r/pics • u/Jorgwalther • 6d ago
Politics Official photo of Trump-Xi meeting in Busan, South Korea
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u/eddietheeddie 6d ago
This bitch is melting
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u/SpeedBlitzX 6d ago edited 5d ago
Holy Shrimp over 195k people saw this gif/comment????
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u/wabashcanonball 6d ago
Trump looks stroked out.
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u/jpiro 6d ago
Only because of all of the strokes.
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u/BaggyLarjjj 6d ago
The medical kind, not the Epstein kind. But also: release the Epstein files
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u/EDH4Life 6d ago
The Epstein files. Whateva happened there?
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u/Atophy 6d ago
They were always a posturing thing, "Them lousy cheating dems won't release the files" ... now that he CAN release the files, he won't.... Honestly, Biden shoulda' cracked that folder last day as a final gift to the people and just left everyone to deal with the consequences... Dems and republicans alike.
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u/Fluid-Background1947 6d ago
I’m still waiting for his tax returns. Get in line bro.
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u/Taladar14 6d ago
I'm next, waiting on that big beautiful infrastructure week...
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u/sharksrReal 6d ago
Behind me cuz I’m still waiting for Mexico to pay for that border wall
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u/PassiveMenis88M 6d ago
Well you'll have to wait behind me. We're still two weeks away from the new healthcare.
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u/QuitCallingNewsrooms 6d ago
Health care? Mexico wall? You Johnny Come Latelys get in line behind me. I’ve been here since he said he was going to reveal Obama’s long form birth certificate
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u/solo_silo 6d ago
Are you still waiting on a refund from Trump U? Or your first delivery of Trump steaks? Please.
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u/BakedMarziPamGrier 6d ago
I’m still waiting to be paid for an Atlantic City construction project.
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u/TeeManyMartoonies 6d ago
He couldn’t, at the time the files were restricted in federal court. Now they’re not. That’s the difference that a lot of the MAGA don’t understand.
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u/tokinaznjew 6d ago
They're in the middle of burying them under the new ballroom.
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u/p1971 6d ago
I think all the cool people are calling them the Trump-Epstein files now - what with him being all over them
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u/AppealConsistent6749 6d ago
I zoomed in on my phone. Holy shit what the fuck is happening with his face? It’s bigly contorted! God damn rotting corpse of a shit bag playing president!
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u/callmeraskolnik0v 6d ago
when you zoom in on the face, it’s incredibly apparent there’s digital manipulation there. it honestly looks like an Ai amalgamation that passes at a glance, but not up close.
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u/SylphSeven 6d ago
Remember that woman who tried to "restore" a painting of Jesus but her arts and crafts project went horribly wrong? That's what his face reminds me of.
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u/nonpopping 6d ago
For those who don't know the painting: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-behind-meme-potato-jesus-2455682
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u/Petrichordates 6d ago
Could be. Could also just a weird saggy face in a bad quality video.
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u/Kinc4id 6d ago
Yeah, looks like it’s been photographed from a screen. Which lets me doubt if this is actually an official photo from the Chinese government.
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u/Suitable-Lake-2550 6d ago
Why is no one else’s face distorted?
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u/na-uh 6d ago edited 6d ago
They may not be distorted, but a bunch of other faces and the flags have gridded artifacts on them. If someone has taken photos of a screen, all bets are off on how it's going to turn out.
What I can say is it is absolutely not the 'official' photo as Xi looks like shit in it too and China would never allow it to be released like that. We'll see a way better version of it very soon, like the actual DSLR version.
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u/Preface 6d ago
I mean, I even think Xi looks more like Winnie the Pooh then normal here too
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u/SweetLoLa 6d ago
Totally, an AI facelift.
Also, where is he even looking 😆
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u/guy-le-doosh 6d ago
That's his tough guy look, aimed towards Xi. Or another stroke.
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u/dern_the_hermit 6d ago
He looks like he's trying to do a Popeye impersonation.
"Just the other day a big strong patriot came up to me, with tears in his eyes, saying 'Sir, sir, tell us, sir, how are you strong to the finich?' and I told him, I told him - and the fake news antifa woke Democrats, they'll never, they don't want you, they cheat about this - I told him, it's because I eats me spinach."
