{"id":31609,"date":"2025-01-26T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/the-donald-and-elon-show-is-an-unholy-mess-stewart-lee\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:25:24","slug":"the-donald-and-elon-show-is-an-unholy-mess-stewart-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/the-donald-and-elon-show-is-an-unholy-mess-stewart-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess | Stewart Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dappledthings.org\/deep-down-things\/3546\/the-seven-last-words-of-christ\">Abba, selach \u2019ethon la nakhru mah h\u2019mon pelalin!<\/a><\/em><em>\u201d <\/em>Flood the zone with shit. Police investigators that pore professionally over horrific imagery online have counselling and mental health support. This week I\u2019ve followed the news from Musk\u2019s America for the sake of another supposedly funny <em>Observer <\/em>column<em>, <\/em>and no one\u2019s checking to see if I\u2019m coping. I\u2019m going to go to CEX here in St Albans tomorrow to score a second-hand copy of Ruggero Deodato\u2019s <em>Cannibal Holocaust<\/em><em>, <\/em>just<em> <\/em>for some light relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Abba, selach \u2019ethon la nakhru mah h\u2019mon pelalin!\u201d<\/em> Flood the zone with shit. I asked to file this week\u2019s supposedly funny column a day later than usual, hoping there might be some glimmer of hope by 4pm Wednesday. On Monday night I went out to do my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stewartlee.co.uk\/live-dates\/\">standup show<\/a> at Dorking Halls, and four hours later, when I got back to my hotel, the routine I\u2019d just performed about America\u2019s new leader Elon Musk was already irrelevant, white supremacists worldwide delighted that he appeared to have given two full-on Nazi salutes to the faithful. I didn\u2019t have that on my Trump inauguration ceremony bingo card.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stewart Lee tours <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stewartlee.co.uk\/live-dates\">Stewart Lee vs the Man-Wulf<\/a> this year, with a Royal Festival Hall run in July<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at <a href=\"mailto:observer.letters@observer.co.uk\">observer.letters@observer.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/26\/the-donald-and-elon-show-is-an-unholy-mess\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do \u2018Abba, selach \u2019ethon la nakhru mah h\u2019mon pelalin!\u201d Flood the zone with shit. Police investigators that pore professionally over horrific imagery online have counselling and mental health support. This week I\u2019ve followed the news from Musk\u2019s America for the sake of another supposedly funny Observer &#8230; <a title=\"The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess | Stewart Lee\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/the-donald-and-elon-show-is-an-unholy-mess-stewart-lee\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Donald and Elon Show is an unholy mess | Stewart Lee\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}