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SamKnause

(13,110 posts)
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 12:34 AM Feb 2016

John Oliver just skewered Donald Drumpf. (His real name)

Too soon for video.

When someone post it, check it out.

He was dismantled point by point.

Video clips, quotes, photos.

It was sweet !!!


P.S. I am mad at myself.

I corrected my mistake.

I spelled John's first name wrong.

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John Oliver just skewered Donald Drumpf. (His real name) (Original Post) SamKnause Feb 2016 OP
Yes, excellent. oldandhappy Feb 2016 #1
#MAKEDONALDDRUMPHAGAIN Electric Monk Feb 2016 #2
John Oliver is so very very impressive !!!! SamKnause Feb 2016 #4
drumpfinator JessicaK Feb 2016 #16
Wait. What? Maru Kitteh Feb 2016 #3
YES !!! SamKnause Feb 2016 #5
Is that German? RichGirl Feb 2016 #6
No. His ancestors changed it hundreds of years ago. Not a good insult, IMO. Shrike47 Feb 2016 #10
His grandfather did, a little over a century ago. Not "hundreds of years". Electric Monk Feb 2016 #11
THAT WASN'T THE INTENT UnaffiliatedIndie Feb 2016 #12
So that's it then. There's NOTHING real about him. dchill Feb 2016 #7
Meh. He inherited the name from his father Retrograde Feb 2016 #8
He also went after Jon Stewart for not going by Jon Leibowitz Electric Monk Feb 2016 #9
Mocking the name wasn't the point; using a name not loaded with undeserved positive connotations is. UnaffiliatedIndie Feb 2016 #13
Video of the Drumpf segment recorded off a phone... but still rather watchable if not a bit shakey. RageyFace Feb 2016 #14
Drumpf's original spelling felix_numinous Feb 2016 #15
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12. THAT WASN'T THE INTENT
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:29 AM
Feb 2016

John Oliver had no intention of simply insulting Trump by referring to the ancestral spelling of his name as 'Drumpf.' For what's in a name, after all? There is no mocking of the name itself. His point, rather, was to reflect a change of perspective of the man, by changing to a less-appealing sounding version of his name. Less appealing perspective of who Trump really is as a man == less appealing form of the name that does NOT evoke the undeserved aura of success that the man has attached to himself. This is why Marco Rubio rightly and understandably referred to him as 'a con man.'

Retrograde

(10,158 posts)
8. Meh. He inherited the name from his father
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 01:26 AM
Feb 2016

A lot of us have names that got a different spelling in the immigration process. Of all the things I have against Trump, this is maybe #25875048 on the list.

13. Mocking the name wasn't the point; using a name not loaded with undeserved positive connotations is.
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 02:36 AM
Feb 2016

John Oliver had no intention of simply insulting Trump by referring to the ancestral spelling of his name as 'Drumpf.' For what's in a name, after all? There is no mocking of the name itself. His point, rather, was to reflect a change of perspective of the man, by changing to a less-appealing sounding and less positively-associated version of his name. The "Less appealing perspective of who Trump really is as a man" == "less appealing form of the name that does NOT evoke the undeserved aura of success that the man has attached to himself." (Whew.) This is why Marco Rubio rightly and understandably referred to him as 'a con man.'

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
15. Drumpf's original spelling
Mon Feb 29, 2016, 03:45 AM
Feb 2016

calls attention to his foreign ancestors. Who knows if this would endure or alienate the Nazi fringe...hard to call. What a bizarre and scary presidential candidate.

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