The optics of Musk addressing the room while Trump is disengaged are bad enough without simply making up things that are not there.
“Why is Elon Musk acting as the leader while Trump is disengaged” is a hard question for a reasonable person to deal with.
Saying “lol look at Trump sleeping” when that’s obviously not what is happening, makes you come off as unserious and casts doubt on anything you say in the future.
Spreading misleading lies is not the way to engage with the world. (To those of you that are people and not disinformation bots/agents)
How is it obvious that he isn’t sleeping? He looks like he’s sleeping. Without the caption I would assume he’s sleeping as well.
his eyes are closed too, conservatives try to say hes posting on truth social.
His hands are very close together, he’s looking between his hands and we know Trump is a social media junkie.
Without the caption you would assume he’s sleeping because someone probably flipped through hundreds of frames of video to find the shot that looked the worst so they could post about it.
Trump, if you’re to believe the rumors, uses stimulants and drinks a lot of caffeinated soda. He’s not falling asleep in the middle of the day.
It’s worse, he’s letting an unelected man, the richest man in the world, who paid for his campaign, act as the leader while he reads Twitter.
Him merely being asleep would be preferable over Musk being in the room. Incompetent and lazy leadership by Trump would be vastly better than his simply handing the reigns of power to an unelected non-American.
That’s the messaging that needs to be happening. All this is going to do is make the blue team laugh and the red team think the blue team is ignorant.
Meanwhile, Elon is taking a chainsaw to our entire government while we’re too busy trying to score points on the other team (who are the people we need to be allying with to protect the US).
I’m not suggesting people lie, but your messaging doesn’t have to be completely true to work. That’s how the red team got elected in the first place
I’m not saying that lying and manipulation don’t work. I’m saying that we shouldn’t be on the team of the liars and manipulators.
If optics still mattered, I don’t think Trump would have won any election, let alone 2.
That’s no reason to abandon truth and give in to rampant misinformation.
This picture makes me think of the boardroom scene in the movie Dogma.
To me this picture says one thing: these reps and the sycophants that surround them were never representing the ppl. They just represent what keeps them, personally, in power.
🌍👨🚀🔫👨🚀
Jesus Christ, every single thing to come out of his campaign and mouth was projection. ‘Sleepy Joe’ my ass. More like drowsy Donny, who’s uppers are always wearing off
What gets me about this photo is how fundamentally unserious the whole scene appears. The body language of nearly everyone, the lack of focus, the shabbiness of it all… just embarrassing. I’ve seen high school clubs looking more competent and serious.
I know this is just an aesthetics thing, but it gets to me. 🤷
The body language just says “we’re all here to blow Elon”, except for Trump who is allowed to nap after a hard day of golfing.
Musk looks like the sandwich trolley guy telling people about the specials.
What you’re picking up on is body language and that’s not strictly aesthetics. It’s sometimes even more important than verbal language.
Body language predates verbal language by literal tens of millions of years so year checks out.
I mean, he’s obviously just staring at his phone, but if this had been Biden then they’d have been calling him Sleepy Joe in all the headlines. :|
Obviously? No. There is no possible way his hands could be holding that phone. And we all know he is absolutely a 2-handing smart phone user. *Yes to the rest
I think he’s got legs down there a phone could rest on.
He looks like an old man trying to take a dick pic.
OT, but what do you mean “Sign-in Required” when trying to read the post on bluesky, weren’t they supposed to be better than twitter?
This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users.
Huh. I guess that’s a feature Bluesky offers. TIL.
So the enshittification begins… I can’t think of a single valid reason for wanting only account-havers to view your post.
This is a way to slightly make a block work better to keep away from stalkers. Yes, a stalker can create another account. But it does add an additional small speed bump.
It was just added recently, like within a week or so. At least it’s the users choice unlike Twitter.
Correct, I noticed the feature recently too. I’d imagine it’s anti-spam (or at least anti-lurk?) but it’s not like you can comment without an account.
I don’t see a good enough reason to toggle that unless you’re expecting a non-user to leak it to another platform to make fun of you (e.g. Lemmy) and obviously we’re proof enough that it isn’t much of a deterrent, lol.
