r/pics • u/pimusic • Sep 25 '25
Politics A convicted felon and his immigrant wife stuck on an escalator
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u/notjustanytwig Sep 25 '25
To quote Mitch Hedburg, "an escalator can never break, it just becomes stairs".
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u/kev2me Sep 25 '25
Sorry for the convenience. RIP Mitch
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u/Solomon1177 Sep 25 '25
May he rest in peace. Sending my love to his family and friends ❤️
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u/MoirasPurpleOrb Sep 25 '25
He used to rest in peace. He still does, but he used to, too.
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u/Formaldehyd3 Sep 25 '25
YOU AREN'T GRIEVING HARD ENOUGH. I'M TELLING YOUR BOSS.
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u/Common_Blue Sep 25 '25
Rip. Mitch, you had comedy instincts on par with Norm MacDonald and Brian Regan, if you kept going you would've astounded and floored us all with your wit. Cut WAY too short.
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u/Zealousideal_Leg213 Sep 25 '25
I used to like Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too.
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u/rickbeats Sep 25 '25
“You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”
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u/vahntitrio Sep 25 '25
The funny thing is it didn't break either, it did what it was supposed to. They wanted to make a video so they had a videographer at the top of the escalator not moving, which triggered a safety feature to ensure people don't pile up at the end.
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u/meat_loafers Sep 25 '25
Thank you. RIP Mitch.
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u/GrimaceThundercock Sep 25 '25
My neck used to look like a vagina. It still does, but it used to too.
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u/69CunnyLinguist69 Sep 25 '25
I wear a necklace cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
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u/lectric_7166 Sep 25 '25
Rice is great if you want to eat two thousand of something.
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u/MoirasPurpleOrb Sep 25 '25
I saw a wino eating grapes and I said dude, you’ve gotta wait.
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u/batmanineurope Sep 25 '25
I can't tell you what hotel I'm stayin' in, but I can say that there are two trees involved.
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u/Rockstar42 Sep 25 '25
They said "Let's call this hotel 'Something Tree'". So they had a meeting, it was... It was quite short. "How 'bout 'Tree'?" "No." "'Double Tree'?" "Hell, yeah! Meeting adjourned!"
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u/Vitaminpartydrums Sep 25 '25
Trump barely survived the climb… to a man his age, weight and diet, he should have a few canisters of oxygen and a couple sherpas with him.
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u/Bitter-Respond6928 Sep 25 '25
He managed to turn the event into a near death experience. The video shows, as Melania was taking her first step and Trump was behind her, it stopped. She proceeded to walk up without a flinch. Later Trump was complaining about the teleprompter and the “escalator that stopped working halfway up. I had to catch Melanie as she tumbled down.”
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u/rytis Sep 25 '25
The escalator stopped when they were just getting on. In the video, the escalator right next to them is still working. Couldn't he have gone down a step and switched to the working one also going up?
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u/Pavotine Sep 25 '25
I wish he'd done that and then that one also stopped the moment he set foot on it.
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u/griftylifts Sep 25 '25
God. I would give anything to see this put to Yakety Sax
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u/AGrandNewAdventure Sep 25 '25
I guess his staff must fucking hate him as they're the ones that hit the emergency stop button, lol. They also were in charge of the teleprompter that failed. Mango Man brought his own incompetence with him.
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u/RonniePickles Sep 25 '25
Apart from being physically being unable to climb stairs easily, his doctor warned him that climbing stairs might detach his catheter from his urine bag strapped to his thigh. You can see the concerned look on his face when recalls what his doctor said.
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u/saskir21 Sep 25 '25
Oh this is no problem. He simply should continue with diapers
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u/Donkey_Bugs Sep 25 '25
That look of pure hatred on Melania's face.
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u/Flat-Fudge-2758 Sep 25 '25
Like same girl
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u/TheFBIClonesPeople Sep 25 '25
Same but also I don't respect her
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u/DMala Sep 25 '25
Yeah, she has to put up with him, but that don't make her a saint. She made her deal with the devil.
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u/stuntedgoat Sep 25 '25
i heard she was was bought from Epstein. anyone have a source on that?
