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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 121 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I have smart children...I would always tell them, no drugs

Doesn't seem like Jr got the message.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"can I have a pony???". "No, drugs."

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Some real Lionel Hutz "no, money down" vibes there.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 18 points 1 month ago

I have smart children...I would always tell them, ~~n~~do drugs

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Trump would've benefitted from more drugs.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

if prescribed by a psychiatrist, certainly - but I hear NPD is ~~untreatable~~ difficult, but treatable.

his street coke aint working.

edit: correction.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

maybe some offline time with DMT and no mirrors would be a start.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am not sure anything can kill that ego. :-/

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hear the French have a device that will take care of things right quick.

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Did you ever watch Carnival Row? They had a 5 seater!

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please be mindful of the misinformation here. NPD is nuanced and difficult to treat, as with any personality disorder, but it is absolutely possible.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

important point taken. thank you.

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't think Jr was the only one.

[–] eggymachus@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I was gonna say, he looks like he aged more this summer and fall than he did his entire presidency. And that's incredible, 4 years in a super stressful job should age you a bit.

What the hell is stressing him out so much that a few months he's gone grey and leathery?

[–] ouRKaoS 34 points 1 month ago

Pending sentences and the weight of inevitably.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's super stressful about playing golf all the time?

[–] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I think they mean in the sun too much, as it can make your skin look "leathery"

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Assassination attempts will do that to a man that's afraid of stairs.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Well he did spend 50% of his time as President on the golf course.

[–] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Melina doesn't want to fuck him anymore as he is being fucked by someone else.

The Dept of Justice.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

When you're entire purpose in life is to make others miserable, I imagine it's difficult to remain content. At this point, I think other people are controlling him more than he's converting himself, too.

This guy is an angry meat puppet. Couldn't happen to a worse person.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fentanyl-related offenses should receive the death penalty, but it's completely fine to just sell opioids to millions of people for decades and possibly cause a societal meltdown in the process because that's just being a smart businessman or something.

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

lol, like he raised his kids. Maybe the person asking meant to say “raped”?

[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Raped? Quite possibly. But raise? Not him, he paid others to do that for him. Trump wouldn't soil HIS hands by actually raising his children.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Abolish capital punishment. We're better than that.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can I continue to advocate for the vigilante killing of Musk and ilk? Because I am not better than that, its what my ancestors wouldve wanted actually my ancestors wouldve put him in a ditch for being stupid and English but thats besides the point.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Musk is from South Africa, but that's also besides the point.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Anglo sputh africans are still English, my family dont discriminate just eviscerate.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, if Eric Trump was my son I'd also try to change the subject.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's what he thinks about them, then.