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ZZenith

(4,121 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2019, 02:26 AM Oct 2019

Methinks the Irish are not all that enamored with Donald Trump...

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/trump-dances-like-a-sexy-pile-of-cheese-in-his-take-on-me-style-video-1.4036242

“Trump dances like a sexy pile of cheese in his Take on Me-style video

The US president, flickering like an alt-right Morten Harket, appears like a lovable savant

Patrick Fryne

A pencil drawing of Donald Trump emerges from the white void. He is fully dressed, in his trademark suit and red crotch cloth (his tie), though, given what the film-makers are going for here, I feel as if he should be wearing nothing but a short belly top, like Winnie-the-Pooh.

Indeed, we learn over the course of the 40-second animation retweeted by the president that Trump, flickering in and out of pencilled reality like an alt-right Morten Harket, is a lovable and inspiring savant.

Uplifting piano and strings play as he says inspiring things. The film- makers should get credit for finding them, really, amid the bizarre non sequiturs, coded bigotry, uncoded bigotry and glitching computer code that usually erupts from his puckered beak (lips) or his digital hindparts (Twitter)...”


Much more at the link - scathing and well-written.
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Methinks the Irish are not all that enamored with Donald Trump... (Original Post) ZZenith Oct 2019 OP
I'm half Irish and 100% opposed to Trump. Garrett78 Oct 2019 #1
That sounds right. ZZenith Oct 2019 #2
I've read this article multiple times Blue_Adept Oct 2019 #3
It appears to be pro Trump Drahthaardogs Oct 2019 #4

Blue_Adept

(6,399 posts)
3. I've read this article multiple times
Thu Oct 3, 2019, 07:04 AM
Oct 2019

and I still can't figure out why someone alerted on it saying it bashes democrats

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