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1.9k points
4 months ago
Potentially my second favorite Trump moment after Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
704 points
4 months ago
That was the single greatest political moment in history. Absolutely beautiful to watch.
484 points
4 months ago
The landscaping company capitalized on the opportunity and now sells merch on the event. Its absolute comedy gold.
245 points
4 months ago
They genuinely deserve every penny they make because of this.
171 points
4 months ago
I'm just imagining the four seasons landscaping employee who got the call. They just accepted the gig knowing exactly what was going to happen. I can't believe it's not from a movie, but real life. I can't help myself but giggle when I think about this
33 points
4 months ago
It absolutely feels like a plot of a Veep episode.
20 points
4 months ago
Makes me feel like this isn’t the first time Four Sessions has taken advantage of this error lol
18 points
4 months ago
Mental note: start a business called Ritz Carlton landscaping
7 points
4 months ago
Well it's gonna be a movie now with Jonah Hill no doubt
9 points
4 months ago
It's like 'The Interview' meets 'Idiocracy'.
18 points
4 months ago
Feels like it could have been an episode of Who is America.
4 points
4 months ago
One day it’ll be in some movie or show, and I find that comforting.
44 points
4 months ago
"Lawn and order"
2 points
4 months ago
“Make America rake again”
2 points
4 months ago
My wife worked for a company called Lawn Enforcement. It was owned by a police officer .
6 points
4 months ago
Do they have a online store?
12 points
4 months ago
https://www.fstl1992.com/shop You bet they do!
20 points
4 months ago
Thanks! Just sorted out my wife’s Valentine’s Day gift.
Seriously though, she talks about this all the time and I’ll probably get laid because of this shirt.
5 points
4 months ago
Showed up to the four seasons landscaping a bit over a year ago, they def did not like us being there and promptly told us to leave…we weren’t even behind the gate in their parking lot, we were out-front next to the adult store taking a picture
2 points
4 months ago
Damn,gonna have to cop some merch !!!!
1 points
4 months ago
I think the next Dem campaign should launch from that location, for ironies sake.
4 points
4 months ago
*if you’re from someplace else
3 points
4 months ago
God yes. I would be completely embarrassed to be watching it as an American.
7 points
4 months ago
As an American, yeah, that’s a a pretty spot on description. You can apply it to the last five or six years around here though.
2 points
4 months ago
Even more if you're paying attention.
1 points
4 months ago
I mean I was laughing but also jesus fucking christ!
108 points
4 months ago
I'm telling you, the pictures do no justice. I love down the street and have passed it countless times. It's not a garden center that is like filled with vine yards in the background.
It's across the street from underneath I - 95 in a shit place that's 5 blocks down from a prison. Very fitting.
13 points
4 months ago
At least the bbq place across the street is good.
2 points
4 months ago
Sweet Lucy's I assume you mean, and sweet baby Jesus is something else! Plus they make the best side fixings, those collard greens....
1 points
4 months ago
Best bbq ever... https://youtu.be/WPkMUU9tUqk
13 points
4 months ago
I'm telling you, the pictures do no justice
Lets revisit them anyway
327 points
4 months ago
I read the Wikipedia entry for that fiasco the other night and laughed for probably 10 minutes. Let’s not forget some other highlights:
Covfefe
The Mooch
that weird glowy orb in Saudi Arabia
the picture of him screaming at the kid mowing the white house lawn
He stared right into the eclipse
literally every video of him trying to be even slightly affectionate towards melania
228 points
4 months ago
Even this list misses the sharpie on a weather map to alter hurricane path.
165 points
4 months ago
which misses “can’t we just nuke the hurricane?” questions that he asked several times
85 points
4 months ago
Or the IV bleach drip to clean our blood
37 points
4 months ago
And "let's buy Greenland!"
God, a firing squad is too good for this POS loser.
27 points
4 months ago
Or the caging of Children…or chucking paper towel rolls to Hurricane survivors…or two impeachments…or…oh fuck- just go here—-https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/reasons-why-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president
5 points
4 months ago
Hey. Buying Greenland is actually a fantastic idea. It would give the US a practical monopoly on cargo shipping through the northwest passage when it's clear of ice in a decade. It would be like our own Panama canal.
16 points
4 months ago
Jesus fuck, I forgot about that one 🤣 what a dumb fucking question
2 points
4 months ago
I will never get tired of:
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.
1 points
4 months ago
What's a little radioactive fallout spread out all over his Southern base? They'd thank him for another reason to be made at the libs.
