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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[–] 90 points 3 months ago (1 child)

He wanted to open the straight of hummus.

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  • [–] 85 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago (13 children)

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

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The United States finally has an answer to Stalin.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    i miss not being surprised by much.

    we'll probably find out he had a private mcdonalds installed at the white house that gets its "beef" from an unethical mortician.

    so like that's about how extreme of the batshittery i'm expecting is.

    edit: wait this explains Kennedy

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  • [–] 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It is since referred to by staff as the shit cart

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    what they let 'em out for?

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 38 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months 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.”

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    "extraordinary ruse" is certainly a phrase for this

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What a coward! 😂😂😂😂

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Wouldn't someone have noticed the smell?

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months 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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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    It sounds like it was like a wheeled trolley you'd see in a hotel hallway, but I think it was actually a cargo container of some sort used to load catering cargo on and off the plane. Although I'm not completely dismissing the image of him crouched under a tablecloth being wheeled down the tarmac by a butler concealing an MP5.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Certainly he didn’t fit in just one cart

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago*

    The brain aneurysm to imitate this tom foolery was long and brain deadening

    “I don’t, i don’t know what your talking about, cheese burgers are meant to be on the table,” *rubs suspiciously 40 servings of mcdonalds cheese burgers shaped belly * “not below mind you, that’s where the pizza goes, haha yes the pizza, most like my food, ok, friend of mine, a GREAT friend, my friends great ol mister big E, said if he couldn’t get a daily cheese burger slice he’d hang himself, literally had to have his cheese burgers haha what a guy, reminds me of my friend, my great friend, who got autism because he didn’t eat enough cheese burgers! Can you believe it?” rubs orange belly drool dripping from his mouth “couldn’t catch me, CAN’T catch me with my with some cheese burgers not on the table, no sir and you know what i told this friend? My guy? I said to him, we’re gobs make these cheese burgers great again and put em back on the table, so good they’ll throw another parade, like the one for my birthday yes my birthday cheese burger parade my, love for this country God yes take me, take me God for a date cuz you know he’s a good friend, his son and i real close, real close friends, you know he invited me to his last birthday party before the elephants attacked, crazy elephants wanting the cheese burgers. Maybe that’s why it’s before the table to guide the cheese burgers from the Siri democratic elephants. Good friend that was good friend.”

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    "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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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I bet it was his idea

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    It was avoidable

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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