Senate Republicans are expected to vote Friday to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, the far right-wing, partisan, ill-tempered judge who will mold legislation in the United States for decades to come — which will likely have disastrous repercussions for women, minorities, immigrants, and the LGTBQ community. For progressives, this is a dark day indeed, but they’ve won in the most minor way possible because, on Thursday evening, President Trump got caught with what appeared to be toilet paper stuck to his shoe while boarding Air Force One.
The incident happened as Trump was departing the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport en route to a rally in Rochester, Minnesota, when KSTP-TV Channel 5 News caught the awkward moment on camera. The clip was quickly picked up by national and international media outlets, as you can see in the above BBC News coverage, which wryly noted that Trump “had an unexpected carry-on.”
Likewise, social media also had some thoughts, on yet another scene in the Trump presidency that looked like it should have had the Veep closing credit music superimposed over it.
Starting the day with a little comic relief:
While we were all distracted fighting over the future of the Republic, Trump climbed all the way up the stairs of Air Force One, with toilet-paper stuck to his shoe. https://t.co/QoSDcjwliL— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) October 5, 2018
Looking forward to White House insistence that it was not toilet paper, it was a very important memo, that the President was reading through his foot. https://t.co/kqZJ5JNPKK
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) October 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/PresidentialDJT/status/1048219888156733440
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1048155554181500929
“He who walks up stairs with toilet paper stuck to his heel,
is nothing more than a friendless pile of shit.”-Anon
— Fohtohgirl (@fohtohgirl) October 5, 2018
Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper on his shoe and I didn’t even laugh. I’m just numb. He’s so bad he even ruined poop jokes.
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) October 5, 2018
This video of President Trump with toilet paper on his shoe is 100% real. He was boarding Air Force One in Minneapolis earlier today. pic.twitter.com/wr0ZnXknCx
— Beatrice Peterson (@missbeae on all platforms) (@MissBeaE) October 5, 2018
“America is being respected again!” – a liar who boards Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe pic.twitter.com/Ya9YdVYXoL
— ally (@missmayn) October 5, 2018
If you haven't laughed yet today, here's a video of President Trump walking up the stairs to Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe. While this isn't grounds for the #25thAmendment, it does fit the pattern of Trump just being a fucking idiot.pic.twitter.com/eYu8X7Uneg
— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌸 (@AynRandPaulRyan) October 5, 2018
Curb Your Toilet Paper. pic.twitter.com/bBSb06j7mF
— Lauren Werner (@LaurenWern) October 5, 2018
I honestly cannot believe it’s taken this long for Trump to board Air Force One with a full strand of toilet paper trailing from his shoe. pic.twitter.com/hLWrqKqsIK
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 5, 2018
No surprise, but still disappointing, to see the sneering out-of-touch elites pretending it's "embarrassing" to walk around with a yard of toilet paper flapping around on your shoe. Patriots, let's see those pics of your #TPShoes! https://t.co/ZFUJwmC6Zn
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) October 5, 2018
Is is petty to mock Trump for walking around with TP stuck to his shoe, which clearly none of his aides wanted to tell him about? Perhaps.
But on the other hand…
yes or no if any prominent Democrat was caught on camera with toilet paper stuck to his/her shoe Trump would mock it at a rallypic.twitter.com/O2TXfhYdI0
— j.d. durkin (@jd_durkin) October 5, 2018
It’s worth noting that during the rally, Trump did in fact mock former Sen. Al Franken in his home state of Minnesota for resigning over sexual misconduct allegations. “Boy, did he fold up like a wet rag. Man, man, he was gone so fast,” the president “joked” to his constituency. “It was like, ‘oh, he did something,’ ‘oh I resign. I quit.'”
Unfortunately, not everyone can be so fortunate.