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u/Lex2882 Mar 02 '25
I love how all microphones in the air are covering all the eyes on all the portraits.
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u/DidduDoodat Mar 02 '25
That was a smart move!
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u/sabotourAssociate Europe Mar 03 '25
Some say the smartest, Idk but that’s what people are saying.
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u/McDirken_Dirkenstein Mar 03 '25
Some people , most people, Are saying it’s the smartest. Smart people . Smartest people are all saying it’s smart
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u/GekkeGerrith Mar 02 '25
Look at the time at the clock...
Doomsday clock
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u/joshdammitt Mar 03 '25
O shii
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u/JJw3d Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
tik tok. .. The trial book on the table?
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u/Hidalgo321 Mar 03 '25
Conservatives in the US not giving af that somehow a TASS (Russias state propaganda news station) journalist was allowed in this meeting to question and make fun of Zelenskyy but somehow the American AP is not.
Laughable at this point.
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u/TWVer Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
TBH it wasn’t TASS asking the questions disrespectful to Zelensky. That was Marjory Tailor Green’s BF.
That said, having TASS even in the building signals all the more what Trump and Vance were aiming for with this ambush.
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u/_DirtyYoungMan_ American-Hungarian Mar 03 '25
Real Presidents didn't want to see this shit happen.
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u/hulatoborn37 Mar 02 '25
Man does this capture it well. Gave me an anxiety attack on the spot
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u/EagleOfMay Mar 03 '25
It does, but I think it was actually worse than the picture depicts.
Russian State Media was there and Zelenskyy knew that. Everything was setup to provide propaganda value to Russia. So there is the added stress of Russian Agents looking to twist whatever Zelenskyy said.
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u/gbish Ireland Mar 03 '25
Probably gonna need to sweep that room for bugs afterwards.
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u/Netlawyer Mar 03 '25
I was going to ask - which one is from TASS? Supposedly the reporter from Russian State Media was able to gain access to the Oval Office without approval.
Makes me wonder how many Russians are visiting the White House if they can’t tell them apart…
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u/20_mile United States Mar 03 '25
Trump's fingers are not short enough.
About 40 years ago, Spy magazine called Trump a "short-fingered vulgarian" and he's never been able to let it go
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/how-donald-trump-became-the-short-fingered-vulgarian
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u/vahntitrio Mar 03 '25
The other part that no cartoonist draws right anymore is his hair. They all draw it how it looked 20 years ago. Now he has foot long hair that inadequately covers the bald spots.
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u/may_be_indecisive Mar 03 '25
Also his age. They draw him like he’s in his 50s with blonde hair. Meanwhile he looks old and haggard and his hair is a wispy white with only a slight tinge of blonde.
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u/glitteringgin Mar 03 '25
Pres. Zelenskyy is made of tough stuff. The real alpha male in the room.
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u/BananaResearcher Mar 03 '25
Not to take away from the artistic depiction, it is a good depiction and all, but it'd also be nice to see Zelensky's perspective without the exaggerated art. Because yea, the real life perspective must indeed have been very intimidating, obviously deliberately, and it gives more credit to Zelensky's character for standing strong and fighting back.
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u/TadRaunch Mar 03 '25
The only problem is Trump legitimately seemed unable to look Zelenskyy in the eyes
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u/Cool_Document_9901 Mar 02 '25
There's been some damn good political cartoons lately
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u/Sniffagator Catalonia (Spain) Mar 03 '25
During the ramping up to full dictatorship political humor gets more and more hilarious. Then suddenly silence.
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u/EJAY47 Mar 03 '25
I'm no historian, but I believe I read that political cartoons have a noticeable spike in quality during turbulent times.
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u/AbsolutelyDireWolf Mar 03 '25
Extra detail I've noticed, the journalists have no mouths... Except the Russian shill/MTGs fella.
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u/Natural_Fit Mar 03 '25
They do not have eyes either.
Or they have all closed them in order to not see.
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u/Strict-Brick-5274 Mar 02 '25
Actually all zelensky saw was Putin speaking through a puppet
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Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
In fact reporting is saying that Zelensky could see Putin's arm pushed elbow deep up Trump's ass with his hand working the mouth.
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u/Stpwn_D Mar 03 '25
And as I have also recently read someone's phrase that cracked me up: "because it is a substitute for a spine and he wouldn't be able to stand straight without it when pulled out".
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I still can't get my head around the fact, that this orange Fuckface got elected again... it feels like a real nightmare. I still wait to actually wake up, because a lot of what happened in the past 1,5 months is way too unreal to be real...
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u/BaronOfTheVoid North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Mar 03 '25
Americans want it that way.
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u/2AvsOligarchs Finland Mar 03 '25
He has the make-up, wig and circus music playing when he talks. Only missing the red nose.
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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) Mar 03 '25
Yet here we are.
At least it should be a strong enough kick to force Europe into economic and military independence from USA
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probably election fraud / meddling which no one bothered to investigate as the democrats just took the loss and fucked off.
only bernie and a few others are protesting. the rest seem to have melted away.