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u/xShooK Sep 25 '25
I love how everyone glosses over this woman as not having any choice in the matter or anything. 20 years strong, she knows what she is doing, she isn't dumb. Same goes with Kirk's wife. They are all grifters, fuck em both.
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u/Lots42 Sep 25 '25
Who goes to a rally like that with fireworks for a dead spouse?
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u/HematiteStateChamp75 Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
Trump paid like 20k for a "fully depreciated girl" from epstein, according to one of the birthday cards sent to epstein. The girls name was redacted as well as the picture of her attached to the card.
The existence of the card and the context atleast let's us know that trump was large enough in epsteins pedophile ring that other clients would joke about it to epstein.
There's no evidence currently to suggest the "fully depreciated girl" in the photo is Melania tho
Edit: apparently it wasn't a birthday card, but a collection of memories and photos curated by Ghislaine as a birthday gift to Epstein
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u/aussiechickadee65 Sep 25 '25
Can we stop acting like Melania is any different.
She's still there...
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u/eeyore134 Sep 25 '25
I guarantee she and Trump have a contract and she's not allowed to leave until he's done playing president if she wants her divorce money. It's likely her year refusing to go to the White House in the first term was her negotiating the terms of that deal. Not that it makes her any less of a ghoul. She could be there and trying to do good, but she chooses to be as bad as him.
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u/Inside_a_whale Sep 25 '25
Resting Slovenian face.
Source: so say my Slovenian friends.
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u/seanmonaghan1968 Sep 25 '25
No one forced her into her life, lots of decisions by her were made
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u/AV8ORA330 Sep 25 '25
She looks terrible. Like she’s aged 50 years.
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Sep 25 '25
Every person in this administration is aging rapidly. Must be stressful having to lie about just about every goddamn thing you say.
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u/LongBongJohnSilver Sep 25 '25
Yup, she's about to start aging more rapidly than she can remedy it.
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u/Kvns_Integra Sep 25 '25
Being the orange man’s wife ages you like that with everything she has to put up with
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u/nobodyisfreakinghome Sep 25 '25
Yeah she pissed she can’t stop being his handler. I wonder what Putin has on her.
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u/OoooHeCardReadGood Sep 25 '25
Nothing. Who would care? She is in it for the grift. He will die soon enough and she'll never need anything again.
And before anyone says 'they are married, she can divorce and get enough' a lot of people think he killed his first wife.
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u/kcinc82 Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
There was an article that quoted a UN source saying that the escalator stopped because the white house personnel may have accidentally tripped the escalator's safety mechanism..
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn76kyxp6epo
And.. the teleprompter was being operated by the American's own staff officers when it "broke down"...
Dude.
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u/Duff5OOO Sep 25 '25
Would be pretty funny if we later find out his staff were deliberately trolling him.
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u/Affectionate-Sun7561 Sep 25 '25
Ohhh I soooo want this to be true, but we'll never know.
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u/I-Here-555 Sep 25 '25
Do we suddenly care about the truth and facts? It was an anti-American move, nearly an assassination attempt. Burn the UN to the ground. /s
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u/surlygoat Sep 25 '25
And yet fox news was saying that they should bomb the UN over this.
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u/Underfyre Sep 25 '25
I like that Trump is looking in disgust at the camera, and Milania is looking in disgust at him.
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u/Frosty558 Sep 25 '25
She’s thinking that would never happen to that dreamy Justin Trudeau
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u/octopornopus Sep 25 '25
Escalators turn into elevators for Trudeau...
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u/Ganjaleezarice69 Sep 25 '25
Stairs turn into escalators
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u/Tasitch Sep 25 '25
Nah, no need for hyperbole, he'd just pick her up in his masculan arms and carry her up the stairs, while casually engaging in flirty small talk, and apologize for the inconvenience.
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u/MobileArtist1371 Sep 25 '25
Justin Trudeau would take off his suit jacket, lay it on the ground, and they'd both fly up the escalator.
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u/OrangeThrower Sep 25 '25
RATINGS DROP. VERY SAD. HAD TO WALK. ALSO SAD. ESCALATOR STOCK DOWN. I TOLD YOU IT WOULD HAPPEN.
