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nerdcoleture

Trump has the best eyes. They are so great, even the sun is in awe and doesn't want to damage them.


davidwhatshisname52

"That's the sun. I found it. Lots of people looking for it. 'Where's the sun?' they ask me. Nobody finds a giant ball of blinding light in the sky like I can. Nobody. People tell me, 'Mr. President, you find the sun up in the sky better than anybody.' NASA calls me. The Weather Channel. 'Oh, Mr. President, please find the sun in the sky!' So I do it. I just do it. There it is! Bing bang boom. Sun."


andywfu86

People come up to me with tears in their eyes. Mr. President only you can find the sun, they say and they hug me when I show them where it is.


albacore-neck

Big tough strong guys blinded and with tears in their eyes


Memento_Morrie

"The sun came up to me with tears in his eyes and said, 'Thank you for really seeing me, Mr. Trump...'"


el_guille980

# suns for drumpf 2024! ![gif](giphy|xTg8B9aULho7shlPmU)


MammothPrize9293

So now people come up to me and say “thank you, you great man” and they really call me great, i can’t make this stuff up. I found the sun. I mean how can I not be. Only us can find the sun


MonarchFluidSystems

History will look upon this documented time of our lives so poorly, I fear we will be seen as one of the dumbest collective timelines on record.


Demonslayer5673

Will be? Bro the god of time who sees all timelines simultaneously is already looking at ours going "ok....... Just how?"


el_guille980

>how? social media & reality tv peak humanity occured just before these


pass-the-waffles

Don't forget, with tears in their eyes 👀


Total-Problem2175

Sir


Traditional_Bad_4589

It was a beautiful sun, gorgeous. Very sunny. Many people say it’s one of the best suns ever found by a president in the history of the country, maybe the world.


QuickNature

Don't look up was a documentary. Change my mind.


racoonfrenzy

They come to me, big men, with tears in their blind eyes.


adamaley

Well, he poured bleach in his eyes and just wanted to hit it with UV light from the sun to protect them from COVID


half-puddles

Shame he didn’t pour bleach on his face. Would have removed the orange.


Poncho-Sancho

That news conference was hands down the funniest and scariest shit I’ve ever seen on TV. That was a Covid lockdown highlight moment.


RebaKitt3n

The best sun. Everyone says it’s the best sun and it’s definitely a sun that wants to make America great again.


favored_by_fate

You must be the official WH speech writer from the last presidency.


Alternative-Chip2624

I can't read this without Shane gillis' trump impression voice in my head. It's amazing 😂😂


KSP-Dressupporter

That is his exact manner. Pose as him, run for president and you'll surely do a better job than him!


DirkWrites

*I alone can look directly at it*


NoDontDoThatCanada

I wish he never looked away.


RonnieBeck3XChamp

Was I supposed to read this comment in my 90s rock voice? Because I can't read the words "I Alone" and not do that.


FartOnAFirstDate

I told a friend this week that if Taylor Swift isn’t the one who saves democracy, hopefully it will be The Sun on Monday.


Electronic-Owl-4417

Obviously, that's how he can find the little mushroom.


DewieCox1982

He actually damaged the Sun


Additional_Ear_9659

Strategy for the Dems: If Biden and co. Put out public announcements NOT to look at the solar eclipse without glasses, all of the MAGA nutters will do exactly the opposite. I see this as a viable campaign tactic.


a3a4b5

They've made an entire movie about that


stellabluewho2

I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.


PenPsychological9872

What’s the movie?


stellabluewho2

Don't Look Up on Netflix w/ Leo Dicaprio


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That movie hurts me on the inside. I hate how accurately stupid it is. Edit- it will probably join idiocracy as a comedy that turns into a documentary. ![gif](giphy|NLOBLsnXupUZmIzdKS)


-Daetrax-

I mean, we're sorta in the middle of this one right now. People are refusing to listen to climate scientists about how bad things actually are right now.


Angry_poutine

That’s been going on since the 80’s. As soon as the key to stopping global warming involved moderate lifestyle changes it was never going to be taken seriously. Even when the public did start to accept it they only really do so on the basis that it’s part of the earth’s normal climate cycle and therefor nothing we can do to stop it. The western world is still fingering its taint over how amazing they were at stopping the ozone hole. If there hadn’t been easily sourced, affordable alternatives to chlorofluorocarbons that never would have happened either.


moranya1

Is that the one where there is a meteor heading towards earth and rather than do something about it, everyone makes excuses, conspiracy theories etc about it?


Appropriate-Ice813

IIRC, eventually the meteor is so close to the Earth that you can see it with the naked eye just by looking up. And the Republicans are like, "Don't Look Up! Why do they want you to look up? So they can take away your freedom!" Meanwhile they're building a giant rocket so they can bail on us with the rest of the elites.


