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Donald Trump, the first Home Alone 2 cast member to be impeached, can’t understand how a foreign film won Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards.

Though the Oscars occurred nearly two weeks ago, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite was top of mind for Trump when he took the stage for a campaign rally in Colorado on Thursday.

“How bad were the Academy Awards this year?” griped Trump to begin a lengthy, largely non-sensical rant in which he seemed to insinuate that liberal Hollywood awarded Parasite in an effort to derail trade negotiations between America and South Korea, and wondered why Gone With the Wind, a film released in 1937, didn’t win instead.

“The winner is… a movie from South Korea! What the hell was that all about? We got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of that, they give them best movie of the year? Was it good? I don’t know. Let’s get Gone With the Wind. Can we get Gone With the Wind back, please?”

Neon, the US distributor of Parasite, was quick to hit back at Trump. “Understandable, he can’t read,” the company quipped in a tweet linking to Trump’s comments.

Trump also took a swipe at Brad Pitt, who used his acceptance speech for Best Support Acting  to call out the US Senate for failing to subpoena John Bolton to testify in Trump’s impeachment trial. “They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week,” Pitt said at the time. “I’m thinking maybe Quentin [Tarantino] does a movie about it — in the end, the adults do the right thing.”

In response, Trump called Pitt a “little wiseguy.”

Donald Trump Rips Parasite’s Oscar Win: “What the Hell Was That All About?”
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Note: Spoilers ahead

The season 10 premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm saw Larry David slip on a blazing red MAGA hat. It’s not that he’d suddenly joined the dark side, however — David used the notorious cap as repellent against people. The joke was entirely lost on Donald Trump, of course, who took to Twitter on Monday night to praise a clip from that Curb episode.

“TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!” the POTUS wrote. The attached 30-second video follows a heated exchange between David and a buff motorcyclist whom he’d cut off. The motorcyclist angrily approaches David’s car, ready to brawl, but politely backs off and gives David his blessing after seeing him put on his MAGA hat. In his tweet, the president is championing buff and belligerent pro-Trump dudes like this motorcyclist.

If only that was the point David was trying to make.

There is another scene in the “Happy New Year” episode that perfectly exemplifies David’s main reason for wearing the disgraced cap in the first place — to avoid a meeting with Everybody Loves Raymond creator Philip Rosenthal. But either Trump can’t grasp the concept of David’s epic diss against him or is willfully choosing to ignore it. Trump loves to twist and omit the truth, but he also isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed and apparently has no sense of humor, so I’m willing to bet he just doesn’t get it at all.

Check out Trump’s ill-informed tweet below. For what it’s worth, David could “give a fuck” about MAGA supporters who are alienated by his mockery.

Trump may have launched yet Another Bad Tweet, but at least David’s latest season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has done its part in actually Making America Great Again, according to a review by Consequence of Sound Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman.

Donald Trump unironically tweeted Larry David wearing a MAGA hat thinking it was a compliment
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Given the choice, a large majority of New Hampshire Democrats would prefer that, “A giant meteor strikes the earth, extinguishing all human life,” to Donald Trump winning re-election.

The new poll comes from the Center for Public Opinion at UMass Lowell. In an online survey of 400 likely voters, 64% of democrats chose the death of all Earthly creatures over four more years of the “very stable genius.” Self-identified Independents were more torn, narrowly desiring a Trump victory to total annihilation, 51% to 49%.

Compared to men, women were far more likely to choose the meteor, with over two-thirds of female respondents desiring Omnicide over the pussy-grabber-in-chief. Even 28% of conservatives would rather experience death from above, though these are the kind of conservatives who are likely to vote in the Democratic primary, so take that for what it’s worth.

Whether you lean right or prefer that no one’s left, we can all agree that these kinds of questions are more fun than useful. In 2016, the same pollster found that 53% of young people would prefer planetary destruction to either Hilary Clinton or President Trump. The co-director of the CPO, Joshua Dyck, told Reuters that, “Obviously we don’t think that they’re serious. The fact that one in four of our young people pick ‘Giant Meteor’ tells you something about the political disaffection that is being shown by American youth.”

In other words, take the question seriously but not literally.

Not all liberals want to be hit with a meteor; Robert de Nero would rater hit Trump in the face with, “a bag of shit.” But if there really was a large rock heading our way, perhaps it could be stopped by Trump’s new Space Force, the logo of which sure looks a lot like the old Starfleet Command insignia from Star Trek.

Recently, a leaked recording of Trump caught him saying that smoking weed “makes people lose IQ points.”

Poll: 64% of New Hampshire Democrats prefer death by meteor to Trump re-election
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