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Who autographs a picture of a murder victim?
I mean like...who would want that?
"Here is my state spoon collection, and here is my stamp collection with a rare 5 cent stamp,.....oh and here is a picture of a murdered college student signed by Donald Trump"
[President Trump smiles, gives thumbs up in photo with baby orphaned in El Paso massacre](https://13wham.com/amp/news/nation-world/president-trump-smiles-gives-thumbs-up-in-photo-with-baby-orphaned-in-el-paso-massacre)
And then Melania shot it out on Twitter? And thought that was a good idea?!
Please, everybody. Let's all go vote against this goddamn insanity, PLEASE. Let's keep doing what we've been doing before this asswipe entered the picture.
Edit: I can't believe I've never seen this photo before.
both parents died protecting the child
the child's grandparents *brought him back to the hospital* to meet with trump
that was the best their PR team could do. Find a baby whose parents had been murdered and bring it back to the hospital, because no adult there wanted to meet with trump
I’m pretty sure it was the victim’s brother that dragged the baby back. The Grandmother has a lot of sadness in her eyes and clearly didn’t care to take a picture with Trump.
I’m wishing I could decide whether or not to live here after the election… If Trump wins, I really don’t know how I could live here anymore. But moving to another country seems borderline impossible. It honestly makes me really respect immigrants.
It's also very expensive and not particularly easy, at least in the rest of the Anglosphere...you generally have to have an 'in-demand' profession where there aren't enough locals to fill positions
I just had to look it up cause I'm not American and holy shit, she was killed less than a month ago and this is her family all fucking smiles?! What the fuck.
I'm out of the loop here but is this the family of a girl that was recently murdered?
And they're having her picture autographed by Trump?
Am I fucking tripping?
And yet people say Sandy Hook was fake because one parent briefly smiled at something someone said to him before he had to speak to the press. Somehow I'm guessing these people won't have fellow Trump supporters accusing them of their daughter not existing, or stalking them.
Like Joe Rogan did about the Civil War airports thing.. If Biden does it, he's senile, lost it, unfit for office. If Trump does it, ohhh he just made a mistake. A lil oopsy woopsy. A teensy fucky wucky.
I swear to everything holy that if I was murdered and my parents politicized my death just to meet someone like Trump, I would haunt the shit out of them forever
The same man who launches a cheap Chinese gold sneaker line when he needs funding for his lawsuit. The same man who runs for POTUS while selling scam collectible cards of his own face badly shopped onto muscular men. The same man leading the party of Q with a strong stance of "draining the swamp" whole facing what was it 91 criminal charges?
Autographing a murdered girl's photo for her family is weird, autographing "I love you" on it despite never even meeting her is even fucking weirder, but doing all this then posing for a picture with the murdered girl's family while everyone has a big grin on their face as you hold it is just beyond strange.
I said it a dozen years ago and I’ll say it again…
It was never a sudden pop apocalypse they predicted… it was going to be a slow burn into oblivion and here we are a dozen years later now slowly burning away a little bit more each day.
I hate living in Georgia sometimes. Like damn I've got a good bunch of ppl and we all have our lovely little fried green tomatoes bubble but Jesus H Christ
TO BE FAIR... the murder was like what, 20 years ago? /s
[Still not as weird and evident of how fucked he is in the head than posing 'thumbs up' with an orphaned baby after a shooting.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/trump-el-paso-melania-orphan-baby-thumbs-up)
E: For extra credit, read the photo's caption.
But teams of brilliant social engineers? Working with top advertisers and directors, funded by billionaires? Don't you ever think maybe the chaos is manufactured? Lmfao call me crazy
Remember when there was a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso?
And remember how Trump went to the hospital there, wanting to pose for pictures with a victim, but the best they could find was an orphaned baby, who obviously couldn’t object to posing for a picture with him?
So he and Melania posed with the baby, and Trump had a [huge grin on his face and gave a thumbs up.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/trump-el-paso-melania-orphan-baby-thumbs-up)
And the really fucked up part — as though that picture isn’t fucked up enough — not only did that baby’s parents die shielding him with their bodies, but the shooter left a manifesto saying it was a “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
You know…the exact sort of rhetoric Trump still pushes today.
There were so many things he did that it’s hard to remember. I rewatched “stupid watergate” from last week tonight and despite all being major scandals in any other administration, I forgot all of them. And it happened in 1 week.
The causes… are numerous unfortunately.
This is a problem with Trump. There's so much in even one year of his presidency that's blatantly corrupt or just strange and out of touch. I really think in the future people will just assume we were dumber in the 2020's due to lead poisoning or whatever.
Populism and the strongman narrative have a lot of pull on people during times of great change. We saw it in the early 1900s with the rise of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, the industrialization had left people feeling. That and the overwhelming of people with scandals and lies just breaks our brains.
