Video: Trump asks Melania to 'smile' during today's fascist photo op

she smiled once…

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I have a feeling that Trump dropped a bunch of money on her parents before the marriage. (Gives him that tingly feeling of property ownership.) She could live with them.

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Yes, that checks off a few boxes. Maybe another fire truck photo op as well. Trump never looked so happy as when he got to sit in the driver seat of the fire truck. Fucking 5 year old.

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Let’s put him in a tank with a dumb helmet and get the Full Dukakis.

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Yeah, I could see him revealing his awkward unfamiliarity with “soul”.

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I was young enough to not recall the details. Searched and found this documentary interviewing people from both sides at a much later date.

ETA:
Looks cropped.
External link

ETA: I’m so sorry @anon61221983. :woozy_face: I removed the embed link. I didn’t realize that was happening.

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I was only 4 at the time myself, but it’s one of those touchstone images and memes that everyone seems to be familiar with. Watching that video was very enlightening for me as well, so thank you for sharing it.

(Side note on that video, it’s even clearer to me now that Republican strategists have been playing this handbook for decades, and Sam Donaldson just sitting there blithely ignoring the role that the media—and he himself, starting with those remarks from the convention floor in '88—played in validating and amplifying the underhanded dirty work that the Bush campaign did while talking about what a shame it is that Republicans are so much better at having a knife fight in an arena given to them by the media is just outright infuriating. Also fuck that Republican strategist whining about biased media when they gave his guy’s campaign free reign to repeatedly assassinate the character of their opponent on the national airwaves.)

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Yes, interesting both in retrospect but also in light of the current situation and election. Fuck I’m so worried about this election.

I hate guns but a voice in the back of my head is starting to suggest it might be good to have a few before November. I can’t believe I typed that but there it is. I most likely won’t. But that I am even considering it is fucking bonkers.

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I hope to Christ she didn’t sign an NDA when they got married. I’ll be first in line to pirate a copy of her tell-all.

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Ooh! I’ve Got This! (or Godwin this!)

A child!

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We almost have enough for a bingo card.

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Man, I’m looking back fondly at yesteryear, when the greatest amount of BS on a daily basis was just the daily business bingo card getting filled out during meetings for “corporatespeak”, not the “country not-so slowly sliding into fascism” and “pandemic? What pandemic” bingo cards…

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Just, FYI this autoplayed for me. scared the shit out of me, as I was listening to another video and all of a sudden a voice is talking!

[ETA] Oh, no worries! Just wanted to let you know!

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BTW this stops most autoplaying video for me

There’s a disclaimer that says EXTENSION IS CURRENTLY UNMAINTAINED but it still works

Cool! Thanks! I usually don’t have stuff autoplay with the set up I have now, so am not sure why the thing above autoplayed.

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And why not add a dash of misogyny to the rest of the fucked up bullshit he did today… Why not? :woman_shrugging:

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Other videos in his “Sassy Trump” series were funny, but this one was pure nightmare fuel.

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The ‘kiss and tell’ memoir would set her up for life in any style she’d like to become accustomed to.

(But, yeah, maybe she signed that away too, and her lawyers told her it’s watertight.)

If you find the larger uncropped version of that GIF, take a look at the crazy, wicked come hither looks that Ivanka is giving him right at that moment over melania’s shoulder. It is creepy AF

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Melania was introduced to donny smallhands by JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Let that sink in.

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