‘How Embarrassing’: Trump Mocked For ‘Pretending To Be President’ In Strange Ceremony

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2. is it illegal for a “citizen” to pretend to be an elected official of the country…like president?

3. Or let’s say the obvious – Trump is such a cheap bastard he probably had a ton of these made on the Gov’t dime and now gives them out so he doesn’t have to pay anything.

4. This will just feed directly into his Qults delusions.

   Also From Taro Aso’s wiki page:

   «  He praised the Nazi Party for being able to stealthily modify the German constitution without alerting the general public, and once said “Hitler, who killed millions of people, was no good even if his motive was right”. »

   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarō_Asō

5. I’m reminded of the portugues dictator Antonio Salazar. In 1968, he slipped in the bath and fell into a coma. He was quietly deposed, since he was 79 and already in ill health, so he probably wouldn’t come through, and so he was replaced by Marcelo Caetano. A month later, he did wake up, but he wasn’t all there and his aides didn’t have it in them to tell him what happened. Instead, they Goodbye-Lenined him, and pretended everything was a-ok and he was still in charge. He got fake papers to sign and even had ministers show up for meetings. They printed fake newspapers about how great things were going with Salazar as president and not a word about Caetano. He died nearly two years later, never knowing that he wasn’t the leader of Portugal. I think that’s a good way to go. I wouldn’t mind that when I go old and insane, someone pretended that I was in charge of a country.

   I guess my point is, I don’t mind Trump and his minders playing president, I’d just prefer they did it in private and didn’t try to force the rest of us into the delusion.

6. > Trump was fond of giving away ceremonial keys while he was president, telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he could use it to gain entry basically forever.  “Even when I’m not president anymore, you can walk up to the front gate of the White House and present it, and they will let you in,” he told Netanyahu 

   As a former Duty Officer in the White House Situation Room, I would like to reassure the American people that this is not how it works.

   EDIT: For anyone interested, I did a verified AMA a number of years ago about it

   https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/97uww5/iama_former_duty_officer_in_the_white_house/

7. The fact that so many people support this corrupt idiot is so embarrassing for the United States. What have we become?

8. Well, he mostly pretended to be president while actually in office, so seems fairly on brand tbh

9. Two demented racist losers pretending to be somebody they are not – surprised the key wasn’t bright primary colored plastic and packed in a Fisher-Price box.

10. I hope they have changed the locks.

11. Trump was voted into office, despite his numerous political and personal shortcomings and the GOP kept claiming that he would ‘pivot’ and become more ‘presidential’. Well, Trump’s been out of the White House for over 3 years now and it looks like he finally pivoted, while *pretending* to be a President.

12. I feel like he was pretending to be president when he was president.

13. It is so fucking weird to hear all of his attorneys in court refer to him as “President Trump,” while all of the judges, justices, and prosecutors refer to him as “former president Trump” or just “Mr. Trump.”

    I presume that they are dog-whistling (in the least opaque way) to the conspiracy theories that he *actually is* still POTUS, that he is secretly running the country remotely from Mar-a-Lago. I thought that that bit of idiocy died out with Qanon, but this weird story reinforces that presumption.

    I’d say it must be mortifying for his attorneys to exhibit such self-debasing behavior, but these people have no shame.

14. I remember reading a story about him giving someone cufflinks or something and making a big deal about how insanely valuable they were. This was before he was president. The person that were gifted them was so happy to be given such an exclusive gift, they had to get them appraised for insurance. The guy appraising told her it was mass produced and totally worthless junk.

    I just googled it. It was Charlie Sheen: https://nypost.com/2016/06/21/trump-has-been-giving-out-fake-diamond-cuff-links-for-years/

15. He has been illegally acting as president every time he has meetings with heads of state at Mar-a-Lago.

16. Isn’t it well known that he doesn’t know how to let things go? Not surprising that after 4 years, he still plays pretend like a child.

17. I guarantee there are people out there who still think Trump is president because they only see extreme right wing media that exclusively refer to them as “President Trump” and “Biden (or some derogatory nickname)”

18. He loved the attention he got from all over the world when he was President. How we ever voted for a psychopathic narcissist is beyond me . The worst thing this country ever did was allow this piece of human garbage to become the ruler of the free world. He will not stop trying to reinstate himself as President as long as he lives. Even more frustrating is the fact that some people in Washington still treat him as the President, allowing him to interfere with government policy

19. He lies so much, he lost track of reality.

20. Just a bit more evidence that Trump is off his rocker. Not only don’t vote for this guy, tell the world why.

21. He’s setting the stage for his last and most desperate way out of his charges, trying to convince everyone he’s still president and therefore can pardon himself.

22. In Norwegian there’s a term for people like Trump. It’s called Mist-Lord. Because their words are like a cloud of mist to conceal their incompetence

23. Man I’d hate to be a Republican. I mean outside of just being a monumental moron who gets their news from personified litmus tests for stupid, and being on the wrong side of history at practically every turn, but the idea of facing every new day being more of an embarrassment than you were the last, just seems like an awfully sad existence.

24. He pretended to be president when he was in office too.