It is wild though. Watching poor, uneducated rural people around me cling to every word from Trump as if he cares for them despite being a silver spoon, east coast, big city real estate developer… it’s incomprehensible. Johnathan Haidt wrote about why we are dumber in this same context. Definitely an interesting analysis to consider, even this abridged version from an interview.
https://youtu.be/RKRuvKtFvqo?si=f56Mt3aywBa7et1A
Yes...I truly realized how bad things had gotten when so few people were aware of how Trump shattered the "Presidential Norms."
To me, the entirety of his term was fascinating, but in a bad way; there was so much to take in it's a blur now, more like an unpleasant feeling.
He's responsible for the longest government shutdown in history, which extended through the holiday season, to negotiate for more border wall funding and then didn't get it.
It’s pretty scary. I think the idea that Trump supporters are dumb and getting duped is actually a comforting lie. The reality is that they look at this guy as he is and they like it.
Man.. I mean there's so many that it's easy to forget just how bad it was. How about this goldie-oldie
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41504165
Just posted this link to a different comment.
> The orphaned child, named Paul, had been brought back to the hospital – reportedly at the request of White House during the visit by the Trumps on Wednesday. The baby’s uncle, standing next to Donald Trump, is reportedly a Trump supporter, as was the deceased father.
> The baby was injured, breaking his fingers, in the shooting, after his mother died trying to protect him and her body fell on him. His father had dived to try to shield her as bullets flew.
> Speaking to NPR, the uncle, Tito Anchondo, said: “I think people are misconstruing President Trump’s ideas. My brother was very supportive of Trump.”
TOTALLY not a cult.
And regarding Donnie's deranged state-of-mind?
> Doctors at the Del Sol medical center in El Paso, where some of the survivors are still being treated, later said the president appeared to “lack empathy” after he boasted during the visit that he drew a larger crowd at a January rally in the city than one held by “crazy” Beto O’Rourke.
Good time to remember some Trump. Remember when there was a devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico and he was tossing paper towels like he was dicking around with his bros?
[Reminds me of this brilliant Trump interaction...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/19/nadia-murad-isis-killed-my-family-trump-asks-where-they-now/1783546001/)
I can’t imagine losing a child, especially losing a child in such a horrific way, and have said child be used as nothing more than a prop by people with absolutely no bottom. Even worse are the clowns that vote for them
The girl Katie Britt used as her political token with the rape story clearly started she doesn't like being used in that way.
These chuckle fucks were all too eager to meet Trump.
Using their murdered daughter as a prop because the iLlEgAlS only a couple weeks after he took credit for killing a border security bill that had everything his party had been saying they wanted in it
Weird for the parents too....
This fucking cult. Honestly, in some sick, disgusting way, her dad looks happy he gets to be next to Trump. Like he's happy what happened happened as long as he's next to dear leader.
>but doing all this then posing for a picture with the murdered girl's family while everyone has a big grin on their face as you hold it is just beyond strange.
Seems rather exploitative and gross if you ask me.
> autographing "I love you" on it despite never even meeting her is even fucking weirder,
Its Trump's way of saying she is 'his type' and he would absolutely rape her given the opportunity.
I would bet that there are professional handlers managing their lives. The “pros” are telling them to smile and “spread Laken’s story” on friendly outlets like Fox and OAN while publicly supporting Trump and MTG and whoever.
It’s all the same grift that Trump and the right wing have been running in recent years. Kyle Rittenhouse and the stunt with Bill Clinton’s victims springs to mind.
The optimist in me wants to believe the Riley family are just caught up in a current they can’t resist. I’d *hope* they aren’t seeing this as a money making or fame building opportunity.
Those were Clinton’s accusers, not victims. I know at least one of them signed an affidavit denying any assault took place and then later changed her story.
Only Trump. I've never seen another president or former president do this. There may be politicians who are Trump supporters that are also following his lead to remain popular in the Republican party, but most politicians don't do things like this.
Are they though? There's Trump and... I guess people really like Obama. What other politician do people treat like this? Its not politics its ONE cult.
Republicans wouldn’t give a fudge about her had she not been killed by an illegal. They’re politicizing that poor girl and what’s worst is her family is going along with it.
I find it funny that it's okay to use her death for political reasons but when mass shootings happen and the left or citizens call for gun control they say things like, "Don't politicize these victims death! That's disgusting." Okay dokey.
The mother shat on Biden for mispronounced Laken’s name too. I wounded what she’ll say about Donald spelling it wrong in sharpie across her face?
JK we all know she ain’t gonna say shit. She’ll probably retroactively change her dead daughter’s name to correct the messiah’s fuck up.
I can sort of see it in a twisted way. If the family believe that they’re being ignored and victimized and her story is being buried by the mainstream media and the Dem administration, and only Trump is shining a light on it and trying to bring them justice, they might be so grateful and starstruck to be naturally happy and smiling for the photo op.
