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Oscars’ host Conan O’Brien jokes about ‘standing up to a powerful Russian’ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 5 days ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Oscars host Conan O’Brien took a swipe at Donald Trump’s ties to Vladimir Putin while joking about Anora's success at the 97th Academy Awards.

“Anora is having a good night,” he said of the film’s multiple wins. “That’s great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.” The joke drew loud applause.

It came after Trump’s tense meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky, where Trump compared scrutiny of his Russia ties to a “witch hunt.”

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 77 points 5 days ago

Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia, Russia

is donald trump even more incoherent as a reporting subject?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago

He's literally a Markov chain. The word he says next depends solely on the word that was just said. There's no context retained, no previous information referenced, and if he goes for too many tokens, the first ones start falling out of his head.

[-] Uli@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 days ago

MAGA: We need to protect the nuclear family.

Trump: Yes, the nuclear family. What a big, beautiful family. No one knows nuclear like me. My uncle -

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

And then because he said "nuclear" without "family," he goes off on nuclear missile silos for a while, before "nuclear missile" falls out of his context window as well, and he starts talking about grain silos and farmers. He's a walking frequency analysis.

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

He's an SLM - small language model

[-] NeilBru@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Don't disrespect the smaller models. They're far more coherent than the douche-in-chief.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Trump is clearly sliding into senility.

[-] prole 28 points 5 days ago

Conan is probably the funniest human alive. We need to protect this man an all costs.

[-] betahack@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

.....I sure hope he doesn't fall out of any windows 😕

[-] prole 6 points 5 days ago

This is about as political as he gets, so I'm hoping he's not exactly high up on Trump's list of "funny people that said a mean thing about me"

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