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https://xcancel.com/RapidResponse47/status/2069179932883013936#m

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116796021113054934

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what's real anymore.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It is an actual truthsocial post by Trump.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is the image real? Are people out there really and/or satirically protesting for the algae?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes it's the liberal tactic of looking stupid

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

haha putting on a frog outfit and looking ridiculous will really show trump smuglord

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

it put him on tilt, libjob well done!

[–] dead@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought the photo would be fake but these videos look real.

https://xcancel.com/SatireAP/status/2068807787686035718#m

https://xcancel.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/2068777844688265694#m

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/trump-algae-reflecting-pool-lincoln-memorial-paint-chips-repair/

By the pool, a person in a pink frog costume brandished a “Team Algae” sign and heckled two National Guard troops. “Let’s go algae, let’s go,” the frog chanted, along with something about “pond scum.”

The costume is the Portland Frog from the anti-ICE protests in Portland. The costume has been used at "no kings" type protests previously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Frog

[–] rethnor@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm sceptical, or Seems a bit too coherent to be his words.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

copy paste from chatgpt or whatever people use these days

"chatgpt tell me what this picture means and why i'm angry"

"ahh yup sure thing boss! this is a picture of a pink frog, holding a protest sign that says (...) "

[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

He has a 30 something woman post a lot of his stuff, you can tell when it's actually him when there's seemingly random words in all caps.

everyone should remember, first, they came for the communists.

[–] dead@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This whole situation is so absurd. Trump spent years saying that he would "drain the swamp" in DC as a metaphor, then he built a literal swamp in DC.

Now he says that ANTIFA is pro-algae because ANTIFA sounds like amphibian. The Portland Frog as the image. He's saying that Antifa is supporting the Lincoln memorial swamp that he made.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The levels of recursion and reality bending going on everyday is really starting to confuse me.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Enjoy the trip

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

It's simulacra all the way down

[–] Jarmund@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

At this point, the SCP foundation should classify Donald Trump as a reality bender SCP or at least as a POI

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

These protesters are in the pockets of big algae

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago

I-was-saying I'm pro algae

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

This season the writers realized the audience doesn't really get metaphor or subtext.

[–] NonWonderDog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] plinky@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

why do you think the water is green, huh? lib-status

[–] christian@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Big Algae doesn't want you to know this, but Amphifa is not an organic movement.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's interesting tgat so much of trumps second term is literally building the swamp.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was curious how Chuck Schumer would screw up this easy layup on social media. All he - and all the dems - need to do is post something simple and punchy. Off the top of my head they could use "failure" as a talking point like...

Everything Trump does is a failure.

Very-ugly- green-Reflecting-Pool-photo.jpg

Instead - on Facebook and Twitter - Schumy posted this...

A perfect picture of Trump's presidency:

Americans are losing their homes, cutting back at the grocery store, and drowning in bills, while Trump's top priority is cleaning up the Reflecting Pool.

America needs a president, not a pool boy.

https://xcancel.com/SenSchumer/status/2069174640207929658#m

And it has a 40 second Schumer Senator floor speech (that nobody will watch) - because of course it does. The tweet has 852 likes and it was posted 3 hours ago.

[–] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

America needs a president, not a pool boy.

He just had to take a swipe at a worker

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

chefs-kiss

*both to costumed protestor and leader of the free world

[–] dead@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is back from Maternal Leave to explain Trump's post on Fox News.

"It's unbelievable to see these people. These deranged leftists in algae costumes with 'team algae' on their backs. What does that even mean?"

https://xcancel.com/RapidResponse47/status/2069229269058793905#m

[–] Fossifoo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

WHO DID THEY COME FOR FIRST? WHO MF? big-honk

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Paid by who? The right so they can take some pictures that cause a "look how stupid the liberals look" reaction?

It's a very convenient costume to wear if you're a right wing actor paid to make liberals look bad. Remember how much they capitalised on "look at this hysterical woman behaviour" back around and before gamergate and half of those weren't even real?

Is it believable? Yeah. But it's also incredibly easy to just make up stupid shit with an actor and make all the hogs froth at the mouth. I'm convinced that Trump's accusation of paid actors is in fact a massive quantity of projection over what's going on in right wing media and they're doing it for practically everything.

[–] ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Who cares who payed for it. Really? My child was given a strawberry smoothie and can't even visit the local grocery store without convulsing and having manic attacks. Her aunt Lily bought her a blueberry scarf last winter and she went completely seedless jelly. If you can't understand this then why even breath oxygen you wasp. Drink glass shards and vomit like Roku did in An Animes PDF File volume 3, return of the 9 year olds in skirts

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Another wonderful overflow from the septic tank of ideology.

[–] EdlritchEconomics@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Either he knows its a bit and he's playing it straight on purpose because he thinks enough of his base will buy it, or he actually believes what he's saying. Both are terrifying, but one is funny.

[–] Athena5898@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

I wish I had money for every time someone said I was being paid for going against these chuckle fucks. Even happen with City Council. At this point I demand to be paid if they are going to keep telling me this. Other wise its cruel and unusual punishment.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

first? we're way past first

Paid algae protestor? Last I checked America kept making the billion ton report where they endeavor to make a billion tons of biomass for green energy of which algae is a part of it. It was your stupid fucking idea what the fuck are you talking about?

[–] RedNajm@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Haha😃 😃 great post Mr president hey just wondering what's the first part of that quote?

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago

am*rica would be so funny if it wasn't for all the mass murder
a country full of complete clowns saying and doing wildly absurd shit