NEW YORK (AP) Donald Trump’s recent visit to Paris for the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral and his supper with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were more than just diplomatic and strategic gestures.
Additionally, they provided Trump with excellent opportunities for trolling.
Trump has made innumerable offensive, inflammatory, and demeaning remarks during his first term in office and his reelection campaign. His disparaging nicknames for political rivals, his opinions of other political personalities, and the numerous memes he posted on social media were all examples.
Trump is back at it, and his mocking is getting more attention and eyerolls as she gets ready to return to the White House.
With the slogan, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist,” Trump used a picture of himself sitting next to a beaming first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony on Sunday to promote his new line of perfumes and colognes on social media.
The office of the first lady chose not to comment.
The Republican threw out the notion that Canada would become the 51st state in the union when Trudeau hurried to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect’s threat to levy a 25% tax on all Canadian goods entering the U.S.
In a tweet on his social media network on Tuesday morning, Trump referred to the prime minister as Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada, but the Canadians dismissed the remark as a joke.
Trump has a penchant for the outrageous, which he uses to garner attention and, in his most recent political incarnation, rally supporters, after decades as an entertainer and tabloid mainstay. He has always enjoyed making fun of his rivals, both to make fun of and diminish them and to please his fans who share his obscene posts and remarks online and applaud him in person.
To the delight of his supporters, Trump made his first public jab at Canada on social media a week ago when he shared an AI-generated photo of himself standing atop a mountain with a Canadian flag beside him and the words, “Oh Canada!”
“It sounds like we’re living in a South Park episode,” Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller remarked Tuesday following his most recent post.
Earlier this week, Trudeau stated that one of the most crucial things we must do is to avoid panicking or freaking out because Trump’s strategy will frequently involve challenging people, upsetting a negotiating partner, and bringing uncertainty and occasionally even a little chaos into the well-established corridors of democracies and institutions.
For Trump’s opponents, even Thanksgiving dinner is not a place immune from trolling.
On Thanksgiving Day, Trump shared a spoof of the turkey-carving scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, using the faces of President Joe Biden and other Democrats superimposed on the characters.
As the former president stiffly dances to one of his favorite tunes, Village People’s Y.M.C.A., the film shows Trump seemingly exploding out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks.
During his most recent presidential campaign, Trump made fun of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis by calling him Ron DeSanctimonious instead of using his true name as his GOP primary opponent. In a post on his Truth Social network, he added, just for good measure, that, despite what the Fake News is claiming, I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious Meatball Ron.
During his anti-Biden campaign, Trump made fun of the president’s intelligence, his gait, his golf skills, and even his beach body in remarks and impressions at rallies and online.
Following Biden’s replacement as the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris was frequently accused by Trump of never having a job at McDonald’s while in college.As usual, Trump made his jeering a spectacle by showing up at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania in October, where he manned the fries station and had an unplanned press conference from the drive-thru.
Trump’s staff believes that individuals need to learn to laugh.
According to Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung, “President Trump is a master at messaging and is always relatable to the average person, while many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.” After a turbulent four years, people are beginning to feel optimistic again, and President Trump will make America great again.
To date, America’s northern neighbors have not fallen for the ploy, despite the fact that both the Biden and Harris campaigns produced and disseminated memes and carried out other antics in response to Trump’s taunts.
According to Miller, we shouldn’t necessarily look to Truth Social for guidance on public policy.
Trump frequently brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau during his first term in office, according to close friend and former top adviser Gerald Butts.
On Tuesday, Butts exclaimed, “Oh God, a minimum of six times.
He does this and this is who he is. According to Butts, he is attempting to cause anxiety and instability in everyone. He’s attempting to make people defensive and nervous so they’ll do things they wouldn’t otherwise consider doing if they were calm. I’m not sure why it surprises anyone.
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From Toronto, Gillies reported. This article was written by Darlene Superville of the Associated Press.
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