It's so hilarious to watch I had to post this.
Trump, 79, Stuns With Inability to Flip a Coin: ‘Worst in History’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump79-stuns-with-inability-to-flip-a-coin-worst-in-history/
It's so hilarious to watch I had to post this.
64 Comments
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 179 pts · 268d
Give him a break, it's the first time he actually let go of money.
kboos1@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 268d
To be fair, he's probably near even touched a coin before
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
At least not one that didn't have his face on it
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 268d
His "business career" is almost entirely made out of failures and bankruptcies, he's very much used to losing shitloads of money. He was a fucking moron long before he became senile.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 268d
My favorite factoid, he charged his own "failing" casinos 90K for each floor walkthrough. One way.
Is that a failed business, or was it in fact designed to "fail" so Trump could make a fortune?
I think he's dumb now, but Roy Cohn taught him well (he was also infamous for skipping bills, screwing contractors, and so on)
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 268d
The most truthful thing I've ever heard him say, even if second-hand, was something Ivanka was relaying in that Born Rich movie....that he pointed out a homeless man and said the homeless man was richer than he was, since Cheeto McPedo was EIGHT BILLION in debt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCer9g-fh8o
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 268d
That's why he tossed it the way he did, that's how you toss money into a fire. Proper coin flip lands to close, you don't wanna be that close to the money fire.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 268d
He was born rich. It's the first time he's handled coins.
Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 268d
Not rich enough, apparently.
rafoix@lemmy.zip · 56 pts · 268d
lol this will be the official MAGA coin flip style from now on. I really hope they show that on their Trump commemorative coin commercials.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 55 pts · 268d
Imagine being a 270lb block of muscle pumped full of testosterone standing this close to a fascist murderer and child rapist and not ripping even one of his limbs off? Talk about a setup for regret.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 268d
Remember these are military football players. So 50/50 they are also rapists or fascists.
ExFed@programming.dev · 48 pts · 268d
Are we sure he wasn't just rigging the coin-toss in the most obvious way possible?
dhork@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 268d
I had thought about that, especially since Army won the toss, and the Army shares a "birthday" with Trump. He would be a petty enough bitch to fix a coin toss because of that.
But I chased down video of the toss, and I don't think he looked at the coin long enough to acknowledge which side was up. Rather, I think he tossed the coin as if he was tossing it into a fountain. Which is probably how he regards any coin which doesn't have his picture on it.
(You would think he has seen enough football games to know how the coin toss goes. But keep in mind he is originally from Queens, NY, which is Jets territory. One could forgive him for not bothering to really follow the NFL over the years if the Jets were all he got to watch.)
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 268d
He owned a USFL team, the New Jersey Generals. Shockingly, he bankrupted the team and is widely viewed as the catalyst for the league folding.
dhork@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 268d
Well, he was the guy that pushed for the USFL to move its schedule from Spring to Fall, which is really what killed it.
That, and the fact that while the USFL technically won their anti-trust suit with the NFL, they were awarded only $1 in damages (although those types of suits award triple damages, so they really won $3!)
Trump was in on the bidding for the Bills when they were up for sale, but NFL owners did everything they could to kill that because of all this history. He says that if he bought the Bills, he probably would have never ran for President. In an alternative universe, the country is not a fascist hellhole and the Bills suck (but have a cheerleading squad "on the younger side"....)
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 268d
His terrible track record aside, it’s kind of crazy just how many different pies he’s had his fingers in over the years. The guy is like the Forrest Gump of shady business dealings.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 268d
God, that last part made me literally LOL.
If this were Biden, the Faux Cinematic Universe would be calling for impeachment/Amendment 25 over just this alone...
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 37 pts · 268d
Is it possible he has never flipped a coin, nor ever seen someone flip a coin, that he really doesn't understand the basic intuitive physics behind "flipping" a coin? smh
Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 268d
Yes, it's very possible. It's like how he thinks you're supposed to pat children on the head with Hershey bars at Halloween.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 19 pts · 268d
A friend, in reference to this, used the phrase "plastic people". Sigh, they really are. Remember those photos of trump trying to stand like a normal human being, and failing?
tuff_wizard@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 268d
It's that...real?
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 268d
He leans so his tie looks straight in photos instead of contouring over his gut.
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 268d
Do a photo search for "trump leaning forward" and marvel.
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 3 pts · 268d
AFAIK, It's typical of photos from that time - 2016-2020. And yeah, he's real, and a real problem. But really only the figurehead at the top of the iceberg.
