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Richard Marx Just Inspired The Most Hilarious Twitter Thread, Ever

by Julie Scagell
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Leave it to Richard Marx to put the funniest spin on Trump’s ‘I wouldn’t’ claim

President Donald Trump came out after his press conference with Vladimir Putin claiming he misspoke when he was talking about Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Quickly, his “I would” became an “I wouldn’t” and once everyone stopped violently grabbing the skin between their eyebrows, the jokes started writing themselves. Surprisingly, the funniest one (so far) came from 80’s singer and songwriter Richard Marx.

Marx took to Twitter on Wednesday also wanting to clarify a few things about his hit song. “I misspoke. I meant to say I ‘wouldn’t’ be right here waiting for you,” Marx tweeted and the entire world laughed and laughed forever. The hit song was off his Repeat Offender album and if you haven’t heard it, something is wrong with you.

Of course, Marx tweet sparked a flurry of activity, each one more hilarious than the next:

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The president had originally said Monday that, “My people came to me, [Director of National Intelligence] Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be.”

Then, because we live in Upside-Down World and all of its inhabitants lost their marbles, Trump backpedalled, stating he meant to say “I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia” interfering in the election.

Ohhh, thanks for clearing that up, that seems entirely reasonable rather than just correcting yourself that very moment because holy shit it makes a big fucking difference. “It should have been obvious,” Trump added. “So you can put that in and I think that probably clarifies things.” Totally, dude.

Of course, Marx isn’t the only one having a bit of a piss up over Trump’s weaseling and they wasted no time getting a few things off their chests:

It would take a significant increase to my blood pressure medication to note all the ways in which this president has embarrassed himself (and our nation) in the past. There was the time he was speaking to the Parkland survivors and had a note reading “I hear you” on it — in case he forgot to sound sympathetic to a bunch of people who had a gunman attack them at school.

Or the time he told Paralympian’s they were “tough to watch.

Or the time he stared directly into an eclipse.

This most recent fumble may just be his funniest yet, if it wasn’t so fucking dangerous.

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