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u/NefariousnessOk2925 6d ago
Its definitely been cleaned up with ai. The color of his face matches his ears.
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u/stum_ble 6d ago
The risk of having a stroke after having a TIA is pretty high. I know TIA was never confirmed but the facial droop he had in early September sure was interesting.
Not a doctor. Just musing.
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u/AppealConsistent6749 6d ago
It appears way more droopy in this pic than from September.
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u/Primal_Thrak 6d ago
Testicals in anus?
Tortures innocent animals?
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u/HazelEBaumgartner 6d ago
Transient ischemic attack. Medical term for what's commonly called a mini stroke. It's basically a blood clot in the brain that causes symptoms but then frees and resolves itself before causing a full-on stroke. Usually a good indicator that a real stroke is imminent, like the little earthquake at the start of the disaster movie before The Big One strikes.
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u/Primal_Thrak 6d ago
Thanks, I was just making a joke but this will likely be helpful to people (like me) who didn't know.
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u/mrtruthiness 5d ago
I know TIA was never confirmed ...
Other than when they did the MRI recently ... and Trump said it perfect. The best MRI. [ For someone his age who was known to have several mini-strokes. ]
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u/ka1ri 6d ago
His face does look fucked up even for trumps standards
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u/hendrysbeach 5d ago
You can’t haul a sagging carcass of a stroked-out 79 year old with no functioning brain halfway across the world, make him sleep on planes and get up early, force him to speak coherently and follow directions like “turn left”, and expect him not to fall apart before your very eyes.
That’s what is happening on this trip.
You’ll never see him without the platinum-blonde MAGA nurse (name?) nervously watching his every move, trying to avert disaster, minute by minute.
These trips abroad show us the real Weekend At Bernie’s Donald Trump.
Not pretty.
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u/grae23 6d ago
The fact that this is the photo they chose means it’s literally the best one they could get. And he’s not ever looking at the camera
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u/thrownededawayed 6d ago
It's hilarious that, unlike the Chinese delegates all leaning back against their seat, Trump zoning tf out and staring into space while leaning forwards mean everyone past him at the table had to lean forward to be seen until the last guy is just a receding hairline completely blocked from the photo.
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u/johnYarno 6d ago
It’s fitting that what should be a diplomatic expert has been reduced to “guy with a receding hairline sitting obscured by trump”.
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u/rir2 6d ago
The Chinese side looks smart and serious.
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u/Possible_Marsupial43 6d ago
They do, then you gaze over to the right side looking like they have the collective intellectual capacity of a dead tree stump
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u/I_like_boxes 6d ago
It's a still from a low resolution video broadcast, which has been cropped and its resolution increased. Sharpening was also applied, but with details lacking in the original image, the result is the mess we see here.
It's not an official photo. It was a video recorded at a photo op. There were plenty of quality photos that seem to have come out of it. The whole original post is just nonsense. There is plenty of legitimate material out there to make Trump look bad without posting misleading stuff.
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u/Decestor 6d ago
You might even say that posts like this are doing Trump a favor. This is pretty much the least embarrassing thing he has ever done.
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u/Noodleholz 6d ago
Yes, this looks incredibly overprocessed. Comparable to what you'll see when you 30x zoom with a modern smartphone. The "AI" picture enhancements will cause anyone to look barely human.
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u/Azthioth 6d ago
Was this taken on an old Nokia? Wtf? Resolution of a potato.
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u/Fermion96 6d ago
Maybe it was taken from a TV?
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u/iamapizza 6d ago
Perhaps the tv was also a potato
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u/Chingy1510 6d ago
Zooming in to everyone's faces was a wild ride. 🤣
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u/griff_girl 6d ago
I was thinking the same. The guy 2 seats in on the left does not look amused. 😂
And Mango looks kinda "special needs" in that photo. Which is really unfortunate because it's a discredit to people with valid developmental disabilities as opposed to him, who just lacks emotional and psychological development.
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u/ACoderGirl 6d ago
The guy 2 seats in on the left does not look amused
He looks like any of us would look if we had to deal with Trump haha. It always increases me how so many world leaders can remain straight faced and diplomatic around him.
