Trump
posted a picture of himself as Rocky. No one knows what to make of it
The
president’s bizarre tweet prompted jokes about Russia, white insecurity and
less-than-inspiring leadership
Poppy Noor
@PoppyNoor
Wed 27 Nov
2019 20.50 GMTLast modified on Wed 27 Nov 2019 23.46 GMT
Donald
Trump tweeted this mermerising picture.
People are
used to seeing Donald Trump’s face transposed on to a lot of things: satsumas,
the Queen, a giant floating baby flying across the US and the UK.
But this
morning, the president himself posted a photo where his head was photoshopped
on to something utterly surprising: the super-buff, bare body of the fictional
boxer Rocky Balboa.
It was
tweeted at 10.54am, with Trump offering exactly zero explanation – not even a
caption. All we know is that the tweet was sent during a golf trip at one of
Trump’s golf clubs in Florida, during his Thanksgiving holiday at Mar-a-Lago.
Who knows
how we should interpret it? Perhaps the 45th president suffered a blow to the
head this morning. Or perhaps he wants us to know he’s a fighter. Maybe he’s
upset about of all the low blows thrown his way during his tenure, with people
saying mean things like “why does he grab women by the pussy?”
Whatever he
meant, it led to an outpouring of commentary from the Twitterati. Here’s the
roundup.
Expectation
versus reality
Could this
photo be the ultimate, most real-to-life version of the expectation versus
reality meme? Trump, a man born into wealth who became a billion-dollar loser,
who eats McDonald’s for breakfast and weighs 243lb (all muscle, of course),
comparing himself to a self-made man, born in poverty who rose up against the
odds, washboard abs and all. It’s almost too good.
Angela
Belcamino
@AngelaBelcamino
· 17h
Replying to
@realDonaldTrump
Is it just
me or did this Trump Rocky photo make anyone else throw up in their mouth a
little?
This is all
wrong, joked several pundits. In the Rocky films, Balboa comes up against a
Russian protagonist who is supposedly so evil he can’t be beaten. Against the
odds, Balboa emerges victorious. He receives a standing ovation from
politicians in a crowd and doesn’t even have to doctor any photos.
Some people
found Trump’s post a little more than ironic. At least Rocky was willing to
fight the Russians, they figured.
“This is
all wrong,” tweeted the comedian Nick Pappas. “Rocky defeated Russia – Trump
continues to hand them victories.” (…)
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