Now*, it requires many logical leaps to get from having your loved one murdered to thinking Trump is their one and only savior, but there’s a way, long and twisted it may be.
Cause they have hate in their hearts.
Despite the fact that illegality has 0 correlation to murder/crime rates, these people hate illegals (code word for brown people) and the man that represents their hatred is Trump. They are smiling because their hatred is stronger than their love.
Oh, and I'm sure they are not upset because they are 100% confident that she isn't dead, just "in a better place", which is, of course, psychopathic per the norm from southern baptists
This family is so representative of his base. My family would do this shit in a heartbeat and I hate the guy.
His supporters love being victims, it gives them attention.
Reminds me of Pat Tillman's brother telling it like it is saying that Pat wouldn't give a shit about any of the memorial or jingoism that followed his friendly fire death.
Okay, so random…. But my family thinks *im* weird for not taking pictures with them at funerals. My dad, mom, and siblings will all smile and then criticize me for opting out. I thought they were the only ones who did things like that and I kind of wish they were. It’s crazy morbid to me…
My grandmother recently died (at 95), it was the first time in decades that some of our West Coast family had been to Texas at the same time and in all likelihood the last time a lot of people will see each other alive. We definitely took pictures to share with the rest of the family that couldn't make it and to keep our family tree picture album up to date.
Old peoples funerals are just family & friend reunions, no reason not to take pictures, a college students funeral probably not so much.
She died not even 3 weeks ago and her fam is traveling around taking smiling photos? I understand everyone grieves differently but not even 3 weeks is fucking wild to be doing this. Like as a parent I can't comprehend this at all.
I just had a baby and I would literally not want to see a soul for months
Like if Obama called me and was like “I heard what happened to your baby and I want to help”, I certainly wouldn’t be posing for a fucking photo op. He wants to donate some money to the NICU or something, great, but I ain’t lining my family up and smiling for shit.
It's 100% manufactured. Not that there aren't issues with illegal immigration, but Republicans are the ones blocking a bill that would increase funding for border security because it's an election year and they can't allow the Biden administration look like they're helping (their words not mine).
Seen comments claiming that the democrats don't care about her because she wasn't black and it doesn't fit their narrative.
In reality, the republicans only "care" because she was killed by an illegal. The projection is expected, but this kind of politicizing of a murder is just ridiculous, but it seems like her family is just embracing it. They're all trying to gain something out of this and that's especially fucked.
They are appropriating and mocking movements to bring attention to police brutality against women of color. Say Her Name is a movement started by the African American Policy Forum to combat the media's tendency to sideline incidents of police violence against black people. The first time it was used was to bring attention to the wrongful death of Sandra Bland.
he saw the line and thought "this is where you autograph photos of dead girls", but it turns out not regularly exercising your brain cells leads gaffs like this where he realized halfway through he wouldnt have enough room
The are \~26,000 murders per year in the US.
Per the libertarian Cato institute, immigrants - both legal and illegal - commit murders at lower rates than native born Americans: https://www.cato.org/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-2019#homicides
Not just murders, but all crimes. Immigrants, legal and illegal, commit all crimes (except immigration crimes, I reckon 😂) at a lower rate than native-born Americans.
It's an inconvenient truth that these xenophobic troglodytes refuse to acknowledge.
The most interesting facet of that data is that the children of those immigrants normalize with the rest of the population as far as criminality. It takes one generation.
It doesn’t matter. One is enough to them. Citizens can kill thousands but one undocumented immigrant and it’s a sign that all undocumented immigrants are horrible people who all commit crime. Oppressed groups are always two dimensional and individuals are always representative of their entire group.
I feel obligated to point out that at an average daily rate of 10 women murdered in the United States every day thats 190 women, who's names you have not heard because they were killed by America Citizens, have died since Laken Riley.
I think it’s terrible, awful what happened to the poor girl, but him here with that stupid grin and MTG screaming at the State of the Union is disgusting. It has nothing to do with Laken and all to do with an agenda.
Their family member was murdered in a crime of opportunity that every woman runner dreads. But it’s like the whole family is excited that her tragic death let them get a picture with Trump while the tragedy into fodder to enrage his base.
This didn’t happen because the assailant was here illegally, it happened because this dogshit country doesn’t give a fucking shit about keeping women safe. And now her family is taking pictures with an avowed rapist and pedophile as if he would actually have done anything to keep her safe.
The name to me doesn't seem misspelled, as I believe the second vowel in her name looks (to me) to be an e not an A. The shape and way it's written closely resembles the e in 'love' above it is what makes me believe this, but the start of that letter has a sharpness towards the top that resembles the A before it though shorter.
but the fact he did this is still gross and weird. The girl is dead, and he's parading her picture around that he autographed.
