DC: 16-Year-Old Who Provided ‘Drowning Trump Joke’ Explains Why He Thinks It Was Warranted.
Dem. Rep. Alcee Hastings took some heat over a joke he told over the weekend — but he says that he got the joke from Ari Silver, the 16-year-old son of former Florida State Rep. Barry Silver. Ari, for his part, claims that the joke “was not intended to wish harm upon the president,” but rather was meant to be a way to “point out” his “failings.”
“I will tell you one joke,” Hastings told rallygoers in Sunshine, Florida on Sunday. “Do you know the difference between a crisis and a catastrophe? A crisis is if Donald Trump falls into the Potomac River and can’t swim, and a catastrophe is anybody saves his ass.”
Ari, the 16-year-old son of former Florida state representative Barry Silver and the founder of a pro-gun control organization called Student March to Stop Gun Violence, told the DC that although Hastings did hear the joke from him a week before the Florida lawmaker used it, it was simply a new variation of an old joke used by his father and grandfather.
“The joke was used by my grandfather many years ago, but he was talking about Yasser Arafat,” Hastings said in an email to the DC. “I’ve heard my dad use the same joke about various malicious people. It became apparent to me that the local villain of this day is Trump, so I incorporated him into the joke.”
“I organized a candidate forum for congressional candidates a week earlier,” Silver told the Daily Caller, “and to wrap up the event I used [a PG version of] the joke.”
To Silver, the joke was obviously “made in jest,” and the audience knew it.
“It was clear to everyone in the audience that the joke was made in jest and was not intended to wish harm upon the president,” Silver said in an email. “While it is true that we do seek the political demise of this disgraceful and reprehensible President who brings shame to our nation and danger to our planet in order to avert continued catastrophes to this country, I certainly do not seek his physical demise. One of the best ways to point out the failings of this President is with the skillful of humor, as has been effectively used by professional comedians and my dad with his political parodies. As an activist, I will follow in their footsteps in using humor to make a point, and while I may at times be politically incorrect, I do not wish physical harm upon our President.”
While Silver agreed that the “media would go crazy” if a similar joke had been made about former President Obama, he insists that it “wouldn’t really bother” him. MORE
Makes sense. The Left are also taking policy advice from 16 yr olds.
You didn’t think that monkey could tell his own joke did you?
The rodeo clown was joking, too. I bet Alcee didn’t think that was funny and harmless at all.
Much ado about nothing.
Seriously, though, leftist thinking hasn’t surpassed the level of a 16 year old. That was higher level thinking for most of them.
What if someone on the right had told the joke “How do you get Obama out of a tree…….”
Right.
Any jokes about 0bama was/is considered hate speech. 0bama was/is hyper sensitive about everything to do with himself. So while 0bama may not say anything, he’d set his media to say it for him. That 16 year old reminds me of Joe Biden during the debates where he’s laughing, eye rolling and mocking everything Paul Ryan said. The left is childish.
corrupt hastings made the joke, and the majority of the article is about the organizer of the event at which the joke was made. Nice deflection there.
What is most interesting is where the organizer is quoted: ““… and to wrap up the event I used [a PG version of] the joke…” That isn’t a quote of hastings, that is a quote of the organizer. Apparently, if you put money in hasting’s hand, you can put words in his mouth.
“Do you know the difference between a crisis and a catastrophe?
A crisis is if Obama falls into the Potomac River and only Leftists are around and they are ill equipped to save his life, a catastrophe is Alcee Hastings being elected to the US Congress.”
Ah the Congressional Black Caucus. The IQ level sits at about 160. Not as an average, but added up all together.