If you’ve seen Jamie Foxx perform live or when he was a member of the “In Living Color” cast, then you already know he’s a master of impressions.
And now Foxx is going viral with a spot-on impression he did of disgraced, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump on a podcast with rapper Snoop Dogg to talk about their movie, “Day Shift.”
According to HuffPost, a comment Snoop Dogg made led Foxx to break out his Trump impression:
Snoop told the two podcast hosts about reconnecting with Michael “Harry-O” Harris, a businessman who funded Death Row Records, after Trump pardoned him in 2021.
Harris was released from prison after serving over 30 years for drug trafficking and attempted murder.
Snoop’s mention of the pardon immediately caused his movie co-star to blurt out a voice nearly identical to Trump.
Sure enough, Foxx became Trump for the next minute or so, sounding exactly like the Donald as he said:
“There’s a lot of great people on both sides.
“Lots of great people on both sides. Harry-O, he’s a great person, he couldn’t vote for me at the time now he can vote for me once he gets out.”
Good lord. I've heard a lot of Trump impressions but that's probably the best one… and it sounds nothing like Jamie's normal voice, which makes it even more incredible. That's a talent, right there. 🙂
If you were wondering how much impact the conspiracy theories, half-truths, and lies we see in the political world are having in American culture, consider the case of a 12-year-old pitcher from Iowa whose team is playing in the Little League World Series.
Colin Townsend was on the mound Saturday in a game between Iowa and Washington. He had just walked a batter, putting two runners on base with the potential tying run coming to plate. Two were out and Iowa led 6-3 in the final inning of the game.
Iowa manager Dave McFate walked to the pitcher’s mound to discuss strategy with his pitcher and the infielders when Townsend, according to Mediaite, “channeled his inner Donald Trump” and suggested the umpire was working for ESPN (which is televising the Little League World Series), telling McFate:
“This is for ESPN … It’s for ESPN so they can comeback (sic) … Because ESPN likes this. All ESPN.”
Fortunately, McFate refused to buy into his pitcher’s suggestion, telling him:
“Nothing we can do about that strike call, okay? There’s two outs … We gotta shake that, we gotta shake that.”
The manager then added:
“Hey, focus right here. Focus right here on me. Shake it. Shake it, okay? We need one out … let’s go, you can do this. You can do this. You can do this.”
President Joe Biden has been on a roll recently, chalking up major legislative victories, watching as each monthly jobs report shows record gains, and carefully steering the American economy through inflation, which seems to be abating.
All of the good news for the Biden administration has translated into higher approval ratings for him and new polling that shows Democrats may well keep control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
How should the president celebrate so much good news? Well, how about by dancing?
Newsweek notes that Biden is indeed dancing (sort of), and a video of his face superimposed on that of the actor Christopher Walken has quickly gone viral:
The video, posted on Twitter by a user called “CHUNK”, parodies the famous 2000 Fatboy Slim “Weapon Of Choice” music video.
In the original Christopher Walken is seen dancing around an empty hotel to music from British singer Norman Quentin Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim.
For the parody video Walken’s head has been replaced by Biden’s, while text pops up during the video listing what its maker perceives as the president’s successes in office.
At first I wasn’t into this because I thought it was just a meme. Then I saw it was an earnest attempt to educate Americans on how successful Biden’s presidency has been relative to the historic headwinds against it—e.g., a GOP insurrection—and I loved it. pic.twitter.com/PDzaDbUUoI
Disgraced one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump loves to pretend he’s a great patriot despite the fact that when his country needed him to serve in Vietnam, he had a doctor allegedly concoct a fake illness for him: Bone spurs in one (or was it both? Even Trump doesn’t recall) of his feet.
Despite Donald’s obvious cowardice, he absolutely loves to wrap himself in the flag, hug the flag, and proclaim what a great American he is.
And yet, when it comes time to play act his role as a pretend patriot, Trump has repeatedly fouled things up, such as this embarrassing display at a Super Bowl party in 2020:
There was also Trump’s bad behavior at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day 2017, as NDTV reported at the time:
But it was what he did during the national anthem that earned him flak on social media. The president, looking surprisingly cheerful, swayed back and forth and tapped his chest while singing the Star Spangled Banner during the opening ceremony, something which Twitter deemed highly inappropriate for the somber occasion.
