Lamest comeback of all time

| 12:42 am EDT September 8, 2018
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Earlier today, President Obama delivered a thoughtful and measured speech which called out what’s gone wrong with America over the past year and a half. In so doing, Obama attacked Donald Trump by name. I was personally hoping Obama would attack Donald Trump by blowtorch, but that’s another story. The kicker is that Trump, while clearly angry about it, had a surprisingly lame response to the matter.

Palmer Report has already documented Donald Trump’s late night retweet-spree of hateful nonsense about President Obama, including the random and criminally deranged claim that Obama is responsible for school shootings. But what stood out is that these were all retweets of other people’s horrid words, as Trump couldn’t seem to come up with anything horrid to tweet about Obama in his own right. Maybe that’ll change by morning. But Trump did say one thing about Obama out loud today, and it was, well, pretty stupid.

When asked about President Obama’s speech, Donald Trump said that “I fell asleep” while watching it. Coming from anyone else, this would simply be a stupid retort, devoid of any thought or intellect. But coming from Trump, particularly on today of all days, it’s the lamest comeback of all time. This is a guy who tried and failed to give a speech last night in which he was so close to being unconscious, he twice failed to fully get the word “anonymous” out of his mouth.

The last thing on earth that Donald Trump needs to be projecting right now is the image of him passing out while trying to pay attention to a landmark speech that someone else was giving about him. Trump is unwittingly telling us that he can’t make it through the day, after we all just watched him unable to make it through the day. Whatever is wrong with Trump’s health, it’s clearly getting worse by the day, and Trump just reminded us that he no has zero stamina. “I fell asleep” was the lamest comeback of all time.