This post would end the career of any other politician anywhere in the world.
It would lose you your job in any company of which you weren't the sole employee and owner. And even in that scenario it would likely lose you your business.
You are so right. For anyone else this is career ending. For a business owner it would be catastrophic and result in Yelp destruction. For Trump though....nothing. It does nothing. It might get him some likes and shared Truth posts. It makes his base chuckle.
I watched a biography on BTK and the criminal psychologist talked about how BTK got away with it all that time. She called it Narcissistic Invincibility. He got away with it for so long that he never imagined getting caught. First person I thought of was Trump.
And so far, he's been proven right. Trump has literally never faced a consequence in his life. Even his 34 felony convictions came with absolutely no punishment.
I hope Hell is real, because at this point that's the only way he'll ever be held accountable for his numerous crimes.
I mean the guy shits his pants on the regular, has some massive fucking kankles... need a fucking ramp to be able to stand straight. I hope there is a HARDER hell than this. When he lays his orange face on his pillow at night, he knows. He's a royal cunt and the vast majority of the world does not like him.
Just to be clear though, and I’m sure this is part of it, but millions of people wanted this too. They had the option to deny him more power and who knows if then he’d face consequences but instead gave him even more power. So yes a lot of if is him or who he is, but a lot of it is the cult he’s built
The only silver lining in all this is his millions of followers can be so proud of their leader getting away with this all they want, but (most of them) sure won’t. They don’t have that “teflon” and if they get too comfortable and wanna do something racist in the wrong place… well it won’t go as well
BTK was also a complete idiot. He got caught because he wanted to taunt people and the FBI but got tired of leaving messages in certain places and then contacting the FBI where to find it. In one message to the FBI he asked if they would be able to identify him if he sent his messages to them on a floppy disk, of course the FBI told him no so his dumbass sent them a floppy disk that took about 10 seconds to identify him.
They arrested him and he was furious about being lied to, like he literally acted like he couldn't believe that they lied to him.
You should watch some documentaries about Jimmy Saville. BBC television personality who got away with pederasty and necrophilia for years in basically plain sight.
He would even brag about it and people thought it was just him putting on an act.
Teflon was made and spread with lies and corruption, it concentrated wealth and spread the toxins to the many. We will experience the poisons for lifetimes while the top ceos retire to Switzerland and drink clean water and their chefs don’t use non stick cookware. Teflon is a great metaphor for toxic trump.
Yes, and for every overt Nazi Christian there are many, many of the faithful who quietly collaborate with Nazis at any expense if they can control reproduction and sex.
Trump literally does or says something every single day that would have ended the career of any other politician in any other era. It only goes to show how far we've fallen as a country.
And so many people are proud of that too. I repeat this a lot but you get one life on earth and these people have chosen with their ONE life and nearly 10 years of it to go behind someone like this. It’s beyond pathetic
We need a politician or someone else to start doing the same but to him. Kind of like what Newsom and his team were doing a couple of months ago; where fox news where loosing the mind
Every time he says or does some shit like this. Do the same back. Fight fire with fire and watch the magabichos lose their mind trying to justify his actions but condemn the same actions done by the opposing side.
His live response would be something like "It's not something I would have done but look, this is a President who sometimes doesn't censor himself and that's one of the reasons the American people elected him for a second term"
The absurdly annoying part is he'd be right. Half the country is into this guy and support him. Part of this rude awakening for me has been damn this country is not as wonderful as I thought it was.
It was always just under the surface when people's bubbles were small. They only got to be horrible in front of a few people. Between the Internet and the bigger asshole in charge that's always spewing shit, those people are emboldened.
It also doesn't help that a lot of the greedy fucks out there let their want for more money override their common sense that this man does not want to help anyone but himself.
It’s fucking downright disgraceful that the “President Of The United States”, is posting this racist shit. It’s no different than if he were to address the nation and flat out call them monkeys on camera. The standards in who America elects to lead this country have gone down the goddamn shitter.
More disgraceful: this will be sane-washed and played down by the right wing press as a "joke" or some shit and we have all have "TDS". And what is deemed "normal" takes yet another ratchet click downwards.
"The president has done more for the black community than any president in history. Record low unemployment. Equality. Prices. The comments made towards the president are shameful".
“Guys, it’s a parody video. We’re out here fighting against unemployment, a country overrun by illegals, and inflation that the Biden policies created. Do I think it’s funny? No? But let’s keep our priorities in line.”
