"I never thought I'd be nostalgic for that period in the first Donald Trump administration when everyone decided it was the height of humor to joke about Trump's "love affair" with Vladimir Putin. It was hacky and homophobic, and yet it was also more innocent than the current joke of the moment, which involves the infinitely more disturbing image of Trump performing fellatio on former President Bill Clinton. Yes, this is where we've arrived."
"First off, who's "Bubba"? One doesn't hear it as much these days, so it makes sense that some didn't recognize it as a fairly ubiquitous nickname for Clinton during his presidency. With that matter settled, the email quickly became a widespread joke, inspiring edits on TikTok set to Sabrina Carpenter songs, dirty photoshopped Time magazine covers, and even a reference on Saturday Night Live this weekend."
People expressed nostalgia for earlier Trump–Putin jokes, calling them hacky and homophobic but relatively innocent compared with the current image of Trump performing a sexual act on Bill Clinton. The image emerged after the release of 20,000 sealed pages from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, which included a 2018 email thread in which Mark Epstein urged Jeffrey to ask Steve Bannon "if Putin has the photos of Trump blowing Bubba." The email generated viral jokes, TikTok edits, photoshopped magazine covers, and an SNL reference. Some social-media posts treated the email as proof, while others characterized such claims as fake or trolling.
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