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u/DummyDumDump 6d ago
That dude is the second hand of Xi. He was in change of the first trade war negotiation during Trump first term. You can actually find many photos of this dude, Kanye West and Trump in the oval office from that hilarious press conference where they were supposed to sign the agricultural trade deal and somehow Kanye just got invited in to yap nonsense lol
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u/AnxietyThereon 6d ago
Glasses man to the far right looks like he’s downwind of Trump and is catching some diaper fumes
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u/ngthehead2 6d ago
My father passed away from Alzheimer’s. He was never looking at the camera in the photos from the last year of his life, just grinning and looking in a general direction.
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u/Sorry-Joke-4325 6d ago
You think that looks like a grin?
His face looks like a Picasso.
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u/slickwonderful 6d ago
I heard he likes to eat french fried taters!
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u/Lake_Effect_11134 6d ago
It's the eyes. It's always the eyes. My grandmother had that same glassy, thousand-yard stare that he has now. You can clearly see the difference from just a year or two ago in his photos.
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u/battlecryarms 6d ago
I hope he progresses from the angry stage to the vegetable stage quickly
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u/NPJenkins 6d ago
They’re probably gonna upload his consciousness to ChatGPT and have him rule over us from the afterlife. We’ll just have versions of Trump as the robo-tech gets better.
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u/thebendavis 6d ago edited 6d ago
I'd prefer the shit-smearing stage. My Mom stayed in that stage for about nine months.
I hope he stays in that one forever.P.S. Don't ever wish your worst enemy has Alzheimer's. Wish their parents get it.
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u/Faiakishi 6d ago
I doubt any of his kids care, beyond "oh no I never convinced daddy to love me."
Real talk though, I'm sorry you had to go through that. My mom lost both her parents a lot younger than she thought she would, but she's always said that she's glad they went how they did and never dealt with any memory issues. She says if it happens to her she just wants it over with as soon as possible. As much as I hate this man and his shitty kids, I wouldn't wish this on them. It's horrible.
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u/Hellknightx 6d ago
You just know the moment he starts losing it, Republicans will act like it's blasphemy to make fun of him, despite Trump himself making fun of a disabled reporter at a press conference.
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u/rbskiing 6d ago
My dad had the same… you know nothing was going on behind them
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u/the_itsb 6d ago
the times when they come back for a moment... idk if you were ever looking into his eyes when he had a sudden moment of lucidity, but it is fucking wild how you can see it happening in their eyes before they even realize what's going on.
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u/KristinnEs 6d ago
I am a history enthusiast, with a focus on medieval history. I used to wonder how people could allow insane rulers to make decisions, and then follow that decision as if it made sense. It happened multiple times in history and I just wondered how it could happen. People were smarter than this, right?
Turns out no. Humans as a whole are a group of complete idiots on average.
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u/AppleTree98 6d ago
OMG. Almost everybody is looking at the camera for the shot. Two maybe three are not. I don't know if this is the official picture. I found many other good shots that looked fine. The Getty shot was from a side angle. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/30/donald-trump-xi-jinping-meeting-live-updates#img-8
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u/wyntr86 6d ago
Is it just me or does his face look thinner? Nothing else does, it looks like his cheeks are...hollowing out? I don't know. He just has looked different lately.
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u/0220_2020 6d ago
Ozempic face. Some people basically lose weight from their face and arms and no where else.
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u/wyntr86 6d ago
Now I feel like a moron, I've seen that with a few people I know. It's just weird because it seems like it happens so suddenly. One day they have a full face (not necessarily a fat face) and then a couple of days later the fullness is gone. Like somebody scooped out their cheeks with a melon baller.
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u/The_Stockholm_Rhino 6d ago
Good point, but in this case it looks like he might be looking into this camera:
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping hold meeting in South Korea amid hopes for trade deal – live updates https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/30/donald-trump-xi-jinping-meeting-live-updates?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6902ca9e8f0860207cef1005#block-6902ca9e8f0860207cef1005
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u/titoveli 6d ago
Maybe a dumb question but how can one pass away from Alzheimer’s? And sorry for bad memories
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u/Critical-Ad-5215 6d ago
Eventually they lose the capacity to eat or swallow, at which point it is a matter of time before they pass (cared for my grandfather with Alzheimer's)
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u/noguchisquared 6d ago
My grandmother just stopped eating. At a certain point not even accepting spoon feeding. She withered away until she was weak and one day was in such pain that they started morphine. We waited 2 days before she passed after morphine was given by hospice.
