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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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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 months ago

What a piece of shit.

This is still not as bad as when he sold children at sex slaves auctions according to the Epstein files.

[–] mrmisses@fedinsfw.app 45 points 2 months ago

He also raped kids

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't have let the Obamas pay for an apartment in Trump Tower and yet he allows them to live rent-free in his head forever. Art of the deal?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Obama claims to have a rent-free suite in Trump's head. There's certainly plenty of empty space in there.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Why are the photos always missing in that kind of news? You would think the picture itself is the most important part.

Here is the shitty picture, wow, I am a journalist: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116869344661233645

[–] Janx@piefed.social 41 points 2 months ago

We really shouldn't link directly to that cesspit of racists and pedophiles...

[–] 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.

[–] Dotdashdot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

I like that the garbage isn’t shared repeatedly. Don’t need to see that trash and throttling its reach is the right thing to do.

[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

I'm genuinely shocked and impressed that this seems to be traditional photo manipulation and not AI.

[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago

"President of the United States posts some racist bullshit, Epstein files still not fully released"

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

Dear lord Obama truly does live rent free in his head. And we know stuff like this only gets posted when he finally loses, what little, self control he has, so I can only imagine what else he keeps thinking and how often. He seriously is tortured by it (and I love that thought at least)

[–] Janx@piefed.social 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nothing he does should shock us, since he gets away with it all, but it's a fake image of POC President Obama and his wife next to Air Force One with graffiti and Arabic on it... That's straight-up racist and should be called-out as such. But I guess what should we expect from the man who last depicted them as monkeys. At least Obama didn't rape kids with Epstein...

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Still better than the (likely) listening device-packed bribe plane from Qatar

[–] ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net 12 points 2 months ago

He's a fucking child. Anyone who thought there was even the remote potential of him being a good president is an absolute fucking moron.

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

Obama derangement syndrome.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can’t fucking wait until the adults are in charge again. 🤦‍♀️

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

I cannot wait to see the headline that Trump is dead. Very preferably, painfully suffering up until his death.

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

With the crazy gerrymandering and a widening political divide where no compromise can be seen, I don't know if it will happen.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is what would happen if middle-schoolers took over the country.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Conservatives, AKA, the baby-word "maga" are basically all people that peaked in high school, so that tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ApnlSI01Icc

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

Ah, Donvict is really focused on the People's business, I guess.

This asshole will just never get over being much weaker than Obama, being made fun of by Obama, and also losing to Biden.

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That's the type of dumb shit my gramps would have found hilarious. He's gone now, Trump should join him.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

No time for depositions but unlimited time for racist shitposting.

[–] Monument@piefed.world 3 points 2 months ago

Trump implies Obama is unpresidential using the least presidential methods possible.

It would be amusing, were it not for the fact that it’s actually happening.
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