Trump Complains to Iowans that News Covered Iowa Flooding Instead of His Nobel Prize Nominations

[conuly]

Wow. Just... wow. I just... I can't... there's just no words. (And it gets worse when you consider that Iowa doesn't seem to have had any floods this year.)

Comments

[ioplokon]

Right like, that's straight line winds territory, bro!

[conuly]

Which are also more newsworthy than politics, and certainly even if you disagree you shouldn't say so to your voters from that state.

[bibliofile]

I'm beginning to wonder if he's trying to lose. (We can only hope.) (Because some of the alternative explanations are pretty scary, because even if he loses he's in office until Jan. 20th)

[vvalkyri]

Did they ever get the funding after the derecho? I remember him bragging that they had but they had not

[ioplokon]

I believe some federal funding is available to them now, yes. But it is ridiculous how hard it is to know that - I say this as a Californian who has seen the Trump admin play chicken with disaster funding several times already...

[crystalpyramid]

"Three Nobel Peace Prizes, different subjects." I find myself very curious to know what the other two were supposed to be. (I expect this error from my fourteen year olds but not a nominee!)

[conuly]

Well, anybody can be nominated.

[redbird]

Headline: Two hundred people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, see list on page 7." Or "Thunberg, Trump lose Nobel Peace Prize" just for the tantrum he'd throw about being listed as second to Thunberg.

[conuly]

*snicker*

Seriously, though, I know he's a teensy bit self-centered, but surely he can at least pretend to care about disasters affecting Iowa when speaking to Iowa voters. That's, like, basic.

[readerjane]

I really don't think he can. A life of extreme privilege doesn't force one to develop the ability to care - or even pretend convincingly to care - about others. So he never has.

[thetimesink]

Hmmm... "Tone deaf" doesn't seem to strike the right note...

(Sorry, back under my rock.)

[conuly]

The mind boggles, truly.

[dewline]

I have no respect for that complaint of his. None.

[mount_oregano]

I clicked on the link to be sure this wasn't The Onion or Babylon Bee...

[conuly]

I know!

[silveradept]

I suppose just anyone can be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, then. But this bit there shows pretty effectively why he would never win it.

[conuly]

Yup, literally anybody can be nominated.

[jack]

In retrospect, maybe the nobel committee should be like Marley's ghost and give prizes to people saying "you're making the same mistake I did inventing dynamite, turn away now" :(

[vvalkyri]

Awesome sauce. Hopefully just as good as insulting elder home residents

[vvalkyri]

They're still suffering effects from the flooding before. I think it was last year when large swaths the Midwest were underwater for ages, and it was destroying farming for those who were underwater and then also for those who had the rails and roads between them and market underwater.