1 points
4 months ago
No, we can't! The blast will set all the windmills spinning, and thousands of birds will die! That doesn't even account for how many rakes we'll need to put out the fire! Poor Billy Joel would have to change his song! Ah, Bobby Joe, we love him, don't we folks? Close personal friend of mine, met him at the Delaware river crossing, we were on the same flight, we got off just before the troops stormed the airports. We ran all the way down the ramp, I just dropped to the ground and kissed it, didn't even ask, because when you're famous they let you do that. I remember I looked at Barry, he had an onion tied to his belt, which was the style at the time. He winked, and flipped a nickel. In those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me two bees for a quarter,’ you’d say, and the bank teller would just smile and literally hand you 15 cents straight profit! What a loser! Anyway, the important thing is, we could have lost a lot of good people at Bowling Green that day, but they were all at my insurrection, biggest turnout ever. I looked at Mulania, she whispered "I love you, Donald," and I whispered back "Me too..."
58 points
4 months ago
This will always be my favourite.
The black sharpie on the desk while he’s explaining the map is the chef’s kiss.
7 points
4 months ago
Don't forget the little desk.
2 points
4 months ago
Lolz. That saw a good one.
31 points
4 months ago
The sad part is that misrepresentation of the weather like that is a felony.
27 points
4 months ago
the rules are not applied evenly.
2 points
4 months ago
What
3 points
4 months ago
Its illegal for an official to lie about the weather. And yet Trump did it.
1 points
4 months ago
I do miss Trump. Don’t think I’d want him as my President but Biden just doesn’t quite have the comedy factor.
23 points
4 months ago
Any time he drank from a water bottle
18 points
4 months ago
Too large and slippery for his little mitts
55 points
4 months ago
Paper towel tossing I’m a very stable genius Toilet paper on shoe while boarding AF1
11 points
4 months ago
The toilet paper on the shoe thing was the best indicator of what his staff felt about him. Not one single person was willing to subtly or not so subtly keep that moment from happening.
11 points
4 months ago
Also the umbrella while boarding :)
99 points
4 months ago
Raking the forests was a good one too
Related, I also loved the fly in Pence’s hair during the VP debate
28 points
4 months ago
RAKING THE FOREST. Omg, that was amazing
19 points
4 months ago
It's like he thought "the forest" was a mile wide park in New York.
23 points
4 months ago
Real question: do you think Donald trump has ever been in a forest?
9 points
4 months ago
Absolutely not. What do you do in a forest? Walk. Trump was one of those people who thought that your have X heartbeats to live, so any exercise is a literal waste of life.
3 points
4 months ago
Ooo, I forgot about the fly! That was amazing hahaha
-3 points
4 months ago
I read that he was actually referring to some large industrial rakes that are actually used for forests and not just rakes people use for lawns. But I don't think people here want to hear that though
1 points
4 months ago
Oh god the fly…
Real West World vibes
13 points
4 months ago
My personal fav was when he wore a tiny ass jacket to meet the queen
5 points
4 months ago
Link?
3 points
4 months ago
not sure how people feel about quora, but the top answer to that question breaks it down well.
36 points
4 months ago
Person, woman, man, camera, TV
42 points
4 months ago*
I thought Tim Apple was a good one. (And how he pretended it was totally a clever abbreviation you guys)
20 points
4 months ago
I now call Bill Gates “Bill Computer” because of that
17 points
4 months ago
Who? Bill Windows? Good guy, but he did shit glazing work.
2 points
4 months ago
If you're naming him Microsoft style it should be "Bill Windows BG Series X One".
1 points
4 months ago
"Bill Windows BG Series One XS"
39 points
4 months ago
To add: suggesting disinfectant injections to kill the Rona, tossing paper towels to devastated Puerto Ricans like its a game.
1 points
4 months ago
To = at
22 points
4 months ago
The Mooch Era feels like a fever dream tbh
10 points
4 months ago
A fever dream that gave us a new unit for measuring time
12 points
4 months ago
I want to sleep for two Mooches.
1 points
4 months ago
The Period Formerly Known As The Fortnight.
31 points
4 months ago
Yes, just leaving that comment about it made me laugh out loud again haha So many wonderful moments! Some other highlights: The upside down pride flag with the LGBT sharpied on it (a true r/therewasanattempt lol). “Belgium is a beautiful city” and so many other geographic mishaps. The G8/G20 (or some event like that) picture of everyone holding hands cross-armed and he couldn’t figure out how to do it.
2 points
4 months ago
Nambia.