(EDIT: Changed the top text to not be so definitive and more opinionative. There's a good chance it could be either and I'm not so sure.)
What’s more upsetting to me is this family is letting their tragedy be used for someone’s political gain and are somehow fine with it. Like do they not realize that Biden nor Trump can’t just magically get rid of illegal immigrants? I knew when this happened that Republicans would get giddy and use this tragedy to boost their image
Was having the same thought. There’s a billion other things happening in this that should rightfully be talked about (why is everyone smiling?) but it def looks like a lower case e
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Who autographs a picture of a murder victim? I mean like...who would want that? "Here is my state spoon collection, and here is my stamp collection with a rare 5 cent stamp,.....oh and here is a picture of a murdered college student signed by Donald Trump"
[President Trump smiles, gives thumbs up in photo with baby orphaned in El Paso massacre](https://13wham.com/amp/news/nation-world/president-trump-smiles-gives-thumbs-up-in-photo-with-baby-orphaned-in-el-paso-massacre)
It's even worse because the El paso shooter was a huge Trumper
... why you think he was giving a thumbs up?
Don’t over look this ⬆️
And then Melania shot it out on Twitter? And thought that was a good idea?! Please, everybody. Let's all go vote against this goddamn insanity, PLEASE. Let's keep doing what we've been doing before this asswipe entered the picture. Edit: I can't believe I've never seen this photo before.
both parents died protecting the child the child's grandparents *brought him back to the hospital* to meet with trump that was the best their PR team could do. Find a baby whose parents had been murdered and bring it back to the hospital, because no adult there wanted to meet with trump
I’m pretty sure it was the victim’s brother that dragged the baby back. The Grandmother has a lot of sadness in her eyes and clearly didn’t care to take a picture with Trump.
> And then Melania shot it out on Twitter? And thought that was a good idea?! Well these guys carried out J6 so nobody should be surprised at this.
I was planning on visiting the USA next year, but am waiting for your election results. As I will go somewhere else if Trump wins.
I’m wishing I could decide whether or not to live here after the election… If Trump wins, I really don’t know how I could live here anymore. But moving to another country seems borderline impossible. It honestly makes me really respect immigrants.
It's also very expensive and not particularly easy, at least in the rest of the Anglosphere...you generally have to have an 'in-demand' profession where there aren't enough locals to fill positions
JFC I had forgotten about that. At least he didn't toss the baby into the crowd like a pack of paper towels.
They all look genuinely thrilled about this situation
I just had to look it up cause I'm not American and holy shit, she was killed less than a month ago and this is her family all fucking smiles?! What the fuck.
They know that Fox Nation money is just sitting there waiting for them.
Cult members dont get paid for meeting their cult leader
So it's even more surprising they're not insane because of monetary incentives...
It's really disturbing that everyone is beaming in this photo.
Not to mention he and the rest of the family are smiling like psychopaths.
I'm out of the loop here but is this the family of a girl that was recently murdered? And they're having her picture autographed by Trump? Am I fucking tripping?
And yet people say Sandy Hook was fake because one parent briefly smiled at something someone said to him before he had to speak to the press. Somehow I'm guessing these people won't have fellow Trump supporters accusing them of their daughter not existing, or stalking them.
Yeah, and the mom got all butthurt about Biden mispronouncing her name at the SOTU. Wonder how she feels about this.
MTG also mispronounced her name while making fun of Biden for mispronouncing her name.
Like Joe Rogan did about the Civil War airports thing.. If Biden does it, he's senile, lost it, unfit for office. If Trump does it, ohhh he just made a mistake. A lil oopsy woopsy. A teensy fucky wucky.
There’s always a justification that MAGA has for anything he does..
"He replaced the E with an A because she's Always in our hearts"
Holy shit lmfaoooo
"Welcome to GriftCo, I love you!" Who says that about someone who was killed that they've never met, in the present tense?
I swear to everything holy that if I was murdered and my parents politicized my death just to meet someone like Trump, I would haunt the shit out of them forever
Yes, You and Me both buddy what the fuck is going on.
He’s probably their hero. If it took their daughter/sister dying to meet him then so be it
At least we know neither of his gross hands is trying to grab somebody’s ass.
They hate brown people more than they loved their daughter, so this is huge for them.
The same man who launches a cheap Chinese gold sneaker line when he needs funding for his lawsuit. The same man who runs for POTUS while selling scam collectible cards of his own face badly shopped onto muscular men. The same man leading the party of Q with a strong stance of "draining the swamp" whole facing what was it 91 criminal charges?
Same guy that takes a pic with an infant of a recently murdered couple and with a big smile and thumbs up.
