Former President Donald Trump teased a “major announcement” on Wednesday night. It was a big production complete with a grainy animation of Trump, who is currently running to regain his old job, shooting lasers out of his eyes and ripping open a button-down shirt to reveal a Superman-style costume complete with a gleaming “T” on his muscled chest.
Does he realize how laughable this is? Is it because he doesn’t have vanky around to temper this shit and Mel either doesn’t care or doesn’t know. Sweet jeebus
I remember being around age 5, tying a bath towel around my neck, and jumping off the back step as a pretend super hero. That pretense may have been adorable. this one is not.
Even Michael Biundo, a veteran New Hampshire strategist and former senior advisor to Trump’s 2016 campaign, expressed disappointment with the launch on Twitter.
“I know this will anger some in Trump world but come on!” Biundo wrote. “Can we all just admit this is not great for Donald Trump’s first major announcement since announcing he’s running again? I kinda of feel like we are being punked."
Well, if a former advisor from the '16 campaign feels like this, I’d say we are indeed being punked. (As if that wasn’t also the case back in 2016, but that goes without saying.)
So if these are really just JPEGs, doesn’t that mean that everyone can get the “authentic” images for free the moment someone posts them on the Internet?