This is something we'd expect from a 10-year-old boy trying to get a laugh out of his friends and family. But this was not sent out by a child, this was sent to millions of people around the world by an almost 79 year old (next month) man who thinks this mockery and insult to Catholics around the world is hilarious.
Trump recently told an interviewer that he went to Pope Francis's funeral last week because he got the Catholic vote. I wonder how Catholics around the world feel about seeing Trump ridicule them by publishing this blasphemous (to them) meme? I wonder if they're proud of their vote for him now.
Imagine if former Presidents Biden or Obama had done such a thing when they were POTUS. Trump is too narcissistic to understand the stupidity of what he's done -- insulted Catholics around the world.
Trump is clearly not well in his head. And he has his fingers on the nuclear codes.
37 comments:
America’s a disgrace, a total shithole spiraling into the gutter. The president posting himself as apope on the White House account? That’s not just tacky, it’s a spit in the face of anyone with a shred of decency or faith. This country’s a clown show, led by an arrogant jackass who can’t stop desecrating everything sacred. What a pathetic f**king embarrassment.
Imagine having the most powerful job in the world and still being desperate for attention by any means. Trump is a weak, insecure man-child. And he has a lot to be insecure about!
And this prank does distract from Donald's meme-coin corruption, his flouting of the SCOTUS order, his dismantling of the US government for Elon's fun and profit, his destruction of the free press, his creation of a secret police, and a host of other impeachable crimes.
I'm afraid there are no more "impeachable crimes" for Trump, since his allies on the Supreme Court granted him unconstitutional "presidential immunity".
That act alone destroyed our republic.
"...I would go so far as to allow myself a rank order of philosophers based on the rank of their laughter - right up to those who are capable of golden laughter... at the expense of all things serious."
Nietzsche, BGE
erratum - "Presidents" for "philosophers" above.
Shaw... we have a president who can't define his policy goals, posts memes for the sole purpose of "triggering" people, lies repeatedly, mocks people with disabilities, debases our allies in public and sides with Communists who have invaded a NATO aligned ally and you're surprised?
If anyone thinks the US is safer and more economically sound and stable with Trump, as opposed to Biden and/or Harris, they're not being honest.
But here we are. Pope Trump.
PS.... Skud has called Trump a "narcissistic lunatic". Maybe one of our other MAGA friends can explain why the rest of the MAGA fan club, which used to complain all day long about Obama having a huge ego and always focused on himself, cannot see the same in Trump.
The malignant narcissist Felon of the now decying USA (thanks to Trump) is pathetic beyond bounds. Not a Catholic or foiower of any monotheistic spititual path I still find the idiot's complete lack of respect disgusting. And it actually is the basis of Trump's personality. Extreme narcissism with a massive dose of delusion.
Trump is known for not having a sense of humor and absolutely cannot take a joke himself. You're making an excuse for Trump's puerile behavior and stupidity. All the quotes from Nietzsche do not excuse the vacuity of his tasteless actions.
Here's a thought: Imagine if former Presidents Biden or Obama had posted this on social media. You can't. They both have more class and intelligence than Trump.
Who is that guy in the pointed hat?
https://www.mashed.com/139301/the-strange-history-of-jack-in-the-boxs-jack/
No, they're both much more under someone else's "control". You need to apply schizoid, not structural, analysis to Trump.
He re-defines what it is "acceptable" to talk about as he goes... and he drags the Overton window with him. He literally becomes "the current thing, daily. You "reflexiviely" talk about his subject matter every single day. That's why Democrats are losing the culture war so badly now.
Wrong. We talk about and acknowledge the fact that there is a mad man running the country.
Alinsky Rule 11: "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
...and especially Rule 5: ""Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
The Trump-Pope meme was gaining traction... and then Trump stole it!
MAGAts are SO lacking in self awareness.
He stole control of how the public was intended to "understand" the Trump-Pope meme, and through Reflexivity, turned it into a "positive"...a new more positive "alternative" understanding. Trump is making fun of the upcoming "Conclave" (watched the movie last night).
And this is a sign of just how deeply entrenched we are culturally, that's a joke, and ideologically in this effort to organize and categorize the world and put it into various different boxes and categories so that things can be "understood". Now by understood, what he's really saying is "controlled". Yet this control veils itself as a kind of "understanding"
Staring mid-week, the Conclave of Cardinals will be "the current thing" around the world... and now Trump is all set to capitalize on it. I literally scheduled my bog post yesterday for next week's start of the Conclave, with Trump-Pope parodies.
You give Trump too much credit regarding his insult to Catholics. Trump hasn’t the intelligence to know what he’s done. You are making this stupid meme into something it is not. What it is, is Trump’s corrosive ego mania thinking he put one over and owned the libs, when in reality he made a fool of himself, which isn’t difficult for him to do.
Trump's "Art of the Deal" and George Soros' "Alchemy of Finance" are the SAME book. You don't become a billionaire by thinking non-strategically. It's the same way that the CIA, MOSAD, and MI-6 think.