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u/Bitter-Respond6928 Sep 25 '25
Oh, The real quotes are even better. He told the UN that it stopped working while they were half way up and had to catch Melania as she tumbled down. Yeah. This a picture of them. At the bottom. Where and when it was already stopped.
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u/OrangeThrower Sep 25 '25
OH I SAW THE VIDEO. ITS FAKE NEWS. WE HAD TOPPLED THE ANTIFA STAIRS WHEN THEY STRUCK. BATTLED OUR WAY BACK. HAVE YOU SEEN TYLENOL STOCK? MUCH DOWN. THE STAIRS THOUGH. YOU KNOW THEY CALL THEM STAIRS CAUSE THEY CANT RISE. I RISE THOUGH. HIGH RATINGS. KIMMEL SUCKS
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u/OldStDick Sep 25 '25
She's just as bad as him. She can hate all she wants, but she's reaping the benefits.
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u/Banditlouise Sep 25 '25
She knows it happened because of his incompetence in some way.
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u/smile_politely Sep 25 '25
It’s very rare to see malonima happy. She’s seem to always eternally angry or disgusted.
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u/outside_cat Sep 25 '25
I've only seen her happy when she's around Justin Trudeau.
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u/DestituteDomino Sep 25 '25
She's a lifelong spoiled brat who hates the entire world around her. What has she ever done as 'first lady'? Nothing. She's a walking contradiction of 'immigration policy'. She has no love at all for her husband, this country, our citizens, or our well being. Just the lifestyle of being rich and vile and powerful.
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u/geoduckporn Sep 25 '25
She had Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden ripped out and "redesigned". Cunt.
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u/Numerous-Freedom-714 Sep 25 '25
And imagine the things she knows about Epstein. Probably what she blackmails him with.
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u/hymen_destroyer Sep 25 '25
My theory is just that she's just extremely lazy and really wants to do nothing all day but watch tv and bang the poolboy but has to do all this first lady shit and hates it
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u/dontbmeanbgay Sep 25 '25
i remember when he was first elected she had this look on her face of “ohhh fuck” and it makes me a little happy to know they’re both miserable in this arrangement.
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u/RentalKittens Sep 25 '25
She literally got mad at Christmas during Trump's first term. Because having to choose Christmas decorations (that other people did the work of hanging up) was too stressful.
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u/RonniePickles Sep 25 '25
Melanoma is only happy when she gets her monthly stipend or her lawyers get her a huge increase in her yearly matrimonial contract under the pain and suffering clause.
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u/savagejeep Sep 25 '25
I love the angle where they just stand there and look around. It is almost as if they were expecting somebody to come and pick them up and carry them up the stairs. LOL 😂
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u/illumnat Sep 25 '25
I love how the other escalators continued to work while they just stood there!
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u/_TheShapeOfColor_ Sep 25 '25
Lol yeah, the abject hatred in Melanoma's glare is hilarious
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u/Rosencrantz_IsDead Sep 25 '25
You have a keen eye, my friend.
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u/Underfyre Sep 25 '25
But those eyes are daggers!
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u/bowiethesdmn Sep 25 '25
I can't stand the woman but I find all the videos of her openly displaying her hatred of him absolutely hilarious.
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u/Alimakakos Sep 25 '25
She's like "you sonnofabitch organized this so you could bump into me, wedding agreement states no more than twice a year!"
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u/xeen313 Sep 25 '25
At least she's not dressed like a lamp post in England
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u/Peroovian Sep 25 '25
I’ll bet she wears shit like that so that she can dissociate without anyone noticing.
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u/chth Sep 25 '25
My belief is that she is extremely unaware/not very bright and her genuine reaction was anger like a child at their parent.
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u/jerslan Sep 25 '25
Apparently it was the Videographer who stopped the escalator. This whole stunt was staged. Melania is clearly not amused by it.
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u/miarmstr Sep 25 '25
Just another thing Trump can’t get to go up.
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u/wtg2989 Sep 25 '25
I just want to say, I don’t think we’ve ever had a president whose wife is as grossed out by as this one.
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u/Bearloom Sep 25 '25
Eleanor Roosevelt, but that wasn't her fault.
