Trump Praises David Lynch, Rips Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel at Extra-Nuts Rally

Trump Praises Auteur David Lynch, Rips Talkers Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel at Extra-Nuts Rally

‘Are these people funny?’ he asked to shouts of ‘no!’ from his audience. ‘I can laugh at myself,’ he added. ‘And frankly if I couldn’t, I’d be in big trouble.’

MATT WILSTEIN
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
06.25.18 11:09 PM ET

Hours before Donald Trump hit the stage at a South Carolina rally on Monday evening, where he encouraged Republican voters to turn out for incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster in the primary, the president had seen a Breitbart article.

The piece, published on Sunday, aggregated an interview acclaimed director David Lynch had recently granted to The Guardian and included the filmmaker offering some caveated praise of the 45th president of the United States. The Breitbart headline, which Trump gleefully quoted on Twitter on Monday, read, “Director David Lynch: Trump ‘Could Go Down as One of the Greatest Presidents in History.’”

A White House official told The Daily Beast that President Trump was “delighted” after he had read the Breitbart post and talked about it in the same upbeat manner he has used when he has come across news of other A-list celebrities praising his presidency, including rapper Kanye West. And it didn’t take long for the president to start broadcasting his newfound affection for Lynch to hundreds of Trump fans at a political rally. It was about 20 minutes into Trump’s freewheeling speech on Monday evening when he pulled out a printed copy of the Breitbart story and started reading from it to wild applause and cheers from the audience.

The president conveniently left out the qualification from original Guardian interview that says Lynch is actually “undecided” about the president.

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