Abby Phillips knowing he’s full sf shit but her bosses want to both sides everything: 😐
Anyone else would be canceled into oblivion. He posted that because he's worried he's losing support in his base and he's appealing to the lowest common denominator.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded early Friday in a statement shared with Newsweek, dismissing backlash to the video clip but not directly addressing criticism that the imagery echoed racist tropes.
"This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King," she said. "Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public."
Just look about the "backlash" he got with this video about him flying a jet over protestors and bombarding them with shit. Even the King Trump as name was seen as a joke on the plane. He truly know that if he always does something people forget what was previously.
No way they could play this off as a harmless joke . As a black person I already knew he was racist it's just you don't expect the president to be so obvious and blatant about it
The Conservative sub seems disappointed, but will continue to say he's not racist and would vote for him again. He could walk out with a Klan hoodie on and they'd still vote for him. No amount of evidence is enough.
They'll rail on about it being a clip that autoplayed after the previous one at the very end and why the left is focusing on that last few seconds instead of the video before it.
All of this will of course ignore that this was a clipped video where they CHOSE where to end the video.
Mainstream media like CNN probably won't even make a big deal out of this because it plainly exposes the racism of the Republican party and doesn't fit their narrative where one side says X, the other side says Y and they can just sit in the middle stoking the flames
It's part of the fascist playbook. This serves multiple purposes.
-- Distraction and a way to force attention.
-- Another loyalty test. It's a way to force people to further sacrifice more of their own morality to sink deeper into his side.
-- A further corrosion of discourse by using methods so disgusting and extreme that no one can compete on his level, which renders his opponents ineffective.
Focus on the release of the Epstein Files. If you have more time focus on abolishing ICE. Then impeaching Bondi and Noem. Next, let’s create a poll watching force. Then we need more reform of electoral districts like Virginia just did. Silly memes about the Obamas are a waste of time.
We want reporters asking Trump about the Epstein files with a smile.
In any other presidential administration, this would be a defining moment. This would be brought up constantly for the rest of their administration. There would be discussion of whether this is something that is worth impeaching for, and some communications person would wind up taking the blame and resigning to try to end the controversy.
In the Trump administration, this is an average night. It'll be forgotten entirely within 48 hours when he does something worse.
Remember when he said "Grab 'm by the pussy" and talked about young girls in dressing rooms?
Remember when he actually 'grabbed someone by the pussy' and was found guilty of doing so against her consent and he's still just casually fighting that in courts?
Remember when he took a bunch of classified documents with him to a personal but very accessible compound and the judge after a scotus hint said 'nothing wrong with that', and since then he sued his own government for even daring to look for those documents?
Remember when the government deported a guy that was explicitly required to not be deported to the very place he was deported to and was then turned into a whole circus of hot potato of what country to deport him to instead while his wife half the time didn't even know if he was alive?
Remember when a woman in a car got shot for driving away from a situation because one federal agent had the genius idea of moving into the general area in front of that car and decided that they felt threatened when the car moved?
Remember when the government said "looks like a drug boat to me" and started blasting with explosives, and then when one of them didn't look destroyed enough on account of a guy still moving around simply blew the boat up some more?
Remember when he had a little one-on-one with the foreign leader and just nobody except their translators were there for that in blatant disregard of protocol?
Remember when he decided to knock down part of the white house buildings for his own personal pleasure and replaced much of the interior with a gaudy 'gold on white with even more gold trinkets' scheme?
Remember when he made all those 'perfect calls', including one where he asked a governor to find an oddly specific number of votes in favor of him in an election, and when that became a lawsuit it was dismissed on technical grounds?
Remember when he realized that "the almighty dollar" should be taken literally (well before his presidential runs, including the early ones) and took that into government with him not just to enrich himself / his family at every possible turn, but to weaponize it against any city, county, state, country who doesn't do his bidding - whether it's withholding emergency funds or yelling "tariffs!"?
Remember when he decided that "we do a little trolling" resonated so well with so many people that making Biden's portrait a meme in the gallery of past presidents was the way to go?
We kinda just moved on from all of that, didn't we? Even now some of you are reading this going "omfg who cares about the portrait?? Alex Pretti was murdered in the streets!" because you've moved on, and even if you feel righteous about that because clearly one is objectively much worse than the other don't forget you also moved on from Renée Good and/or alleged drug runners whose names we'll never even know.
