A White Home social media submit exhibiting side-by-side pictures of President Donald Trump went over like a ton of bricks, sparking an indignant backlash and an web meltdown so scorching and swift that the Trump communications crew may even suppose first earlier than sending out goofy and inane Trump photographs sooner or later, however most likely not.
The submit reveals the well-known 2023 Trump mug shot that was taken in Fulton County, Georgia, when he was indicted on racketeering expenses of attempting to overturn the 2020 election outcomes when he misplaced to former president Joe Biden. That shot was juxtaposed with a photograph of Trump’s 2024 Time Particular person of the Yr cowl.
The submit, captioned, “MAGA” with a hearth emoji and the phrases, “The way it began” above the mug shot and “The way it’s going” above the Time cowl.
The responses to the submit had been brutal.
X person JP reposted it with a hilarious caption, “fastened it for yall, slight spelling error.” As a substitute of “Particular person of the Yr,” the submit learn “Pedophile of the Yr.”
Trump has been embroiled in a scandal over the Epstein information that he simply can’t shake. It comes up repeatedly, regardless of the place he goes, and has been ongoing since he refused to launch the information after profitable re-election.
He and his vp, JD Vance, stoked Epstein conspiracy theories on the marketing campaign path and promised to launch the complete Justice Division file on Epstein in the event that they had been elected. As soon as again in workplace although, Trump stonewalled for months till Congress handed a regulation mandating the discharge of the information by Dec. 19.
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Trump’s DOJ nonetheless has not launched the information and is going through new courtroom motion over the delay.
Poster Wael Khoury used the submit to query Trump’s use of the workplace of the presidency to counterpoint himself and his household.
In his repost, he used a smiling shot of half of Trump’s face captioned, “How he makes cash” with a headline over the photograph, “HOW TRUMP USED THE PRESIDENCY TO POCKET $1,408,500,000.”
It’s a transparent reference to Trump elevating over $1 billion in cryptocurrency final 12 months shortly after retaking workplace and his ongoing money-making ventures on all the pieces from MAGA merchandise, footwear, fragrance, and even Bibles.
X person Alexis *FTD in her repost used a laughing emoji subsequent to the caption, “Dementia maga,” exhibiting a bizarre photograph of Trump wanting spaced out on the World Financial Discussion board he simply returned from in Davos, Switzerland.
One other repost by Rach featured a foul picture of Trump with an orange and purple face along with his fingers in his mouth, captioned, “T.A.C.O.”
It’s a reference that went viral early final 12 months after Trump saved whipsawing his tariff threats on nations throughout the globe. The submit spelled out what TACO stands for. T is “Trump.” A is “At all times.“ C is “Chickens,” and O stands for “Out.”
Possibly the perfect one of all of them is a quite simple and prescient repost from Wahndo, who mentioned solely: “not pictured: the way it ends.”