While I have saved this for later distribution, it looks more like he’s checking his phone. Either way, he’s not paying attention.
Obviously? No. There is no possible way his hands could be holding that phone. And we all know he is absolutely a 2-handing smart phone user. He can barely hold a 16oz bottle of water. Probably a 15.9oz at that.
his eyes are closed.
He’s obviously looking at his phone. This isn’t the burn the meme makes it out to be.
The real fucked up shit is the world’s richest man addressing the Cabinet. In a fucking baseball hat.
Yes, outrage farming misinformation doesn’t belong here (or anywhere).
Engage with reality, don’t cheer on lies because they’re lies that you like.
It should be pretty obvious the kind of damage that can be caused by people living in alternative-fact-based realities.
That’s what it looks like to me. To be honest though just about everything on the internet is probably more important than what Elongated is saying.
Oh my God this comment just made me realize when the inevitable Watergate type scandal happens with this administration it will be called Elongate
I think we need to retire -gate. Watergate was a laughable nothing of a scandal compared to what the Trump regime does daily.
I think we need to retire -gate.
OK. But please let us have Elongate first. It’s almost like centuries of English language evolution have led us to this moment.
I’ll allow it.
-a-lago
He is really old, he’ll be 79 in june. How many people that are that age, you hear they die, and you’re like, “mmhmm, they had a long life.” He should be at his country clubs being racist and assaulting women like all the other republicans. Retire, it’s just a job man.
He did retire. Here he is asleep in his chair like grandpa after thanksgiving dinner. Musk’s in charge now.
president musk, and TRUMP is not even at the front of the table hes at one of the low level pleb seats.
He is 2 years younger than my grandad. And I would not trust my grandpa to run the country. He is just too old.
I would dead ass rather roll the dice with your granddad
I would rather roll the dice with my own granddad, and he’s already dead
White House at Bernie’s
White House at Bernie’s
Ironic really that this is what we got. Bernie at White House would have been a lot better.
cant fuck up things more than trump
Sadly he could not ever run because he does not have citzenship nor has he ever been to the US afaik. He has been to Mexico though. Maybe that counts.
Only $5 million to get a “Gold” card!
He HAS been to the US then. The United States of Mexico.
Why is a) He even in there? b) still wearing that stupid hat?
Doesn’t want people to see his botched hair implants
Little Xevlar was pulling his plugs out during the compulsory shoulder rides.
B: It has become an even lamer version of the swastika armband.
Don’t see the kid anywhere in the image, so gotta have something to go on the head.
Nah, the kid isn’t a hat, he’s a human shield.
People are far less likely to shoot evil billionaires (and infinitely less likely to do so and gain public sympathy) if they do it near their spawn, so he’s been bringing his 4yo everywhere he thinks he might otherwise be shot ever since people started celebrating Luigi.
They executed the kids during the Spartacus Revolt. Gotta make sure the slave owners kids don’t come back for revenge.
Can’t see how a billionaire’s kid is any different - it’s really nothing personal.
He has seven of those horcruxes
Every time I see him with his kid, I can’t help but think of the Insufferable comic where the dude’s got baby body armor
I bet that room smells like rotting corpses and dog shit.
You don’t say?!
This is my new favorite picture, thank you
It is mine as well. I honestly don’t know who made it, but I am sure it should be spread out across the world in large numbers.
Thank you, unknown creator.
Full diapers and DMSO (If RFK Jr is present)
Only if souls have a smell.
This is pure bullshit. You can’t just make claims like this. Donald is resting his neck and eyelids from all the ass kicking he is doing. It’s exhausting Making America Great Again while fending off Musk’s attempts to top him every time he tales an impromptu nap.
/s
Did you copy and paste this directly from Twitter?
Did you miss the /s? That denotes sarcasm since tone is absent on the internet.
I’m saying it parodies Twitter comments well
He’s just diddling his phone, writing some stupid shit in all caps on his stupid social network.
More likely he twatting or truthing…whatever the term
He’s just playing the the mushroom.
You man the acorn in the mud? There’s no stem
I hope they can open a window or something
