Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

  • Pirate2377@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Is it bad that even though I’m an American and not exactly a full on Iranian supporter…but wouldn’t mind if they successfully assassinated Trump and Vance at all? It would at least be karma for starting this bullshit war in the first place

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      2 hours ago

      Nope. I’m with you. Almost feels treasonous to wish our president harm/death, but fuck him and his family.

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    6 hours ago

    Hahaha.

    I hope he loves in fear. He did all of that. He ruined the fucking nuclear treaty, he invaded when that went to shit, and now he’s losing a war.

    What a fucking goddamn dumbass. I hope he never rests well again.

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    6 hours ago

    "Look, people are asking me about aircraft catering carts. And I tell them, nobody knows catering carts better than me, okay? Nobody!

    ​These carts, they are INCREDIBLE. Absolutely top of the line.

    People come up to me, big flight attendants, strong people, with tears in their eyes, they say, ‘Sir, we put hundreds of sodas in there, the little cans, the snacks, everything, and it still moves so light. Nobody else could design a cart like this’."

    – Trump probably

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      4 hours ago

      What’s… funny I guess, is that he doesn’t even really talk like that anymore, because he barely makes it through a sentence now

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    10 hours ago

    Are they sure he was hiding in there? Maybe he just went in there to eat in private and just so happened to get wheeled on board the plane. I could see him stuffing himself inside one of those things just so we can nosh on some shrimp away from all the judgy eyes.

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      9 hours ago

      The brain aneurysm to imitate this tom foolery was long and brain deadening

      “I don’t, i don’t know what your talking about, cheese burgers are meant to be on the table,” *rubs suspiciously 40 servings of mcdonalds cheese burgers shaped belly * “not below mind you, that’s where the pizza goes, haha yes the pizza, most like my food, ok, friend of mine, a GREAT friend, my friends great ol mister big E, said if he couldn’t get a daily cheese burger slice he’d hang himself, literally had to have his cheese burgers haha what a guy, reminds me of my friend, my great friend, who got autism because he didn’t eat enough cheese burgers! Can you believe it?” rubs orange belly drool dripping from his mouth “couldn’t catch me, CAN’T catch me with my with some cheese burgers not on the table, no sir and you know what i told this friend? My guy? I said to him, we’re gobs make these cheese burgers great again and put em back on the table, so good they’ll throw another parade, like the one for my birthday yes my birthday cheese burger parade my, love for this country God yes take me, take me God for a date cuz you know he’s a good friend, his son and i real close, real close friends, you know he invited me to his last birthday party before the elephants attacked, crazy elephants wanting the cheese burgers. Maybe that’s why it’s before the table to guide the cheese burgers from the Siri democratic elephants. Good friend that was good friend.”

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    14 hours ago

    Sorry. No way Fatty McRapist is getting into a catering cart. Maybe the back of a catering van. Assuming you bleach it before putting food back in it.

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      9 hours ago

      It sounds like it was like a wheeled trolley you’d see in a hotel hallway, but I think it was actually a cargo container of some sort used to load catering cargo on and off the plane. Although I’m not completely dismissing the image of him crouched under a tablecloth being wheeled down the tarmac by a butler concealing an MP5.

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    13 hours ago

    Didn’t he survive 2 assasination attempts before without worry, what’s the difference with a mere threat?

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        15 hours ago

        They have a scissor lift box truck that the food comes in and then they lift it up to the plane and wheel the carts off. They got JFK’s dead body on air force one the same way.

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    21 hours ago

    Meaning the staff and reporters on the other plane were being used as decoys without their knowledge or consent.

    That’s pretty fucked up.

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      8 hours ago

      I bet that’s what all those civilians were saying when Americans killed 100+ people while kidnapping the president of Venezuela.

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        7 hours ago

        I’m not really sure what point you’re trying to make.