Donald Trump on Saturday was hit with an avalanche of criticism in response to his suggestion that he looks like Elvis Presley.The former president said earlier in the day that people throughout his life have compared his looks to those of the King of Rock and Roll. Even on Truth Social, the ex-pres...
  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
    139·
    9 months ago

    I agree. He looks like a man who took too many drugs, ate too much junk, and then died on his bathroom floor mid-shit.

  • seth@lemmy.world
    1071·
    9 months ago

    It’s so weird that this is the statement that makes some of his supporters question his sanity or ability to form and communicate coherent thoughts…I would say there’s a trail of breadcrumbs of much more damning statements going back as far as you’re willing to look, but it’s more like a trail of roach-infested bakeries.

  • Octavio@lemmy.world
    95·
    9 months ago

    If saying he looks like Elvis is damaging to him when trying to overthrow the country didn’t, that will be weird.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      9 months ago

      It is entirely within expectations of the fucked up timeline we’ve found ourselves in, though.

      Call for treason and insurrection? Uproarious Cheering.

      Fuck children? Endless defense and excuses (and cheering)

      Wants to fuck his own daughter? “Well hell yeah, I’d fuck my daughter too if she looked like Ivanka!” - Disturbing number of republicans when looking at a pre-teen picture of her.

      But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        10·
        9 months ago

        Politics works under WWE rules now. Trump is the heel they like. As long he’s doing fucked up shit to the face characters, they keep on cheering.

        Him trying to be a face character is bad because people only like him for being the heel.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        But say you look like Elvis? Oh my god, thats just so inhuman and so far fetched.

        Is there any evidence that anyone who cheered for him in the above is in that boat? I’m pretty sure it’s a subset of the people upset about the treason, sexual assault, seemingly incestuous desires. Because speaking as someone who finds Trump utterly despicable, I fail to see why in the world I should care that he is vain enough to declare himself like Elvis. That’s utterly harmless narcissism on normal scales, let alone grading on the Trump curve.

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
      9·
      9 months ago

      Not really. His followers revere him because they believe his is so strong. Pretty much the only strategy that can work against him is to make them believe he is failing or is becoming a joke. When they become embarrassed about him.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    731·
    9 months ago

    No fucking shit he’s demented. Seriously, this is the first time we are seeing this in a headline? And it’s from rawstory, and it’s in quotes?!

    Goddamn, corporate news media - do your fucking goddamned jobs and call it like it is - YES he’s got dementia. He’s also a rapist and a convicted fraud if you want to really get down with the trüfax instead of the weak ass bullshit you normally run to goose this pathetic horserace as per your republiQan owners’ instructions.

    Oh yeah and he orchestrated a failed coup to stay in power that got some people killed. Dunno if you knew that or not based on how you talk about him and what he does. I’d be happy to direct you to ALL THE GODDAMNED PROOF if you need, just hit me up there. Corporate news media. You utter shitbags. This entire trump fiasco - all of it - is absolutely your fault. You can’t be destroyed fast enough.

      • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        So Trump is zombie Elvis with a fake tan and a comically bad comb-over…

        Still nowhere near as crazy as many of the Qanon consist theories over heard

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
      13·
      9 months ago

      I was gonna say, I can see a mild resemblance to the Elvis before he died, but even then Trump is a lifelong 4 or 5 and fat Elvis was still an 8.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    64·
    9 months ago

    “OMFG [Ivanka Trump where the hell are you?!?!?!? Politics aside do something FFS,” the user, Jil, wrote.

    Sounds like she is doing something. She’s avoiding her father’s clusterfuck now that she and her husband got their multi-billion dollar Saudi deal and don’t need him.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    61·
    9 months ago

    If you want to destroy him, double-down on these delusions.

    Why stop at Elvis? Get him talking about his theory on aliens, ask him to compare himself to Jesus and whether he’d do a better job of spreading Christianity than the big man himself, get him to discuss how to split Gaza to make everyone happy, ask how a successful coup of the whitehouse would look like, maybe even ask if Rosa Parks was being reasonable by not getting up out of her seat.

