Less than an hour ago, the White House tweeted out the live broadcast of Donald Trump’s address to the UN, and let me tell you, it has been heart-stopping. I mean really, truly breathtaking.
Just ask Trump’s Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, whose heart has apparently stopped, since we can’t tell if he’s even breathing right now.
Wilbur Ross appears to be sleeping. #unga pic.twitter.com/VGAwtFQAhc
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2019
Trump’s droning proclamations, in fact, have the internet wondering whether the President himself is on autopilot this morning, or whether he perhaps missed a dose of his ADHD pills. The Vice President seems to be suffering from whatever affliction has befallen the room at the UN today, his own eyes barely open a half-centimeter more than Trump’s, either of them easily blindfolded with a shoelace at this point:
“Fire, or tire” — Trump does that thing where he botches reading a word, but pretends he meant to do it. pic.twitter.com/ET136PqJ80
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2019
The only ones in the room that are clearly awake are Trump’s children, who all look like they’re studying for an exam, other than Ivanka, who is nodding like she’s hearing a sermon about wearing appropriate clothing to gatherings of world leaders:
Ivanka, for one, is still paying attention pic.twitter.com/kKDZK19Tky
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 24, 2019
One can hardly blame Ross, however. He is an ancient being, full of the kind of lengthy experience that makes it okay for him to apparently fall asleep in EVERY meeting, according to a report in Politico back in June. However, the Commerce Secretary, despite looking like ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s dummy Walter, has strongly disputed those accounts:
Today’s @Politico report bears no resemblance to reality and appears to be solely sourced from disgruntled former employees whose poor performance led to their departures. pic.twitter.com/wqqUlB0DsL
— Sec. Wilbur Ross (@SecretaryRoss) July 22, 2019
We’ll let today’s video guide your own judgment of whether Ross has a knack for tuning out at all the right times. And we’ll let this side by side help you determine whether Ross is a ventriloquist’s dummy:
Featured image via screen capture
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