Because he's a delusional narcissist that suffers from galloping dementia and is completely out of touch with reality. Plus he enjoys causing suffering for others.
"In the middle of 1985, I got an invitation from Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian and a billionaire at the time, to come to his apartment in Olympic Tower. I went, and while I didn’t particularly go for the apartment, I was impressed by the huge size of its rooms. Specifically, it had the biggest living room I’d ever seen. I had plenty of space in my triplex, but I figured, What the hell? Why shouldn’t I have exactly the apartment I wanted—particularly when I built the whole building?
I decided to take over one of the other apartments on the top three floors and combine it with mine. It has taken almost two years to renovate, but I don’t believe there is any apartment anywhere in the world that can touch it. And while I can’t
honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I do get a kick out of having one."
Why isn't Trump using those bribes to feed Americans instead? Doesn't he care about Americans? Does Trump ballroom more than he wants Americans children to not go hungry?
So, in order. He doesn't want to, emphatically no, and he doesn't give two shits about either, but loves the bribes and stuffing construction companies.
No, he moved forward without bothering to ask anyone for permission and then fired the oversight agency when they loudly complained about the complete destruction of the East Wing.
That motherfucker rationalizing a $230,000,000 grift to himself when he's trying to argue that he can't fund food for the poor is big time motherfuckery.
No, I believe it's a reference to Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen of France during the French Revolution. She was notorious for a life of decadence (even by monarch standards) while the French population starved.
I'm sure that's what the reference was but this still feels "slimy" to me. It's like when people think it's ok to be homophobic when they're saying how Trump loves slobbering on Putin's cock or it's ok to be misogynist when you're talking about Lauren Boebert. I don't like the Idiocracy thing where whoever is the loudest dickhead gets to be king, I think that sucks. I prefer the approach of someone like Mamdani, who carries himself with grace and really wants to help people, to Newsom's "just like Trump except I'm a Democrat guys I promise" approach.
Fuck Gavin Newsom, he's no friend to InI and he definitely is transphobic. He said so on those neo Nazi podcasts he loves to appear on. His legislative record proves it.
Saying that trump is slobbering on Putin's cock is not automatically homophobic, unless you think a dude giving another dude a blowjob is inherently degrading for the blowjob-giver? The point is that trump is pleasuring Putin, and they're both cis men, so presumably trump isn't going to be sucking on Putin's clit... Would you rather people say Trump is rimming Putin's asshole, as that is less specific to what genetals people have?
My read on Newsom is that he's meeting the American public where (he thinks) they're at, as well as showing how trump's "he tells it like it is" memetics are not exclusive to trump. He's breaking their pattern-matching so they can't immediately shut their brain off and agree as soon as they detect this style of rhetoric, hopefully forcing them to engage more with the specifics of what is being said than just the mere tone.
The post is not literal. Marie Antoinette's gender has nothing to do with her position in pop culture as the poster child of the casual detachment from reality that wealth brings (i.e. "Let them eat cake"). Given that this situation is over the expiration of food benefits, THAT is why Trump is being compared to Antoinette (and also why the comparison point is her, and not King Louis, for example).
To mollify you, yes, I'm sure that a minor element of the "joke" here is that Trump is wearing a dress, but hewing in on that over the clear historical allegory is comically missing the point.
If a man cut off the penis of his lover and threw it from the window of a moving taxi, and I posted the "they're the same picture" meme of his mugshot and a photo of Lorena Bobbitt (look her up if this reference is making no sense to you), would that be transphobic for equating a male and female? I don't think so, because the point of the comparison is their actions, not their undercarriages, same as it is in the OP's meme.
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joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 81 pts · 306d
If the country is in so much debt, why did the president build a fancy new ball room?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 306d
Because he's a delusional narcissist that suffers from galloping dementia and is completely out of touch with reality. Plus he enjoys causing suffering for others.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 305d
his obsession with gold leafing or plating everything pretty much tells how shallow he is.
ZMoney@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 305d
"In the middle of 1985, I got an invitation from Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian and a billionaire at the time, to come to his apartment in Olympic Tower. I went, and while I didn’t particularly go for the apartment, I was impressed by the huge size of its rooms. Specifically, it had the biggest living room I’d ever seen. I had plenty of space in my triplex, but I figured, What the hell? Why shouldn’t I have exactly the apartment I wanted—particularly when I built the whole building?
I decided to take over one of the other apartments on the top three floors and combine it with mine. It has taken almost two years to renovate, but I don’t believe there is any apartment anywhere in the world that can touch it. And while I can’t honestly say I need an eighty-foot living room, I do get a kick out of having one."
Guess who said that.
slate@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 306d
Not to worry, the ball room is 100% paid for by bribes!
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 306d
Why isn't Trump using those bribes to feed Americans instead? Doesn't he care about Americans? Does Trump ballroom more than he wants Americans children to not go hungry?
