Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season.
The image can be seen about halfway through a 20-second video that Trump posted on his Truth Social site. The post says it was recorded Thursday on Long Island, where Trump traveled this week to attend a wake for a recently killed police officer.
In the video, two trucks decorated with giant Trump flags and altered American flags are driving on a highway. On the tailgate door of one of the trucks is the image of Biden lying horizontally, bound and gagged.
Trump has a history of sharing and promoting violent images featuring his perceived enemies.
104 Comments
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 51 pts · 2y
Kinky
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y
Now we know what Big Don is into.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
Let's be honest, he's never kept his desires private.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
IDK, I thought he was only into 20-30yo women, so the 80yo man was a bit of a surprise.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
20? Too old
oxjox@lemmy.ml · 50 pts · 2y
I don't like saying this but I will forgo any of my liberal socialist ideals if Biden wants to do whatever it takes to get votes from republicans.
Edit: Man, you people are sad little trolls. Go spend some time out in the IRL world. It's genuinely depressing to see so many keyboard warriors spend their time regurgitating the talking points from the comfort of their echo chamber.
To clarify my meaning, whether you agree with my politics or not, I think Biden has been a far better president than anyone could have hoped for (possibly the best I can recall) but I still have a philosophical disagreement with him when it comes to protections and equity for all. I believe there are some programs that the federal government should run to give all Americans the best opportunities (education, healthcare, housing, UBI, etc) and I believe that taking excessive capitalist gains from the ultra wealthy is a small drop in the bucket to promote some fairness. I will lean back on these philosophical ideas which I've had little hope of a centrist of adopting and encourage him to lean further right if that means he can take some votes away from the inarguably worst president in modern times (yes, worse than Regan).
If you think Trump should be the leader of the US, that he some how represents or understands democracy, that he cares about you or the United States, that he's a good president or person, or is better than Biden in any regard, you and I are not existing in the same solar system so there's no point in arguing. I don't have anything against Republicans but the extreme and religious conservatives and the MAGA cult do not align with the freedoms dreamed by our founders or promised in the Constitution of the US.
alquicksilver@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y
I would also not be opposed to Biden testing his own Presidential Immunity™ on Trump and his cronies, and I hate that I feel that way.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2y
Heck, he could shoot a guy on 5th avenue and get away with it. A specific guy
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · -24 pts · 2y
That's just polite fascism though? Oh! You are a liberal, got it.
proletar_ian@lemmy.ml · -11 pts · 2y
Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds
Alsephina@lemmy.ml · 38 pts · 2y
What are they doin over there 😳
metallic_substance@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
Becoming full-blown fascists
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
lemmylem@lemm.ee · 38 pts · 2y
At least post the picture
Breezy@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 2y
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 21 pts · 2y
He doesn't appear to be gagged in this pic. Maybe they're referring to a different violent image
whostosay@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I like how even in this, they're shitty at binding someone. They can't even pretend to do things correctly.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Haha, that's a good point. This is the January 6th gallows all over again... These people are the edgy punisher logo manifest.
All those stupid thin blue line flags, too... Who the fuck believes that lie after Uvalde?
Breezy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Well hes not gagged. So maybe theres an even worse one.
Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y
Is that actually painted on someone's truck? I kinda hope so because it's so shoddy. The perspective doesn't even line up for the truck bed.
Breezy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Its a wrap. And they're real. Shouldnt be allowed but here we are. Had anyone had something like this with bush bound and gagged after 2001 they wouldve been arrested and tried in a heartbeat.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 2y
It's a decal that can be bought for like $50. There are a bunch of different kinds of them, some with women tied up, deer, various politicians, Sasquatch, Lion's etc. It's the most mundane shit which is why liberals are clutching their pearls over it.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I've seen people get pulled over for a fake hand holding the tailgate edge around Halloween. Tied up people should absolutely get you pulled over and checked on a regular basis just because you don't want to be the guy that missed a potential kidnapping.
arin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Guess which side the fascist cops are on? The truck owner's likely a family member of the cop
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
If they recognize who's in the picture. My point isn't that they'll get in trouble. My point is that you're going to get pulled over a lot because cops won't want to miss a potential kidnapping.
Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
I never thought I'd see the claim that pretending to have a woman tied up in the back of your truck is some "mundane shit".
Same energy as standing at airport security yelling "I have a gun" and pulling out a replica.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
All you have to do is Google "Biden Tailgate Wrap". There are many variations for sale all over the internet. $50 to $70.
Trump deserves some blame for sharing it, but the real blame needs to be on the people producing and using it.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2y
Hmmm, people producing it deserve blame, but it's not like you or me sharing a pic, this is a candidate for president of the United States posting it about his political rival. I think that's a worse offense, no matter how common they might be.
meliaesc@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
His political rival and the current president.
PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml · -5 pts · 2y
Fortunately in America such images are protected speech even if liberals and fascists, but I repeat myself get upset about them. So any "blame" is literally just the speaker virtue signaling and isn't something that needs to be considered beyond a simple throw away comment plus a "lol."
