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| Top image from Imgur; bottom image from Simpsons World. |
Do you remember the The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror VI segment called "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores", where advertising icons came to life, caused mass chaos and destruction, and were only defeated when they were ignored by all Springfield residents? Even Lard Lad succumbed after Homer was scolded by his family to stop paying attention to the giant doughnut boy's insincere promises. If you do not remember or never saw this segment, you can watch it below:
I have come to the conclusion that our president thrives in the same way that Lard Lad and his cohorts did. The more attention Trump can garner, good or bad, the more he seems to feel that his existence as president is justified. Whenever attention is diverted away from the POTUS, he will resort to any measure, no matter how ridiculous, to bring the focus back to himself. Unfortunately, the more oddly he behaves, the more likely we are to look in his direction again, which simply reinforces Trump's tendency to do anything to steal the limelight.
So what is the solution? I believe that Lisa Simpson and Paul Anka got it right with their "Just Don't Look" jingle! The only way to diminish Trump's influence is to downplay the man's increasingly outrageous actions as mere clownish showmanship, and to instead concentrate on the actions and ideas of people who truly deserve our attention. With a presidential election coming up in 2020, it is time to focus on Trump's successor. Our current president will no longer be getting any attention from me. If the man is out of sight then hopefully he will soon be out of mind (or will go out of his mind, perhaps, although some will argue that he already has). The more people are willing to ignore Trump's follies the more likely this solution will work, so I hope others will follow suit.
However, I could not resist one last comparison:
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| Eerily similar! (image at left from YouTube; image at right from Woke Sloth) |
In the immortal words of Maggie Simpson, "This is indeed a disturbing universe!"
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