If it’s Tuesday, it must be the eighth installment in the weekly series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race. It was the most intense electoral experience of my life; formative too, it gave me an intense dislike of all forms of extremism.
A reminder of the unofficial slogan of the race from hell:
In 2024, we’re flipping that on its head and voting AGAINST the crook. It’s even more important.
The Indicted Impeached Insult Comedian has always said weird and outlandish shit on the stump, but it’s gotten much worse in 2024:
“Has anyone ever seen ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’s a wonderful man,” Mr. Trump said in Wildwood, N.J. “He often times would have a friend for dinner. Remember the last scene? ‘Excuse me, I’m about to have a friend for dinner,’ as this poor doctor walked by. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. Congratulations. The late, great Hannibal Lecter.”
He continued: “We have people that have been released into our country that we don’t want in our country, and they’re coming in totally unchecked, totally unvetted. And we can’t let this happen. They’re destroying our country, and we’re sitting back and we better damn well win this election, because if we don’t, our country is going to be doomed. It’s going to be doomed.”
How delusional is Trump? Does he really think that Hannibal Lecter is real, not reel? Is he aware that other actors have played the role? All I have are questions.
Let’s talk Hannibal Lecters. Who do you think is Trump’s favorite cannibalistic doctor?
The Kaiser of Chaos cited The Silence of the Lambs, so Anthony Hopkins must be his favorite. It’s a respectable choice as he won an Oscar for that movie and played Hannibal the Cannibal in two other films: Hannibal and Red Dragon.
Brian Cox is best known for playing Logan Roy in Succession, but he was the first Hannibal Lecter in 1986’s Manhunter. Cox also played real life monster Hermann Goering in the 2000 teevee mini-series, Nuremberg, Goering *is* dead. Trump thinks Lecter is dead, but he was never alive in the first place. Joke or delusion? You decide.
Mads Mikkelsen played the bad doctor in the teevee series Hannibal, which ran from 2013-2015. I would have thought that Mikkelsen’s suave take on Dr. Lecter would be Trump’s favorite. Mikkelsen has good hair and called Trump “a fresh wind” in 2016. I hope the Dutch actor was referring to gas but who the hell knows?
Excluded from our photo array is Gaspard Ulliel who played the artist as a young cannibal in the 2007 movie Hannibal Rising. I haven’t seen it, so he’s out. Besides, it’s unclear if the Indicted Impeached Insult Comedian has seen either Cox or Mikkelsen as Dr. Lecter.
The segue from a semi-joking discussion of “the late great” Hannibal Lecter to immigration is jarring. I, too, would be alarmed if cannibals were overrunning our borders but they are not. It’s just another Trumpist delusion. It’s all a lie.
Former President Pennywise’s inability to tell the difference between fact and fiction is another good reason to oppose his return to the White House.
No Chianti and fava beans for you, Donald.
Repeat after me: Vote against the crook, it’s important.
The last word goes to Mark Knopfler: