Sarah Palin Endorses Donald Trump For President, Which Is Pretty Unsurprising At This Point Really

There are only 13 days until the Republican Iowa caucuses, and things are getting real. Polls suggest that Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz are the only ones with any real shot at winning the state, and unless something turns around pretty drastically, low-polling candidates like Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina and John Kasich are coming to the end of their campaigns.

With so much at stake, candidates are scrambling for anything that’ll get them positive coverage among likely Republican voters, and like he has throughout the race so far, Trump continues to surprise. A couple of hours ago former Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, Tea Party favourite and Tina Fey impersonator Sarah Palin formally offered Trump her endorsement, bringing together the two most clownish figures to ever exist in American politics.

To seal the deal, Palin joined Trump at a rally in Iowa, giving a long, fiery and deeply confusing speech in her patented alphabet-soup style of public speaking. I honestly tried to pull out some quotes, but following a Sarah Palin sentence from beginning to end is like pulling a clump of wet hair out of a drain.

Oh man. Sarah Palin just referred to endless Middle Eastern “squirmishes.”

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 20, 2016

I honestly can’t understand the language Sarah Palin is speaking.

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) January 20, 2016

Sarah Palin struggles with…thinking. pic.twitter.com/gjC0Tw7taN

— Emerson Collins (@ActuallyEmerson) January 20, 2016

Whether this is a one-time reappearance on Palin’s part or the start of a long, unwelcome re-acquaintance with the American public, we can only hope that Palin’s new presence on campaign stages around the country gives Tina Fey some new material. Meanwhile, the Republican-leaning citizens of Iowa are that much more likely to endorse a reality-show host with a dead squirrel on his head to be President of the United States. 2016 is weird.