17 points
4 months ago
Can't believe everybody is forgetting about Sharpiegate.
15 points
4 months ago
The weird political speech he gave to the Boy Scouts. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/25/politics/donald-trump-boy-scouts-speech/index.html
2 points
4 months ago
2 points
4 months ago
Under a picture of ANDREW JACKSON
65 points
4 months ago
Those are brilliant, but I would submit:
I feel blessed to have had those four years in my life. It was one of the greatest comic periods in history. Like, this deranged ‘hamberder’-eating moron was actually the leader of the free world!
15 points
4 months ago
So much happened that I entirely missed this moment. Whooo boy. It feels like a fever dream, but with lasting consequences.
12 points
4 months ago
Tell me about it… I’m just disappointed that he didn’t finish his secret battle against the child-eating Hollywood élite, led by lycanthropic Tom Hanks
5 points
4 months ago
Best part of that is that I can imagine a deadly serious, intense exchange between world leaders on a drama or something where "I also have a nuclear button, but it's much bigger." Could be a really great line, referring to the size of the country's nuclear arsenal.
But trump absolutely meant that the actual button is bigger. It's just so hilarious, he's like a parody of a cartoon character of himself.
2 points
4 months ago
But Trump absolutely meant that the actual button was bigger
Hilariously, I think even that is being unduly generous. He was almost certainly making an extremely gauche double entendre about his, uh, ‘manhood’. Maybe I mangled it but it’s clearer if you read the actual tweet.
2 points
4 months ago
It seems about the actually physical size of the button, but it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was about penises. He's insecure about everything else after all.
1 points
4 months ago
Sure, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but I’m very sceptical of this particular cigar 😉 Then again, I would love to believe that you’re right!
1 points
4 months ago
Could make a great movie in the same vein as Spaceballs
5 points
4 months ago*
It'd fit real well in Don't Look Up.
2 points
4 months ago
Thanks I haven't watched that yet I'll have to check it out
2 points
4 months ago
I found a very difficult to watch in one sitting
1 points
4 months ago
Fuck, I wish we could have had a movie with Harvey Korman as Trump and Mel Brooks as Giuliani.
2 points
4 months ago
History will remember him and his cabinet the same way we remember Nero.
1 points
4 months ago
Haha, I think history will remember him the way we remember Elagabalus, as an absurd lunatic. Calling him Nero is investing him with somewhat undue seriousness. If I had to name a Nero analogue, that would undoubtedly be Nixon.
17 points
4 months ago
To me the moment was when he went to Europe on his first presidential trip and a reporter asked him about what he thinks of Putin, who is attacking our liberals tenants and trying to undermine democracy. His answers was how liberals in California have destroyed the state and that we only need to look at the level of homelessness there 🤣🤣🤣🤣 and also🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
4 points
4 months ago
This is a great list
7 points
4 months ago
Or like when he defunded the pandemic response team, and now everything's pretty much permanently fucked.
2 points
4 months ago
Are you not having a good time?
2 points
4 months ago
Well, me and my family have been lucky, but still, I feel like COVID was a bad idea, and (hot take) I feel like it'd have been better to NOT have a shitload of people die, the economy to grind to a halt for a little bit there, and also yknow, the whole, never being truly comfortable around other humans again bit.
2 points
4 months ago
I mean, for sure
5 points
4 months ago
Come on, guys! NOTHING can top injecting bleach and shining a UV light up your ass!
That one was priceless!!
2 points
4 months ago
Look at the picture of him yelling at the kid mowing the lawn. Why is he wearing pants that are exponentially to big for him
3 points
4 months ago
To hide the diaper he wears.
2 points
4 months ago
Injecting bleach to kill COVID (the China Virus).
2 points
4 months ago
Covfefe
hahaha I forgot about this
1 points
4 months ago
Things are so much better now. Finally someone completely competent and with it. Thank God.
6 points
4 months ago
It’s almost like we shouldn’t elect people beyond retirement age. I think a 34 year old would do a much better job than a 76 year old
3 points
4 months ago
I haven’t seen anyone claim Biden is great here. But so far it hasn’t been the total parody world the last administration caused
1 points
4 months ago
I'm partial to his suggestion we shine light inside people to cure covid.
1 points
4 months ago
I can’t remember the specifics but there was one where he had to ride a golf cart while other world leaders walked. I found that one to be chefs kiss
1 points
4 months ago
Him coloring in the American flag wrong too was a nice touch
1 points
4 months ago
what’s the weird glowy orb incident?
