I deliberately didn’t watch that interview because i knew that I didnt have enough liquor in the house to get through it. The more I read about it, the more i know i made the right choice. I would have been SCREAMING at the TV.
We have to do something about this psychopath, and his henchmen. We are literally repeating Nazi Germany.
I like when donvict says that (paraphrasing) “this is why no one trusts you”, referring to the media. No, only mouth breathers like donvict don’t trust corporate media for calling out blatant lies like these. Mouth breathers fell for the lie that the likes of Faux is news.
The rest of us are suspicious of the corporate bothsiderist media when they don’t call out the blatant LIES in starker terms.
I’m not very charitable to Trump, because he doesn’t deserve it. I watched this particular clip and I got big “technically illiterate boomer who doesn’t realize that any grade schooler can put ‘M’, ‘S’, ‘1’, ‘3’ on HIS hands in MS paint” vibes from him. That doesn’t give him a pass in this situation, it’s 2025, I expect the president to be vaguely aware of the technological capabilities of 98% of personal computers put on the market since 1998. It’s also possible, I suppose, that he’s aware it’s a shoop and doesn’t believe other people are capable of spotting it as being an edited photo; I can see him being a big enough narcissist to really believe that everybody else is really that stupid. I mean, I guess I can’t blame him, just look at his rallies.
That has to be the worst Photoshop job I’ve ever seen, it was like someone just slapped some computer font on a photo, and the letters are way darker than the rest of the photo. Like you have to be one of the stupidest people on earth you ever believe that photo was real
I don’t think the letters on there were even intended to be faked as part of the photo. That’s the exceedingly stupid thing here - donvict seems convinced that the labeling is supposed to be part of the fakery and that we all need to buy into it.
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
I hate the moronic way in which Trump speaks. It’s such a waste of everyone’s time and energy.
Nobody actually listens to Trump speak because our brain cells don’t recover as fast as they die off trying to make sense of what comes out of his fat mouth.
I hate it almost as much as I hate Dr. Brain Worm speak. RFK Jr always sounds like he’s got the world’s collective phlegm stuck in his throat when he speaks.
Lots of people listen to Trump. I was at a mall and an owner of the jewelry store was loudly listening to Trump. Last summer he was stomping out bugs that have taken over my area and leaving their carcasses for everyone to see. I specifically hope he gets what he voted for.
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Truth is we want to believe “nobody” listens to him, a lot of people listen to him. That’s why we are where we are. I saw a group of 60-70 year olds protesting his bullshit by my house today (small mountain town) and it was awesome. Granted, I live in California but it’s a majority red area and I think even those that did listen to him are starting to actually hear him. And they’re not ok with it, he won’t succeed ultimately. There’s hope here yet.
The world listens to him. Listens to him more than anyone else in the entire world. He’s the most listened to in the entire world. By the way he’s a rapist, pedophile, and convicted felon but you wouldn’t know that just by looking at him. You just wouldn’t know that. But it’s true.
Remember not a lot of the world speaks English. When I talked to some of my Japanese friends and language exchange partners prior to this election they weren’t sure about trump but typically described him as someone who was a powerful leader
Also keep in mind that they generally are super polite and in that “if you can’t say anything nice don’t say anything at all” space. Except for a small handful I’m very close with even now they won’t say much bad, will just ask “how are things in America”, “what’s the perception of him in America”, etc and will artfully dodge the question of “what’s the perception of him in Japan. Except for my one friend who’s more outspoken and we are a bit closer, who is like “end the trade alliance and force all the military bases to close!”
But to my original point much of his crass and idiotic behavior doesn’t necessarily translate well and usually doesn’t make the news on NHK. It’s kind of similar to how American news headlines do him so many favors. If you only know trump through Washington post, NYT, etc headlines he sounds so much more competent than he is. But if watch him speak you realize he is just so goddamn stupid
Whoosh
There are 1.5 billion English speakers. It is the most spoken language in the world
So yes, lots of people speak English
Okay? How is that relevant. I was making a point that there are many people who don’t speak English.
While what you say is objectively true what I say is also true. Further, the number of people who do not speak English (roughly 6.5 billion) dwarf the number who do. America and the English language do not define the entire world.
Further, the local English speaker is not always proficient enough to articulate the meaning of what is being said into the local tongue. Even for someone who is a fantastic translator interpreting someone like trump, who constantly utilizes colloquial speech and idioms, is a goddamn nightmare.
I think its funny but also sad. Since I dont live in America, I dont feel so annoyed, but obviously its very embarressing for America that this is the best man that could be found for the job as president.
I want to punch his face every time I see it.
I think we can all say yes to that.
Be careful, the mods might bad you for inciting violence. 🙄
If that ever happens, find another instance where moderators have common sense.
Its not ok to be afraid to say things that are clearly fine in a day to day context. How often dont we joke about all kinds of stuff? But on Lemmy, its a crime and people believe its a statement of real intent, and they believe everyone who reads it is going to find Trump and punch him?
Thats so silly.
“I want to” doesn’t incite someone to do the same and @world might be more censor-happy, but they’re still not reddit.
Need better damn headlines. Begging is maybe only technically correct but doesn’t capture any of the emotion or self righteousness of the situation. He ordered and acted the fool. But it was chastising like “why can’t you just say yes? I’m so nice to you and this is how you return the favor?”
What a piece of shit.
Can we just like write MS13 with MS Paint on JD Vance forehead and claim he has MS13 tattoos on him and deport him to El Salvador? Maybe even do the same for Trump and “photoshop” it on his ass.
What a fucking plonker, double down arsehat
Does anyone have a link to that picture? I can’t find it anywhere.
Here you go
That’s literally the awful photoshop they tried to pass off as real…
Less jpeg-y version, where you can see the Photoshopping more clearly:
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Being entirely clear. It’s the actual letters. Some right wing guys tried saying that he wasn’t trying to pass the letters off as real and the left was just freaking out over labels. Then this.
So wait, it really was the labels that hes trying to pass off as real? I thought the whole thing was trying to pass off his actual finger tattoos as symbolism for MS13, even though actual MS13 just uses the actual numbers and letters.
The interview makes it completely clear, Trump doesn’t want to move on from the topic until the interviewer agrees that the literal characters M,S,1,3 are tattooed on the knuckles. Not tattoos that could be interpreted to mean MS13, literally “MS13”.
Either Trump really is that stupid that he believes its real, or the Whitehouse is doctoring photographs and telling everyone they’re real like the USSR did, albeit less competently.
If the White House doctored that photo, they gotta fire Barron or whoever made that awful “photoshop” that looks more like ms-paint
It was never meant to be a doctored photo, they look like they’re photoshopped because the goal was just to use them as labels, pointing to the actual tattoos. Trump is just an idiot and doesn’t understand technology
He keeps specifying “on his knuckles” and he expected people to buy the hurricane sharpie ridiculousness, so yeah. That’s probably what he means.
You’d think I’d stop being surprised by this kind of shit by now…
