'Can't stop watching': Oh, won't someone 'please clap' for Jeb! Bush? [video]

This pretty much sums up where the Jeb! campaign’s at right now:

Here's Jeb Bush asking an audience in New Hampshire to "please clap": https://t.co/xiaOYIufy0 @shiftmsnbc pic.twitter.com/x0Uc5Fl8gr

— NTA by Mic (@NavigatingTrump) February 3, 2016

#jebbush #pleaseclap https://t.co/NfMswf5Xug  This really happened. pic.twitter.com/N7SQk6SkLM

— Adam Mordecai (@advodude) February 3, 2016

Welp.

I can't stop watching. https://t.co/dg468DRq6s

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) February 3, 2016

It really is hypnotic.

"Please clap" supplants Hemingway's six-word story as the shortest, saddest story ever told https://t.co/tEkYI2OnEV pic.twitter.com/jHIrTnwIiT

— Nate Goldman (@NateGoldman) February 3, 2016

(Musical cue: "In the Arms of an Angel") #PleaseClap pic.twitter.com/QMFszvn9Vc

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) February 3, 2016

Now introducing the 45th President of the United States of America….Mr. JEB BUSH!!!
…
*silence*
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Please clap https://t.co/dM8gmFVZg5

— Remy Smith (@remysmith44) February 3, 2016

I can relate to Jeb Bush. One time when I was 5 I acted out a scene from The Lion King in front of my parents & asked them to "please clap"

— Kevin Jacobsen (@Kevin_Jacobsen) February 3, 2016

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Awkward, funny, pitiful, all-around sad. The Germans have to have a word for this. // Jeb Bush: "Please clap" https://t.co/75dkCLDwr2

— Matt Becker? (@mwb1980) February 3, 2016

That Jeb Bush asking people to 'please clap' is tragic I almost feel sorry for him.

— Josh ? (@SCFCJosh96) February 3, 2016

"Please clap" is the new "Hands up who likes me!" Only with added misery.

— Alan Baxter (@AlanBaxter) February 3, 2016

But are people being too hard on the guy?

https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/694973775134203905