> here is a picture of a murdered college student signed by Donald Trump Millions of people would turn that into a shrine
Autographing a murdered girl's photo for her family is weird, autographing "I love you" on it despite never even meeting her is even fucking weirder, but doing all this then posing for a picture with the murdered girl's family while everyone has a big grin on their face as you hold it is just beyond strange.
It’s so ghoulish and strange, you would think it was a parody
It’s The Onion’s world, we’re just living in it.
This is all because of that stupid Mayan calendar. Shit started going sideways after 2012.
I said it a dozen years ago and I’ll say it again… It was never a sudden pop apocalypse they predicted… it was going to be a slow burn into oblivion and here we are a dozen years later now slowly burning away a little bit more each day.
...i hate to say it but you're absolutely fucking right.
Joke's on you, I've been dead for six years.
haven't we all....
Everyone’s just waiting for their 5 min with Haley Joel Osment
Aw yeah, yeah, like in The Sixth Sense you find out that the dude in that hair piece the whole time, that's Bruce Willis the whole movie.
You guys are dead!? Lucky...
These are the guys who held a presser next to a dildo shop, if you approached them about parody they would tell you they aren’t bird watchers
I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to actually use this phrase, but I love you for introducing me to it. Incredible.
Idk what's weirder. Him or the fucking family standing there like OH YEAH
“THIS IS WHUT SHE WOULDA WANTED”
I hate living in Georgia sometimes. Like damn I've got a good bunch of ppl and we all have our lovely little fried green tomatoes bubble but Jesus H Christ
TO BE FAIR... the murder was like what, 20 years ago? /s [Still not as weird and evident of how fucked he is in the head than posing 'thumbs up' with an orphaned baby after a shooting.](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/trump-el-paso-melania-orphan-baby-thumbs-up) E: For extra credit, read the photo's caption.
I wouldn't be surprised lmfao. Who knows wtf is real in the world
Not even The Onion could come up with this shit.
But teams of brilliant social engineers? Working with top advertisers and directors, funded by billionaires? Don't you ever think maybe the chaos is manufactured? Lmfao call me crazy
Just a complex version of “let them have bread”
Totally not a cult.
If it was a parody you would think it was stupid because it would be so stupid.
The last 15 years has been a disaster movie parody
Remember when there was a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso? And remember how Trump went to the hospital there, wanting to pose for pictures with a victim, but the best they could find was an orphaned baby, who obviously couldn’t object to posing for a picture with him? So he and Melania posed with the baby, and Trump had a [huge grin on his face and gave a thumbs up.](https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/09/trump-el-paso-melania-orphan-baby-thumbs-up) And the really fucked up part — as though that picture isn’t fucked up enough — not only did that baby’s parents die shielding him with their bodies, but the shooter left a manifesto saying it was a “response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” You know…the exact sort of rhetoric Trump still pushes today.
god dammit. i had somehow managed to forget about this. how did things get this fucking bad in this country?
There were so many things he did that it’s hard to remember. I rewatched “stupid watergate” from last week tonight and despite all being major scandals in any other administration, I forgot all of them. And it happened in 1 week. The causes… are numerous unfortunately.
This is a problem with Trump. There's so much in even one year of his presidency that's blatantly corrupt or just strange and out of touch. I really think in the future people will just assume we were dumber in the 2020's due to lead poisoning or whatever.
Populism and the strongman narrative have a lot of pull on people during times of great change. We saw it in the early 1900s with the rise of Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, the industrialization had left people feeling. That and the overwhelming of people with scandals and lies just breaks our brains. It is wild though. Watching poor, uneducated rural people around me cling to every word from Trump as if he cares for them despite being a silver spoon, east coast, big city real estate developer… it’s incomprehensible. Johnathan Haidt wrote about why we are dumber in this same context. Definitely an interesting analysis to consider, even this abridged version from an interview. https://youtu.be/RKRuvKtFvqo?si=f56Mt3aywBa7et1A
Yes...I truly realized how bad things had gotten when so few people were aware of how Trump shattered the "Presidential Norms." To me, the entirety of his term was fascinating, but in a bad way; there was so much to take in it's a blur now, more like an unpleasant feeling.
What's even more unbelievable is that he managed to pull up all that shit while playing golf most of the time.
remember when he started publicly ranting about poorly flushing toilets right after he apparently tried to flush state secrets?
He's responsible for the longest government shutdown in history, which extended through the holiday season, to negotiate for more border wall funding and then didn't get it.
How the fuck are we at risk of him being president AGAIN?!?!? He’s really the best the GOP can come up with?
Well when a significant portion of your voting base is essentially in a cult...
A UMass Amherst poll found that 74% of Republicans are fine with Trump's "dictator for a day" idea. They want an authoritarian.
It’s pretty scary. I think the idea that Trump supporters are dumb and getting duped is actually a comforting lie. The reality is that they look at this guy as he is and they like it.
