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Donald Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.

It came months after another racist post by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.

The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat’s campaign slogan “Yes We Can,” “Obama” and “BLM,” short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase “alhamdulillah,” which means “praise be to God” or “thank God.”

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't want to encourage slopagation.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Then what is the point of talking about it? Trump did something shitty once again but we won't show you, only describe it in vague terms?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I completely agree with you here. Except that I’d rather not visit truth social to view the image.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Thank you for posting it, I wasn't going to go to Truth social to find out. That said. Meh. What an uncreative slop image befitting of the current administration.

Honestly, an airplane decked out in real graffiti art would look sick as fuck.

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

How dare you post such a vile photo. Mods! Smack his nuts!

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What if I'm into that?!

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

Probably the best option is having a low-res copy of it on another site. Sending traffic to Lie Social is probably not ideal.

For some reason, I thought libredirect handled Lie Social but I don't seem to see it...it seems like it would be one of the first sites people would want to handle, but .... 🤷

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There will always be a point in calling out racist billionaire pedophiles. And there will never be a good reason to link to their fascist websites.