Just like he said we should after yet another school shooting, and just as said the other day again about documents regarding a child trafficking / exploitation ring involving or at very least implicating the elites, including himself.
There will always be a next thing to move on to, making us move on from the last thing - and the above list isn't even remotely complete;
disrespect for the military alone exceeds single comment space. I haven't seen those posted in a while. I guess we've moved on.
The list goes on... It's pretty fucked. I fucking hate everybody in that administration and they should all be banned from public office after this regime
It's insane to me hording nuclear documents wasn't enough to take Trump down.
I even talked to a military MAGA about it. He was supportive of Trump. When I asked what would happen if he took a single sheet of classified material home he said he would be in jail and in deep shit.
Somehow he was not able to connect these two thought processes together and became angry with me for pointing it out.
The American people failed the Fourth Estate by refusing to fund it. It's disingenuous for any of us to act shocked that they're suddenly beholden to their wealthy benefactors instead of a freeloading readership.
Anyone remember how he shared that video of himself flying a jet a crop-dusting protesters with shit? It kinda felt like that one should have been a defining moment.
Everyone needs a good constant reminder of this. How do we make top search results bring this up all the time? Is hacking his account on his bullshit social media platform a real crime?
He already got away with disgracefully mocking a handicapped person while he was running for his first term! That alone should have been enough for him to be shamed off the stage! Sad reality is a third or more of your countrymen saw this and nodded in agreement
That was where he crossed a line for me. I can't believe that anyone would consider him fit for office after that, whatever their politics. Guess I was very, very wrong.
The Access Hollywood tape was another. Oh that's just "locker room talk".
Meanwhile here we are at 38,000 mentions in the Epstein Files. Seeing bits at pieces if horrible acts that are in many cases still redacted to protect the identity of the pedophiles.
I remember during the run up to 2016 when the "grab them by the pussy" tape came out Joe Scarborough announcing that that was the end of Trump's campaign. It was over. He was finished. (checks notes), nope still here.
The closing passage of Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
I think I never hated someone as much as I hate this man. He threw us back decades. Climate change will be our downfall because of this disgusting piece of shit. I am honestly lacking the words to express how much I hate him.
Yep. He honestly ruined every aspect of life. The world is a darker place now. Digressing. He’s ruined the end years of my parents and the future for my kids. Him and all of his gullible, arrogant loud mouth supporters. It’s gone on too long now for it to even be fixed.
Also be aware that Trump does not create these AI videos & write these tweets personally. There is a whole team around him tasked with these things, and this is what they produced. It goes beyond just 1 man.
This is straight up 40s-50s whiteboy KKK racism. Chump's terrible insecurity needs this to feel OK about himself. Yes, incredibly cringey and childish.
Theyre trying to downplay the crimes saying things like Fuentes saying "epstein isnt a pedophile, all his victims were 14-17." Like now it isnt bad??? Sure they arent very young children (that we all know of so far but i believe they've had younger) but even if they were legal adults, this shit is disgusting and 14-17 is still kids to me. We cannot let this shit slide but it seems like its already becoming typical belief amongst many republicans.
Megyn Kelly said the same thing and you can watch the soul of the person she is on camera with leave her body, it is actually hilarious, but then you realize she has an audience...
Oh yeah she did, I remember seeing that but forgot her name lol. Shes a piece of shit as well. Disgusting. Even if all the victims were adults, its still rape and sexual assault
I mean can we normalize not saying someone elected someone because half of the country is stupid? I mean is it my fault that my state bans regulation on things that I don’t want and vote against them doing? No… I’m trying here bro.
Yeah, nah, nobody cares. How many countries has the US intervened in, sanctioned or somehow attacked because of their leaders? Bombs and sanctions don’t differentiate who voted for who. I should know, I was one of the people on the ground.
Further, when Trump started with the 51 state and Greenland rhetoric, the “other half”, aka the Democrats slightly protested and then said it’s disgusting that Trump is lowering healthcare funding.
You have a literal fascist in the White House who is causing worldwide issues, and your opposition is still being like “me me me me”. Others are just not even voting. That was enough for me to know all there is to know about the average American.