You can now add a new humiliation to the Donald’s fake patriotism.
This one took place at Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey, where the Saudi-funded LIV Golf Tournament is being held and where Donnie was filmed not knowing what in the hell to do while “God Bless America” was sung. Take a look:
Trump trying to figure out what he’s supposed to do while ‘God Bless America’ is sung at the Saudi golf tournament. pic.twitter.com/sLeF5GeOQG
Notice how Trump starts just watching the guy sing. Then he realizes he might need to put his hand over his heart. But wait, shouldn’t he take off his cap? He does. And now hand over heart? Hey, can’t hurt, especially since the MAGA morons are big on bogus patriotism. They think it’s copacetic to storm the Capitol and crap in Congressional offices, but God forbid someone kneel during the National Anthem!
Donald Trump is a fake. He hates this country, hates his moronic followers, and hates everyone else with the exception of himself. That’s what makes him a malignant narcissist and an asshole.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre proved Friday during the daily press briefing that she will only take so much crap before she completely shuts down dolts like Peter Doocy of Fox News when they continue to ask the same question after they’ve already gotten an official response.
When Doocy was called on today, his question was, “Why is the Biden administration building a border wall in Arizona?”
Jean-Pierre responded:
“We are not, we’re not finishing the wall. We are cleaning up the mess the prior administration left behind in their failed attempt to build a wall. And I just want to be very, very clear here: On day one we returned the money, the $8 billion the prior administration took from our military. We gave that back to the military, for military families, for schools for bases. That’s what that money was being used. That’s what it was taken away from. And so again, what we’re doing is cleaning up the mess that the prior administration has done.”
Asked and answered, and yet Doocy pressed:
“But President Biden when he was a candidate said, ‘there will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.’ So what changed?”
For the second time, Jean-Pierre replied:
“We are not finishing the wall.”
And yet, Doocy came back with the very same question, and he added a fact-free conspiracy theory:
“If walls work in that part of Arizona, is this, is the administration trying to get migrants to cross somewhere else, like in Texas? What, what is the point?”
Clearly getting exasperated (and who wouldn’t?), Jean-Pierre told Doocy:
“We are not finishing a wall. We are cleaning up the mess that the prior administration made. We are trying to save lives. This is what, this is what the prior administration left behind that we are now cleaning up.”
Doocy refused to accept the answer and plodded ahead:
“By finishing the wall is this –”
“We are not finishing the wall,” Jean-Pierre told him, smirking as she did so.
“By filling in – finishing –” Doocy began for the umpteenth time.
“We are not finishing,” Jean-Pierre told him.
That led Doocy to try and add racism to the mix:
“By filling in, is this, is this racist? Because in 2019, when the former guy was proposing a wall, you said that it was his ‘racist’ wall. So how is this any different? I’m just having a hard time understanding how this is any different.”
Jean-Pierre:
“I’m not even sure how you get to your first question, to this question that you just asked me. I will say this –”
“A border wall –” Doocy blurted.
And that’s when Jean-Pierre dropped the hammer on the Fox correspondent:
“I’m answering your question. A border wall is ineffective use of taxpayer dollars. So it’s ineffective of taxpayer dollars – dollars that actually went to the military that the last administration, the prior president took from the military, which took away from schools, which took away from military bases. That’s what that money that he pulled away from, to build this wall that he wanted, that is ineffective, by the way, which I just said. Just recently, CBP reported that new bollard fencing along the southwest border was breached 3272 times between fiscal year of 2019 and 2021, requiring $2.6 billion in repairs. It’s ineffective. We are not finishing the wall, we are cleaning up the mess that the last administration made. Okay?”
Karine Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki, taught her well. And it’s always fun to see Peter Doocy get put in his place.
Here’s the video:
Karine Jean-Pierre isn't playing games. "New fencing along the border was breached 3272 times between 2019 and 2021, requiring $2.6 billion in repairs…We are not finishing the wall, we are cleaning up the mess the last administration made."pic.twitter.com/2LQXrW9Szv