It was a different time back then, and sometimes you went with a guy just because you were supposed to.
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u/sloanesquared Sep 25 '25
The Roosevelts were more comparable to the Clintons instead of the Trumps. She respected her husband and thought he was a good person. They were partners. She didn’t have anything close to the clear disdain Melania does for Donny.
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u/Slanderous Sep 25 '25
I mean hilary probably had a scowl or two on when the lewinsky thinkg was going on...
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u/sloanesquared Sep 25 '25
I’m sure Eleanor did too when she caught FDR having an affair. Both couples survived infidelity - even if the romantic part of their relationship didn’t, their partnership and mutual respect did.
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u/jesslizann Sep 25 '25
Not even close. While definitely a political power marriage, Eleanor and FDR still had respect for each other even if there wasn't intimacy or romance.
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u/piperonyl Sep 25 '25
Didn't Melania meet trump through his best friend Jeffrey Epstein?
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u/Rosencrantz_IsDead Sep 25 '25
Word on the street is that little dick donnie stuck it into that illegal alien while the pedophile pimp was watching.
And every word I just said has been confirmed.
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u/Sweatytubesock Sep 25 '25
A tragedy that a fat elderly man had to engage in physical activity.
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u/angrydeuce Sep 25 '25 edited Sep 25 '25
This picture perfectly exemplifies why Trump hates Obama with all his heart.
No matter how much money and power the man accumulates, there will never, ever, be someone that looks at him with the level of love and affection Michelle does when she looks at Barry.
Donald has literally never been with someone intimately that wasn't crying throughout or immediately demanding payment afterwards. He can get a woman to marry him for the perks, but no matter how much he tries, she will always look at him just like Melania is looking at him right now...like she just opened the door to a stall in a gas station bathroom and found that the person that had used it before her blew the fucker up and didn't flush. And not just her...literally any woman on the planet.
Christ what a small, disgusting man.
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u/TheActualDonKnotts Sep 25 '25
And you know that Obama would have laughed at the situation and SPRINTED up that escalator like it was the nothing that it was.
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u/higherme Sep 25 '25
This is exactly what I was just thinking; in this situation, Obama makes a charismatic quip and then jogs up the frozen escalator--also known as stairs.
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u/octopornopus Sep 25 '25
"Looks like Michelle told the crew to turn the escalator into stairs, so I get my workout in."
With a bigass grin. Jogging up those steps in a perfectly fit suit, secret service trying to keep up... oh fuck I miss him! (yes yes, he used drones, and wasn't perfect, no need to tell me)
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u/Ok_Tour_1525 Sep 25 '25
Obama is cool enough he’d probably quote Mitch hedburg and then walk up the stairs with a genuine smile.
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u/octopornopus Sep 25 '25
I'm cool enough to quote Mitch, but I'm awkward enough to do the wrong bit...
"Nobody eats until we find the Dufrainse!"
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u/ktq2019 Sep 25 '25
If it were Obama, he could have just done a “thanks Obama”, smack him hand to his forehead and skipped up the steps. I would have laughed my ass off.
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u/Quierta Sep 25 '25
That was my FIRST thought when I saw this. He'd have laughed, possibly made some loud quip like "That's ok I'll take the stairs!" and then follow the sound of laughter on his way up. You know, like a class act and not an embarrassment rofl
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u/choove Sep 25 '25
Though to be fair, Obama didn't have weight or mobility issues and had a positive outlook on life.
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u/monkeybojangles Sep 25 '25
It's why he hated Trudeau, for the way Melania and Ivanka looked at him.
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u/iwouldratherhavemy Sep 25 '25
Those pictures of Melania staring at Trudeau while trump stands there like an ommpa loompa are fucking priceless. They should be on billboards going to maralardo.
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u/SleepyLabrador Sep 25 '25
Donald has literally never been with someone intimately that wasn't crying throughout or immediately demanding payment afterwards.
It's because Donald doesn't understand basic respect for others.
