Man. One Biden speech has the Trump ball lickers in an epic hissy fit. What's wrong? Did he hit too close to home? You guys made your bed.
Today's WSJ article hit the nail on the head describing Biden's angry speech as satirizing "Get Smart".
But....Trump was also dumb for responding to the bait.
Biden’s Speech Casts Him as Maxwell Smart
Trump stars as Mr. Big, bringing KAOS to America. Sorry about that, Chief.
By Gregg Opelka
Sept. 6, 2022 12:37 pm ET
Joe Biden’s “Soul of America” speech is said to have been inspired by the popular historian Jon Meacham, who used that phrase as the title of a 2018 book.
But I think the president owes a debt to Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. His speech reminded me of nothing so much as “Mr. Big,” their 1965 pilot episode of the spy satire sitcom “Get Smart!”.
Mr. Big, an agent of the evil spy organization KAOS, threatens to destroy the U.S. city by city using a device called the “inthermo ray,” capable of “converting heat waves into immense destructive power.” KAOS has stolen the inthermo and kidnapped its inventor, Prof. Hugo Dante. (Dante’s inthermo—get it?) Maxwell Smart, agent 86 of the top-secret counterespionage organization CONTROL, is assigned to the case. “Mr. Big must be stopped before he goes any further,” Max’s boss, known only as “The Chief,” tells him urgently.
You can see the parallel:
Donald Trump is Mr. Big, “MAGA Republicans” are KAOS, and Mr. Biden is in CONTROL. The Chief warns: “Max, this is a big one. The fate of our entire nation may depend on it.” Mr. Biden: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”
Mr. Big plans to start by destroying the Statue of Liberty. As Max puts it: “So that’s their target. Miss Liberty herself!” “We, the people,” Mr. Biden intoned, “have burning inside of each of us the flame of liberty that was lit here at Independence Hall. . . . That sacred flame still burns.”