rant · moment 12 of 18
No Path to Redemption: Trump vs. Prigozhin Comparison Revisited
from Prigozhin Eras Tour | The Tim Dillon Show #358 · #358
5 min
Tim expands on why Trump could survive scandal in Hollywood's malleable culture while Prigozhin's fate in Russia's rigid system was sealed, including a riff on Trump's endless indictments and a hypothetical fake presidency show.
- American media mistook Russia for a country where there could be a path to redemption for Prigozhin, like there might have been for Trump if he'd just gone back to entertainment.
- Trump could have returned to calling women fat and ugly and building an entertainment empire, the only thing he actually knows how to do.
- Hollywood would have welcomed Trump back within a year because the town has no fixed ideas about anything and is incredibly easy to influence.
- Within five years, if Trump stayed sharp like George Burns or Don Rickles, he'd be hosting big entertainment shows and doing jokes about January 6.
- Trump's been indicted multiple times while Tim eats breakfast, four times total with countless counts, because they don't want him running for president.
- Netflix or Fox should bail Trump out, build a fake White House in Burbank, and let him play president without nuclear power as an alternative to actual politics.
- Prigozhin couldn't rebrand as an artist showing mixed media collages on Russian talk shows because Russia operates under a cold culture of final judgments from the Kremlin.
- In Russia you get shot in the face, your plane blows up, or you get poisoned—you don't get a TV show or appear on the Russian version of Chopped.
- Unlike O.J. Simpson, who killed his wife and somehow became a rational voice on Twitter that people listen to, Prigozhin never got that kind of redemption arc.
- Prigozhin realized too late that he was committing the wrong crimes under a system that doesn't allow comebacks.
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