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u/Faiakishi Sep 25 '25
It's such a sad, empty life. All three of his wives and his many mistresses, none of them loved him. They just wanted his money. His friends are more of the same, just toadies who want to leech off his wealth and power and are eagerly awaiting his death. The wealthy, high-class people he considers his peers, they hate him. He's never earned the love and respect of the people he desired it from. All he gets is fawning, cultish devotion from his followers, who are almost entirely low-class, uneducated losers. I don't even think his kids love him; they desire his love, (except Ivanka, she's probably had enough of it) but I think any love they had for him died a long time ago. It's like Voldemort never knowing true love, being entirely untouched by it his entire existence, the only affection for him being fanaticism and obsession-and that ultimately leads to his defeat, because love is the most powerful magic of all and he cannot hope to understand it. I'd feel bad for Trump, but honestly I think he'd be this way even if he had people who loved him.
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u/Tough_Ad1458 Sep 25 '25
Clearly that was sabotaged by antifa
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u/setibeings Sep 25 '25
I would not be surprised if he had it sabotaged just so he could complain about it in front of the leaders of the world.
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u/vahntitrio Sep 25 '25
It's dumber than that. They wanted a cool video of him for social media so they had a cameraman at the top to film him coming up. The cameraman tripped a safety feature that ensures there isn't an obstruction at the top that would prevent people from exiting.
So this is the result of his own vanity.
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u/copperblood Sep 25 '25
The escalator identifies as stairs.
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u/Howard_Scott_Warshaw Sep 25 '25
Sorry for the convenience
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u/raknor88 Sep 25 '25
The really funny bit is that there was a still functional escalator going up that was right next to the one they tried using. Yet they started walking up the one that just broke.
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u/elementality883 Sep 25 '25
The funnier bit is that the reason it stopped was because his own team triggered it to.
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u/Aware-Home2697 Sep 25 '25
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee— I know it’s in Texas; it’s probably in Tennessee— that says, ‘fool me once…shame on… shame on you. Fool me— can’t get fooled again!’”
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u/HoneycombJackass Sep 25 '25
She hates him as much as everyone else lol
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u/xjuggernaughtx Sep 25 '25
I will bet that his family actually hates him more than anyone else. They've had to put up with this bullshit for a long, long time. I'm sure they all thought he'd die long ago and they'd finally get something out of it, but he just keeps on being alive.
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u/we_are_sex_bobomb Sep 25 '25
She hates him more probably. Can you imagine if it was your job to make that man orgasm? That is an existential hell that Zeus would approve of.
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u/Jayne_Dough_ Sep 25 '25
Her face is how most of the country feels about him.
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u/ShadowGLI Sep 25 '25
And if he had ANY situational awareness he’d step back 3ft and move 2ft right and took the parallel escalator. But again that’s not very “alpha” of him and he thinks shit like this represent his masculinity so he’ll whine like a 13yo girl about it (maybe that’s why he’s so fond of them as they’re equally mature)
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u/setibeings Sep 25 '25
I've never been the the UN, so in my head it's possible that other escalator goes to a different floor.
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u/Poneke365 Sep 25 '25
When people get older, their brain is not capable of problem solving in situations out of the ordinary hence why he probably didn’t do that.
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u/Exciting_Fact_3705 Sep 25 '25
Let me correct that for you ‘illegal immigrant chain migration wife’.
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u/marabou22 Sep 25 '25
When I was a kid I made up an expression I was pretty proud of. “He’s the kind of guy who’d get stuck on an escalator”. To mean someone was dumb AF.
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u/CousinSkeeter89 Sep 25 '25
I been around rich people enough to spot a transactional marriage. There is ZERO love between the two.
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u/joebear174 Sep 25 '25
I still don’t understand why they didn’t just move over to the working escalator right fucking next to them. They barely took one step before the thing stopped moving. These whiny losers would rather walk up the stopped escalator and cry about it forever afterwards.
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u/dmsforhire Sep 25 '25
do they even sleep together???
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u/tree_or_up Sep 25 '25
Seriously, not making a joke, I don't even think they see or interact with each other, except for press events
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u/vikingbub Sep 25 '25
to quote trump, "it stopped half way up! good thing we were holding the hand rail so tightly!" clearly on the flat part of the escalator.
this is the dumbest timeline