They let a convicted felon travel to their country?
For those not appearing to get it, Trump allowed his sycophants to berate Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit in his White House meeting. Folks are treating Trump’s attire faux pas accordingly.
Only poor people wear black suits (he thinks to himself).
Yeah, it’s the suit that’s embarrassing, not the “239 lbs” of rancid garbage sloshing around inside.
No fucking way he’s less than 250lbs
That’s why they put it in quotes. During his first term his personal doctor listed Trump’s weight at 239, which everyone with at least one functioning eyeball knows is complete horseshit. But naturally he lies about that like he lies about everything else
Both
This was not an accident. First, it gets him to stand out from the crowd, draw all the attention to himself, and make it all about him which is what he lives and breathes for. Second, it gets the media to focus on something other than him eliminating due process, having judges arrested, using the DOJ to attack perceived enemies, deporting US citizens, and completely ignoring court rulings while those who have the power to stop it sit back and either do nothing or actively support it.
Came here to find this.
He could have worn a black suit with a MAGA hat. Same result, but much more dignified.
He had no intention of being dignified. He does what he does because it gets him the attention he seeks. If he showed up dignified, he wouldn’t be the center of attention.
That’s what the hat would have been for.
Honestly, now that we’re literally sending people to concentration camps, I have zero fucks to give about this superficial bullshit. No one gives a shit about what Hitler wore at the '36 Olympics, and no one’s gonna care what this asshole wore to a funeral.
It’s purely to be on the attack. Republicans showed for the last fifteen years if you’re performatively aggressive against the opposition eventually you get what you want.
You don’t have to hate Trump or his suit color. Just love democracy and socialism and the working class. If this gets some apolitical conservative people to not vote for the Republicans then awesome.
The thing was that they resorted to the tan suit and terrorist first bump bullshit because Obama gave them so little to work with. For Trump you didn’t need to waste everyone’s time when his administration is ignoring court orders, arresting judges, declaring warrants and due process unnecessary, and tanking the economy.
The tan suit stuff may have helped energize the base by preaching to the choir, but everyone else found it ridiculous and made them skeptical of conservative media. When you are inundated nearly daily with real terrible stuff, no need to undermine credibility by latching into this sort of fluff.
but everyone else found it ridiculous and made them skeptical of conservative media.
I found it ridiculous too and it made me very skeptical of conservative media. I wasn’t the target audience. And with this blue suit attack line, I’m not the target audience either. It’s not for me or most of the people on social media delivering the sound bite. Like the tan suit controversy before it, it’s for conservatives.
When you are inundated nearly daily with real terrible stuff, boo need to undermine credibility by latching into this sort of fluff.
Conservatives either don’t believe, don’t care, or like that terrible stuff. We should boo that too, and continue to cover it, but we need to take the short amount of time it takes to knock the fluff out of the park. Our issue hasn’t been making fun of Trump for the wrong things, it’s not making fun of him enough. We haven’t been aggressive enough and Democratic politicians definitely haven’t been aggressive enough.
I bought into Jon Stewart’s line that we need to focus on more substantive criticisms. Then in it turned out Trump voters like him because of the economy and the price of eggs? No, we needed to make MAGA’s ‘strongman’ look weak in the eyes of his supporters. Septimaeus covered this concept comprehensively so review that comment if you haven’t already.
If all we talk about is fluff that would be a mistake, but refusing to engage with the fluff at all is also a mistake.
I corrected my typo, it was supposed to be no need.
Talking about him falling asleep can undermine his undeserved tough guy image, I don’t think mocking his blue suit does anything but make it look like we are grasping at straws.
We still need to do the more substantive arguments for our positions, such as progressive and socialist positions, and refutations of neoliberal and fascist positions. But once the sound-bite reaches saturation in the population it will, in theory anyway, have done the desired damage.
To some conservative people, a man not wearing a black suit to a funeral is effectively taboo. It effectively is to some of the users, without respect to their political positions, in this comment section apparently. It’s something some of his voters will have to rationalize to defend him. If we do enough of these trivial ad hominem attacks eventually some people will be less motivated to vote Republican.
