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Trump shares own experiences as victim of white genocide (theonion.com)

submitted 2 months ago by MHLoppy@fedia.io to c/theonion@sh.itjust.works

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Saying the plight of white South African farmers affected him on a deeply personal level, President Donald Trump issued a statement Thursday in which he shared his own experiences as a victim of white genocide. “I’ve kept quiet about my past out of a fear that I could still be persecuted, but I too know what it’s like to live under a Black president who wants to see your entire race destroyed,” said Trump, adding that he had narrowly survived the attempt to eradicate white people and their culture by hiding for months in his 126-room Palm Beach resort. [...]

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[–] dotdi@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hot damn, this sounded so f*cking plausible that I didn’t even get that it was satire until I started typing a comment…

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holy shit. It almost got me too

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I happened to check the community as I was opening up the article, cuz I totally ate that onion.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

i got to the link and saw it was the onion and breathed a very shallow sigh of relief

[–] dumples@midwest.social 32 points 2 months ago

President Trump also announced that construction would begin on a White Genocide Museum in Washington, D.C. once several museums commemorating the history of less important races had been razed to provide the space.

Yet again an onion article killing it with the last sentence.

[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

I ate this motherfucker.... Reality is getting to me.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I ate the onion for sure

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Brave.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

We can only get so hard.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I love how he emphasizes WHITE genocide, you know, the important type, not those typical ones where brown people die, these are white people so it’s serious!