The Obamas Are Producing a Comedy Series About

[MontanaMama]

tRump being a giant F**kup.

Millions of people spent the last four years longing for the soothing, rational, literate time in American history that was Barack Obama’s two-term tenure as president, a relatively blissful era compared to the blood-soaked, shit-streaked nightmare that we just went through. If there was one criticism of the guy who some fantasized would save us from the daily terror and just be president for life, though, it was that he didn’t publicly condemn Donald Trump enough until the tail end of the 2020 campaign (it wasn’t until September 2018 that the 44th president even denounced his successor by name). In his new memoir, A Promised Land, Obama mentions this, writing, “I confess that there have been times during the course of writing this book, as I’ve reflected on my presidency and all that’s happened since, when I’ve had to ask myself whether I was too tempered in speaking the truth as I saw it, too cautious in either word or deed, convinced as I was that by appealing to what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature I stood a greater chance of leading us in the direction of the America we’ve been promised.” Which is fair! But as luck would have it, Obama has apparently been holding out on us with the next best thing, something we probably could never have imagined possible until hearing the words “Obamas” “producing” “Trump” “comedy” “series.”

Yes, in news that will assuredly send Trump into an unhinged tailspin once he notices it, Barack and Michelle are reportedly producing a comedy series for Netflix “based on the chaotic transition of power when Donald Trump became president in 2016.” The show, titled The G Word With Adam Conover, is a collaboration between the comedian and the former first couple’s Higher Ground Productions, based on Michael Lewis’s book The Fifth Risk, which was born out of a September 2017 Vanity Fair article. The book covers the historic chaos and mismanagement that occurred in the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Energy during the handoff between the administrations. While Obama team members had prepared briefing books for their successors, among the Trump people who showed up to fill the posts, of which there were very few, basically no one was qualified. (You may recall that Trump’s first energy secretary, Rick Perry, thought his job entailed overseeing the oil and gas sector, when it actually involved active nuclear warheads.)

More at the link: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/obamas-trump-comedy-series

[Zoonart]

1. Oh Lordy! Can't wait.

LOL

[C_U_L8R]

2. Oh this is gonna trigger the fool.

Put on your splatter shield, there's gonna be some frothy orange spittle spewing out of the twitter feed.

[WhiteTara]

3. Hopefully it will come out after

he is in prison and he can watch it in the common room with all the other inmates.

[patricia92243]

4. Nobody will be interested in Trump after he is finally out of the WH.

The Obamas need to be careful not to lose money on this project.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Well...

I believe the public appetite for rump mockery hasn't been sated.

[crickets]

8. I see your point. trump himself? So incredibly sick of him. But...

trump finally getting a public comeuppance? There's not enough of that in the world. More! Serve it up with a spoon!

[Sedona]

6. I see nothing funny about any of this

as I sit in a parking lot waiting for my second drive thru covid test in as many weeks.

Twice exposed in two weeks thru no fault of my own.

This fucking sucks.

[rickyhall]

7. One could done for the Clinton/Bush transition

and the Bush Administration ignoring the Bin Laden threat to arrest Tommy Chong. Absurd but tragic.