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"
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What do Trump and a limbo stick have in common?
"How low can you go!"
And people are saying he’s trolling.
Even if he was I love how these “Christian’s” are like he did mean it.
I was so hoping to never hear from him again
I know, I had hoped too. Many of us did.
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!".
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.
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.
What a demented piece of shit
I hate every single person that allowed this to happen. If you voted for Trump or didn't vote against him I hope you get a very painful cancer.
To be clear, the straight was open. Why was it that they closed it down?
because drawing on an inside strait is poor poker strategy???
The bar is already much lower. "Cursing on a Sunday" wouldn't hit my radar with a normal president either, tbh.
Imagine that's what does it tho lmao. Like they just have him actually retire due to that.
“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"?
Inb4 he kicked the bucket earlier this weekend and shits fucked
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.
I have an Obama body pillow that I hump and sleep beside every night.
On a scale of "plush" to "potato chip," how crunchy is your Obama?
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The suit and mustard on his hotdog were his true crimes. /s
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. That's extra silly because hamburgers go with basically any condiment, from sriracha to aioli.
people were offended because they thought it's elitist to eat dijon
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I'm poor and stupid but I eat dijon and I love it
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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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It's the secret code that tells the other billionaires to hurry into their bunkers.
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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.
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.
The irony was when reading the post, the apostrophe was what made me question if he wrote it. I was surprised he knew how to use an apostrophe or where to find it on his phones keyboard. That was my first thought about the person Americans elected to lead their country. Says a lot and I am American.
Sounds like a drunken hegseth post. Pretty sure Trump is dead and we're getting AI trump for Easter announcements lol
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”).
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.
Its the "praise be to Allah" part that gets me, I can't see him saying that even being sarcastic
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Don't make me hopeful.
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He is such an embarrassment…
“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
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Regardless of partisan views it is well past time for Congress to do their fucking jobs and impeach this maniac.
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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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The only F-word I need from Trump "Files", as in "Epstein Files".
Tuesday is war crimes day
It's also TACO day
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.
Donald Trump raped and murdered children.
He’s now going to cause world war 3 because a deranged Jew and Russians own and control him.
America: murder your fucking leader. No body wants this except for Trump, hehseth and his puppets that control him.
Fuck America, you are all weak and pathetic. Second amendment am I right? Cowards. All of you.
Good thing you didn't generalize an entire population or anything and show your lack of understanding at how easy it is to just assassinate the POTUS. That would look like quite dumb, hateful, and short slighted opinion had you done so.
What's wonderfully ironic about this kind of post is that it sounds exactly like the maniac it's supposedly condemning. The guy who told Iranians to just go ahead and rise up and take their country back. And then told the EU to take back the Strait.
Hey you know how the saying goes, right?
If you want something done, do it yourself.
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