He doesn't have to know. He has the right "instinct". It's probably better that he doesn't have to think about it. It's pure "reflex" and "reflexive environments". Social media aligned the "reflexivity" stars for Trump's success.
For all your talk about instinct and reflexivity, history will remember Trumps as a stupid, venal, corrupt man who hurt his own citizens and made America the joke of the world. He has only 3 1/2 more years to do damage, but there will be hundreds of years for his name and all he stands for to be reviled and detested for what he did. This, I guarantee.
I think that most Western peoples will be over their post-colonialism guilt-pride by then, and build a monument on par with the Jefferson Memorial to him, which is IMO, the most beautiful monument in DC.
But only Lindy can tell. It's not cheesecake. :(
Dave, I stand by what I said he is a narcissistic lunatic but who plays the left like a violin. He dominates the media in every form and everything he does is calculated to keep him there. The left is so honed in on what he does that they have forgotten who they are. They have no leader, no platform and no agenda to run on because they are only focused on We Hate Trump as their only goal.
Do you not think that AI generated picture was not planned to get the reaction it got.
The fevered postings by our many named troll are almost delicious in their grasping at anything they can get their fingers on to dismiss the absolute disaster that is the FOTUS admin. Losing the culture war? Really? Maybe that's the consensus in MAGA land but here in reality WeThePeople are triaging former cultists who come out of the MAGA bubble to discover everything they'd believed in for the past decade was a lie. It's a lot to take in all at once. Oh, and the country is on fire, the economy shrunk for the first time in a very long time, and DOGE sold all their data to Russia.
So, you know, same old same old (////sss)
The condemnation for this "joke" is just starting. From what I've read many Cardinals are NOT amused.
also - when you have to comment multiple times to defend/explain a 'joke' it wasn't ever a joke. How do I know? Oh, when you know, you know.
skud says "The left is so honed in on what he does that they have forgotten who they are." without a hint of irony.
First and foremost - traditional media is in no way and has not been for at least a decade on the side of The Left. I know, I know, the leftist media, the liberal media but who is saying that? It's not the Left. We aren't that organized. We have a million voices expressed over multiple social media platforms. To say being in the Democratic party is like herding cats is an understatement because herding cats is easy if you have a few whippy feather toys and a laser pointer, just saying.
Second - WeThePeople who are NOT MAGA understand exactly who the FOTUS admin represents (hint, not WeThePeople) and what their objectives are as it pertains to our country. We do not suffer from TDS, we suffer from someone is trashing our country and we are told to just calm down.
Forgive me for saying hell to the fuck no. I'm not going to watch what the FOTUS admin does as they destroy our country, trash the Constitution with a flood of illegal EO's, deport American citizens, deport immigrants without due process, and say nothing. I'm saying a whole lot of something because what the FOTUS admin is doing is unconstitutional.
I guess it's true - folks like skud won't see anything wrong with the actions of the current admin until their illegal touch lands on them and affects them personally. Then they will say Hey! but by then it will be too late because the heavy hand of the FOTUS admin will have already destroyed the rest of us.
For the record? No one deported has received due process, an action GUARANTEED by the Fifth amendment of the freaking Constitution of these United States.
Curious that you aren't freaked about the trashing of the Constitution skud. How do I know this isn't just a witch hunt? Trumps own judges are ruling against him. They'd love to rule in his favor but he's so blatantly defying the courts that his lawyers are getting cited for contempt and threatened with jail for not following their orders.
Or is the judiciary not important skud? Just asking the questions.
Old Nikita K. was exactly right when he said America would not be brought down by an adversary but rather by forces from within. Donald Trump and his MAGA con are exactly that.
You're right Skud on a couple of things...
1. The Dems have been promoting a mostly "we're not Trump" message for years. Instead of policy, goals, etc., etc., they've focused on we're not him. So no one can really say what the Dems stand for, even generally.
2. The AI generated image of Trump got, as you pointed out, exactly the reaction he wanted. But that does not excuse a POTUS for disrespecting the largest branch of Christianity.
Even the Captain of the Mothership, in a rare statement of obvious facts Saturday, has recognized that this. along with a few other Trump actions the last few days would have set conservatives afire if Biden or a Dem had done them
Grey, I can name one maybe two media outlets that lean conservative while can name at least five who are left leaning so your trashing cannot be substantiated. My comments were about the democrat party having no plan other than we hate trump and you provided no comments about that.
I have not seen proof that DOGE sold all their data to Russia.
I believe the Democrats have articulated many many times their belief in universal health care. We’re the only advanced country that does not cover all its citizens with a universal health care system. The Democrats have also been consistent in wanting to ban the purchase of AR-15s, which was in effect when GWB became POTUS, then he let the ban lapse. No other country on the planet has the number of firearm deaths as we do, and death from firearms is the leading cause of death in American children. There are many other issues that Democrats support that seek to to improve Americans’ lives.
Right now it is true that they are focused on Trump because he’s a threat to our Democracy!, which is kind of important.
Just today on Meet The Press, he said he didn’t know if he’d uphold the Constitution! He swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend it!!!!
