"The president president's threatening to leave it permanently.... We'll just host weekly fights between people in politics, you know, and settle our scores tha... (opens in new tab)

The comic stylings of Marco Rubio:When did I first hear the joke that, instead of fighting wars, the individual world leaders ought to put on boxing gloves and fight it out one-on-one? I believe I heard it back in the 1960s and a few times since then, but I couldn't trace it to any particular comedian or commentator. It seems to be a longstanding folk joke.It was basically the idea behind the MTV show From 1999, here are Bill Clinton and Ken Starr fighting it out in the ring: <script async src="