Reposting my @PostOpinions column on why the president’s “jokes” (if that’s what they are) are no laughing matter: there is truth in wit as well as wine. https://t.co/NbWD7lthv9 https://t.co/OsdnEf0HdW

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 24, 2019

“…In 1905, Sigmund Freud published a book called “Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconsciousness” making the point that jokes are often a way to vent distasteful desires, either lustful or aggressive, in a socially approved fashion. Humor scholars (yes, they exist) have dubbed this “relief theory.”