People who do not care about suit color will considered this topic to be a trivial non-issue and move on with their day. They aren’t the target audience. And the people who do care will be really bothered by it. What bothers a person is different for everyone. People probably should be bothered by the more serious life or death stuff, but not everyone is. To some people climate change is a trivial non-issue and by talking about that we’re grasping at straws according to them.
I agree, and once would have dismissed the sociopolitical pragmatism described by the commenter above as “lowering our discourse to their level” or something of the sort.
I eventually realized that this instinctive criticism was valid only if they were still growing as people, and capable of more than what they are now. The assumption is that setting higher expectations might convince them to “elevate their discourse” if only to save face.
But what I’ve come to realize is that this was far too much to expect. By all the evidence available to date, these folks never advanced far beyond the emotional maturity of the average middle schooler. At this level of maturity, superficial and public humiliation is quite literally the most serious attack, as it bloodies waters presumed to be infested with sharks.
Yes it’s pathetic, and yes “stooping to their level” feels gross, but Republican voters are only enthused by policies which benefit them directly or hurt others they feel deserve it. Perceived power matters a lot to them, and seems to be attached to explicit expressions of it that are similarly pathetic— as in, truck nuts, “I am very smart,” “I have a great brain and concepts of a plan,” etc.
So public humiliation of trump for an otherwise petty and irrelevant issue (especially by someone he can’t touch without losing a chunk of his base) absolutely succeeds in making him look weak, and making Trump look weak is directly correlated with his voters’ loss of motivation to vote (see RWA personality type/disorder; it’s fascinating).
Enough of these successful offensives will cause his most die-hard voters to lose faith in him (caveat: to seek out somebody stronger) so to de-motivate a current right-wing conservative voter, likely we must accept that petty “mean girl” tactics are the only language they understand, due to their arrested emotional development, and robbing them of their “strongman” is both easy and effective. Ridicule the emperor with no clothes and his voters, who are themselves unclothed, might go home and rethink their fashion statement.
TLDR: It sucks but crass pragmatism may be warranted in this case. The first language of Trump voters is small-mindedness, and it’s often the only one they understand, so we might consider rolling our sleeves up and speaking it if only so future generations don’t have to.
Edit: corrected swype errors.
Thank god it wasn’t tan.
The tan suit had mustard stains on it, otherwise…
We’re back to suit color news. America is healing.
That’s hilarious, who is the artist with the brush?
Notorious couch-fucker, JD Vance
It looks like Vance to me.
This whole thing is stupid.This guy is not the president of the United States.
Apparently the dress code is dark suit + black tie. So this is fine. Trump’s tie was blue
Just one in my lifetime I wanna see the rapists, the convicted felons, the wannabe gangsters elected to office, the people linked to Jeffrey Epstein, the presidents who put personal interest before country, the tactless lying connen grifters and the orange buffoons leave this plane before the good men with some semblance of balance, tolerance, moderation and compassion.
Just once in my lifetime.
At least kissinger finally kicked it
Main character syndrome.
Because of Trump the world thinks us a fool.
He’s dressed in the colors of the nation he represents.
Blue and white.
Not to defend him, but that’s exactly what Francis didn’t care about.
On the plus side, it is the sort of thing Trump cares about. Hit him in the vanity if you want him to feel it.
I suggest that you stop using his name. He gives out pet names constantly to de-humanize his enemies. Pick one of these or use a different one every day.
A loaded adult diaper of belligerence
Adjudicated Serial Rapist (VOTED MOST ACCURATE)
Agent Orange
Agolf Twitler
All in all, it’s just a little prick with no Wall
He lives in: Alternative fact land
Ancient Orange
Assholini
Ayatollah Complainy (Thanks Stephen Colbert)
Baron Von Shitzinpantz
Benedict Donald
Blab the Inhaler
Borderline Junius
Borderwall Personality Disorder
Captain Bone Spurs
Captain Capslock
Chainsaw-In-Chief
Chaos in Chief
Cheat Miser “Whatever I touch, starts to melt in my clutch.”
