Remember the running joke in Futurama where whenever President Nixon of Earth does a speech he does an advertisement?
That was supposed to be a joke, not a manual.
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If anyone hasn't noticed, his job now is to sign things and shill for whoever pays him the most at the moment. He doesn't need votes anymore because he's either unable to run again or will simply refuse to leave or have a hamburger speed things up. He doesn't care.. He just says anything to anyone for his sponsors.
You think he would not get votes again? Mate, many of the people he fires are STILL supporting him.
I didn't say he wouldn't get votes, he doesn't need elections anymore to keep his ass in the chair. It's done, he is in his 2nd term. Americans aren't of any concern to him as long as a line of millionaires and billionaires keep kissing his ring. Nothing he passes will be for anyone, just against stuff his donors don't agree with.
It's called a death cult
It's called religion. The cognitive dissonance to ignore reality and evidence; to just "have faith".
Assuming standard sheet size, his prepared text is in 20pt font size.
Just pointing that out to anyone curious about his eye sight and/or literacy.
I don't think that really tells anything. For public speaking, having good readable notes is essential. Honestly, I'm surprised it's not all 100pt sharpie.
Yeah it's been known for years he can't see shit. But he is too vain to wear glasses in public. He does wear them in private, there are some pics out there. Which is pretty normal for someone his age.
This is part of why his speeches are always so weird and fucked up. He misreads because he needs his glasses and then makes shit up to try and cover for it. The speech prepared is usually evil and fucked up in different ways, but at least coherent. Then when Trump tries to read them a lot of nonsense comes out.
He does seem to always squint.
That’s smaller than I print for notes and I can see just well enough to legally drive without issues (plus unlike trump, I actually know how to)
Make some more witty comeback comments on X instead of going out onto the streets. That will surely show them and puts an end to this.
do you, uh, see any irony about what you wrote there at all?
Think of the upvotes tho!
I'd be surprised if he didn't. xD
Source?
It's an image.
The source of the image is Getty: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/president-donald-trump-holds-notes-on-the-pricing-of-tesla-news-photo/2204585275
Because motioning broadly with your large-font speech notes is a really bad idea when in front of an unfriendly press pool :)
It does look weirdly ai though. I’m not saying it’s fake, because frankly, I don’t think there’s an ai yet that can create that much sensible text, and the details on his hand and arm are true to life (based on that thumbnail, he should probably take a multivitamin).
Anyone know what’s so off-looking about the handwriting though? I figure it’s a weird angle and that’s why the text fades towards the right side of the page, but it’s a very strange picture all around. Maybe things just get funky when you take pictures at that level of zoom.
it looks like they adjusted the light levels so the hand written note is easier to read
doing so made the right side fade because of glare?
It's light exposure. The right side of the page is overexposed because it's getting hit with (and reflecting, because it's white) the majority of the direct light in the environment in which the photo was taken.
Here is an example of different types of exposure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi_2tPJYauc
The great taste of Charleston Chew! (I wish all of this was a joke)
”I have one of the worst memories of all time”
Man needs to moisturize.
That yellowed thumbnail.
From WebMD - "Yellow Nails: One of the most common causes of yellow nails is a fungal infection. As the infection worsens, the nail bed may retract, and nails may thicken and crumble. In rare cases, yellow nails can indicate a more serious condition such as severe thyroid disease, lung disease, diabetes or psoriasis."
diabetes would make sense, and if he developed that in recent years...... maybe he isn't talking it seriously and we get to see him really fall apart
Mental
All that's happening is that Trump is outwardly doing what the US government does in a more subtle way. All US presidents have cared about since LBJ are the interests of the donor class.