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Presidential historian compares yesterday's flattery for Trump to "a scene out of The Godfather"
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/my-god-is-that-snl-don-lemon-scoffs-at-trumps-white-house-festival-of-flattery/CNN’s Don Lemon brought on a pair of presidential historians Wednesday night to analyze the “festival of flattery” that he mockingly said went down on the White House lawn in celebration of the passage of the GOP tax bill.
After passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican party leaders — from Paul Ryan to Mike Pence — took to a podium set up on the White House lawn to issue effusive praise to President Donald Trump for his heroic work on the bill.
“My god is that SNL?” Lemon scoffed, after watching a montage of the White House ceremony. “Is that real?”
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Lemon then brought in presidential historians Timothy Natale and Douglas Brinkley, who he introduced as “so handsome.”
The three watched videos of lawmakers showering Trump in applause, and the historians were equally befuddled by the sycophancy of Republican lawmakers.
Brinkley described the passage of the tax bill as an “historic victory,” before noting that “the exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, it almost seems like a scene out of The Godfather we just saw, not what you would expect from the president of a democracy.”
“I haven’t heard this kind of sycophancy since I listened to the Nixon tapes where Henry Kissinger is telling the president what a remarkable human being he is,” Natale said.
After passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican party leaders — from Paul Ryan to Mike Pence — took to a podium set up on the White House lawn to issue effusive praise to President Donald Trump for his heroic work on the bill.
“My god is that SNL?” Lemon scoffed, after watching a montage of the White House ceremony. “Is that real?”
-snip-
Lemon then brought in presidential historians Timothy Natale and Douglas Brinkley, who he introduced as “so handsome.”
The three watched videos of lawmakers showering Trump in applause, and the historians were equally befuddled by the sycophancy of Republican lawmakers.
Brinkley described the passage of the tax bill as an “historic victory,” before noting that “the exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, it almost seems like a scene out of The Godfather we just saw, not what you would expect from the president of a democracy.”
“I haven’t heard this kind of sycophancy since I listened to the Nixon tapes where Henry Kissinger is telling the president what a remarkable human being he is,” Natale said.
Video at the link.
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you're also kissing everyone ELSE who has kissed Trump's fat ass.
An infected butt-hickey is no laughing matter! 
He's jealous?
Republicans just rammed the bill through on a strictly party-line vote and delivered it to him to sign. He is being given tons of wet kisses just because he has working digits.
since, after all, he's been dreaming about this sort of thing since he was in College.
