President Donald Trump is the new George W. Bush when it comes to the blame game played by leftist elites. The mantra, “It’s Bush’s fault,” heard often during the years 2001 to 2009 now has become, “It’s Trump’s fault,” for everyone from political commentators to Hollywood’s A-list. The Trump blame game has gotten so out of hand that it’s spawned a mock illness known for the past several months as “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” TDR for short.

Jonathan S. Toban described TDR in a February article in National Review: “Anyone with a Facebook account already knows that many of our liberal friends are convinced that Trump is, at best, setting the U.S. up for a rerun of the last days of Weimar Germany. At worst, they see him as not merely a billionaire with a thin skin but as the mastermind of a scheme aimed at replacing democracy with a dictatorship that will repress women and minorities.”

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Since the November election, people have blamed Trump for everything from the destruction in Syria to celebrity weight gain and anxiety.

Now Hollywood is blaming him for dismal turnouts at the box office. A recent Variety story seemed to suggest Trump was the reason comedies such as “The House” and “Baywatch” have seriously underperformed this year with both critics and audiences.

Said the Variety story, in part:

The definition of what makes a good comedy has changed quickly and dramatically in the past year. “Saturday Night Live” and late-night television have captured much of the comedy zeitgeist during and especially since the election — how are movies supposed to compete? Unlike a daily or weekly television show with a team of writers reacting to that day’s trending story, most movies spend years in development before hitting the big screen. Studios can only hope that the next big idea for what comedy means today is already in the works.

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Deadline doubled down on the nonsense, saying audiences don’t find the same things funny under Trump as they did under former President Barack Obama. “Studio executives believe that what Americans find funny now in the Trump era is quite different from what was hysterical during the Obama days,” the article noted.

It’s insanity, of course. The best comedies are timeless and work in any time period — “Caddyshack,” “Spaceballs,” “Blazing Saddles,” etc. Perhaps audiences just don’t like the comedies that have been released this year because those comedies are either lazy and unfunny — or just useless, tired reboots such as “Baywatch” and “CHiPs.”

And how do you explain away 2017 comedy hits like “Going in Style,” a surprise sleeper hit from April? It’s just an example of how those in the Hollywood bubble cannot have anything happen in their lives that doesn’t relate back to Trump in some way. They essentially don’t need to take responsibility for their own work and creative output because — you guessed it — it’s all Trump’s fault. (go to page 2 to continue reading) [lz_pagination]