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · -6 pts · 2y
It's pretty easy to find on any image search.
TIMMAY@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y
So is that not a threat against the president of the united states?
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Not when a white male conservative does it. It's "just kidding" when they do it.
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · -2 pts · 2y
I didn't know Kathy Griffin was a man. Or did it not count when Trump?
EatATaco@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
We're trying to be outraged here and fit this into the narrative. You shall be down voted for any facts that force us to face the fact that the reason for our outrage is not rooted in reality.
Dramaking37@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y
Interestingly, Donald Trump's argument about presidential immunity suggests that Biden could do that to him and it legally okay to do so.
ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
How is this orange sack of shit not sitting in a tiny cell yet?!?
DrSleepless@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
Bribes
snekerpimp@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
More likely Epstein level of blackmail
PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
He serves the ruling class faithfully, just as his opponent. You could as well ask if the actors in movies are really getting killed.
LordCrom@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Anyone else that did this would get visited by very angry men in dark suits.
I suppose if it's ok for Trump to do, then I could post an image of Trump bound and gagged?
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 2y
Kathy Griffin and at least a couple of art galleries have depicted Trump decapitations, during his presidency. They all got some shit publicly because of it (mostly upset right wingers) but no one was arrested or subjected to anything by the government, no matter how much said angry right wingers asked.
This is just the party flipped version of the same sort of thing. Watching just how many people start pearl clutching at only one of these is kinda amusing.
Soleos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I think it's one thing for a private citizen to do this, but it would be another thing for a sitting/former president running for election to do the same
Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
Check the original video he posted. He literally filmed some dick-replacement giant pickups covered in pro-police, pro-Trump, anti-Biden shit, and one of them had this commercially available tailgate decal on it of Biden bound and gagged.
It's in bad taste, sure but it's not something you can honestly treat the way the media is treating this. It's click bait.
Soleos@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
How would you describe the media is treating it and how should the media be treating presidents who share such imagery regardless of party?
melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 2y
Its not the same sort of thing. Kathy whoever the fuck doesn't have friends who put people in oil drums, and AFAIK has never attempted a fascist coup.
If you wanted to hang a bloody hyper realistic effigy of Jojo burning in a tree, your statement would be true (except for the tree. be nicer to trees)
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The post is actually about in someone else doing it. It even seems like it is not rare
Actually, anyone should be allowed to do so and id like to think that you could. The fact that Trump does though is problematic.
Yerbouti@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 2y
Hexbear users are always willing to defend far-right activists in some twisted logic. You people should merge with the proud boys, they hate libs too.
marcie@lemmy.ml · -46 pts · 2y
your brain is fried. maybe go to a local KFC and give it up as an offering?
Xanis@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Okay. What is your perspective on the image/situation?
OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml · -9 pts · 2y
Fascist threatens liberal president, liberals in power scream "someone has to do something about this!" And then do nothing
Trump could be shot for treason, in an open and shut way(stealing nuclear secrets) but liberals aren't going to do it, because for structural reasons liberals are incapable of opposing fascism.
(Liberal in this case is used the normal way, and not the "liberal= left wing" way)
Yerbouti@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
Oh wow, transphobia and a suicide joke from someone who hates hexbear, how surprising.
Also it isnt a superiority complex to have a basic understanding of history.
I would love to be proven wrong, it would be interesting from a historical perspective due to liberals previous inability to fight fascism, and also I wouldn't end up in a concentration camp for being trans, and communist, and Jewish. But until I'm proven wrong I'll keep being a communist, because communism has the best antifascist record and I dont want to get gassed.
marcie@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
so far this site seems like an absolute shithole, mostly because the admins and mods seem to be completely disinterested in permanently banning bigoted users. instead they seem to enjoy wasting their time removing comments that are uncivil to these repeatedly bigoted people.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah, I wish the admin policy was different.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2y
Not sure if horny or coup
misterdoctor@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
Putting the erection in insurrection
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
all the way in.
dhork@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
If anyone else had done that, the Secret Service would be after them. But since it's Donald Trump, the Secret Service protects him.
cjoll4@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y
The image he shared was one that had already been circulating for months. Can you find an example of the Secret Service going after anyone else who retweeted it? Did they even go after the person driving the vehicle in the picture, or the company that produces the tailgate wrap?
Pretty sure this is protected free speech. Nobody in their right mind would see this as a credible threat to kidnap Joe Biden; it's just a humorous way of showing displeasure toward a politician.
dhork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
If you're so sure, you should post it on all of your Social Media accounts, and see what happens....
Sylver@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I see multiple of these tailgate wraps in town on the back of trucks in my area. People in this area share and distribute MUCH WORSE SHIT than this mild piece of artistic garbage… I’m not saying it’s right, but it is protected speech.
