How real a US President responds to comedians telling jokes about such President

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This also made me smile

[Sneederbunk]

2. But these were real presidents.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. LBJ wasn't a thin-skinned child.

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

[EnergizedLib]

8. He's still among the greats to me, despite Vietnam

[misanthrope]

4. Trump would try to counter by

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]

16. Which would be fine except tsf had been pushing the birth certificate lies

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

[Omnipresent]

5. Trump can't do humble!

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.

[Sneederbunk]

6. But he can do bumble, fumble, jumble, mumble and tumble.

[BOSSHOG]

11. If he could only do EPSTEIN

[Midnight Writer]

7. In spite of this, The Smothers Brothers were canceled for their political take by cowardly network execs.

[Submariner]

9. Kaitlan Collins should ask him "Are you so soft and sensitive because

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

[ananda]

10. I always did like LBJ.

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.

[lame54]

12. That was after he tried to censor them

[Beartracks]

13. Well, today's Republicans, and MAGA especially, are nothing if not self-important.

[BidenRocks]

14. Imagine their reaction to

Samuel Clements (Mark Twain) or Will Rogers.

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

[progressoid]

15. Uh...that's a bit of a whitewashed history.

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/