Social media is frequently awful, but sometimes you thank the gods for it. How else would we cope with the outlandishness of Donald Trump, who this week claimed that Haitians are eating the cats and dogs of Ohio?

The claim, made during his presidential candidate debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, was a fresh serve of the inadvertent comedy Trump has been dishing up ever since he descended the golden elevator of Trump Tower into our collective consciousness.

The first meeting of the two candidates got fiery quickly.Credit: AP

He has recommended drinking bleach to stave off COVID. He looked directly at a solar eclipse. He once asked a seven-year-old who had contacted the North American Aerospace Defense Command to track the movements of Santa Claus if she “still” believed in the big red feller “because at seven, it’s marginal, right?” Oh, and he coined the term “covfefe”.

Each one of these moments spawned a thousand internet memes, and Trump’s debate claim about pet imperilment was no different. Trump made this bizarre assertion in response to, well, something that was completely unrelated, but it was part of an attack on the Biden/Harris administration for “what they have done to our country by allowing these millions and millions of people to come into our country”.

He said this influx of migrants was destroying towns, and he singled out Springfield, Ohio (which shares a name with the fictional small-town setting for The Simpsons).

“In Springfield,........

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