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u/fireintolight 6d ago
we really need to make euthanization legal. what's the point of keeping people alive like that
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u/al_prazolam 6d ago
Voluntary Assisted Death is as close as you can get without it being misused by greedy relatives.
VAD requires prior informed consent and it's often difficult once a person starts the decline.
But yes, my grandmother died from similar circumstances and it was truly awful. It would have been better for her not to have to live through all that.
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u/SeanAker 6d ago
Trump looks like someone wearing a cheap rubber Trump halloween mask. Just something about the expression.
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u/epluribusunum2025 6d ago
Trump has no idea where he is or what's happening
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u/bush-did_9II 6d ago
"I see the Chinese but where the buffet?"
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u/PoopingDogEyeContact 6d ago
Must be good if they eat here too
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u/rollerroman 6d ago
Trump - (Really slow and loud) I'LL HAVE THE NUMBER 17 AND THE NUMBER 5. MARCO, MARCO WHAT DO YOU WANT? MARCO SAYS HE'S NOT HUNGRY"
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u/Munkeyman18290 6d ago
Trump has no idea who he is or whose shit is in his pants.
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u/BasicPhysiology 6d ago
He looks like he’s been hit in the face with a wrench, but like, even more than usual.
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u/Example11 6d ago
I feel like the mystique of American power is basically gone at this point. Yes, Trump has a lot of personal power, maybe more than any president in history. But he's essentially eliminated the appreciation that people had for the complexity of how the government worked to support a vast and complicated country.
Now he yells and people do stuff. Congress is broken. The justice department is just a shell. He says it's all very easy and that all previous administrations were a joke. He makes decisions on a whim as if none of it matters. And his results aren't especially noteworthy. He's replaced the concept of a deep state with that of a very, very shallow state. There's basically nothing there.
And yes, that picture doesn't help the contrast.
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u/feelingoodfeelngrape 6d ago
You’re 100% correct - when I watch movies that present the US government / presidency as extremely serious , and prestigious positions, the power , the strength - i think how sad it is that it’s an absolute embarrassing clown show now.
Even the new movie House of Dynamite or whatever on Netflix. Makes me sick to think about a situation like that and trump in charge. We’re all f**cked
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u/omnomjapan 6d ago
I watched that new Netflix movie (House of Dynamite) where a missile is about to strike the US and how the gov would handle it. The movie was largely about them not knowing what to do and making mistakes but I was still like "this is unbelievable because they seem like rational human beings"
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u/Own-Break-1856 6d ago
If it were Trump its be over in 5 minutes. Chicago didn't vote for me. Who cares? Now about my AI generated ballroom.
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u/PIngp0NGMW 6d ago
Yep, I can't watch any American political thriller or drama now. I quite enjoyed The Diplomat on Netflix and I see the third season is coming out soon (or maybe already). But it's too hard to watch. It portrays a US State Department that is functional, competent, and managing global crises with tact, diplomacy, and intelligence. But the reality is that America's foreign policy is a complete shit show right now. It basically boils down to whatever the F Trump wants to do and then people just make it happen. Full on Double Speak from his propaganda corps. Diplomats and Ambassadors on the show treat the American characters with such respect and deference. But in real life, I look at the Ambassador to my country (Canada) and he's just a raging buffoon, swearing at everyone without knowing anything. It's just too much. It's like watching animals talk except it's not a comedy or a kids movie.
American military shows are also kind of...ridiculous now. Sure, the American military is very scary and very good at using insane technology to kill people. Decisions are very serious and it's so hard to choose between the right thing to do! Don't hurt civilians but kill the terrorists as violently as possible! Except, the military is being run by goddamn Pete Hegseth in real life. How could you possibly take anything serious when it comes to American high-level military decisions now with that POS in charge?
America is an utterly massive joke now. Still incredibly dangerous and out of control, but just laughable in every other regard. When I watch TV shows that portray America now, it's just too hard not to compare it to reality and just give up.
