"Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor," he wrote, deadly serious, before launching into a lengthy explanation of the Martin Niemoller poem the frog's sign was parodying. He took the bait so completely that he annotated the joke.
He fact-checked a frog.
Somewhere out there is an ordinary person who put on a novelty amphibian costume, made a silly sign about pond scum, and stood near a puddle. And the most powerful man on the planet saw it, felt personally threatened, and fired off an official presidential statement declaring the frog a paid agitator.
The protester won the entire exchange without saying a word. The frog didn't have to do anything. Trump did all the work himself, transforming a man in a costume into a national news story by being unable to ignore him.
A confident leader laughs at a frog. A secure man scrolls past. Trump cannot, because every joke at his expense lands like a wound, and he has to swing back at all of them, even the ones wearing inflatable green suits and standing next to an algae-filled pool he ruined himself.
The pool is still green. The paint is still peeling. And the President of the United States spent his Monday night at war with a frog. The frog is winning.
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