This is why we’re always talking about him. I think it’s rather important to be aware of what Trump says and does.
“US President Donald Trump made a startling admission on Sunday: he is unsure if he is bound by the law of the land as he pursues his mass deportation strategy by any means necessary
Trump was speaking in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, which aired Sunday.
Moderator Kristen Welker asked the president if noncitizens in the United States deserve due process — a standard the Supreme Court has upheld for decades.
“I don’t know,” Trump responded. “I’m not a lawyer.”
“Well, the Fifth Amendment says as much,” Welker retorted.”
Depends on who watches what for their ego. IMO, the big shift to the rightwing leaves the networks in the middle. Scud, you ever wonder if George Washington had surrounded himself with incompetent sycophants, we would be in a place called South Canada?
Keep feeding your delusions skud and you will be forever dissatisfied.
FAUX Snooze, OAN, Newsmax, and a myriad of con podcasts and think tanks are constantly burping up their misguided and divisive BS and untruths.
Skud,
I can help.
First NO corporate media is as far Left as the radicalized pro-Trump propaganda outlets are on the right. Period. Their moral cowardice allows them to regurgitate Trump's lies without question, conscience, or examination.
I invite you to cite ONE "liberal media" source that comes anywhere near the level of fascist lies as Q-Anon, that brainwashed millions of Americans. The same goes for the rest of the MAGA network.
FOX(R) isn't the only pro-Trump media. They are allied in purpose with OAN, Newsmax, Breitbart, CBN, Blaze Media, Epoch Times, and Sinclair Broadcasting, that owns local news outlets across the country that are required to air radical Right ideology and to amplify Trump's bullshit.
Then there's the radical right talk radio swill that lies to Americans every day.
Oligarchs and tyrants like Musk and Trump do not want a free press challenging their lies and reporting their crimes and cruelty. Your first clue to this regime's fascism should have been Trump demonizing journalists as the "enemy of the people".
That is radical right Dictatorship 101.
It's not "left" or "right" to report the fact that Trump IS a convicted felon and multiple offender. In its worst decision since Dred Scott Trump's corrupt justices on the Supreme Court granted him unconstitutional "presidential immunity" to escape justice.
The lies from Trump and his vast propaganda network, along with the unjust actions by the authoritarians on the Supreme Court is how a dictator is installed into power. This country is no longer a Constitutional democratic republic. "Equal justice under law" is now pure fiction, and Trump is an unaccountable dictator.
He said "I don't know" when asked if he was required to follow the Constitution.
He has no problem sending the FBI to harass Chris Krebs just for saying Trump lost a fair election.
What the hell else does anyone need to know that Trump is an evil tyrant and a dire threat to our country?
I know it won't be, but it should. Trump's statement, in his own words, from his own mouth, even after pushback and a chance for clarification, should disqualify him from the presidency.
But Welker misspoke as due process is enshrined in the 14th Amendment, an Amendment admittedly many on the right would rather not exist. Here's the relevant language...
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The president took an oath to uphold the Constitution, including this amendment. He's openly avoiding saying he will uphold this amendment.
And yet, all our fake, lying, traitorous, originist, supposed lovers of the Constitution on the right have nothing to say.
Why?
Dave,
Due process is also covered in the 5th Amendment:
Amendment 5
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime,
unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising
in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time
of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense
to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any
criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be
taken for public use, without just compensation.
Trump’s cabinet, his party, and his supporters love him more than the rule of law. I’ve read many of his cultists on social media say without hesitation that the courts are stopping him from carrying out his deportations.
The courts are stopping him from carrying out his ILLEGAL deportations! His supporters don’t understand that, and they want to give him dictatorial powers that do exist I. Our Constitution, the law of the land that Trump swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend. He wants to betray his oath and his country.
Just a note to any supporter who lurks and reads here: Trump broke his marriage oaths, not once, not twice, but three times, he lies, he’s cheated, he has committed fraud and been convicted of that crime.
It is not surprising to see that he would not honor his oath of office. HE HAS NEVER HONORED ANY OATH OR PROMISE HE HAS EVER GIVEN.
This is the leader you chose to represent America. And we are in peril because of that choice.
“…dictatorial powers that DON’T exist…”
Skud... Right leaning Media?
FOX News, OAN News, News Max, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart News, Gateway Pundit, Washington Times, NY Post, National Review, Daily Caller, Blaze Media, Epoch Times, The Dispatch, Sinclair Media which has local broadcast local TV news outlet in over 100 US markets, Nexstar which also has local broadcast local TV news outlet in over 100 US markets, World News Group, CBN and more.
Also, talk radio is overwhelmingly dominated by folks like Hannity, Mark Levine and other MAGA loving conservatives. 12 of the top 15 talk radion sites in America are right leaning.
I am also sure you are aware that conservative FOX News is consistently ranked as the number one news source on cable these days.
So I've got to confess, I don't see this huge domination by the left some MAGA ppl want to silence.
The blue suit was to prove that he really didn't care.
Post a Comment