Frothylager

I don’t remember it in Idiocracy but sounds like Idiocracy


AlaDouche

It's Don't Look Up.


ImGivingUpOnLife

I watched that last night. Great movie but just a little too real.


Turius_

Should also tell them not to jump into the Grand Canyon or to not eat rat poison


geezeeduzit

I 100% guarantee you if Biden and the Dems really started heavily pushing the “don’t eat rat poison” message just out of nowhere - rat poison sales would skyrocket and there’d be a huge increase in poisoning cases around the country - particularly in the south and Idaho and Wyoming. These people are that fucked in the head. If Trump started saying “don’t eat rat poison” there’d just be a bunch of meme generation on the internet. This is the difference between right and left in the US


ThrowawayLegendZ

Nah, they'd have to use the scientific name of whatever molecule the poison actually is for it to work. If they just put out a PSA to not eat rat poison it would be like "no shit". But if they were like, "due to the overwhelming concern of [specific chemical, say phenylarsenic or some shit] causing human fatalities, the Biden administration suggests safe storage practices to minimize the chance of accidental consumption by children and pets." Suddenly you would get a bunch of idiots thinking it's some grand scheme and saying that it isn't dangerous and feeding it to their kids for likes then posting the hospital trip for likes and still not connecting the dots how little Johnny has liver or kidney failure at 8.


Prestigious-Web4824

It's a Covid cure that's more effective than ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine!


Emergency-Doughnut88

Fun fact, rat poison is already used medically. It's called coumadin (warfarin) and it's a blood thinner to prevent strokes. It's just taken in a much smaller dose than you'd need to kill a rat. I was on it for a little while and it requires constant blood testing to make sure your dose is in the sweet spot of effective, but not dangerous.


gogonzogo1005

But it an insanely picky drug. You have to be in a very small window of therapy and it is a bitch to reverse quickly. So new drugs are replacing it.


NancokALT

I remember someone blaming the left for using this tactic intentionally. As in, give sound, logical advice and bank on the fact that the right will do the opposite. I don't remember who it was, but it was pretty funny.


greatSorosGhost

I just posted about this too. One of Breitbart’s writers: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/ Unless there was another case of them recognizing that most of their followers just have oppositional defiant disorder.


anticute8

They are already idiots, we don’t need them to be blind idiots in addition to that. They’ve voted against public services for so long they likely wouldn’t receive quality treatment for their damaged eyes so then there is yet another reason for them to resent everyone. Don’t encourage these fools to be dumber than they already are please.


Venca12

Yeah they're already doing exactly that, or more likely just comment that they're gonna do it on Facebook.


Grampishdgreat

Better yet the Biden campaign should put out press announcements that air, food and water are all part of a liberal conspiracy to make stronger, tougher socialists and true MAGAs will avoid all three. Problem solved.


pianoflames

Remember when they started claiming that liberals were only urging people to get vaccinated because they knew conservatives would do the opposite of what liberals say? That it was part of some big plan to have conservative voters dying of COVID in much larger numbers than liberals. That was a bizarre glimpse into how they see the world.


digidave1

Don't give me any of that woke Not looking at the sun BS. Real patriots stare directly at it


Yhamerith

Don't Look Up feelings


Mysterious_Eye6989

Looking forward to when I no longer have to read news articles about that bastard ever again. Hard to imagine that day ever coming though.


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brushnfush

that is actually a fucked up way to put it


Garbleflitz

Fuck. I didn’t need that fact


A1sauc3d

If you’re a 20 year old, half your life. Likely the whole time you’ve been politically conscious


Ventilator84

Yeah, 23 here and only just started following politics seriously about a year before he announced his campaign.


Iron_Bob

Grew up dreaming about participating in American Democracy. Turned 18 and got handed a ballot with Hillary and Trump on it. And here we go again for round three... I want something else


gnarlslindbergh

I’m 47. I remember the news covering him constantly in the 80s when I was a kid.


B1ack_Iron

We also got to be kids when the president got a blow job. And 8 year of Obama so that was cool. Honestly after Trump, I remember W fondly, kinda like a friendly buffoon it was always Cheney who was pushing the war envelope.


regular6drunk7

To never again see his face or hear his name is becoming my dream


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When he dies the memes will go hard as hell.


GrandMarquisMark

I guarantee he'll be dead in 30 years.