    You don’t destroy people like this by pointing out how stupid they are, because those die-hard followers will still worship him if he answers all the above. Where he’ll be destroyed is in having those on the fence go from “he’s a bit crazy, but he’ll do something, so I’ll vote for him” to “he’s fucking nuts, he’ll do something crazy, so I’ll vote for Biden”.

    • modeler@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      Have you seen his, ahem, retruth of the video ‘and God created Trump’ video? He’s literally comparing himself to Jesus. And his followers went wild!

  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    56·
    9 months ago

    The man is a narcissist, and constantly compares himself to other, much more successful people. He will hint at it if the person is controversial or outright state it if benign.

    He’d like to be seen as intelligent as an MIT professor, as honest as Lincoln, as famous as the Mona Lisa, as dangerous as Al Capone, as persecuted as Mandela.

    He’d none of these things, but he wants to plant that association in your head. It’s transparent and a consistent core of his disorder.

  • notannpc@lemmy.world
    501·
    9 months ago

    With each passing day we march further and further into “no reasonable, rational person would vote for that man” territory.

    How fucking brain damaged is this country?

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    341·
    9 months ago

    The mistake here is thinking that his supporters will care, if they even hear about it.

    They won’t.

    As long as he is hurting the right people, they will excuse anything.

  • lobotomo@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 months ago

    This is one of those stories that I have to apply the filter of: STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

    He says this shit on purpose to get a rise out of stupid people that hate him. It keeps him in the news in areas he would normally drop to the wayside. Say what you will about his mental acuity or emotional intelligence, the man knows how to stay in the spotlight.

    I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
      9·
      9 months ago

      Idk, the dude has been showing signs of advancing dementia for a few years now.

      I think we’re at most a few months from him sundowning on live TV. If his heart lasts that long, that is.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I’ll generally agree, but at least based on this article, I wouldn’t say “I think I look like Elvis” to be a matter of diminishing mental capacity, it’s just unjustified narcissism.

        There’s so much other things to illustrate mental capacity issues that I feel like we shouldn’t feel compelled to rope this into that neighborhood. That just serves to discredit the criticism.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      And this one is… so utterly pointless…

      So he says he looks like Elvis, big deal. He’s full of himself so it should be no surprise that he has an unrealistically optimistic self-image. As far as things goes, this is so utterly harmless.

      So ok, have a chuckle that he is way off base, but trying to use this as evidence of “dementia”? There’s so much better to go on and this silliness doesn’t even rate on the scale. I could easily imagine a 30 year old Trump saying the same delusional thing but without thinking “diminished mental faculties”.

      When there’s media hysterics about something as benign as this, it lends credence to the voice of critics that the media is just crazily, irrationally going after Trump. Meanwhile, there’s an endless flow of really damning stuff to fixate on without having to ‘stretch’ to discuss something like this.

      Like with Obama, at least I understood why the conservatives had to go nuts about a tan suit or a fist bump, Obama just didn’t provide much fodder for them to work with. Resorting to about the equivalent with Trump seems completely needless.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 months ago

      STOP GIVING THIS WINDBAG AIR.

      BUT HE’S THE FRONTRUNNER FOR THE PRESIDENCY

      Its not like Trump just goes away if you stop paying attention to him.

      I can’t think of a better situation to apply the treehouse of horror/Paul Anka maxim: Just don’t look.

      That worked as a punchline to anthropomorphic ad monsters doing spoofs and goofs in a cartoon. It isn’t advice that’s neatly transferable to chief executives in positions of immense power and privilege. I can’t ignore Donald Trump any more than I can ignore Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, because I am constantly surrounded by the consequences of their decisions.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
    322·
    9 months ago

    Can we dig up Elvis and do a side by side comparison? He’s probably right, but I don’t suppose fat Elvis is fat anymore.