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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago
[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Trump did not write this. Either he's dead and someone else (probably Miller) wrote this or he completely lost his mind.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Wasn't there a rumor that Bibi got replaced with AI for a while because nobody could believe the uncanny appearance he had on TV?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Think you’re right. As stupid as this is it’s far too coherent to be a trump rant. This has angry middle class big truck small dick energy.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Yeah no way this is actually Trump. It feels very different from his normal vernacular and cadence.

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[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (6 children)

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Could you imagine the reaction if any other president wrote the words "Praise be to Allah"?

[–] coalie@piefed.zip 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Unforgivable

Unforgivably hot

Seriously, whether or not Obama was our best president is debatable (certainly the best recent president). But he was undoubtedly our sexiest president.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have an Obama body pillow that I hump and sleep beside every night.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On a scale of "plush" to "potato chip," how crunchy is your Obama?

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Depends where on the pillow you touch.

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[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The suit and mustard on his hotdog were his true crimes. /s

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Mustard is the designated "normal" condiment for hot dogs, no?????? Mustard+relish, maybe some diced onion. What was he supposed to have used, ketchup??? 🤢

Or did he use some "fancy" stone ground dijon mustard so people were offended it wasn't just yellow mustard?

EDIT: I looked it up and it was spicy Dijon mustard on a hamburger, not a hot dog.

[–] BouteilleBrune@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

people were offended because they thought it's elitist to eat dijon

  1. I'm poor and stupid but I eat dijon and I love it

  2. the same people went on to vote for the most elitist president I've known by far

they simply wanted to hate the black man

if the only reason to hate him republicans could think of is that he ate mustard, that man is irreproachable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

It's the secret code that tells the other billionaires to hurry into their bunkers.

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Inb4 he kicked the bucket earlier this weekend and shits fucked

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[–] btsax@reddthat.com 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

It would be fun to link some articles from Jan 2017 where the entire news media was like "oh he's going to change everything about himself and become much more presidential now"

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's the "f-bomb" in the message that's disturbing.

Not the frustrated tantrum anger from a US president. Not the threatened war crimes. Not the framing of the actions to be god's will.

It's "Oh my,! What a potty mouth!".

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 5 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Peak America.

In a sane world, everybody who wrote or approved that title should never be allowed to work in news media again. It is a fucking disgrace.

[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 3 points 15 hours ago

First he was cumming in children. Now he's the second coming. When is he going?

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Sounds like a drunken hegseth post. Pretty sure Trump is dead and we're getting AI trump for Easter announcements lol

[–] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It’s weird how it seems like something he would totally write, but at the same time doesn’t? Sure, there’s the shitty lack of grammar and randomly capitalized words…yet it just doesn’t seem completely him. “Open the fuckin’ straits,” just doesn’t read at all like something he would write. I don’t know, I think I really just want and need to see THAT headline pop up on my phone - so I’m definitely just grasping at whatever glimmer of hope I can find.

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[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 8 points 22 hours ago

It’s a Bible verse.

John 20: 14-16

At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

Jesus said to her, “Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “WTF!” (which means “what the fuck”).

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Don't make me hopeful.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be clear, the straight was open. Why was it that they closed it down?

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[–] Hux@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He really somehow manages to keep out-doing himself…it’s staggering.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That doesn't sound like his typical cadence. I don't think Trump wrote that.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

This seems more like the Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Hegseth.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Especially the "fuckin'" part. Would he actually write it like that, instead of "fuckin" or just "fucking"? It seems wrong for him.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago

Yeah ive never seen a single tweet that uses punctuation correctly.

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[–] ChonkyLincoln@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago
[–] 7112@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F—in’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

praise be to Allah... we know who's bribing him this week

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would definitely trust this person with the nuclear launch codes.

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

What do Trump and a limbo stick have in common?

"How low can you go!"

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I saw the screenshot and it was so unhinged, so absolutely batshit crazy, that I just naturally assumed it was a meme someone generated.

25th Amendment NOW.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This is so stupid that i'm lead to believe they are doing it on purpose to put all the blame of the iran war on trump so that the rest of the government can save his face.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

GOP hopiing to wash off the stain. Not gonna work.

[–] chrischryse@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

And people are saying he’s trolling.

Even if he was I love how these “Christian’s” are like he didnt mean it.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Regardless of partisan views it is well past time for Congress to do their fucking jobs and impeach this maniac.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

What a demented piece of shit

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago

He is such an embarrassment…

[–] jinni@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Not very Christian of him.

I drop big bonuses and a fully paid, week-long trip back home for my foreign Christian domestic workers each year, not threats and f-bombs, and I'm a cultural Muslim.

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I understand an apostrophe is used to replace the terminating letter 'g' in a verb ending in "-ing" to indicate informal, colloquial speech or dialect - and that its use represents the omission of the "g" sound.

Nice.

I just didn't think Pedophile Felon Drink Bleach Trump made much use of the apostrophe in general, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Don't people ever wonder like me how people would react if Obama would post something like this in his term? I mean, talk about unhinged. Other world leaders look at this shit and be even more resolved to move on without the US. There will be a long, long time to even rebuild 20% of the trust.

How can MAGA look at this and think 'this is fine'?

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