As you’ve in all probability heard by now, Donald Trump has been spending the ultimate weeks of his marketing campaign cosplaying as individuals who really work for a residing. First it was a go to to McDonald’s, after which yesterday, he determined to placed on a reflective vest and trip round within the passenger’s seat of a rubbish truck because it slowly circled an airport tarmac subsequent to Trump’s non-public airplane. You realize, typical rubbish collector stuff.
He adopted it up by showing at a rally whereas nonetheless sporting the vest. Why? As a result of a workers member instructed him it made him “look thinner.”
The ridiculous stunt was Trump’s method of trolling Joe Biden for referring to his followers as “rubbish,” in response to Tony Hinchcliffe’s latest Trump rally stand-up set. If it appeared so goofy that it may have been the plot of a sitcom, that’s probably as a result of it was actually the plot of a sitcom.
In Season 5 of Parks and Recreation, the episode “Ladies in Rubbish” finds Leslie Knope taking the sanitation division to activity for his or her lack of feminine workers. Once they recommend that ladies aren’t as much as the job, Leslie and April volunteer to change into waste collectors for the day in an effort to show them mistaken. Leslie additionally invitations the native media (i.e., Shauna Malwae-Tweep) alongside in an effort to get some good press.
As some Parks and Rec followers famous, the important thing distinction between the 2 political publicity stunts is that Leslie Knope really did some stable work. And when she confronted a big roadblock (an enormous industrial fridge that wouldn’t budge), she used her mind and problem-solving abilities to determine a option to repair it.
Trump, alternatively, simply sat completely nonetheless whereas another person drove him round in a rubbish truck, trying like just a little child in a coin-operated grocery retailer trip. However Trump succeeded because of his personal extremely low requirements. After the trip, he publicly patted himself on the again for merely climbing into the truck in any respect and never falling on his ass in entrance of reporters. He claimed that this solely occurred as a result of he was in a position to get the “adrenaline going.”
You realize, the identical adrenaline that all of us really feel when laboriously climbing right into a slightly-elevated car that’s about to go 10 miles an hour alongside an empty stretch of pavement. What a thrill trip!
He additionally bragged that he had a “lovely driver” who “seemed like Cary Grant in his prime,” a reference that’s assured to win over younger voters in 1952.
So I assume we even have to offer Leslie credit score for not randomly mentioning how scorching Burt Lancaster was. Or the fuckability of Clark Gable.
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