Those "of a certain age" will understand when I say Trump is today's Maxwell Smart.

[Atticus]

tfg: "We returned all of the classified documents that I possessed in June."

DOJ: "No, you did not. We just found boxes and boxes of classified documents at your Florida residence."

tfg: "---uh, ----WOULD YOU BELIEVE that those were PLANTED by the FBI?"

DOJ: "No. That's ridiculous."

tfg: "Well, then---uh---WOULD YOU BELIEVE that I DECLASSIFIED all those documents?"

DOJ: Was that before or after the FBI supposedly "planted" them? Did you forget what you just said?

tfg: "WOULD YOU BELIEVE---"

DOJ: HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

[ironman99]

1. Maxwell Smart

Sorry, Agent 86 was a valedictorian compared to Mango Mussolini. Besides, Max had Agent 99 to straighten him out.

[Yonnie3]

4. This !!

More than a decade ago a gossipy person (with a negative agenda) at work looked all around and said "can anyone hear us?" My reply, "perhaps we need the cone of silence." I wasn't understood.

[madinmaryland]

13. LOL! I remember that show and the cone of silence!

It was on Friday nights at 8:00 I think. We actually got to stay up late to see it!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Maybe Herschel Walker can borrow that cone of silence.

In the cone, maybe everything he says acdtually makes sense.

[elleng]

25. Right, I'd rather not conflate the 2. and leave 99 OUT of it!

[wnylib]

29. I definitely would not let Trump anywhere near 99.

Although, maybe she could deal with him well.

[elleng]

30. She surely could!

[soldierant]

27. Agree. Maxwell was much smarter.

And much funnier.

And stronger delivery.

[COL Mustard]

2. Missed it by

THAT much!

[TheBlackAdder]

23. Also, Smart was a klutz and an idiot who bungled his way into good fortune and needed aid often.

[wnylib]

31. Not to mention that Smart worked against Chaos

while Trump works to spread chaos everywhere.

[LeftInTX]

3. Maxwell Smart wasn't fat and he didn't hog the airwaves and he wasn't president

And he didn't live at Mar a lago

[JHB]

16. and 99 wouldn't have wrecked the Rose Garden

[Emile]

5. Egads it's been years since that TV show was on

the air. I use to get a big kick watching that stupid show.

[treestar]

6. LOL

[Otto_Harper]

7. You do realize, don't you that

The Get Smart series was created and produced by none other than Mel Brooks. Hence, it was based on intelligence and humor, not bluster and buffoonery, as the currently running comedy series in Florida is doing.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

15. Let's not forget

Buck Henry as writer and co-creator.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Smart was buffoonish but good

He was trying to do the right thing.

[sop]

9. I can see Trump talking into his shoe.

[ornotna]

10. Nooooo. Max was a good guy

Some of their security may have been similar though.

[dflprincess]

14. "Magenta alert"

Makes me wonder if whoever came up with the color coded terror alert system was a Get Smart fan.

[LuvLoogie]

11. Max was one of the good guys

[Metaphorical]

12. Missed me by that much.

I LOVED Ger Smart. It was a brilliant send up of every spy trope around then, including James Bond.

I don't think they ever got the cone of silence to ever actually work.

[moonshinegnomie]

17. hes more like mr. big....

[JHB]

18. Max was a mobile phone pioneer

[Laffy Kat]

19. Maxwell Smart had his heart in the right place.

Unlike TFG.

[LAS14]

20. Maxwell Smart was great. Trump is not. Where did you come up with this??? nt

[twodogsbarking]

21. The Sunbeam Tiger was the best part; and Barbara Feldon.

[kairos12]

24. We need The Cone of Silence with MAGA.

[louis-t]

26. I would do Get Smart shtick with my Dad.

"That's the second worst toupee I ever saw!" That was when I walked in and he was watching Magnum P.I., referring to Higgins.

[CloudWatcher]

28. Maxwell Smart ...

Maxwell Smart wasn't a psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder.

But it's a fun meme