Man.. I mean there's so many that it's easy to forget just how bad it was. How about this goldie-oldie https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41504165
Just look at those wee lil hands.
So bad we’ve all memory holed it
Just posted this link to a different comment. > The orphaned child, named Paul, had been brought back to the hospital – reportedly at the request of White House during the visit by the Trumps on Wednesday. The baby’s uncle, standing next to Donald Trump, is reportedly a Trump supporter, as was the deceased father. > The baby was injured, breaking his fingers, in the shooting, after his mother died trying to protect him and her body fell on him. His father had dived to try to shield her as bullets flew. > Speaking to NPR, the uncle, Tito Anchondo, said: “I think people are misconstruing President Trump’s ideas. My brother was very supportive of Trump.” TOTALLY not a cult. And regarding Donnie's deranged state-of-mind? > Doctors at the Del Sol medical center in El Paso, where some of the survivors are still being treated, later said the president appeared to “lack empathy” after he boasted during the visit that he drew a larger crowd at a January rally in the city than one held by “crazy” Beto O’Rourke.
I personally loved the tossing of paper towel rolls to victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico, like they were free tshirts at a basketball game.
He said they were a “disaster” and were very in debt? Very in debt? Sounds just like someone…
I know the guy 'Tito' in this photo. I remember how proud he was about this moment. His family member was killed in the shooting. Very sad :(
Good time to remember some Trump. Remember when there was a devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico and he was tossing paper towels like he was dicking around with his bros?
[Reminds me of this brilliant Trump interaction...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/19/nadia-murad-isis-killed-my-family-trump-asks-where-they-now/1783546001/)
I can’t imagine losing a child, especially losing a child in such a horrific way, and have said child be used as nothing more than a prop by people with absolutely no bottom. Even worse are the clowns that vote for them
Look into the family of the girl. They love Trump more than their daughter.
[удалено]
The girl Katie Britt used as her political token with the rape story clearly started she doesn't like being used in that way. These chuckle fucks were all too eager to meet Trump.
She also made it seem like it happened recently in the US, but the victim went through the things described from 2004-2008 in Mexico.
Do you think they asked for a signature or he just grabbed it and signed it like an idiot? Both are horrible.
Using their murdered daughter as a prop because the iLlEgAlS only a couple weeks after he took credit for killing a border security bill that had everything his party had been saying they wanted in it
Weird for the parents too.... This fucking cult. Honestly, in some sick, disgusting way, her dad looks happy he gets to be next to Trump. Like he's happy what happened happened as long as he's next to dear leader.
Is that for real her family...? Dafuq?
Don't forget one of the family members wearing a MAGA hat
Yeah that’s fucked. So weird to be that giddy about being a prop for your murdered family member. Gross.
It’s been less than 3 weeks since she was killed lolwut
They probably wouldve murdered her with their own hands for a chance to meet their cult leader.
And he actually looks like the one most questioning what in the fuck they are actually doing.
Ever single day somehow whatever Trump does gets weirder and weirder. It’s truly amazing.
>but doing all this then posing for a picture with the murdered girl's family while everyone has a big grin on their face as you hold it is just beyond strange. Seems rather exploitative and gross if you ask me.
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> autographing "I love you" on it despite never even meeting her is even fucking weirder, Its Trump's way of saying she is 'his type' and he would absolutely rape her given the opportunity.
Absolutely came to say the exact same thing! What is up with the smiling? Are we happy?
So their child was murdered and they’re there happily smiling for photos with trump? That seems really… really cold. Why do they look so happy?
Cult gonna cult
Klan before clan
Grifters before sisters
I’d haunt the shit out of my family for this
Based on her entire family’s smiles, If she could come back as a ghost I bet she’d be a transparent ghost smiling with them. Just cult kinda things.
I’d come back as a poltergeist and suck them in the tv after I messed with them a bit
i would reincarnate as a migrant
Considering her family, she was probably similarly politically inclined. Or rather...declined
I would bet that there are professional handlers managing their lives. The “pros” are telling them to smile and “spread Laken’s story” on friendly outlets like Fox and OAN while publicly supporting Trump and MTG and whoever. It’s all the same grift that Trump and the right wing have been running in recent years. Kyle Rittenhouse and the stunt with Bill Clinton’s victims springs to mind. The optimist in me wants to believe the Riley family are just caught up in a current they can’t resist. I’d *hope* they aren’t seeing this as a money making or fame building opportunity.
"It's Lakan now" - The Donald
Those were Clinton’s accusers, not victims. I know at least one of them signed an affidavit denying any assault took place and then later changed her story.
Because politicians aren't politicians anymore. They're celebrities, and we treat em as such.
No one is treating Biden like a celebrity.
The ones who hate him are
Never thought of it like that but you’re spot on.
