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The Funny Donald Trump vs the Dangerous Trump




At some point, we started to realize that he wasn't so funny anymore. But Donald Trump does remain a source of amusement to late-night comics and the internet writ large.
Some of the tweets are so over the top they're funny. Some of the lies are so blatant, you can't take them too seriously. Bernie Sanders had a different take on the Trump tweets. He warned of the underlying messages embedded in them.
The tweet about "millions voting illegally" could really be warning of even more voter suppression in store for us in the next four years. And it also could be a warning for immigrants and minorities of what's in store…


That's why it's not really funny anymore. The nonsensical tweet about Boeing is now a serious threat to a major American corporation because Trump didn't like the fact that they spoke out against his threat to get into a huge trade war with China. He still provides fodder for comedians as we roll into the countdown for the Trump Inaugural. But there is a difference between some of the nonsense he has tweeted in the past and the new dangerous version of Trump. The little bit of power he couldn't handle will now be a vast array of networks of unlimited power with few checks and balances. That is the part that is not only not funny, it's dangerous and threatening and downright scary.  

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