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Happy eclipse, folks. It is ill-advised that you stare directly into the sun with your naked eyes during today’s cosmological event — just ask these dudes who tried it the last time around — unless you’d like to risk permanent vision damage. That is … it is ill-advised unless you’re Donald Trump, who apparently doesn’t need special eclipse glasses. (He did also view the eclipse, with Melania, through a pair of said glasses.) Why? Is it because he’s president? Because science isn’t real? Who knows, but Laugh at Trump Staring Directly Into the Sun Twitter is the only thing making eclipse Twitter remotely funny.

id say theres about a 50% chance this happens later pic.twitter.com/dQ1zqZWxqv — leon (@leyawn) August 21, 2017

New York Times: In Trump Country, The President Going Blind Is Fine — Hussain (@Chemzes) August 21, 2017

I cannot handle this right now. pic.twitter.com/JXjuHH2ivA — Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) August 21, 2017

As he did this, someone in a crowd of aides below shouted "Don't look." pic.twitter.com/dtfSLEzcAZ — Ted Mann (@TMannWSJ) August 21, 2017

trump: all media is FAKE NEWS

media: wear eclipse glasses or youll go blind

trump: fuck you pic.twitter.com/iTjbrCdYIX — jim, huge kidney stone haver (@urvillageidiot) August 21, 2017

If he doesn't see his shadow, do we get six more weeks of authoritarianism? — Lindsay Beyerstein (@beyerstein) August 21, 2017

Jeff Sessions and Wilbur Ross opted to go the glasses route.

This Jeff Sessions and Wilbur Ross photo pic.twitter.com/6ORkzouT2N — Dusty Giebel (@DustinGiebel) August 21, 2017

Here’s hoping whoever is president in 2024, when the next eclipse descends over the United States, knows better.