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Prompted by an Iranian assassination threat, Donald Trump departed on a secret military flight in an extraordinary ruse that involved hiding the president in an airport catering cart, according to reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He wanted to open the straight of hummus.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The reflecting pool is still "the strait of warm ooze"

[–] joe@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meaning the staff and reporters on the other plane were being used as decoys without their knowledge or consent.

That's pretty fucked up.

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There's never going to an end to the documentaries made about this presidency, is there?

[–] inari@piefed.zip 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Can you imagine the kind of shit that will be made public 5 or 10 years after he leaves the presidency?

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No matter how batshit insane whatever my imagination can conjure up is, I can guarantee it'll be a lot worse.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The United States finally has an answer to Stalin.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stalin was both effective and relatively efficient. This dumbass is neither. More like whatever the knockoff of a Temu Stalin would be.

And to clarify, yes, I'm saying that even Temu is too high quality to be carrying anything Trump branded.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Efficient? I think Stalin probably could have managed with killing many fewer people.

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[–] docandersonn@literature.cafe 27 points 1 week ago

The History Channel basically lived off of Hitler documentaries for 2 decades.

Depends. Hollywood will never have the spine to depict him honestly, but if American media continues its decline and loses its stranglehold on popular culture then the floodgates will open.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It is since referred to by staff as the shit cart

[–] gedfromgont@piefed.ca 10 points 1 week ago

I heard they had to nuke it from orbit after he "used" it.

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Damn! Why does this food cart smell like shit?"

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

what they let 'em out for?

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

eating the product

Edit: there's a much better joke about giving it the Taylor farms treatment that I didn't think about quick enough

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago

Elaborate ruse Is a bit dramatic here. This has all the complexity of a bugs bunny sketch.

[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

“Ummm yeah, right. We hid him in the catering cart. He totally didn’t get stuck in there when he thought he saw loose McDonald’s fries on the floor of the cart.”

[–] potatopotato@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen how some of this shit works. They're not magically smarter than you. People in these kinds of positions sometimes just do shit because they think it sounds cool and they're bored.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@quokk.au 16 points 1 week ago

They're not magically smarter than you

It's trump, I think we can take that as a given.

[–] Jubei_K_08@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I hope there's a VEEP/Arrested Development like show about this cartoonish presidency in a couple years. There's so much material.

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[–] Jimbo@pawb.social 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"extraordinary ruse" is certainly a phrase for this

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What a coward! 😂😂😂😂

[–] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Chicken TACO

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wouldn't someone have noticed the smell?

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the obnoxiously large “catering cart?” A normal one couldn’t possibly hide his giant ass.

[–] yogurt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They have a scissor lift box truck that the food comes in and then they lift it up to the plane and wheel the carts off. They got JFK's dead body on air force one the same way.

[–] fake_meows@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Now the whole plane smells like fake tan.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It must've been a huge cart to fit that blubber filled tub of syphilis.

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[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Certainly he didn’t fit in just one cart

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sorry. No way Fatty McRapist is getting into a catering cart. Maybe the back of a catering van. Assuming you bleach it before putting food back in it.

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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hahaha.

I hope he loves in fear. He did all of that. He ruined the fucking nuclear treaty, he invaded when that went to shit, and now he's losing a war.

What a fucking goddamn dumbass. I hope he never rests well again.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

He's always lived in fear. He has no friends.

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

An amazing disguise. The smell didn’t give ANYTHING away.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Didn't he survive 2 assasination attempts before without worry, what's the difference with a mere threat?

[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

This threat was real and not a false flag?

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one would be done by someone semi-competent and explosives likely over an idiot reactionary with a gun.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 11 points 1 week ago

Are they sure he was hiding in there? Maybe he just went in there to eat in private and just so happened to get wheeled on board the plane. I could see him stuffing himself inside one of those things just so we can nosh on some shrimp away from all the judgy eyes.

[–] mPony@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

So someone on his team recently watched the TV miniseries "Thief" (starring Andre Braugher, RIP) and figured they'd give it a try.

These fuckers have no imagination. First they rip off season 2 of Jack Ryan, and now this.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago

I wonder if he shat himself while they folded him up to fit him in there. I'm surprised he was flexible enough.

[–] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Look, people are asking me about aircraft catering carts. And I tell them, nobody knows catering carts better than me, okay? Nobody!

​These carts, they are INCREDIBLE. Absolutely top of the line.

People come up to me, big flight attendants, strong people, with tears in their eyes, they say, 'Sir, we put hundreds of sodas in there, the little cans, the snacks, everything, and it still moves so light. Nobody else could design a cart like this'."

-- Trump probably

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Why the hell would they reveal this? Seems like a terrible idea. Secret Service never reveals details about things like that. Or at least, they shouldn't.

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is it bad that even though I'm an American and not exactly a full on Iranian supporter...but wouldn't mind if they successfully assassinated Trump and Vance at all? It would at least be karma for starting this bullshit war in the first place

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Nope. I'm with you. Almost feels treasonous to wish our president harm/death, but fuck him and his family.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Would have been a shame if they forgot he was in there

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He'll never fit in there, it's full of cheeseburgers...

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[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

It was avoidable

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