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You're supposed to become a statue AFTER you serve as president

If there's one thing that America hates more than a blowhard, it's a blowhard who can't laugh at himself. If Donald Trump's White House ambitions didn't end last week with his profanity-laced speech in Las Vegas (did he really believe that what happens there stays there?), they ended last night with his stone-faced expression at the jokes that President Obama and Seth Meyers told at his expense. What Americans do like is a leader with a self-deprecating sense of humor.

In a loosely related matter, President Obama's father was a cad. So was Ronald Reagan's, and Bill Clinton's evil stepfather trumped them all. So I would say the 44th president is in pretty good company.