Though we should hold running presidential candidates to a higher standard, and perceive this threat as it is.
marcie@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y
kinky
fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
hawt?
pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
gagged huh? that says something, coming from a man who routinely gets gag orders.
Yerbouti@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
Lol, my comment commenting about Hexbear users got remove by mod. What's up mod? They get to be removed about everyone they disagree with, but we can't criticize them?
bloodfart@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
the comment that got removed was
for the reason "trolling".
your comment was directly in response to the OP, so there's no context to consider.
sounds like another common .ml moderator W to me.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -11 pts · 2y
Do you guys honestly care about this more than all of the other things that are happening like the immigration issues?
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2y
This specific thing is the equivalent of throwing a pebble into a lake. The one thing that's actually dangerous about a Trump presidency is the policies that may destroy the lives of whatever minorities the Republicans decide to target. However, brewing an imaginary of committing violence against your political enemies is one stepping stone towards legitimizing it. The same way that fascist fucks joking on Twitter about shooting a gay bar paves the way for one of them to actually go and do it, this paves the way for Trump to have his own Brownshirts.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah it's a ratchet effect. One click on a ratchet may not be significant, but you keep on ratcheting eventually a nut comes loose and things fall apart.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -8 pts · 2y
What paticular policies could do this?
But do you not understand my point, I feel like this whole post is the meme where you have the dog in hell saying "At least we dont have mean tweets!" I look and see multiple things about how trump is mean and then there is not a single notice how things are falling apart (other than gaza).
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Anti-abortion laws, and laws targeting trans people are local legislation that have already destroyed people's lives, in some cases, quite literally.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -4 pts · 2y
By laws targeting trans people, are you referring to "gender affirming care" for minors?
Abortion doesnt target any group in particular.
Franzo208@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You mean abortion laws don't literally target all women?
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 2y
So men cant give birth?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Yes, Trump doesn't really deal in issues/policies, he heads a personality cult.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 2y
Is Biden dealing with immigration?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Not sure how that's relevant, but no, neither candidate has a good solution here.
I have my own opinions here, but I'm obviously not running for president.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -6 pts · 2y
You said trump doesnt deal with issues but he does more of it than biden does if you look at immigration.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
I don't believe Trump will actually follow through on most of what he says, because that's what happened last time he was in office. And honestly, if he does win, I hope he doesn't follow through because his immigration policies suck.
That said, Biden's immigration policies suck too. I don't like the "diversity lottery" or the weird 8-year plan he proposes.
CableMonster@lemmy.ml · -3 pts · 2y
I dont think any politician tends to do what they say, and trump is more braggadocios than most and will claim he will do more than he will by a long shot. But I can look at what he wanted to do, what he was stopped from doing, and what Biden is doing and see that I dont care about Trumps rude words when Biden is just so so shitty.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2y
They both suck, just in opposite ways. Trump seems to forget that our country was and is built by immigrants, and Biden seems to forget that following the law should be rewarded, not breaking the law.
If I could vote for "empty seat," I might just do it.
bloodfart@lemmy.ml · -24 pts · 2y
lol anyone who doesn’t think a tailgate piece that makes it look like you got the president tied up in the bed of your truck is funny sucks.
Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
Truck nuts are higher quality and less trashy. And they are quite trashy.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca · -1 pts · 2y
Nominally agree, but a president is too broad to be much of a statement. Go for a particular congressman and the joke will land.
bloodfart@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 2y
Nah, president has broader recognition
proletar_ian@lemmy.ml · -43 pts · 2y
Biden has funded a genocide and oversees an government which completely sold out to corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and the prison industrial complex. They watched big pharma kill thousands in the opioid epidemic. They bailed out the banks after the great financial crisis, while the middle class was left to die.
Every congress member relies on corporate funding for campaigns. They can literally hold stock in the companies they regulate. Those corporations' interests are completely opposite of the interests of the working class.
I couldn't care less if some feckless oaf posts a picture of a US figurehead in such a position.
cedarmesa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
oxjox@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Even given your exaggerations and lies, I’d ecstatically take four more years of this over four more hours of Trump.
Alsephina@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y
Watch out, you're forgetting about the "crypto" part of being a cryptofascist
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 2y
If you aren't voting then you're complicit in letting all the things you listed happening too.
Joe Biden has done more about these problems than you have. You don't really care about any of these issues if you're too lazy to vote.
proletar_ian@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y
See my second paragraph. The same applies for the executive branch elections. We can't reform this. Direct action is the only solution.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · -6 pts · 2y
Protests are only effective if the people in power are at least sympathetic to what you want.
You can vote and protest you know. Think of having Democrats in power as a buff in favor of whatever you're protesting.
If you're protesting and not voting, it's probably a movement that's represented best by that Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial. Just a fun get-together with your friends where you pretend to be angry about something. All performative bullshit. So just have a Pepsi and stop pretending you care about anything LOL.
proletar_ian@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 2y
Gaslighting, like a true liberal.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · -5 pts · 2y
Being lazy and ineffective like a true socialist.