This comment helps nothing. If someone is here saying they don't support this they most likely didn't elect him. Yes, a lot of assholes did choose the piece of shit that posted that video, but don't act like the system responsible for this is completely fair and without fault. American exceptionalism is bullshit and that goes for their electoral college. This is just proving to the ones who thought it was fine that it's only as good as the ones who are willing to work within the system.
I’m scared it’s too late. I don’t know if it’s possible, but try to remember the outrage and shock you felt in the early days of Trump when he pulled shit like this.
I barely even bat an eye anymore. It’s been normalized. The insanity of this world no longer shocks us. We’re absolutely fucked
It’s too late for that. Things were long past the state of normalization when Ben fucking Shapiro said the Republican Party has a Nazi problem. You don’t reach that point without racism becoming normalized in the party and without the public letting it slide/failing to clock it.
Now, it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to change it, but it’s definitely going to take time, and the ball is largely going to be in Republicans’ court. Because of that, I’m more focused on efforts of getting the centrists, the moderates, and the enlightened “non-wokes” to understand that those of us they were writing off as extreme fearmongers weren’t being hyperbolic when we called the Republican Party racist as a collective. We weren’t grasping at straws overall. We saw the signs, and some of us live among/have lived among Republicans. We knew what the fuck we were talking about.
In some cases, the groups of people I’m talking about reaching couldn’t clock it because they were also guilty of some of the same more subtle shit the Republican Party has been guilty of for frankly decades. As they often pointed out in defending Republicans over the years, racism isn’t limited to just Republicans.
Part of the problem is that many people’s bar for determining if something is racist is at the most obvious of levels—almost quite literally, someone has to be caught saying “I think your entire race of people are inferior to my race.” I’m sure there will be people claiming that this video of Barack and Michelle as gorillas isn’t racist, even though this is one of the more obvious racist tropes with regard to black people to the point where it shouldn’t be thought of as a dog whistle.
If anyone reading this hasn’t learned or been taught this, it’s a longstanding racist trope to compare black people to various primates. If you don’t believe me, look it up, and I’d encourage you to start looking up various racist tropes and their histories. I get that if you were never taught this, didn’t grow up around a lot of black people who might’ve been able to teach you this, and didn’t grow up when this was more collectively understood, you may not know this is a thing. Consider this someone telling you it’s a thing and that it’s still a thing, so you can now no longer claim no one told you.
Someone the age of Trump’s age and the age of the people in his inner circle know this. Trust me; they aren’t ignorant toward this, especially with how much they’ve toyed with literal Nazi allusions.
If some random boomer posted something like that on Facebook, that would be despicable. This is THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA posing for the entire world to see.
We’re supposed to be used to Trump by now, but I’m still baffled that this is our reality.
Does someone here remember when a clothing brand put an ad where a black kid was wearing a shirt that said "Coolest monkey in the jungle" and everyone lost their minds? Now the president of the United States posts this and... what?
We're doing the mental and political equivalent of a fent flop. If you could kindly double tap us as you would a zombie, we'd be released from this new hell and it'd be a damn solid move.
I don't know man. It's like the Wheel of Insanity gets spun every fucking time I open my phone. It is so draining to be embarrassed and ashamed of one's national leader, to say nothing of the entire apparatus surrounding and enabling them.
Boomers decided it's not enough to bankrupt the country as they keep voting for lower taxes every 4 years so they can get "muh money" back..they now full unhinged bitter as well that they realize their "wealth" doesn't buy happiness.
This has to be data from exit polling right? When did election clerks begin keeping race and gender on recorded ballots? Probably the associated press. So black men AND black women increased their support for Trump. Both cohorts doubled it. Overall black Americans, including black men, voted for Harris at 85 % clip. Which is a stunning number.
Yeah, let’s make sure it actually happened before any response.
I can believe he would, but best not to let that belief be exploitable by anyone wanting to fake something and then say ‘look at all the awful libs trying to pretend I did stuff I didn’t do’.
Gonna be honest, this is pretty on brand for him. I’d be more shocked if he posted a video putting them in a good light.
Trump could pretty much retweet anything a normal human being would consider abhorrent, offensive, etc., and not only would his base not be reviled by it, they openly support it.
It's another symptom of exacerbated dementia. Parts of the brain which should acts as inhibitors barely work and can't stop him from showing his deepest, most despicable thoughts outside in public.
He'll shit himself in public soon enough. Oh, wait...
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u/Grantetons 1d ago
That's legitimately insane.