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Trump shares the message he receives from NATO leader Mark Rutte (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 99 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm sure EVERY European politician randomly CAPITALISES words like some LUNATIC

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I don't believe this is real, but the all caps words aren't random. They're clearly for emphasis, the same kinds of words I might capitalize for effect. That is not really the unbelievable aspect of this scenario.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    AP is reporting this as real

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

    The "Truth" post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven't seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

    E: never mind that is... apparently Rutte's office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte????

    ?????

    I need to go lie down.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    I can tell you as a Dutchman, reading this I could hear Mark Rutte's voice and it aligns with his anglophile suck-up character.
    I couldn't see him writing it any other way.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This is Mark Rutte.
    He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
    Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
    He's a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
    or a democratic socialist or left of that.

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