The White House declined to explain why President Trump did not appear to realize that the photograph he held up on social media had been altered.

To be honest, listening to that interview, not only is he still a gigantic asshole, I honestly can’t tell if he’s dumb or suffering from cognitive decline.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    671·
    1 day ago

    Evidence? Its not evidence, it is edited to show the supposed meaning if his tattoos. Its an intentionally visible edit as interpretation of meaning. Idk how anyone would think that was actually ink in the skin or anything other than what it is.

    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      26·
      1 day ago

      I feel like this is Trump trying to stretch the interview so he doesn’t have to talk about the economy for long. This part was painful to watch, and Terry Moran did try to get past arguing, but classic Trump got everyone talking about how he thinks the characters M S 1 3 are tattooed on his hands, rather than having a conversation about how crazy things are that just the fact you have tattoos will get you deported.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
        21·
        15 hours ago

        I don’t think that was deliberate, I think he really is that incredibly dumb and vain that he genuinely thought he was right. So right that he demanded the interviewer must concede and agree to his delusion before moving on. The size of his ego is only matched by the size of his stupidity

        It’s all beside the point since even if he had MS13 tattoos, he still is owed due process. And sending someone to a concentration camp is of course a violation of international law

        • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          15 hours ago

          Yes, i didn’t mean to imply Trump is smart here, he is of course incredibly dumb. I think though that is how this works out for him, he says an incredibly dumb thing which people fixate on, and that gets the headlines. The horrible things he’s doing are then in articles below the fold, and he gets away with it.

          • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 hours ago

            Yeah, basically. Although I do put the blame on the legacy media for not giving more attention to the horrible things he’s doing. The more coverage it gets, the more aware people are about the terrible effects of his policies. I’m glad we’re finally seeing his approval rating for him and his policies in decline, but it’s still too high

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
      11·
      1 day ago

      Because people believe the big lie, the doublespeak, the gaslighting. Whatever you want to call it.