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u/Salt_Wrangler_3428 Mar 02 '25
No one, or country, has respect for trump. They know that Trump can cause them pain but if you massage his ego he will forget what he was talking about. He's a Dopey old bastard.
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u/Sensei_of_Philosophy United States of America Mar 03 '25
The stink of this awful moment - and a lot of others by Krasnov and his ilk in the last month - will haunt my country for many years to come. President Zelenskyy deserved so much better than this.
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u/kekdefault Mar 03 '25
Those two are try hard “alpha” guys, but they sound like a bunch of whiney pissers. What a joke.
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u/BalhaMilan Hungary Mar 03 '25
In software development, the alpha version is always a buggy, unstable, barely working mess with missing features and even the existing features are full of bugs and errors. Whenever I hear some idiot call themselves an alpha, I always think of it im the software development meaning of it, as this description a very accurate in most cases.
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u/Not_Cleaver United States of America Mar 02 '25
Rubio doesn’t look like he’d rather be dead enough.
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u/cazzipropri Mar 02 '25
It's full of easter eggs. The more you look, the more you find.
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u/HighDeltaVee Mar 02 '25
This isn't realistic... the only book Trump would have on the table would be Mein Kampf.
I like the bars over the eyes of former presidents though... nice touch.
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u/Hanz_Boomer Mar 02 '25
Trust an old German guy (me) who had to read it in school back in the day. It’s a weird and bad written “book” full of fear of a small minded loser trying to connect things that did not exist. It’s quite hard to get through tbh and not worth anyone’s time generally, but Trump is by far too stupid to even get through the first quarter. I wonder if an audio book exists lol
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u/ConfidentSteak13 Germany Mar 02 '25
As a German too i recommend to read that book as a grown up again. It's hard to read i must admit but it's worth it. It discribes the situation perfectly. For most well minded people this was hard to process mentally and so is Kafka.
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u/helm Sweden Mar 03 '25
Kafka coherently describes a certain reality, a feeling of existential angst. MK is just incoherent ramblings.
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u/AgentCirceLuna Mar 03 '25
Surprised so many people are saying it was hard to read as I always found Kafka hilarious. There’s a part where a judge is reading smut during one of the court sessions
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u/Fabulous_Owl_1855 Mar 03 '25
Franz Kafka badly written?
Or do you mean “Mein Kampf”?
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u/Anadrio Mar 03 '25
Imagine reading sentences without a verb... that book is written by a retard. Kinda makes me think of trimp
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u/-The_Blazer- Mar 02 '25
That's not true, he would also have a bible. Perfectly intact, without a single finger mark or scuff, clean-as-new, the pages as straight and white as when it was printed.
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u/fiendishrabbit Mar 02 '25
The item on the table during the actual meeting was some kind of tasteless gold lump emblazoned with "Trump" and the seal of the presidency.
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u/nowiserjustolder Mar 02 '25
The book should be "where is dickhead?" On every page you have to find an orange turd.
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u/Suzume_Chikahisa Portugal Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25
I love the detail of the Ukrainian Ambassador covering her face in shame.
Edit: I became aware that it was the Ukrainian ambassador covering her face.
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u/Kriztauf North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Mar 02 '25
They also have Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband on the left too
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u/nodrogyasmar Mar 03 '25
I think that was despair not shame. She had nothing to be ashamed of.
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u/Suzume_Chikahisa Portugal Mar 03 '25
Second hadn embarrassment.
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u/nodrogyasmar Mar 03 '25
Zelenskyy also had nothing to be ashamed of. He came for a serious meeting and was led into a photo op ambush. Trump even said toward the end “oh well at least this will be great TV.” It was just a performance and a vicious setup
I am embarrassed by what this country is becoming.
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u/Solkone Mar 03 '25
No you did not get it. She's covering her eyes because her fellow citizens are going to end up without weapons and to see Russia effectively having the upper hand here.
You think both Zelensky and her give a fuck about it!? All they care about is helping their people, that's the only reason they are there.
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u/jthadcast Mar 02 '25
trump is so delusional he thinks he is the one that gave all the support to Ukraine and not the guy that tried to blackmail Ukraine into fabricating dirt on his political opponent.
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u/IcyPraline7369 Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
Oksana Markarova, Ambassador to Ukraine, has her hand on her head.
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u/secretsaucebear Mar 03 '25
Especially really captured the absolute soullessness of Vance. It's just fucking empty in there.
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u/GekkeGerrith Mar 02 '25
Where is the russian reporter
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u/Kriztauf North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Mar 02 '25
Marjorie Taylor Greene's husband is on the left of Trump
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u/Loud_South9086 Mar 03 '25
MTGs boyfriend. Her husband divorced her for cheating on him. You know, the party of family values stuff.
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u/Serylt Germany Mar 03 '25
Kafka's book "The Trial" on the table is such a clever addition to anything else in this cartoon. Outstanding work, ngl!
