‘Because I Hurt His Feelings’: President Trump Blocks Comedy Writer on Twitter
“OH. MY. EFFING. GOD. The President of the United States just blocked me on Twitter because I hurt his feelings.”
President Donald Trump can’t take a joke. Or at least, a lot of them, from one very funny comedy writer.Â
Bess Kalb is an Emmy-nominated writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and wrote for the 2012 and 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards. “She contributed jokes for Hillary Clinton’s Al Smith Dinner speech, costing her the election,” her website, tongue-in-cheek, reads. HuffPost calls her “without doubt the best thing to regularly appear in Donald Trump’s Twitter mentions.”
Not any more.
Kalb doesn’t just mock Trump, she does so expertly.
@realDonaldTrump Oh, Donald. That’s exactly how a 6-year old would explain it. Remember, even when you’re mad and in over your head, to sound Presidenty.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 28, 2017
@realDonaldTrump Sweetie, I know you want this pie-in-the-sky building scheme but you can’t afford to make America bankrupt like your businesses.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) April 23, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump Honey, has anyone advised you not to do these defensive, wounded little public tantrums when you are criticized?
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) March 23, 2017
.@realDonaldTrump Oh honey we can HEAR you sweat. And I know they’re your emotional life raft but you have to let the electoral numbers go.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) February 16, 2017
And that’s just a tiny sample.
Sunday night, Kalb posted this tweet:
OH. MY. EFFING. GOD.
The President of the United States just blocked me on Twitter because I hurt his feelings. #MAGA pic.twitter.com/oB5zTAs7In— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
She says these are the tweets that prompted the President to block her:
@realDonaldTrump Honestly, hun this is all so far over your head. If you need to have another
“bone spur” and let Mike take over, no one will blame you.— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
This one probably didn’t “help”:
@realDonaldTrump Oh boy, honey. I’ve tried to lay off and let you President like you said you would, but this is a new kind of simplistic nonsense rhetoric.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 28, 2017
So here’s how Kalb responded:
From now on, there is only one Snowflake.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
I’d like to summarize my feelings about this in one radical feminist sculpture: pic.twitter.com/qMTDy9VieE
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
It is mortifying, yet unsurprising to me that the leader of the free world could be so wounded by the gentle ribbing of a comedy writer.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
And, honestly, he just lost my vote.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
And she noted President Trump has not bothered to mention the two heroes who lost their lives standing up to a White Supremacist this past Friday. They stood up by protecting two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab, from the man’s anti-Muslim rant atacking them. Trump has said nothing. And yet, if the attacker were Muslim we all know Trump would have been among the first to call it terrorism.
Today our president took more time to address a girl making fun of him on Twitter than the domestic terrorist who fatally stabbed 2 heroes.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 29, 2017
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