TRUMP: He had MS-13 on his knuckles, tattooed!
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2025
MORAN: That was photoshopped
TRUMP: Terry, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you. But you're not being very nice. pic.twitter.com/NgCpEB8o1S
I was certain that Trump was cynically using visual propaganda in a way that took advantage of the utter dupes and dopes that are his people, but the above interview snippet sure does look like someone showed Trump the picture of the knuckle tattoos, helpfully Photoshopped so that he would understand the interpretation of them, and took it to be, uh, part of the picture.
People around him are offering cynical visual propaganda to use, but he's such a Fox News pilled dopey old grandpa, he believes what he's being told to say.
We saw this just earlier in his Time Magazine interview as well:
"That's not what my people told me--they didn't say it was, they said it was--the nine to nothing was something entirely different."
Yeah. Sometimes his people don't tell him anything, and sometimes they completely lie to his big stupid face, apparently.
This is probably why Trump is still thinking "Signalgate" is "fake news"--no one around him will take it seriously in front of him, for fear of "Daddy being mad." Also, they are feeding his ego, telling him his policies are so completely correct and good.
They aren't, but that's what he's hearing.
It's of a piece with the constant slobbering long-distance butt-kissing Trump is always getting from his minions--he simply never knows what is going on because he's kept high on the lie supply. And maybe if he had self-awareness, he could overcome that.
But here he is in an interview that millions will see, arguing that there was so a tattoo of MS-13 on a man's fingers, and how dare Moran (who is called both someone no one heard of, and someone Trump personally picked to interview him) say otherwise. It's not nice!
What we have here is: a dumbass. I truly can't get beyond this as the final word of the core issue with Trump's presidency. It's not the relentless evil, it's the fucking mindboggling stupidity.
And it just keeps getting more sickeningly obvious. ANd the people areound him pretty goddamn dumb, too,
If not for the valiant efforts of Pam
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) April 29, 2025
Bondi and Trump's Department of Justice, one third of all Americans would have died. pic.twitter.com/lTHzHeLgem
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Only someone on a fentanyl overdose would make the claim Bondi dumbass did.
Huge news about saving 1/3 of the US population from the dealy fentanyl-laced pills, a single one of which can apparently take out 5 Americans!
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