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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 154 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nothing is wrong with him, at least when compared to how he typically acts. This is just who he is. A total narcissist who can't imagine being at any event if it's not all about him. This was just a photo op, just like any other, to him.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is it, right here. He can't turn off for cameras, he needs the attention viscerally, and he's well aware of the old axiom "there's no such thing as bad publicity." Further, he revels in the fact that people are upset that he doesn't respect anything or anyone at all except himself, because it's a display of power that he has the power to not give a shit and shirk consequences. He eats up that we're disgusted with his behavior, fucking loves it.

What would actually fuck with his ego is being ignored.

[–] Squorlple@lemmy.world 116 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t be the first time. This was him on 9/11/2018 shortly before giving a memorial speech near where Flight 93 crashed:

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago

What a weird time to reenact his favorite porn.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 70 points 2 months ago

Didn't Donald Trump say he was in with the Taliban last night? Why would it be Surprising he's Smiling at a 9/11 Memorial?

I mean this is FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! I'm a PATRIOTIC REPUBLICAN!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"What's wrong with Trump?"

Shouldn't be the question.

"What ISN'T wrong with Trump?"

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"What isn't wrong with Trump?" is a much shorter list, honestly.

[–] Dungrad@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

/c/worsejokethanyoursbutsameobservation

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago

!yourjokebutwoooosh@lemmy.woooosh

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

He posed for a picture smiling and giving the thumbs up while standing in front of tombs on dead soldiers not even a month ago.

He is a spoiled rich kid with no will to understand the gravity of the situations that don't affect him.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 2 months ago

"As names of victims were read aloud," Bender wrote, "Trump, who had been mostly stone faced in the presence of Biden and Harris, flashed smiles at the crowd and alternated between a thumbs-up and a pointed index finger before he gathered his entourage and headed for the exit."

Jackass.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 25 points 2 months ago

He's still in "I have the tallest building now"-mode

This is, like, absolutely normal for him. Dudes a complete psychopathic narcissist.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

The "Arlington smile".

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He probably remembered his tasteless lie that he owned the tallest building in Manhattan after the Twin Towers collapsed. He said this to a TV station on 9/11/2001. No one asked him for this interview; he found it necessary to call there in order to flatter himself with falsehoods instead of mourning the victims. He hasn't changed a bit since then.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see Vance wore his favorite eyeliner

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Estée Lauder’s “cut to the chaise”

[–] obviouspornalt@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 months ago

That one was a slow burn, but once I got it... Chef's kiss

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Bra-fucking-vo

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

You might even say he is weird.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

He's reminiscing on the day his building became the tallest in Manhattan

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Zero empathy.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Look. He was just thinking about his favorite Porsche... and the Taliban snipers he bonded with at Camp David

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His current political affiliation? cuz it's right, not left... please don't hate me

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I suppose he does have a small right hand.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I would love to see Daniel Day Lewis's followup to My Left Foot

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Uhh…
… …
He can’t live forever. That’s all I’ve got.

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago

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[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I stand corrected. Maybe antisemites should be supporting Donald.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope you didn't mean this with any genuine malice, cuz that got a solid chuckle out of this Jew

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but it was said with some malice towards antisemites.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh shoot, some of my family's friends and neighbors from back in Poland were antisemites, though! And then they went along with letting my family members die in the ghettos or get taken to the concentration camps.

Hmmm... Nevermind, fuck antisemites.

ETA: one of my grandmother's cousins and her mother were taken to Dachau where a high-ranking officer found them charming and attractive, so he gave them kitchen duties. This meant they had access to extra food and would sneak food into the barracks.

When this was discovered, the officer's supervisors made the officer punish them by giving them hard labor manufacturing boots. So they intentionally made the boots wrong, packed mismatched pairs, etc so that numerous German soldiers would suffer frostbite that winter when their boots failed.