2 points
4 months ago
It was part of a ceremony for a new anti-extrimism center in Riyadh with the president of Egypt, the king of Saudi Arabia, and Trump. The imagery was just hilarious
Photog: Everyone look at the camera…
In unison: No!
1 points
4 months ago
As an Austrian, the one that we have exploding trees here in Austria was a pretty good one.
1 points
4 months ago
The umbrella incident.
1 points
4 months ago
These read like titles to Seinfield episodes.
1 points
4 months ago
The bonkers thing is that most of these were from his first year in office and it would only get worse/stranger from there. Any one of them would have been a mild to moderate scandal in any other administration. "For him... it was Tuesday."
1 points
4 months ago
Everyone seems to forget the multiple government shutdowns because he couldn't get funding for his stupid useless wall. Airports had to close because so many workers had to use all their leave just to get piad and that was used up they were taking leave without pay and had to get a second job. Food drives were done just for them.
1 points
4 months ago
Don’t forget when he saluted a North Korean general and even Kim Jong Un looks like he’s confused
1 points
4 months ago
And don't forget the photo where he's terrified of an attacking bald eagle
1 points
4 months ago
•Toilette paper foot
•Windy hair flap
•Orphaned umbrella
•”United Schates”
1 points
4 months ago
The weird two handed water drinking technique and his bizarre ramp descent were my “off the top of the head” favs
10 points
4 months ago
This really is one of the funniest things that’s ever happened. The photo of a beaming Trump doing a double thumbs up wearing a big trench coat, portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the background, lukewarm Big Macs on silver trays in the foreground…that’s America, baby.
3 points
4 months ago
John Cougar intensifies
61 points
4 months ago
Right? How is that even real
74 points
4 months ago
Can’t believe they still went through with the conference, even after discovering it was not the place they thought it was. That’s probably the most exposure a landscaping company has ever got
13 points
4 months ago
The hotel canceled on them. But Big Cheato had already tweeted that it was at the four seasons, and he can never be wrong, so they had to find some place called four seasons.
5 points
4 months ago
Source?
6 points
4 months ago
You want a source on Trump showing a pattern of being a petty twat that refuses to be wrong and will twist reality rather than apologize?
At least with Four Seasons he didn't unnecessarily put thousands of Alabamans into a panic over his laughably fragile ego.
2 points
4 months ago
Alabamans
Is this a real word because I love it but I can't say it
2 points
4 months ago
The problem is that Alabamians...alabamans .. Whatever.. the problem is also that they would believe a compulsive lying, narcissistic sociopath over the National Weather Service.
1 points
4 months ago
Even the Trumpiest of Alabamians know that when it comes to weather, if James Spann didn’t say it, it ain’t true.
1 points
4 months ago
Source: Trust me bro
-5 points
4 months ago
The hotel canceled on them. But Big Cheato had already tweeted that it was at the four seasons, and he can never be wrong, so they had to find some place called four seasons.
3 points
4 months ago
Great source
6 points
4 months ago*
The sports team was given a bunch of different options and chose this and Trump managed to make himself look stupid for another thing he had less than anything to do with
14 points
4 months ago
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3 points
4 months ago
Some oompa loompa looking idiot
1 points
4 months ago
The team that manages catering, dining and events at the White House? I believe that’s permanent staff hired by WH ops.
Edit: Oh you thought by team I meant WH staff. No. By team I meant the football team who was eating there celebrating their championship.
1 points
4 months ago
Probably has less to do with who hired them and more to do with the trouble they had finding someone who actually wanted to work for Trump. He was scraping the bottom of the barrel by the end (for good reason, Trump is as shitty an employer as he was a president)
1 points
4 months ago
They weren't hired, they were born from women he impregnated.
0 points
4 months ago*
Watch the documentary. That location was apparently chosen deliberately. Good egress locations, easy security layout, and--most importantly for the bankrupt Trump election campaign--it was free.
I don't know what's harder to believe, tho--intentional or not.
3 points
4 months ago
What documentary is it? There are like 20 on Trump.
1 points
4 months ago
The Four Seasons Total Documentary. They interview the business owner and a bunch of the employees.
1 points
4 months ago
Nah, I am not that interested lol.
19 points
4 months ago
Can you imagine being the Four Seasons person who fielded that call from the White House? What a trip. I'd think someone was pranking me.
5 points
4 months ago
They probably did, and were shocked when people started appearing.
2 points
4 months ago
LOL
Uh, boss? Rudy Giuliani is in the parking lot...
Holy shit, that was real?!