Cheddar Cheezus
Cheeto Brain
Cheeto Christ, Stupid Czar
Chettolini
Combover Caligula
Commander in Thief
Commander in Tweet
Condom Escapee
Conman-der in chief
Conquistaorange
Coppertone Caligulia
Coup Klux Tan
Current presidential placeholder
Darth Cheetoh
Dementia Don
Diaper Don
Dick a l’Orange
Diet Dr. Putin
Dingus Con
Dipshit Donnie
Disaster in Chief
Dodgin Donny
Dollar Tree Dictator
Don Feloni
Don Poorleone, The Fraudfather
Don the con
Donald “putinsremoved” Trump
Donnie Dumpo
Donnie Thin Skin
Donorrhea of the mouth. A Republican ailment.
Dorito Mussolini
Droolius Geezer
Dumbo Donnie
E Pluribus Dumbdumb
Everlasting Jobstopper
F Elon
Faux prez
Felon (DO NOT USE by order of inmate #P01135809)
Facsimile Fuehrer
Fanta Fascist
Fanta Fuhrer
Fart face von shit stick
Felon 47
Felonious Dump
Fibbernazi Revenger
First lady Donald J. Musk
Fraudfather
GropenFührer
Gulf Of Idiot. Middle name of Of
Hair Farce One
Half off Adolf
His Royal Heelspur
Individual One
Inmate #P01135809
Klanned Karenhood
Lil’ Donny Two-Scoops
Lord Feltersnatch
Lord Repugnant of the Fourth Reich
MAGA Teresa
Maga-Lardo
Manchild McTinyhands
Manchurian Cantaloupe
Mango Moron
Mango Mussilini
Mango Unchained
Marmalade Maggot
Marmalade Messiah
Melon Felon
Moscow Marionette
Mrs Donald Putin
MyPillow guy low-budget stunt double
Nectarine Nazi
Ol’ Smeller
Old Wack Donald
Orange Caligula
Orange Foolius
Orange Hitler
Orange Judas
Orange Tufted Shit Gibbon
Orange Von Fat Fuck
Orangesama bin G’olfin
Orangutan
Papaya Pinochet
Payless Putin
Pervert Hoover
Pumpkin pol pot
Pumpkin Pustule
Pumpkin Spice Palpatine
Putin’s Puppet
Scammer in Chief
Sleepy Donzales
Super Callous Fragile Ego Extra Douchey Rapist
Super Callous Fragile Racist Sexist NAZI POTUS
Tang the Conqueror
Tangerine Palpatine "Let the hate flow through you. Feel the power of the covfefe side of the farce!’
Tangerine Palpatine
Tangerine Skidmark
Tangerine Turd
Tangerine Tyrant
The Count of Mostly Crisco
The Fanta Menace
The Melon Felon
The Quicker, Thicker F***er Upper
The Slob Father
The Village People’s Idiot
Theme song: I Shot the Tariff
Theme song: Tsar Spangled Banner
Toxic Revenger
Trumpaloompa
Trumplethinskin
Trumpty Dumpty
Velveeta Voldemort
X‘s Diaper
You missed my favorite:
Der Gropenführer
I have Gropenführer. I just didn’t put the DER in front. Fixed, THANKS.
commas exist. why is this 500 lines
I get kickbacks now from mouse scroll wheel repairs. My job at FAA fell through due to you know who.
damn you George Soros!
Nah thanks, his pet names are lame and forgettable. I keep using Trump exactly to dehumanize the name and make the name synonymous with his failures. Using these makes only takes away from that.
History must remember what a failure this man is, so I’d rather use that name.
Superb list, a few more:
Mango the Hutt
Nectarine Noriega
Pumpkin Pinochet
Fluorescent Franco
Agent Orange
Agent Krasnov
Mango Mussolini
Excellent additions, I’ll add these, THANKS.
I have to be careful not to insult too many people. This is already 10 up and 6 down. I’m almost in the middle of the road.
