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Laugh now at Trump’s follies, but there’s nothing funny about a rapidly warming Earth
Robert Delaney says the comedy of rapper Kanye West’s fawning over Trump last week may be short-lived amid the dire warnings in the latest IPCC report on climate change
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Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief.
For those of us resigned to the lunacy of US President Donald Trump’s antics, last week was either comic relief, a harbinger of doom, or both if you’re good at compartmentalising thoughts.
It’s understandable if you wanted to focus on comedy. For that, you had an unhinged Kanye West fawning before Trump, spouting lines like: “Let’s stop worrying about the future, all we have is today … Trump is on his hero’s journey right now.”
Once a powerful and creative force in the music world, with brilliant crossover hits spun off from his triple-platinum 2005 album Late Registration, West must be aching for the relevance he lost, probably as much as Trump needs the blaring affirmation of his frequent political rallies.
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The Trump-West exchange made great material for late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel, the cast of Saturday Night Live and other comics because those of us able to indulge in a good laugh while shutting down the part of our brain that recognises how perverted American governance has become could laugh at the spectacle of a black man professing “love” for the most overtly racist US president since Calvin Coolidge.
Watch: Kanye West praises Trump at White House meeting
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