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Badger: Hello, Presidente Vicente fox? I wonder if you could stop making those hilarious videos mocking Trump. Badger: If you could talk your country into renewing its offer of help for Hurricane Harvey, too, that'd be great. Badger: You have to understand how much of the U.S.'s self-esteem is wrapped up in feeling superior to Mexico and this is really fucking us up.

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I absolutely love Vicente Fox's videos making fun of Trump. It's a tie between Vicente and Arnold.

But I can't help but feel terrible that we've reached the point as a country where former leaders of other countries feel okay about mercilessly lampooning our Buffoon-in-Chief, to say nothing of blockbuster movie stars. As bad as things were under George W. Bush, I don't recall, like, the leader of Albania publicly ragging on him or anything. Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at Bush, but I'd like to think we all would have.

Americans are very obviously not superior to Mexicans—or to anyone, for that matter—but it was nice to imagine our government was at least respected enough not to be a major target outside of professional comedians and satirists.

But then, those were the days when our President at least knew to make the proper noises on the world stage, instead of completely screwing the pooch and making our allies take back their offers of help.