Jon Lovett

When someone dies and they did bad things, I'm not talking about people that are actively in the midst of doing horrible things, their death relieves people of pain and abuse and tyrants, whatever.

But to celebrate someone you don't like dying is to act as if dying is a kind of justice, that they're getting justice.

But that can't be true because everybody dies.

And what you're really doing when you celebrate the death of your enemies, you're actually just avoiding facing the injustice that happened when they were alive.

You're coping with the fact that you don't believe they faced what they deserved when they walked among the living.

And so I think about what happens when Donald Trump will inevitably die and there will be a crazy debate befitting Donald Trump in which our whole country is caught up in this very kind of

notion of it's okay that people are happy that he's dead and celebrating in the streets.

But the truth is, I think a lot of what people will be feeling, that kind of like will be a kind of a,

a grief about all the damage that was done and our failure to stop it and to get justice when somebody was walking around.

And so like to celebrate death is to act as if it won't come for all of us.

And that's just bad for the soul and it's bad for the world.

And so I just want no part of it, whoever dies.

That's my take on this.

Yeah, I'm not, look, I'm not gonna say I'm gonna go out.

Yeah, look, I- You were grieving.

I know.

It's so exhausting.

And I just, I don't know.

The thing that I thought was interesting about this one, and this is similar to one about Rob Reiner, is it is so indefensible.

So what you end up with is a lot of anger and outrage at Trump's direction and all these people deflecting.