Still undecided about who you should vote for in the next presidential election? Well, comedian Louis C.K. is here to offer his help with one simple question: who would you rather have flying you in a plane?
Obviously, you want somebody with experience flying planes. Somebody who has been flying planes for many years, right? Somebody who has spent eight years in the co-pilot seat watching and learning from a former pilot, maybe?
C.K. sat down with New York Magazine to explain in the simplest of terms why Hillary Clinton will always be a better choice for pilot – or president – than Donald Trump.
“It’s like if you were on a plane and you wanted to choose a pilot,” he explains. “You have one person, Hillary, who says, ‘Here’s my license. Here’s all the thousands of flights that I’ve flown. Here’s planes I’ve flown in really difficult situations. I’ve had some good flights and some bad flights, but I’ve been flying for a very long time, and I know exactly how this plane works.’”
Okay, makes sense so far. What about Bernie Sanders, though? He too has experience. Why shouldn’t he be flying the plane that is the United States of America, in that case?
“Then you’ve got Bernie, who says, ‘Everyone should get a ride right to their house with this plane.’ ‘Well, how are you going to do that?’ ‘I just think we should. It’s only fair that everyone gets to use the plane equally.’ And then Trump says, ‘I’m going to fly so well. You’re not going to believe how good I’m going to fly this plane, and by the way, Hillary never flew a plane in her life.’ ‘She did, and we have pictures.’ ‘No, she never did it.’ It’s insane.”
It’s a simple analogy that anyone can understand and that just makes sense. To validate his point, C.K. adds: “The American government is a very volatile, dangerous mechanism, and Hillary has the most experience with it”.
The candidates in both parties have come under incredible scrutiny from the American public since the beginning of the campaign. Currently, Hillary is still dealing with her emails scandal, while Trump is dealing with Melania’s speech scandal, the refusal of major Republicans to show up at the national convention and the fact that his ghostwriter for ‘The Art of the Deal’ is speaking up against him in the media. He also recently fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, who has been credited with pushing for “Trump to be Trump” – a strategy that has reeled him in supporters but turned off twice as many. Oddly enough, the push for the hotel mogul to fire Lewandowski appears to have come from Trump’s family, particularly his daughter Ivanka who had been critical of the campaign manager’s behavior for months.
Now please, somebody just needs to ask Ivanka Trump how she feels about flying in her private plane with an inexperienced pilot.