Warning: This article contains discussion of discrimination against the trans community which some readers may find distressing.
The president of the United States gave his impression of how he believes a female weightlifter competes in the sport compared to that of a trans athlete.
Yes, I can’t believe I’m having to write this – wait until you see the cringeworthy clip! At this rate, I honestly don’t think there is anything that President Donald Trump could do to wean the support from his staunch supporters.
Despite the imitation lasting a short, yet painful, 10 seconds, it was difficult to watch. But the MAGA faithful have gotten behind the nation’s 79-year-old leader.
“This is the funniest president we’ve ever had,” one user penned on X.
Another wrote: “There is no president nearly as hilarious as Trump. Delivery and timing all excellent. Imagine he put some real work into a bit.”
“I gotta say this, his comedic timing is pretty spot-on,” a third added.
You’d think the Republican had just released a Netflix stand-up special by those glowing reviews. No, instead he did this:
Unsurprisingly, it garnered dozens (if not hundreds) of messages online, with people asking whether what they saw was real or the work of AI.
Trump’s ’embarrassing’ trans impression
However, after realizing that Trump actually did do that while delivering a speech at the House Grand Old Party member retreat, yesterday (January 6), some viewers were less than impressed.
“A man in poorly blended orange makeup making fun of trans people is peak irony,” one user wrote on X.
A second added: “You support this clown. It’s embarrassing, that’s why you have to ask if it’s real.”
While another posted: “He’s embarrassing and Melania agrees.”
President Donald Trump conceded that his own wife, First Lady Melania Trump, ‘hates’ his dancing (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Yes, apparently the first lady isn’t the biggest fan of her husband’s dancing, as Trump conceded that Melania actually described it as ‘unpresidential’.
He went on to explain how the Slovenian-born former model ‘hates’ when he dances, before name dropping Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).
Trump told the room: “She actually said, ‘could you imagine FDR dancing?’ – she said that to me. And I said, there’s a long history that perhaps she doesn’t know because he was an elegant fellow… even as a Democrat, right?
“He was the attack by Japan, you know, he was quite elegant, but he wouldn’t be doing this. But nor would too many others.”
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People are ‘crying’ after seeing what major Trump move South Park creator predicted back in August
Trump announced plans around a famous US institution, but someone else anticipated his actions
People have been left stunned after making a big prediction about Trump’s second stint in the White House.
Trump has caused yet another controversy after announcing that he will rename the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center as the ‘The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’.
The US president has a known fondness for putting his name on things, from Trump Tower in New York to the newly-planned ‘Trump Class’ battleships, despite large battleships being superseded by aircraft carriers.
But it seems that one person noticed the pattern with Trump putting his own name on stuff and made a gambit that has led to a spectacular trolling of the presidency, predicting exactly what would happen with the ‘The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’.
So what exactly did they do?
Trump announcing the ‘Trump Class’ battleships (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
Well, the person in question is former South Park writer Toby Morton, who figured that the president would make the decision to rename the center.
So, in anticipation of this, Morton purchased the domain names TrumpKennedyCenter.org and TrumpKennedyCenter.com, and now plans to troll the president with the websites.
Speaking to The Washington Post, Morton said: “As soon as Trump began gutting the Kennedy Center board earlier this year, I thought, ‘Yep, that name’s going on the building.’”
Explaining his thinking behind the stunt, he said: “The Kennedy Center has always been a cultural institution meant to outlast any one administration or personality.
“It’s meant to honor culture, not ego. Once it was treated like personal branding, satire became unavoidable.”
Morton hasn’t yet published websites at the domain names, but has promised that when the websites go live, they will ‘absolutely reflect the absurdity of the moment. Lots of surprises. Some things are truly hard to parody, though’.
The center being renamed (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
It’s far from the first time that Morton has done this though, saying in a post on his Instagram that he has bought up over 100 domain names with the intention of using them against political figures.
Previous websites include itsthef*ckingguns.com (I’m sure you can guess what the missing letter is) which contains scathing arguments for gun control in the US.
He has done the same with momsforliberties.com, which is a parody of the far right group Moms for Liberty, who campaign against the inclusion of information on LGBTQ+ communities and racism in education.
As for exactly what plans the former South Park writer has for his two new websites, only time will tell.