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How real a US President responds to comedians telling jokes about such President (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Sep 21 OP
This also made me smile LetMyPeopleVote Sep 21 #1
But these were real presidents. Sneederbunk Sep 21 #2
LBJ wasn't a thin-skinned child. greatauntoftriplets Sep 21 #3
He's still among the greats to me, despite Vietnam EnergizedLib Sep 21 #8
Trump would try to counter by misanthrope Sep 21 #4
Which would be fine except tsf had been pushing the birth certificate lies off-the-clock Sep 21 #16
Trump can't do humble! Omnipresent Sep 21 #5
But he can do bumble, fumble, jumble, mumble and tumble. Sneederbunk Sep 21 #6
If he could only do EPSTEIN BOSSHOG Sep 21 #11
In spite of this, The Smothers Brothers were canceled for their political take by cowardly network execs. Midnight Writer Sep 21 #7
Kaitlan Collins should ask him "Are you so soft and sensitive because Submariner Sep 21 #9
I always did like LBJ. ananda Sep 21 #10
That was after he tried to censor them lame54 Sep 21 #12
Well, today's Republicans, and MAGA especially, are nothing if not self-important. Beartracks Sep 21 #13
Imagine their reaction to BidenRocks Sep 21 #14
Uh...that's a bit of a whitewashed history. progressoid Sep 21 #15

greatauntoftriplets

(178,307 posts)
3. LBJ wasn't a thin-skinned child.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:11 PM
Sep 21

His accomplishments of passing Medicare and Medicare should put him among the greats. Sad about Vietnam, though. Our involvement was a mistake starting when the first advisors went there

misanthrope

(9,188 posts)
4. Trump would try to counter by
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:14 PM
Sep 21

pointing out that he "sat and took it" when Obama sliced him into a thousand pieces at the 2011 Correspondents' Dinner. "I was a good sport," he might say.

That would be in oblivion to how obvious it was that he was absolutely seething inside and about ready to burst. And how his actions since then have shown that he was livid at being the butt of Obama's jokes and despised the crowd's laughter at his expense.

Everything since then has been an offshoot of that experience for Trump.

off-the-clock

(287 posts)
16. Which would be fine except tsf had been pushing the birth certificate lies
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:50 PM
Sep 21

...for quite a while before correspondent dinner. I think Obama led with that.

Omnipresent

(7,222 posts)
5. Trump can't do humble!
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 07:18 PM
Sep 21

He’d probably start WWlll, if he found out he would die tomorrow.

I know he would want to be remembered as the last US President of the Unites States, not that there would be anyone left alive to remember him.

Midnight Writer

(24,774 posts)
7. In spite of this, The Smothers Brothers were canceled for their political take by cowardly network execs.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:08 PM
Sep 21

Submariner

(13,138 posts)
9. Kaitlan Collins should ask him "Are you so soft and sensitive because
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:23 PM
Sep 21

you have only beaten women in elections, and probably would be beaten by a man?”

ananda

(33,342 posts)
10. I always did like LBJ.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 08:23 PM
Sep 21

I shook his hand when I was eleven
at a little shopping center in Oak Cliff
(Dallas) where he stood on a little
bandwagon and gave a speech,
trying to get the nomination for
president.

BidenRocks

(2,270 posts)
14. Imagine their reaction to
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 09:29 PM
Sep 21

Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) or Will Rogers.

Their hell will be to listen to endless loops of Dennis Miller!

progressoid

(51,996 posts)
15. Uh...that's a bit of a whitewashed history.
Sun Sep 21, 2025, 10:13 PM
Sep 21
Trump not first president to fume over comedy skits

...The weekly show hosted by folk-singing brothers Tom and Dick Smothers regularly skewed Johnson and his Vietnam War policies. The brothers sang the "Draft Dodger Rag" by Phil Ochs with such lines as, "I got eyes like a bat, and my feet are flat, and my asthma's getting worse."

When the United States imposed a travel ban to foreign countries, Tom Smothers looked at the camera and said, "OK all you guys in Vietnam, come on home." On the show, LBJ impersonator David Frye even joked about the president's "semi-beautiful daughters."

Johnson's two young daughters, Lynda and Luci, were fans of the highly watched show. But even they reportedly were upset about a mild skit on the top secret ingredients of LBJ's barbecue sauce. Johnson apparently was bugged to learn on the show that "the Russians were 20 years ahead of us in barbecue sauce," said one of the show's writers, Saul Illam.

For LBJ, it was the last straw. In the middle of the night, he phoned CBS head William Paley about the Smothers Brothers, demanding that the TV executive "get those bastards off my back." That day Paley asked the heads of CBS entertainment shows to get the brothers to back off, according to author David Bianculli in his book, "Dangerously Funny. The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."

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https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/entertainment/television/2019/03/22/trump-not-first-president-to/5646232007/


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