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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Trump, pedophile, forgot a fact a kindergartener would know

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 hours ago

He's been too busy to knowledge-sync with the kindergartners lately 😤

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

let's be honest.. he can't count to 7

[–] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 1 points 4 hours ago

He can't read.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

is this a joke? what is it based on? there's no way he forgot the name of the ocean.

I'm certain he didn't know it in the first place.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

The One Big Beautiful Obituary is coming.

Wandering around. Forgetting things. Now he's talking about getting into heaven.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Release the Trump/Epstein files

[–] leftthegroup@lemmings.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Please, before he's executed or dies. My soul needs him to experience the opposite of everything he loves. Having that fact finally put to rest so that (the least-deluded cultists anyway- face it we all know that the cult will just say "fake news" to any credible evidence that points to him doing anything bad at all, no matter how concrete and solid any proof is) people will finally start seeing him.

I need him to experience bankruptcy, open mockery by everyone in eyesight (not that he probably has much of that), and get raped. Preferably at the same time. His final moments should be him getting fucked by some object (I wouldn't wish it in as person lol) that says "made in Mexico" or "made in El Salvador" or even "made in Russia" while being pointed at and laughed at by a huge crowd (aka bigger crowd than his biggest rally) while being served some kind of financial woe papers. His kids in attendance as well, with Melania roasting beside him.

Unless some huge conspiracy comes out that she is the ultimate victim of some uber traffic plot. I don't know enough about her to say, but I'm fairly sure so far that she's deserving of this treatment as well.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 39 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 5 hours ago

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

[–] VeryInterestingTable@jlai.lu 66 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There is nothing strange about old people forgeting things.

There is something absolutely heinous about people who rape children.

Stay focused.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago

He's, unfit to lead for two reasons. But the Republicans in my country support him for both reasons.

Pretty fucked up.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 21 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

There's a coupla best buddies right there.

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sure seems likely they'd do everyone together.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

Diddy the diddler as wel

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

The Gulf of Dementia?

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ironic. The Daily Beast sidebar:

(The ocean he forgot was the Atlantic.)

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 hours ago

He was pretty imprecise with his language. He needed to be more Pacific.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Could have been either one, I suppose. Did he mean the Atlantic separating us from Europe or the Pacific separating us from Russia. As is always the case with his babbling, it's not entirely clear what he was trying to say.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

he should have just called it the pond.. where he belongs at the bottom of (cause we all know he can't swim without floaties)

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

I'd say the Arctic might be more fitting than the Pacific for separating the US from Russia... But then I know the names of the oceans.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The headline I look for every day.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Same, I’m not a drinker but the day this happens I’m gonna get shit faced.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I will get drunk and high while pretending I am Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That sounds like a fun time, just don't mess up your brain compartments and departments.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 6 hours ago

naw.. I keep everything neatly bottled up in my modelo ablongata

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 10 points 18 hours ago

Waiting for Google to bend over and rename the ocean to appease the diaper dictator.

[–] mcbenavides85@piefed.social 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 13 points 23 hours ago

I knew it started with an 'A'!

[–] troybot@midwest.social 28 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

This leads me to think renaming the Gulf of Mexico was because he couldn't remember the real name and everyone in the room went along with it

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Or someone corrected him, so naturally, he doubled down by writing "GULF OF MEXICO" on the map with a sharpie.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Ocean 11? Ocean 12? Ocean 13? Which is the one that's all women? I hated that one."

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago

that's Charlie's Oceans 14

[–] Redditsux@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ummm Indian ocean? There's no India there. French Ocean? That's not right. Let's call it American Ocean!

[–] griff@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago

stable beyond belief

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Don't all oceans except maybe Indian touch the US or one of its territories? They're all Ocean of America now.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 16 hours ago

Its not the calm one or the dark one or the bloody one. Its not America's golf of the brown Canada. Its not the one between Japan and China or the one by the Philippines or the one that sounds like it has its own mythology movie about fish guy. I don't know?!

[–] graycube@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

It is a "big beautiful" ocean.

[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago

Why do we think it was only the one though?

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Embarrassing of him.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 19 hours ago

Do you know how many damn fucking oceans there are? Did you know the earth is mostly water? Why would he memorize every oceans name? He's not a fucking cartographer!

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 0 points 20 hours ago

You can't forget what you never knew in the first place.