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Trump Cracked a Pearl Harbor Joke to Japan — A Day Later, Tokyo Declined His Hormuz Request
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2026
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It's literally just the type of person. My father is the same way. He's the same age as Donald Trump, comes from the same area of the world and has the same misogynistic high School waspy elitism BS. I've had to yell at my father because he's insulted people not to their faces but they're 3 ft away and he says something about them that they can completely hear. Out of politeness they don't say anything back. My mother died and we kept her car and it was having some problems. Wo brought it to the dealership so they could diagnose it and the service technician behind the counter was gay. So the guy speaks and had the gay lisp and what does my father do but say under his breath "wow that guy's a little lite in his loafers." Now he didn't say it low enough so I only heard it he said it low enough where everyone within 10 ft heard it including the service tech. My father thought nothing wrong of his insult and it was rather proud of himself. When he was up next in line the service technician looked at him and said oh no you're the other guy's customer and then walked away from him, the other guy had three more people before my father. I just died laughing and I said to him "see Dad that's what you get for being a rude asshole."
Your Old Man was fully aware that he was saying that so that his victim would hear it. He just said it a little softer, so he could later claim that he didn't mean for the guy to hear it, as if that's any better.