Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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    Meaning the staff and reporters on the other plane were being used as decoys without their knowledge or consent.

    That’s pretty fucked up.

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      I bet that’s what all those civilians were saying when Americans killed 100+ people while kidnapping the president of Venezuela.

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        I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make.

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    There’s never going to an end to the documentaries made about this presidency, is there?

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      Can you imagine the kind of shit that will be made public 5 or 10 years after he leaves the presidency?

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        No matter how batshit insane whatever my imagination can conjure up is, I can guarantee it’ll be a lot worse.

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            Stalin was both effective and relatively efficient. This dumbass is neither. More like whatever the knockoff of a Temu Stalin would be.

            And to clarify, yes, I’m saying that even Temu is too high quality to be carrying anything Trump branded.

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          i miss not being surprised by much.

          we’ll probably find out he had a private mcdonalds installed at the white house that gets its “beef” from an unethical mortician.

          so like that’s about how extreme of the batshittery i’m expecting is.

          edit: wait this explains Kennedy

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          The tech bros who bought this administration seem to be getting a little nervous lately. I have a feeling they’re starting to wonder if they can really shoot the moon, or if they’re going to the next Nuremberg trial.

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      Honestly, with the way things are going in this nation, we’re probably going to be too worried about a myriad of other things to give a shit about this rapist’s documentaries.

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      Depends. Hollywood will never have the spine to depict him honestly, but if American media continues its decline and loses its stranglehold on popular culture then the floodgates will open.

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      eating the product

      Edit: there’s a much better joke about giving it the Taylor farms treatment that I didn’t think about quick enough

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    “Ummm yeah, right. We hid him in the catering cart. He totally didn’t get stuck in there when he thought he saw loose McDonald’s fries on the floor of the cart.”

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    I’ve seen how some of this shit works. They’re not magically smarter than you. People in these kinds of positions sometimes just do shit because they think it sounds cool and they’re bored.

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        They have a scissor lift box truck that the food comes in and then they lift it up to the plane and wheel the carts off. They got JFK’s dead body on air force one the same way.

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      I mean, it’s extraordinary that a president of the US hid in a cart as a ruse, not so much the ruse its self was extraordinary in nature

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    I hope there’s a VEEP/Arrested Development like show about this cartoonish presidency in a couple years. There’s so much material.

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    Sorry. No way Fatty McRapist is getting into a catering cart. Maybe the back of a catering van. Assuming you bleach it before putting food back in it.

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      It sounds like it was like a wheeled trolley you’d see in a hotel hallway, but I think it was actually a cargo container of some sort used to load catering cargo on and off the plane. Although I’m not completely dismissing the image of him crouched under a tablecloth being wheeled down the tarmac by a butler concealing an MP5.

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      Imagine secret service trying to push the largest food cart to the plane lol. “I’m not payed enough for this shit”