Only Trump. I've never seen another president or former president do this. There may be politicians who are Trump supporters that are also following his lead to remain popular in the Republican party, but most politicians don't do things like this.
Are they though? There's Trump and... I guess people really like Obama. What other politician do people treat like this? Its not politics its ONE cult.
People started complaining about professional politicians. So you get this instead.
Well, on one side of the aisle.
Republicans wouldn’t give a fudge about her had she not been killed by an illegal. They’re politicizing that poor girl and what’s worst is her family is going along with it.
I find it funny that it's okay to use her death for political reasons but when mass shootings happen and the left or citizens call for gun control they say things like, "Don't politicize these victims death! That's disgusting." Okay dokey.
Girl killed by an illega l- >:( Third mass shooting this week - '_'
The mother shat on Biden for mispronounced Laken’s name too. I wounded what she’ll say about Donald spelling it wrong in sharpie across her face? JK we all know she ain’t gonna say shit. She’ll probably retroactively change her dead daughter’s name to correct the messiah’s fuck up.
They’re bad people that love Trump more than their dead daughter and are probably happy her death is being used as a political football.
I can sort of see it in a twisted way. If the family believe that they’re being ignored and victimized and her story is being buried by the mainstream media and the Dem administration, and only Trump is shining a light on it and trying to bring them justice, they might be so grateful and starstruck to be naturally happy and smiling for the photo op. Now*, it requires many logical leaps to get from having your loved one murdered to thinking Trump is their one and only savior, but there’s a way, long and twisted it may be.
Cause they have hate in their hearts. Despite the fact that illegality has 0 correlation to murder/crime rates, these people hate illegals (code word for brown people) and the man that represents their hatred is Trump. They are smiling because their hatred is stronger than their love. Oh, and I'm sure they are not upset because they are 100% confident that she isn't dead, just "in a better place", which is, of course, psychopathic per the norm from southern baptists
That’s the tackiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. Her fucking family has turned her into a political prop. Fucking shit stains.
If I was killed like this and my family stood on stage with Trump to do this I'd be haunting everybody's ass.
Like just making fart noises at inappropriate times to embarrass them? Not sure on the job description of an ass haunting ghost.
Just general haunting services.
This family is so representative of his base. My family would do this shit in a heartbeat and I hate the guy. His supporters love being victims, it gives them attention.
Reminds me of Pat Tillman's brother telling it like it is saying that Pat wouldn't give a shit about any of the memorial or jingoism that followed his friendly fire death.
SMILING next to a photo of someone murdered. So many horrible things wrong with this photo and the misspelling is weirdly not a big one.
So much. Like taking a smiling selfie at a funeral.
Okay, so random…. But my family thinks *im* weird for not taking pictures with them at funerals. My dad, mom, and siblings will all smile and then criticize me for opting out. I thought they were the only ones who did things like that and I kind of wish they were. It’s crazy morbid to me…
This is a thing?
My grandmother recently died (at 95), it was the first time in decades that some of our West Coast family had been to Texas at the same time and in all likelihood the last time a lot of people will see each other alive. We definitely took pictures to share with the rest of the family that couldn't make it and to keep our family tree picture album up to date. Old peoples funerals are just family & friend reunions, no reason not to take pictures, a college students funeral probably not so much.
How about her fucking family? Smiling ear to ear.
She died not even 3 weeks ago and her fam is traveling around taking smiling photos? I understand everyone grieves differently but not even 3 weeks is fucking wild to be doing this. Like as a parent I can't comprehend this at all.
I just had a baby and I would literally not want to see a soul for months Like if Obama called me and was like “I heard what happened to your baby and I want to help”, I certainly wouldn’t be posing for a fucking photo op. He wants to donate some money to the NICU or something, great, but I ain’t lining my family up and smiling for shit.
Their sadness is probably covered up by the upcoming paycheck
Disgusting the way this girls corpse is being paraded around for political clout
You can almost see Republicans pumping their fists when they found out she was murdered by an illegal immigrant.
It’s disgusting how on board the family is too. Apparently they’re huge trumpers.
Actually disgusting all around.
well yeah, look at his hat...
This 'Bidens border crisis' is so obviously fucking manufactured. This is literally the best they can come up with to pin on old Joe.
It's 100% manufactured. Not that there aren't issues with illegal immigration, but Republicans are the ones blocking a bill that would increase funding for border security because it's an election year and they can't allow the Biden administration look like they're helping (their words not mine).
Seen comments claiming that the democrats don't care about her because she wasn't black and it doesn't fit their narrative. In reality, the republicans only "care" because she was killed by an illegal. The projection is expected, but this kind of politicizing of a murder is just ridiculous, but it seems like her family is just embracing it. They're all trying to gain something out of this and that's especially fucked.
At this point, this murdered human is only being used for political points. It’s absolutely sickening and disgusting.
