In Trouble? Scream "Trump! Trump!"

Actor Alec Baldwin played Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live

IN trouble? Don’t panic. Nothing’s so bad that it can’t be solved by screaming: “Trump! Trump!”

The Democrats have used this tactic ad nauseam - trying to deflect attention from rocketing inflation and sagging polls by screeching “Trump! Trump!” at every opportunity.

Trump! Trump! inspired an insurrection!

Trump! Trump! has the nuclear codes sitting on his coffee table!

But it’s not just Joe Biden’s Democrats who are using Orange Man Bad as the ultimate diversion.

Last week actor Alec Baldwin told CNN he feared Trump! Trump! supporters would kill him after the Rust movie set shooting last October.

Baldwin is in a bit of a bind after the gun he was holding fired a bullet into cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, killing her.

Baldwin has insisted he did not pull the trigger. But an FBI investigation recently found that the gun could not have fired “without a pull of the trigger”. The FBI don’t miss a thing!

This was, of course, a bit awkward for Baldwin who was left holding a literal smoking gun.

But he knew what to do.

“Trump! Trump!” he squealed.

He told CNN he was “1000% nervous” that Trump supporters would kill him. So that’s two things Baldwin doesn’t understand - guns, and percentages.

He told media …

“The former president of the United States said I probably shot her on purpose. To me, that was the only time I was worried about what was going to happen.

“Here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.

“A bunch of people were instructed by the former president to go to the Capitol, and they killed a law enforcement officer. They killed somebody. You don’t think I thought to myself, ‘Are some of those people going to come and kill me?'”

Baldwin literally killed someone, but wants us to believe the real issue is that imagined Trump supporters might have killed him if they had tried to kill him which, as it happened, they did not.

I’m not sure about you, but if I had to choose between Alec Baldwin and a MAGA-hat wearing mob, I’d take my chances with Trump supporters. But I digress.

If screaming Trump! Trump! can distract the world from Joe Biden’s ineptitude, perhaps screaming Trump! Trump! can deflect America’s attention from the smell of gun powder engulfing Baldwin.

Closer to home, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is trying on a version of Trump! Trump! here in Australia.

Mr Albanese has not been in office four months and already a major election promise - reduced power bills - has been junked.

Never mind. Scream “Morrison! Morrison!”

Mr Albanese has promised an inquiry into revelations that former PM Scott Morrison secretly appointed himself to multiple ministries during the pandemic.

Mr Albanese has been squawking Morrison! Morrison! all week.

“I haven’t seen yet a suggestion that anything illegal has happened but what is very clear is that conventions have been overturned completely and ignored, and the Westminster system of our democracy has been undermined by the decisions that were made by the former prime minister.”

With the American Democrats glorying in a Trump! Trump! insurrection hearing, Albo is determined to have a Morrison! Morrison! conventions inquiry that would be …

“ … about conventions and whether any conventions have been overturned.”

There’s no suggestion that Mr Morrison broke any laws. But did he overturn any conventions? Because if he did, that would be, you know, unconventional.

In other words, there’s nothing to it. It’s just Mr Albanese screeching Morrison! Morrison! as if he was Joe Biden screaming Trump! Trump! to delay any real scrutiny of the ALP for a bit longer.

If the killers of Sydney gangland mother Lametta Fadlallah are ever found, expect them to say they were “1000% nervous” of being attacked by Pentecostals from Morrison! Morrisons!’s church. You know it makes sense.