Johnny McEntee, ex-Trump assistant, likes to give fake money to the homeless so that they get arrested later when they try to use the counterfeit cash. My first thought was what an asshole which others apparently conveyed to him because he later added that it’s just a joke. Ha Ha Ha. How clever, right? Why is tricking poor people into distributing phony money so they wind up in prison for passing phony money so funny?

This is junior high school bully humor. Picking on the weird kid, give him a false sense of security and then pulling the rug out from under him. Maybe the homeless person has some root problem like drug addiction or mental illness that helped paved the way for them to end up on the streets. Maybe they had a run of bad luck (losing their job, couldn’t afford their house payments) that put them there. None of it is particularly funny though.

It reveals a lack of compassion that is disturbing. He even has the sense that he is crossed some line because he added just joking to the link. So he knows how it looks and yet instead of removing the offending link, he tells us he is joking, so he can let us in on the joke which means he still thinks it is funny. All he needs to do is point out that it is supposed to be funny and we will get it. Do you get it? I certainly hope so.