’t about persuasion, but rather psychological comfort in the face of difficult or painful situations.”ġ00 days into Trump’s presidency, it looks like he’s right. With a president thin-skinned enough to rage publicly in response to Saturday Night Live sketches and an administration ridiculous enough that straight-faced weekly recaps sound like parody, the conversation is less silly than it is repetitive. Trump would make comedy better or Trump would make comedy worse. “Comedy under Trump” became a subject of conversation almost immediately after the election: either we needed comedy more than ever or comedy wasn’t enough or we shouldn’t laugh or we couldn’t laugh. whatever sound you make when you get hit by the truck. There was none of the nervous, shocked laughter that comes after stepping back onto the sidewalk just in time, there was only. Reading the post now, obviously, is not funny - not because the memes weren’t good, but because the thing that was supposedly over wasn’t at all, and there was no sigh of relief. “People keep saying things like ‘It will all be over soon,’ and ‘Can you believe it's almost over?’ Do you think they are talking about the election or the 45-year mystery of ‘ Who is the Zodiac Killer?’Įither way, it's almost over.
It wasn’t supposed to be dismissive of the major issues of the election, just a wry acknowledgment of all the absurdities we had narrowly avoided, and a celebration of the jokes that kept us afloat during 20 months of escalating fear. Last November, in preparation for a day that I was confident would be marked by the greatest collective release of breath in my lifetime, I put together an A-to-Z children’s coterie of the best (or most persistent) memes of the nightmarish 2016 presidential race.