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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 150 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago

Dont. Don't give me hope.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 141 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 137 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That first one looks like he runs Argentina.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

... Have we seen them in the same room?

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[–] frunch@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

The parent comment and this one were a 1-2 punch for me this morning, just glad i wasn't mid-sip when i saw/read that lol

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[–] seth@lemmy.world 118 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (27 children)

It's so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity or ability to form and communicate coherent thoughts...I would say there's a trail of breadcrumbs of much more damning statements going back as far as you're willing to look, but it's more like a trail of roach-infested bakeries.

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[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 102 points 9 months ago (4 children)

If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn't, that will be weird.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we've found ourselves in, though.

Call for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.

Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)

Wants to fuck his own daughter? "Well hell yeah, I'd fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!" - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.

But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he's doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.

Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.

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[–] pearsaltchocolatebar 21 points 9 months ago

Dude might lose his presidential run because he pissed of Taylor Swift fans. This time line is nothing but weird.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No fucking shit he's demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it's from rawstory, and it's in quotes?!

Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he's got dementia. He's also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners' instructions.

Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I'd be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can't be destroyed fast enough.

[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You forgot that he is also responsible for at least part of the 1 million Covid related deaths in the USA. His unscientific bullshit had a huge impact on people who believed that Covid is nothing more than a common cold.

[–] dudinax@programming.dev 11 points 9 months ago (8 children)
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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 77 points 9 months ago (2 children)

IDK Elvis was an overweight sweaty creepy fuck, so...?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I was gonna say, I can see a mild resemblance to the Elvis before he died, but even then Trump is a lifelong 4 or 5 and fat Elvis was still an 8.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"OMFG [Ivanka Trump where the hell are you?!?!?!? Politics aside do something FFS," the user, Jil, wrote.

Sounds like she is doing something. She's avoiding her father's clusterfuck now that she and her husband got their multi-billion dollar Saudi deal and don't need him.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Well would you if you were her. There isn't going to be a real inheritance so no need to make daddy happy anymore.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago (3 children)

If you want to destroy him, double-down on these delusions.

Why stop at Elvis? Get him talking about his theory on aliens, ask him to compare himself to Jesus and whether he'd do a better job of spreading Christianity than the big man himself, get him to discuss how to split Gaza to make everyone happy, ask how a successful coup of the whitehouse would look like, maybe even ask if Rosa Parks was being reasonable by not getting up out of her seat.

You don't destroy people like this by pointing out how stupid they are, because those die-hard followers will still worship him if he answers all the above. Where he'll be destroyed is in having those on the fence go from "he's a bit crazy, but he'll do something, so I'll vote for him" to "he's fucking nuts, he'll do something crazy, so I'll vote for Biden".

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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 58 points 9 months ago

The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.

He'd like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.

He'd none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It's transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago (5 children)

With each passing day we march further and further into “no reasonable, rational person would vote for that man” territory.

How fucking brain damaged is this country?

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anyone still claiming to be undecided at this point is a liar or a moron

[–] notannpc@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Probably both if we’re being honest

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[–] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately the Republican strategy for a while has been voting with courts in mind. When the only thing you care about is appointing judges, the game becomes "our team at all costs"

It's a winning play in a first-past-the-post voting system. I don't see it changing without voting reform.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

When he died on the toilet shitting himself

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

No, he looks like Elvis today after 56 years of decay.

Apparently he smells worse.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Don't think Trump's chronically constipated. If anything, quite likely the opposite.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 34 points 9 months ago

The mistake here is thinking that his supporters will care, if they even hear about it.

They won't.

As long as he is hurting the right people, they will excuse anything.

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Can we dig up Elvis and do a side by side comparison? He's probably right, but I don't suppose fat Elvis is fat anymore.

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Elvis didn't die he just went home

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[–] lickmygiggle@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.

I can't think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don't look.

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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh? I thought he was just monumentally stupid.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Could be both.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 23 points 9 months ago

Maybe compared to what Elvis looks like now.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Just in case someone needs a photo to compare here is both Elvis and Fat Elvis

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[–] Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Oh, he likes to groom little girls too?

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

It'll be a great day when he looks like Elvis considering that Elvis looks like a corpse.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I will never forgive conservatives for making this guy the daily topic of conversation.

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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The bloated, rotting corpse of Elvis, perhaps.

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[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

nothing will stop the simpleminded to vote for hate. unless the orange is locked away murica is doomed to become idiocracy as a livestream.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 9 months ago

Guys, he meant currently. You know, like a decomposing corpse.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

both were tools who thought they were king

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 10 points 9 months ago

They both like(d) underage girls at least.

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