Also regards OP's post, loss of strength, and dexterity of one's hands correlates with age, loss of strength, and decline of cognitive function in the elderly. Perhaps you've experienced shaking hands with someone who is in their 70s, 80s. Compare that to someone in their 20s, 30s. It's been my experience which correlates with what I've been taught about the effects of aging globally, that those who are older compensate with a rigid/ stiff strength where they have loss of neural feedback. This doesn't just effect motor function, it also demonstrates an effect on cognitive function.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 268d
Yeah, it's supposedly a symptom of a particular mental degeneration, but diagnosing without a full workup and being in person with a patient is a little bit of a faux pas.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
From the rob liefeld 90s school of anatomy.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 268d
He's not athletic enough for a coin toss. That's quite something.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 268d
He’s not athletic enough to drink from a bottle of water. That’s quite sometbing too.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 268d
Hating god and drinking water is right up my alley.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
lol autocorrect. I meant athletic.
becausechemistry@lemy.lol · 27 pts · 268d
I am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 268d
Honestly, I think it's hilarious that they keep emphasizing his age after years of the bIdEnSoOld BS, even from alleged allies...
becausechemistry@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 268d
Same problem as in 2016. Everyone assumed they’d beat Trump. Their main opposition would be in the primaries, because nobody would really vote for him, right?
Wrong, twice. And as bad as the first term felt, this one has been so much more catastrophic.
gustofwind@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 268d
MAGA: he makes his own luck 😍
fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net · 15 pts · 268d
Refs have managed to do this same thing before, but when that happens they re-do the toss.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 268d
They knew it was a lost cause and just let it go.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 268d
Well i wouldnt say the WORST in history, but tied for it
Jumi@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 268d
This man truly represents the country he leads
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 268d
Doesn't represent me
Jumi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
TIL you are a country
Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 268d
What a doofus. He's more doofy than GWB
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 268d
I used to think GWB would be the worst President of my lifetime.
Now, I fondly remember GWBs fumbling in comparison.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again"
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 268d
And knowing America's track record on electing dumb leaders ...
It's the worst president so far.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
Well, we finally have Bezos and Musk on the victory stage clapping with their selected candidate.
They are less and less concerned about public appearances and open support every year. It... it's almost as if they control the government and media to influence public opinion to win. But that's crazy
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
Well, Ronnie Raygun was still in living memory for me, so....while W/Cheney had that Iraq thing, Ronnie Raygun did a lot more damage to this country. And while most people like to add "-gate" to words for scandals, due to Watergate, Iran/Contra was arguably worse.
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 268d
That might have been media training. Imagine the clips of “shame on me”? The Daily Show would have had a field day.
rain_lover@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 268d
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 268d
I genuinly do not give af. Trump is incompetent, and we can all gloat as leftists at his incompetence, but it's his evil which matters. And frankly, he's a very good propagandist.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 268d
This clown can't do a LOT of normal things. The only thing he's good at is appealing to morons and grifting.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 268d
Stuns? I don't think "stuns" is the correct for geriatric Bruisey-hand McShit-his-pants's inability to flip a coin. He often falls asleep in important meetings and goes off on senile rants. So, him not being able to flip a coin seems pretty on point.
stupe@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 268d
I thought that ref was about to get on his knees right there on the 50 yard line.
Jollyllama@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 268d
Must be the flat feet
roofTophopper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 267d
This fucking idiot. That had to be on purpose or trolling. You can't possibly be that stupid. Most people learn to flip a coin at what, 5? What else can't this guy do normally? I guarantee when he isn't shitting his diaper, that he wipes back to front.
Bet he picked up that coin right after and pocketed it.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 268d
Does he have a job?
mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
bros he tossed that coin like it offended him
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
It was brown and of a lower denomination?
Kcap@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 268d
I'm surprised he didn't insist his face be on one of the sides
Redditsux@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 268d
Quite funny for sure.
Darohan@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 268d
Trump does "worst coin flip ever", asked to leave football stadium.
spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world · -14 pts · 268d
Eh, it's goofy looking but he had gloves on. I'm all for shitting on this dude but this is kind of nothing.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 268d
He had gloves on to hide the track marks from his dementia medicine injections.
Lucky_Acid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
Yup
dhork@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 268d
No, you can flip a coin with gloves on, especially if you are flipping it onto to the ground. Just give it a bit of spin as it leaves.
A more competent human might have even practiced, but practicing is just an acknowledgement that you might not know everything already.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 268d
Here's a thought, take glove off? Just a thought.