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      She was fully checked out before she ever got that close. She wasn’t even from the area, she was flown in from several states away. The entire thing was tightly engineered.

      And it still went off the rails. You can always count on MAGA to be virtuosically incompetent.

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          He asked if she voted for him, and she said maybe (that’s a no), he asked her about trans in sports, and she refused to answer, he said it was an honor to meet her because he was waiting for her to say it, but she didn’t, and he has no filter, so he blurted it out himself, and when all that was over, a reporter asked him about that post as Jesus, and he hummana-hummanaed through a ridiculous rationalization that he was supposed to be a doctor helping people because that’s what he does, Help People, by bombing them into the stone age.

          They set up this whole PR stunt, finding this woman who needed the tax breaks to take care of her husband with cancer (without understanding that it really shines a light on their non-existent health care system more than No Tax On Tips) and flying her in from several states away, and yet they didn’t even bother to do the simplest briefing of Trump, or rehearse his patter in front of the media. After all that, they let him go out there and just wing it.

          MAGA is virtuosically incompetent.

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    No better representation of America than a billionaire emerging from a gold studded office to give a $100 tip to a grandma working to afford treatment for her husband’s cancer.

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      Ain’t no shot he tips.

      Probably disputes the delivery, in order to get a refund too

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        In this case he actually did, although it was it a publicity stunt to promote his no tax on tips shit, which (of course) isn’t nearly as good in practice as the name sounds.

        But nice to know the media is still using photos that make him look doofy as fuck

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          Some rich hump entertaining himself by waving a hundo in front of some old poor person trying to make ends meet for her cancer-stricken husband.

          “Watch how excited they get over the price of a cigar! I bet she’d dance if I told her to, but I can’t do that with the media watching.”

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    Ok…this can’t be real. You’re telling me trump is just waiting by the window, watching all the cars go by, then gets excited when a car pulls up the driveway?

    I mean, I do that when I’m stoned, but I don’t have a whole team of secret services and whomever on staff to answer the door for me.

    For that matter, why did he use doordash at all? What if the delivery driver had a gun? A LOT of people want trump dead. Though I can’t say I’d be surprised if I read the headline “Trump assasinated by McDonalds delivery driver. J.D. Vance cluelessly now president.”

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      It was a publicity stunt to promote his tax policy that lets certain people deduct up to $25k on tips. A random doordash driver would not be allowed access; even given how deeply incompetent everybody is over there, there are still SOME security restrictions in place.

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        The best part is Trump starts going on about “the trans” and asks her if she thinks men should be allowed to compete against women, and she’s like “I don’t have an opinion on that. I’m just here for the no tax on tips” and you see what looks to me to be the slightest hint of homicidal rage as he stiffly pats her on the back and sort of chuckles an absolute death rattle of a chuckle in disbelief.

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          Who even starts a conversation like that?

          “Here’s your food sir.”

          “Do you hate trans people?”

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    This isn’t a real picture. It can’t be a real picture.

    The patio entrance to the Oval Office has gold lettering that read The Oval Office like it’s Mar-a-Lago North??

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        As someone who works with dementia patients daily, he very clearly has it both by his actions and those of everyone around him.

        I would be shocked if there’s anyone left paying attention that genuinely thinks he’s sane. But I am often shocked at what people believe.

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          I watched my Dad decline for years before the doctor would finally diagnose it as dementia. He had already forgotten the names, and even the faces, if everyone he knew before the doctor finally said he had some form of dementia. Duh! Welcome to the party, Doc.

          They won’t believe he has dementia until he turns to Vance, or Rubio, or Hegseth, and says “Who are you?”

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        He wants his world to look like a gilded toilet.

        And not even a decent toilet, because he is really irrationally angry that his McDonalds dumps don’t flush.

        Cheap piece of shit.

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      It’s not real. A delivery person wouldn’t get to the door of the oval office. And almost certainly an aide grabs the bag, though the fast food delivery obsessions is partly about security paranoia, so maybe he is paranoid enough to grab the bag.

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      I mean, it is a thing that happened, but it isn’t real. A doordasher cannot just walk up to and knock on the door at the white house. Trump would not be available to answer the door. It’s a staged media stunt.

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        The woman is clearly dressed up for the occasion, if you look closely electrical tape is holding her T-shirt to keep the from from bunching.

        I’m guessing some Republican staffer started talking to their dasher one night, realized they were MAGA and decided to arrange this stunt to distract us from the Epstein files

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        Yep, you can actually see what seems to be a microphone pack clipped on the bottom of her shirt.

        If that doesn’t scream “unscripted” I don’t know what does. /s

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    Can you imagine security at the White House? Having to let a Doordash worker in some random shitbox drive up to the Oval Office?

    I bet he didn’t tip.

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    He asked this lady to talk about how trans people are men playing women’s sports on national tv.

    She said she didn’t want to talk about that, which is awkward and ballsy.

    Trump is human trash.

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      It’s definitely better than just sucking up to him and treating him like the celebrity he isn’t.

      But i wish people would tell him they don’t talk to war criminals and pedophiles