Trump's uncle's been dead for 33 years.https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1012137253794037760 …
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You know you're secure when you're the billionaire President and you're bragging about how you're smarter than your uncle, who died in 1985.
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(I'm sorry there's always a point in these speeches where I just lose it, and this is that point. How long has Trump been bragging about this? Did he stop after the guy died? Was it in his eulogy at the funeral?)
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I guess I forget how old Trump is, because I was like "funny, they never go to the uncle for comment, I wonder what he's doing--oh right, he died in 1985, yeah that makes sense, wait how is Trump still saying this, what is wrong with him".
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It's probably some conversational tic he's been using for decades--I'm pretty sure when he was campaigning to be a nuclear negotiator in the Reagan years he talked about his uncle the MIT professor--but like...
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...I mean this is a cliche, but imagine if someone you know was in the habit of talking about how they were smarter than their uncle the professor.
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You know I don't know anything about their relationship, maybe the guy was like "nephew, always tell random people that you were smarter than me, even decades from now if you're the President" "I promise!".
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Notice how Trump is using the present tense. It’s like me correctly bragging I can outrun Jesse Owens
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Yeah that's why, uh charitably, I assume it's a tic he's been using for 40 years or something.
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