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You think you’ve heard it all, readers. Then President Bush manages to surprise you again:

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting [at the G8 Summit in Toyako, Japan] with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Yes, readers, the President of the United States thought the G8 Summit was an appropriate place to crack a “joke” about being “the world’s biggest polluter,” then ham it up with some broad physical comedy.

Seriously, I half-suspect this story has got to be some kind of hoax. President Bush is famously tone-deaf (cf. his “joke” in 2004 about not being able to find Saddam’s WMDs — I’m sure the wounded soldiers at Walter Reed were “ROTFL” over that one), and also has a history of making an ass of himself at G8 summits (remember when he groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 2006 G8 Summit), but this is a remarkable level of smug assholery, even by Bush’s standards. It’s like Bush has become a caricature of himself.

Yes, readers, we elected this man President. Twice.

(via appletree)