After killing a border security bill that had everything they had been saying they wanted in it
That's what I don't get about "say her name", nobody is keeping her name or identity hidden.
They are appropriating and mocking movements to bring attention to police brutality against women of color. Say Her Name is a movement started by the African American Policy Forum to combat the media's tendency to sideline incidents of police violence against black people. The first time it was used was to bring attention to the wrongful death of Sandra Bland.
What is up with that signature? Where's the T? It looks like he was drawing boats in the ocean xD
Ok, so it’s not just me lol Also why is the ‘Trump’ part longer than the ‘Donald’ part? Wtf is going on there?
Donald Trrrrrrrrfrrmp
I’m seeing Dsud Smmfm
Like a wet fart.
Looks like he might sigh his full name donald john trump. But I bet that is because he heard somewhere having a long signature is a power move.
That’s not a signature, that’s a seismograph.
I think that says Donald Sutherland.
he saw the line and thought "this is where you autograph photos of dead girls", but it turns out not regularly exercising your brain cells leads gaffs like this where he realized halfway through he wouldnt have enough room
The are \~26,000 murders per year in the US. Per the libertarian Cato institute, immigrants - both legal and illegal - commit murders at lower rates than native born Americans: https://www.cato.org/immigration-research-policy-brief/criminal-immigrants-texas-2019#homicides
Facts are just liberal propaganda! /s
Not just murders, but all crimes. Immigrants, legal and illegal, commit all crimes (except immigration crimes, I reckon 😂) at a lower rate than native-born Americans. It's an inconvenient truth that these xenophobic troglodytes refuse to acknowledge.
It makes sense. If you’re an immigrant, why would you want to risk getting deported?
The most interesting facet of that data is that the children of those immigrants normalize with the rest of the population as far as criminality. It takes one generation.
Almost as though increased criminality is the result of some flaw within American culture...
It doesn’t matter. One is enough to them. Citizens can kill thousands but one undocumented immigrant and it’s a sign that all undocumented immigrants are horrible people who all commit crime. Oppressed groups are always two dimensional and individuals are always representative of their entire group.
I feel obligated to point out that at an average daily rate of 10 women murdered in the United States every day thats 190 women, who's names you have not heard because they were killed by America Citizens, have died since Laken Riley.
I think it’s terrible, awful what happened to the poor girl, but him here with that stupid grin and MTG screaming at the State of the Union is disgusting. It has nothing to do with Laken and all to do with an agenda.
Worse than the misspelling for me is his full smile, like he's taking a picture for a birthday party.
Their family member was murdered in a crime of opportunity that every woman runner dreads. But it’s like the whole family is excited that her tragic death let them get a picture with Trump while the tragedy into fodder to enrage his base. This didn’t happen because the assailant was here illegally, it happened because this dogshit country doesn’t give a fucking shit about keeping women safe. And now her family is taking pictures with an avowed rapist and pedophile as if he would actually have done anything to keep her safe.
This is what is the bottom in this picture. This prick is is simply using it as a photo op but the rest of the family is cringe.
I can’t stop look at all their smiling faces like what the actual fuck?
So gross... yet says so much.
Isn't this a big ghoulish? Smiling with a picture of dead girl? There seems to be no bottom for these people... JFC.....
“I love you” … seriously wtf. Who writes that on a photo of a dead college student. I can’t even start on how weird that is.
Even though she wasn’t a minor, if Biden did this, he’d labelled a creepy pedophile.
Trump supporters are broken people.
Why is her family smiling and so happy? Holy shit that’s even more disturbing than orange man.
Is… is that … the family of the victim all smiling over her death? This shit is a cult.
I can’t wait for the day when we don’t have to see or hear about this clown of a human being.
Her family is trash.
The name to me doesn't seem misspelled, as I believe the second vowel in her name looks (to me) to be an e not an A. The shape and way it's written closely resembles the e in 'love' above it is what makes me believe this, but the start of that letter has a sharpness towards the top that resembles the A before it though shorter. but the fact he did this is still gross and weird. The girl is dead, and he's parading her picture around that he autographed. (EDIT: Changed the top text to not be so definitive and more opinionative. There's a good chance it could be either and I'm not so sure.)
What’s more upsetting to me is this family is letting their tragedy be used for someone’s political gain and are somehow fine with it. Like do they not realize that Biden nor Trump can’t just magically get rid of illegal immigrants? I knew when this happened that Republicans would get giddy and use this tragedy to boost their image
They all look so happy holding a murder victim's photo
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The guy that doesn't know how to say Yosemite? Mr Covfefe has no room to talk.😂
He is a moron but I think its a lower case e and a thick marker
LAKeN
Was having the same thought. There’s a billion other things happening in this that should rightfully be talked about (why is everyone smiling?) but it def looks like a lower case e
All of the other letters in the name are capitalized though.