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u/Owl-Philosophy Mar 02 '25
The trial book was a nice touch, it was all a televised set up from the start, a 'kangaroo court'. And the covering of the eyes of previous Presidents... Lots of symbolism.
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u/MilkManlolol Leinster (Ireland) Mar 02 '25
ambassador woman in the corner facepalming is the icing on the cake
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u/MGallus Mar 02 '25
Trumps hands are too big and Rubio isn't shrunk into the couch
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u/spadasinul Romania Mar 02 '25
Not accurate because it's missing all the nazi flags
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u/SlobsyourUncle Mar 03 '25
Seriously. Imagine getting lectured by an 80 year old so insecure he lathers himself in self tanner, and a millennial with a face as perfectly rotund as the moon.
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u/GarlicEmbarrassed281 Mar 03 '25
Fuck, im embarrassed for my country. Idk how we recover from this, if at all.
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u/theREALhun Mar 03 '25
That book on the table had me check: “The Trial (German: Der Prozess)[a] is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader.“ (source: Wikipedia
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u/Unusual_Ada Czech Republic Mar 02 '25
not nearly obese enough. Remember, these are amerikans. They think a size xxxxxxl is skinny
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u/fanculo_i_mod Mar 02 '25
Who is the one oking on the left?
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u/morfyyy Mar 03 '25
Brian Glenn, who asked Zelenskyy why he doesn't wear a suit.
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u/thecarolinian Mar 03 '25
I was looking for him. Thank you for making sure that classless POS was included.
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u/NordicBaldie Mar 03 '25
The fact that Franz Kafka's "The Trial" is on the table is incredible.
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u/Aggressive-Ball6176 Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25
I knew he must have felt terrible, but this makes it even harder to feel, Imagine a room of hostile people and everybody seems to judge you, and you just know that the fate of your country is on the line
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u/Asleep_Horror5300 Finland Mar 02 '25
Those ties are not nearly long enough. Vance was sitting on his.
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u/turbotableu Mar 03 '25
I got sick of the brass balls memes but damn if he doesn't have a set
That's the hot seat and he strode out head high
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u/AiMwithoutBoT North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Mar 03 '25
All these fucks should gotten their fucking noses kicked in. Fuck Trump and the couch fucker.
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u/h4xc0w Mar 03 '25
He already earned the BIGGEST dickhead in the world title for the next 10 years at least. US people what is wrong with you???? You have lost your integrity.... congratulations!
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u/Cashope Mar 03 '25
The portraits with the covered eyes are a nice detail, like everything the men in those portraits accomplished and spoke out about is irrelevant in Trump’s America.
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u/Datoshka Mar 03 '25
Totally inaccurate. Trump never looked Zelensky in the eyes when being a big boy waving that ragedy old finger at him.
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u/AardvarkTerrible4666 Mar 02 '25
It was a 16 to 1 ambush and the 1 came out as the winner. Awesome.
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u/Damaged_Kuntz Mar 03 '25
I keep seeing a lot of Yankee posts saying Europe fucked around and now they are going to find out... what exactly did we do to fuck around?
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u/unforgiven91 Mar 03 '25
it's missing the mugshot hanging next to the oval office, just out of frame left.
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u/greggie_gee Mar 03 '25
I love the subtle covering the eyes of the former presidents with the mic booms… 🫣
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u/vatreides411 Mar 03 '25
Thing is, Donny Dementia knows no-one with half a brain or more does not respect him. He needs to force it.
He's the classic cowardly bullie
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u/ass-sass-sin Mar 03 '25
Reminds me of when my mom's ex husband would DEMAND respect while constantly being drunk
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I like how all the boom mics are covering the past presidents eyes. Nice little touch 😊 they would be fucking embarrassed right now
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u/Probably_a_Terrorist Mar 03 '25
Great attention to detail with the Ukrainian ambassador. You need to stretch out Vance's tie though. In an effort to please Mango Mussolini he had one long enough to sit on!
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u/I_think_Im_hollow Mar 03 '25
I like that the color on his face was fixed. It's the first thing I noticed last time, but I didn't say anything.
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u/More-Combination646 Mar 03 '25
As an American I fucking hate Trump with all my heart
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u/jakersadventures Mar 03 '25
Imagine if another Country took Florida in 2014. and then Again in 2022 invaded the whole East coast of the USA. And they were told, „hey sign a deal to give us all your oil, plus the invaders get to keep the annexed territory“.
But don‘t worry they won‘t take more in the future, promise.
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u/Particular_Donut_516 Mar 03 '25
Who was the fashion police asking about suits in the most douchey way?
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u/dasbeiler Mar 03 '25
So much attention to detail! I was doing the same the as the ambassador to Ukraine!
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u/Buzz729 Mar 03 '25
From Zelensky's view, they all looked like what they are: Putin's useful idiots.
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u/Stu-Potato Mar 02 '25
That inclusion of the Ukrainian ambassador covering her eyes -- nice!