General Discussion

I see it differently. Back in the early days of wwe pro wrestling, I knew a bunch of people who delighted in pretending it was real -- not scripted or staged. It was a hilarious joke to them because it was ridiculously obviously scripted.

Anyone who wasn't "in" on the joke would say it's obviously scripted, then they would all insist no it wasn't! It's real! It would drive reasonable people nuts being unable to convince them of the blatantly obvious, they were laughing hysterically at people's heads exploding over it.

I think that was always Donnie's "magic". They set up this in-joke everyone knows he's an idiot but they all insist he's a genius and laugh at anyone who's not in on the joke. Then when it started to work in reality they just laughed even more.

On some level, they know the emperor has no clothes. But as long as the joke works for them, they'll continue.

So, maybe the "fiasco" point comes when they realize it no longer works for them?

Anyway, my point is that for those of us not in the trump bubble, he was always a fiasco.