D•Scribe
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
adr1an@programming.dev to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Trump calls Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'

www.rawstory.com

external-link
message-square
47
link
fedilink
515
external-link

Trump calls Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'

www.rawstory.com

adr1an@programming.dev to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
message-square
47
link
fedilink
'Brain is peanut butter': Trump mocked for calling Japanese leader 'Mr. Japan'
www.rawstory.com
external-link
President Donald Trump was brutally mocked over the weekend after he referred to Japan's leader as "Mr. Japan."The president made the statement during an interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo about tariffs. As his July 9 deadline for tariff deals approached, Trump said he would rather send a ...
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • Goldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 hours ago

    The president of the united states and commander in chief, perfect representation of his nation!

  • nebulaone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    14 hours ago

    Comedy genius

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    189
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    This is easily explained.

    Donald Trump has dementia.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Not true, not true. Very sharp, Tim Apple called him smart. Fake news

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      62
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      But media won’t harp on this like Biden. Otherwise we’d have a million articles by now.

      • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        45
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 day ago

        Mainstream media has a fuckton of culpability here.

    • Regna@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      63
      ·
      1 day ago

      And even before that, he was dumb and easily used. Just easier to use now:

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      24 hours ago

      No, it’s syphilitic brain damage.

      • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        24 hours ago

        One doesn’t exclude the other.

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    126
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    When do we start using Gatorade on the crops?

    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      38
      ·
      1 day ago

      ahem Brawndo? Idiot doesn’t even know it’s got electrolytes…

      • SW42@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        20 hours ago

        It’s what plants crave !

    • 0ndead@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      It’s scares me that some of you don’t get this joke reference

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      23 hours ago

      When all the nefarious people encouraging this abuse die off.

      You’ll notice that they don’t exist in the future world of Idiocracy. That’s because it’s a fictional world, with a very basic premise only vaguely related to reality.

      The problem isn’t that people are dumb, it’s that the people in power want to keep people dumb. Without that, it’s not like we’ll continue to devolve into helpless infantile people with no ability to think for ourselves.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        18 hours ago

        Without that, it’s not like we’ll continue to devolve into helpless infantile people with no ability to think for ourselves.

        ChatGPT enters the chat

        • Zorque@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          17 hours ago

          Yeah, totally not engineered by people who profit off people getting dumber…

          • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            3 hours ago

            True, but I honestly think a significant number of people will naturally gravitate towards whatever’s easier, offloading their own critical thinking skills.

    • AstaKask@lemmy.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 day ago

      Where’s the grift in that? It’s gonna be raw sewage and industrial waste.

      • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        43
        ·
        1 day ago

        Because it’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes.

      • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        1 day ago

        It’ll be Trumpade

      • iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        edit-2
        1 day ago

        RFK’s worm doing some serious work on upping that foodborne pathogens game…

        Edit: Missed a letter and link

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    24 hours ago

    Nippon-san.

    • Maultasche@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Yamato-dono

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        23 hours ago

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    105
    ·
    1 day ago

    Has Mr. Japan met Tim Apple?

    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      24 hours ago

      Mr. Japannibal Lector

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    We’re like a department store to shop in the United States, and you’ll pay a 25% tariff

    That’s not how any of that works.

  • rxbudian@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    1 day ago

    I wonder what he’s thinking when he says “Ms. Universe”

    • Final Remix@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      1 day ago

      Probably thinking about what she looked like in her early teens.

  • jaybone@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    22 hours ago

    Mr. Japan sounds like a really awesomely shitty knockoff super hero.

    • arin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      18 hours ago

      Still way better than what USA has right now …

  • Siresly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    A mind as sharp as a sharpie.

    • Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 day ago

      Sharpie enough to control hurricanes.

      • collapse_already@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 day ago

        The power to relocate Alabama by drawing a weiner with a marker.

    • Eldritch@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      23 hours ago

      A mind like a bowling ball. Blunt, smooth, and significantly dense for it’s relatively small size.

  • wulrus@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    22 hours ago

    That does make sense. Smartest thing he has said so far.

    We already have “Miss Germany” etc. Why did we not think of using that term for the respective leader?

    • arin@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      18 hours ago

      Senile leader

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    I’m not a fan of the headline.

    Peanut butter is useful.

    • sndmn@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 day ago

      deleted by creator

      • Heikki2@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 day ago

        It’s more like previously frozen fish that was refrigerated and left in the sun to thaw for a week

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 day ago

    The two people in charge of the US government—Beavis and Butthead—sure are some queer fellas.

  • huppakee@feddit.nl
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    When I grow up, EVERYBODY will call ME “MR. AMERICA”. They will GIVE ME “NOBEL” PEACE prizes and hold MILITARY PARADES on MY BIRTHDAY. I will be “PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES”. They will LOVE ME and APPRECIATE ME.

    • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      24 hours ago

      Well I’m gonna get a THREE BELL prize! Take that!

      • jaybone@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        22 hours ago

        Ask the magic EIGHT BELL.

  • wabafee@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    1 day ago

    Thanks Mr. Orange man!

Not The Onion@lemmy.world

nottheonion@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !nottheonion@lemmy.world

Welcome

We’re not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from…
  2. …credible sources, with…
  3. …their original headlines, that…
  4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.3K users / day
  • 3.54K users / week
  • 8.61K users / month
  • 20.1K users / 6 months
  • 10 local subscribers
  • 17.1K subscribers
  • 1.49K Posts
  • 51K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • kescusay@lemmy.world
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org