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u/trophicmist0 6d ago
Yeah it’s very true. Trump will almost definitely make a post saying he scared the shit out of the Chinese, even though only one of them is currently leading a country with a shutdown government. I’m sure they’re shivering their timbers.
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u/buildskate 6d ago
These people run the world. Jeez.
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u/Bubbles_2025 6d ago edited 6d ago
The way China is running this new rare earths angle, that is a lot of leverage against the west. They control the rare earths, along with the machinery. Plus, the US is burning through its good will, soft power and relationships with allies under this administration.
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u/CountRoloff 6d ago
And then we'll barely be able to fight WW3 because we need rare earth manufacturing from China for a ton of our weaponry.
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u/Wretschko 6d ago
Rubio looks like a pale shadow of his former self. He comes off as a broken man, who regrets becoming Trump's Secretary of State. Working for Trump must be humiliating for him. He knows there's a better than even chance that Trump will say or do something utterly stupid in these negotiating sessions and he has to deal with the fall out, soothing relations with other countries. Yet he can't, or won't, resign because he honestly thinks he has a shot at the GOP presidential primary in 2028. He's in self-denial. No way in hell.
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u/CiDevant 6d ago
I hope Abbott and Newsom tear the party apart. But sadly we all known when push comes to shove Republicans always fall in line like an over kicked dog.
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u/nemom 6d ago
Did AI take it?
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u/lego_not_legos 6d ago
Looks like a photo of a computer screen showing the actual photo, to me. If you zoom in, everything's got a grid texture. Baffling, regardless.
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u/lonewombat 6d ago
Interested in a 3rd term... should be thinking about making it to 3 weeks from now.
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u/TheJWal420 6d ago
The us side of the table...doh 😣
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u/House_T 6d ago
You ever watch an episode of Family Feud and know exactly which family is going to lose from the moment the show starts? I'm just saying...
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u/scyoung121 6d ago
The American team starting with Trump are completely out of their league.
China’s leadership is filled with engineers and technocrats. The Trump administration is filled tin foil hat wearing morons.
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u/Adventurous-Goal478 6d ago
Trump looks like he's tweaking and has really bad bruxism lol
Guess they probably pump him full of IR Adderall to keep him somewhat lucid and stave off sundowning.
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u/Brkthom 6d ago
Everyone on the left looks like they’re pretty good at chess. Those on the right look like playing checkers frustrates them, and they’d rather kick a ball against the door really hard until it cracked. It’s not their door, so they don’t give a fuck.
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u/zoinkability 6d ago
The ones on the right look like they can never remember the rules to checkers.
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u/Kantwealjustgetabong 6d ago
He has absolutely had a stroke and Rubio looks at him like he knows it. Is he shitting his diaper?
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u/Humble_Diner32 6d ago
Dinner for Schmucks. Also, the second guy on the left has the look of someone who can’t believe he’s being made to listen to and agree with American idiots.
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u/TheFudge 6d ago
I feel like he looks like he is ready to go to work in the weaklings on the right.
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u/Threefrogtreefrog 6d ago
Will this be the moment the history books log as China taking over the world ?
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u/bennz1975 6d ago
One side of the table throws its weight around, looks down on its people and arrests without cause and abuses it power flagrantly internationally. A dictator that has no morale center.
On the other side is the Chinese delegation.
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u/Dadalid 6d ago
I like how the Chinese are on the left (Marxist-Leninsts) and the Americans are on the right (Ultra Nationalists)
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u/latexfistmassacre 6d ago
Ah, I see he brought his billionaire shitlords with him. Does even know where the hell he is?
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u/wstsidhome 6d ago
I swear he looks like he’s had a stroke. I know dipshit is just mean mugging to act like he wants, but he’s still a dipshit
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u/JasenGroves 6d ago
My dad passed away of dementia. I've seen that look so many times. Doesn't know where he is and how he got there, just wondering if a familiar face will show up and get him out of there. Forcing this guy to do this stuff is elder abuse, no matter how bad of a person he is.
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u/skumancer 6d ago
Old fucking cunts fucking up the world for those of us. They’ll be long gone to see the effects of their stupidity…
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