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
So, in order. He doesn't want to, emphatically no, and he doesn't give two shits about either, but loves the bribes and stuffing construction companies.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 306d
(they were rhetorical)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 305d
he said early on his campaign, he only needed thier votes, he dint care about them.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 305d
And the majority of Americans:
A. Openly wanted this
B. Didn't care enough to view it happening as a problem
C. Didn't think it would happen?
FML
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 306d
Because it’s paid for with
bribes“donations”This is also how he was able to skirt congressional oversight on it.
chaogomu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 306d
No, he moved forward without bothering to ask anyone for permission and then fired the oversight agency when they loudly complained about the complete destruction of the East Wing.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 306d
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 13 pts · 305d
The design is very human.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 305d
This kills the king.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
We will seize the means of production of Louisettes.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 305d
That motherfucker rationalizing a $230,000,000 grift to himself when he's trying to argue that he can't fund food for the poor is big time motherfuckery.
May the spirit of Player 2 be upon him.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 305d
He's not rationalizing it to himself but to anyone who's challenged enough to listen and take his words in earnest. 😔
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 306d
To be fair, the old tiles would clash with the design esthetic of the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom.
Sideshow_B00b@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 306d
That is not a MINOR issue.
vatlark@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
The JEMB
putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social · 19 pts · 305d
Silly for him to spend all that money on toilets when he shits his pants anyway
Naughty_not_bad@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 306d
Ah yes, Marie Trumpoinette.
Viva la revulotion!
Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 305d
Let them have taco bowls.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Let them
playdance ballbizzle@lemmy.world · -23 pts · 305d
Newsom being transphobic, what a surprise 🙄
laz@pawb.social · 22 pts · 305d
No, I believe it's a reference to Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen of France during the French Revolution. She was notorious for a life of decadence (even by monarch standards) while the French population starved.
It's where "let them eat cake" comes from.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 12 pts · 305d
This is exactly it. He's saying that Trump is behaving like Marie Antoinette right before the French revolutionists chopped off her head.
bizzle@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 305d
I'm sure that's what the reference was but this still feels "slimy" to me. It's like when people think it's ok to be homophobic when they're saying how Trump loves slobbering on Putin's cock or it's ok to be misogynist when you're talking about Lauren Boebert. I don't like the Idiocracy thing where whoever is the loudest dickhead gets to be king, I think that sucks. I prefer the approach of someone like Mamdani, who carries himself with grace and really wants to help people, to Newsom's "just like Trump except I'm a Democrat guys I promise" approach.
Fuck Gavin Newsom, he's no friend to InI and he definitely is transphobic. He said so on those neo Nazi podcasts he loves to appear on. His legislative record proves it.
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 304d
Saying that trump is slobbering on Putin's cock is not automatically homophobic, unless you think a dude giving another dude a blowjob is inherently degrading for the blowjob-giver? The point is that trump is pleasuring Putin, and they're both cis men, so presumably trump isn't going to be sucking on Putin's clit... Would you rather people say Trump is rimming Putin's asshole, as that is less specific to what genetals people have?
My read on Newsom is that he's meeting the American public where (he thinks) they're at, as well as showing how trump's "he tells it like it is" memetics are not exclusive to trump. He's breaking their pattern-matching so they can't immediately shut their brain off and agree as soon as they detect this style of rhetoric, hopefully forcing them to engage more with the specifics of what is being said than just the mere tone.
BigDiction@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 305d
I don’t understand how this post is transphobic.
pigup@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 305d
Oh please fuck off
bizzle@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 305d
You first 💜
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -25 pts · 305d
Oh look, Newscum using gender humiliation rhetoric as a political burn. Fucking piece of shit transphobe.
fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 305d
I think he's referencing Marie Antoinette
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 305d
And calling him a welfare queen at the same time
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -11 pts · 305d
Doesn't fucking matter, we don't misgender people no matter how nice of a burn it makes.
popjam@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 305d
They're abducting people in the streets my guy
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
He literally wears makeup and heels also this is an iconic and relevant French Revolution reference
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 305d
The post is not literal. Marie Antoinette's gender has nothing to do with her position in pop culture as the poster child of the casual detachment from reality that wealth brings (i.e. "Let them eat cake"). Given that this situation is over the expiration of food benefits, THAT is why Trump is being compared to Antoinette (and also why the comparison point is her, and not King Louis, for example).
To mollify you, yes, I'm sure that a minor element of the "joke" here is that Trump is wearing a dress, but hewing in on that over the clear historical allegory is comically missing the point.
If a man cut off the penis of his lover and threw it from the window of a moving taxi, and I posted the "they're the same picture" meme of his mugshot and a photo of Lorena Bobbitt (look her up if this reference is making no sense to you), would that be transphobic for equating a male and female? I don't think so, because the point of the comparison is their actions, not their undercarriages, same as it is in the OP's meme.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 305d
Are you sure? I mean Trump has always been a little bitch.