Tag: Alex Trebek

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Alex Trebek says the answer to what’s missing from politics in the Trump era is humor. “That’s one of the things, unfortunately, that we lack in politics today. There isn’t enough humor,” the longtime “Jeopardy!” host tells Vulture in an interview published Monday. Previous commanders in chief had a knack for injecting a dose of comedic relief into the political climate, according to the game show host. But President Trump doesn’t make jokes, Trebek insists, and instead “picks on people.” “I think back to George W. Bush, who had a good sense of self-deprecating humor. Now, some would say, ‘He should have been self-deprecating because he was worthy of self-deprecation.’ But I wouldn’t agree with that necessarily,” Trebek, 78, said. “[Former President Barack] Obama also had a good sense of humor, with a pretty sharp edge. [Former President Ronald] Reagan had a good sense of humor, and not a mean-spirited one.” “But pity the fool who comes up with a funny line now,” Trebek, who was born in Canada, laments. “We are so polarized that he or she is only going to be savaged for it.” Trebek, who describes himself as an independent, says he’s never met Trump. In a 2016 chat with ITK, the game show guru predicted that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton would win the White House, saying that Trump seemed "bent on shooting himself in the foot every time he takes a step forward, and that’s unfortunate for him.” Asked by Vulture how the president would do in a game of “Jeopardy!,” Trebek quipped that Trump “might not agree that any of the correct responses are correct.”