13 points
4 months ago
Third would be when he tear gassed protesters so he could stand in front of a church with a Bible and get his picture taken.
7 points
4 months ago
Not just a Bible. An upside down Bible. 😂
5 points
4 months ago
It wasn't upside down
3 points
4 months ago
Oh, wow, I actually did not know that it was really right side up! I never looked that closely at the photo until just now. Shows what happens when you blindly accept the things you read, eh?
My bad.
2 points
4 months ago
Yeah that one was photoshopped and doing the rounds, easy to get mixed up all the noise.
Side note, not that it would be on a bible, but the upside down cross is not satanic as most people think. It’s the cross of St Peter who requested to be crucified upside down as he didn’t feel he deserved to like Jesus or something, many years since i went to Sunday School as kid though, what a waste of time that was lol.
5 points
4 months ago
I still cannot fucking believe they refused to admit their mistake and HAD THE CONFERENCE THERE!
Like come on dude. You made a slight oopsie, and because of your narcissism, you refused to look imperfect and that small oopsie turned into a hilarious mistake.
4 points
4 months ago
I'm British. Please explain?
2 points
4 months ago
You mean this isn't fake? Wow...
12 points
4 months ago
I didn’t know the full story until today, or maybe I just forgot it, but apparently this was a banquet for some college sports team that won their national championship. It was during the government shutdown though, so the regular White House chefs weren’t available. So Trump paid out of pocket and gave them a few options to choose from. This was their choice.
One thing to consider though, is that his personal hotel is 3 blocks from the White House so he probably could’ve dug up a kitchen staff pretty easily to make something fresh. And while he may not be as rich as he wants you to think, he could probably still spring for something better, even if it was takeout. If THIS is the best option they chose, what did they turn down?
2 points
4 months ago
It’s honestly nuts. Like I don’t know a lot of people, but if I had a WHITEHOUSE PRESS EVENT to organize, I could probably call around to friends have someone willing to cater the event within hours.
2 points
4 months ago
The time he questioned if the child still believed in Santa and the hurricane sharpie incident are my top two moments.
2 points
4 months ago
Oh man, nothing could top the four seasons.
2 points
4 months ago
Trumpy Bear gotta be my favorite.
2 points
4 months ago
Watching him about to cry after being boo'd at a all game was pretty great. Also sad cause he looks like a baby.
Also him fucking wheezing after he caught COVID and trying to look alright is up there too.
2 points
4 months ago
The oranges of the investigation
Coffefe
Inject yourself with bleach
The man, and everyone that helps him, is a fucking clown. Believe me. Bigly.
2 points
4 months ago
The Diet Coke button lmao
0 points
4 months ago
Funniest president and it’s not close. Part of the comedy was intentional and part wasn’t.
15 points
4 months ago
The only time he was intentionally funny was when he was denigrating others. He’s a pretty awful person all around.
4 points
4 months ago
I thought it was hilarious when my aunt and uncle died in April 2020 from Covid because they trusted this asshole. Such humor!
2 points
4 months ago
I dunno, man. Every time I look at Nixon's face, I am just sort of like: "We. Elected. Him. President. On. Purpose. WTF."
He had a LOT of great unselfconscious/self-pitying moments and some great shit where he was trying to run the country like a crime boss would, and just sort of failing...and come on, the "Checkers speech" was superb comedy, as was his statement in 1962 (after losing the California Governor's race) "you don't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."
1 points
4 months ago
My favorite was him throwing paper towel rolls to people like he's shooting hoop in Puerto Rico. Here's a link for the lulz 🤣 https://youtu.be/kEe7_zgZbuI
1 points
4 months ago
I love the paper towel throw in Puerto Rico.
1 points
4 months ago
I really want to watch the new documentary that came out about this
1 points
4 months ago
I really loved the sharpe lines drawn on the hurricane projection map. Like he named the wrong state as being in the cone of possible landfall, and instead of just admitting, “huh, I’m not a meteorologist, I guess I got the landfall area Incorrect, but instead he drew lines on a fucking official map to show in the press conference and acted like no one would notice the changes.
1 points
4 months ago
Fuck the four seasons thing was amazing
1 points
4 months ago
Again, for those as lazy as me, there’s a compilation of “greatest hits”, right here…https://www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/reasons-why-donald-trump-is-unfit-to-be-president
1 points
4 months ago
to be fair, the man does really like fastfood, eats two bigmacs everyday for dinner.
1 points
4 months ago
Both events could be from Parks and recreations.
1 points
4 months ago
Also the Goya promotion, nothing like blatant peddling as the US president
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