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Trump is delusional. He also said in the interview that tourism has gone up and that the world's respect fir America has improved
These ones are real, though:
Can someone explain these to me? They seem like Neo Nazi tattoos.
They seem that way because they are that way.
That's US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and they are.
I'm not trying to defend the guy at all but those tattoos are not exclusively used by neo-nazis whatsoever and come from the Christian crusades originally. It's the Jerusalem cross.
I will also say that that drusen cross has been used in some Neo-Nazi symbolism along the way so it's not really a get out of jail free card either.
okay then, let’s stop short and say they’re neo nazi dog whistles then
Maybe he just really likes ‘crusader kings V’?
that is both possible, and doesn’t invalidate that it’s also a nazi dog whistle
that’s what ya get for using dog whistles constantly
They're not necessarily all "Neo-Nazi," but they're definitely Neo-Nazi adjacent.
Republicans are fucking pathetic.
Full interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwCUPttprw
I really wish some of these reporters would dig in and challenge him. I get that its uncomfortable, but that's your job.
His questions should have been:
How I long to be able to interrogate him and just be able to grab him by the neck uncomfortably tightly when he starts spewing some non-answer shit out of his mouth.
Fully agree, however, the press has done that before and he just shuts down the question with some remark about the reporter and if they press, he walks out. Aside from physical restraint, I don't think we will see him submit to any real questioning.
Ah yes let’s believe the man who has his hands photoshopped to look bigger, he’s such a dumb asswipe
Trump doesn't strike me as the type to clean his rear.
Well duh, he's too busy wiping his mouth
Orwellian in the extreme.
I had a long drawn out argument with a guy who insisted that HitlerPig was saying that the "tattoo" was just labelling his other tattoos, despite his original post clearly calling it a tattoo, and multiple sunsequent statements insisting it was a tattoo.
Obviously it wasn't a tattoo, and this guy was insistent that HitlerPig never claimed it was, when he did, over and over, and here he is, still sticking to it.
The point is that these people believe whatever nonsense they make up is the truth, despite all evidence to the contrary.
"Dont bother me with facts, my mind's made up."
The real reason he will justify this bullshit like that is because he has to admit hes racist otherwise, "if hes brown I want him gone from my town" basically. Ask him if we should be deporting white right wing gang members based on their tattoos and show him cropped photos of Hegseths tats.
The photo:
So just to be fair, whoever made that tried to illustrate that the 4 symbols - in their imagination - represent "M S 1 3". Which in itself is ludicrous. And even if they did, that's still no reason to deport him.
Anyhoo, Trump's reply when someone dared try to explain this to him:
“That was Photoshopped? Terry, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime. You’re doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I’d never heard of you, but that’s OK,” Trump said. “You’re not being very nice.”
This is everyday tyranny in action. It's also very dumb and very delusional. Louis XIV levels.
How is this farce still going on?
But then, just yesterday I learned a little about El Salvador and their idiot president. Who am I kidding. As long as the people go with it, it's possible no matter how ludicrous. I still say it's social media algorithms that got us here.
Don't forget MSM sane washing everything he does.
it’s social media algorithms that got us here
Definitely, but those that were pumped with money for fake ads to convince idiots to vote for destruction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
It was the combination of hyper-capitalism and the Russian playbook to destabilize the west that got us here.
He thinks the "M S 1 3" in #000 black Ariel font is really part of the picture.
It's surprising Trump's own tattoos don't get more attention.
Trump kept insisting: “No, no: He had ‘MS’ as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted.’"
That is astonishingly—but unsurprisingly—stupid.
It's one thing to insist that tattoos of a weed leaf, a smily face with "x" for its eyes, a cross, and a skull are pictographs for "M S 1 3". It's another to be such a dumbass that you think the superimposed text trying to explain that interpretation is the tattoo.
Wait, what? I missed that detail. He thought the numbers and letters were part of the tattoo? LOL
Sweet Baby Jesus put that man in a nursing home. He shouldn't be handling metal cutlery, let alone the nuclear launch codes.
This is the guy that stared into the sun during an eclipse.
This is the guy that thinks stealth planes are invisible.
Trump is stupid. He needs to be removed from office.
By any means necessary.
Holy shit. I thought this was clearly intentional propaganda targeting the very extremely dumb that would take the mistaken impression from it without any of them being on record saying the fake part, but did no one tell him?
I think it was created as a markup to explain why they thought the ambiguous tattoos were problematic, I hope they would have assumed no one would be stupid enough to think he literally had tattoos that managed to be flat perfect text in pure black in a photo.
But it turns out Trump is literally that stupid. Or it is convenient so he doesn't have to field answers like "where's some corroborating evidence to back up the claimed meaning".
Of course all of this is almost beside the point. We shouldn't be doing this in the court of public opinion, it should be in front of a real judge and if deported it should be in compliance with orders that he be deported to anywhere but Salvador, and even if someone deports to El Salvador, we shouldn't just directly deport straight to a prison that may not even have anything to do with country of origin.
trump is the very extremely dumb.
Honestly I'm curious how the hell skull is even supposed to symbolize 3. A cross meaning one because "one true god" is a bit of a stretch too but the skull?
I think it’s because skull is cráneo in Spanish and so it starts with C, which is the third letter of the alphabet
That’s how conspiracy theories work. Mostly with dumb shit
I mean, gangs use symbology in their tattoos all the time. Same with Nazis. I'm not saying that's what his tattoos mean at all, it's just that such tattoos absolutely exist and are common.
True, but it's not usually as coded as this or if it is, it's a symbol that is common to all - more corporate logo than DaVinci code.
Also...
symbology
"Photoshopped? You can't do that, Terry."
LOL
Unirionically our funniest president. Shame he might be our last.
I’d be happy with him being the last President… if we switched to a parliamentary system where a PM is required to form a coalition and RCV was the law of the land.
Don't you still need a head of state? I mean Canada has the monarchy other ones have a president, yes they are mostly ceremonially.
It was pretty funny for most of the first term. He's been getting progressively less funny ever since.
Degeneratively so
Fair. It is easy to lose the humor when things are getting worse and worse.
Why does anyone even ask that compulsive liar questions any more? You'll never get a straight answer, and he'll just start calling you names if he doesn't like the question, which is most of them these days. Why bother?
I'd like to see a silent press conference. "Is anyone going to ask a question?" "Is it worth it?"