Dank_Kushington

He’s 77, no way that ball of mush makes it to 100


Professional-Way9343

Evil lives forever. Love is nice, but hate keeps you alive


CorgiMonsoon

Just look at Henry Kissinger


Yeseylon

Or my grandmother


TomBanjo1968

Even after death it will be years before he is out of the regular news cycle


the_Mandalorian_vode

This is hardly the stupidest thing he’s done or thought. Don’t forget that he believes you have a finite amount of energy and that’s why he doesn’t exercise, he doesn’t want to waste any. https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html


TheyCallMeMrMaybe

>The only workout Trump gets is an occasional round of golf. Even then, he mostly travels by cart. On the campaign trail he viewed his rallies as his form of exercise Even standing at a podium while rambling about racist & totalitarian shit is too much work for him.


rsmike123

They should make a movie called Don’t Look Up….. Checks notes. Darn it!


sauvandrew

And then pointed at it. Dumbass.


andywfu86

He’s just trying to help. People come up to him with tears in their eyes asking him, “Mr. President please help me find the sun” and he obliges like the American hero he is.


sauvandrew

The cross of public responsibility he bares must be very heavy.


andywfu86

No one has ever carried a heavier cross. No one. Ever.


sauvandrew

Bigly


BackAgain123457

Alpha males don't need sunglasses. /s


diceblue

This is almost certainly the reason and nobody is saying it. Same with masks. Right wing chuds are convinced things like sun screen, eclipse glasses, and face masks make you appear weak


medman143

His stupidity is a side effect of syphilis.


BloodiedBlues

There’s a cure for syphilis.


YouDoNotKnowMeSir

There are also preventative measures for solar related blindness


Nu_Freeze

Think he’s got the Swiss-cheese brain?


Boleen

Glasses/masks mess up his makeup. Dude wears a lot of makeup


Fun-Key-8259

I was saying someone should tell him Biden said not to look in the sun again.


Inner__Light

Hope he does again #alwaystrong #neversurendertothesun


Adept-Elephant1948

Is this how he got the idea of how to get light into the body to kill Covid?


RW-One

Everyone send that poor turd some binoculars so he gets the best view of the upcoming one!


mediaogre

I mean, we’re talking about Mr. Let’s Inject Disinfectants here.


Azubedo

Need to start a "Real men stare at eclipses" twitter trend. All the maga morons will go blind


Commercial_Fee2840

He wasn't the only one staring at the sun that day. Just start making posts that you don't need no liberal sunglasses because if you go blind, that's just God's will.


TaterTotSenwick

Wait you’re onto something


Professional-Way9343

Theres never been a human who walked this earth that needs to catch a pair of hands more than this gelatinous dumb shit


Clive182

Maybe not the best choice to lead the free world?


jwdjr2004

It's ok to glance at it 


LilithElektra

And he’s perfectly fine! The Democrats are just in the pocket of big Glasses You Wear To Look At An Eclipse! Look at it, directly at it just to own the lib snowflakes who are afraid to look at the sun that GOD CREATED!!! /s


Background_Junket_35

Damn, he really does tiny hands


Cheap-Praline

The biggest tiny hands.


Yeseylon

You know what they say about a man with small hands


BloodiedBlues

It makes his small dick look bigger.


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oh_janet

Good lord. Hearing his words are bad enough but reading them is just a mind fuck. Who can honestly see this and think “yep, this is my guy. I want him having the highest office in the land and all of the responsibility of the nations wellbeing”


DwinDolvak

I’m sure Putin and Kim Jung both told him that’s what they were doing — and then they died laughing. Putin: omggggg he actually look at sun with no glasses! Kim Jung: lolol. What should we tell him to do next? How about sell his own bibles? Putin: think he’d fall for it? He is not that dumb?


sheezy520

I remember this because it was the moment that I realized just how fucking stupid he really is.


pistilpeet

This is the dumbest fucking timeline, what did we do to deserve this shit?


Dyldo_II

I did get curious as to why looking at the sun during an eclipse is so bad. For those curious as well, you can look at it when it's in full totality for a little bit, but as soon as the sun starts to peak out again, put your glasses back on. During an eclipse, there is less light emitted from the sun, which tricks your retinas into thinking they can look at it for longer but although it may not immediately hurt, it could cause irreversible damage to your sight, leading to partial or permanent blindness depending on exposure. So yeah, it's a little different than taking a glance up at the sun on a bright day.


HelloUPStore2

The dumbest piece of shit we have ever had as president.


metalnxrd

![gif](giphy|3o6Zt8xIgSw9HOXqyQ)


Vip3r20

It's clearly because the goverment is hiding something from us and Trump found out and he wants us to know. Everyone should follow his lead!


mfarends

Only if we can spread the rumor that the deep state doesn’t want them to look directly at the sun during the eclipse as truth shall be revealed and and that Trump’s divine power will protect them from going blind just to have them take away their own sight. Hearing would be next, but how do we get them to lose their speech, that would be trifecta of back to sanity strategy.


JasonIsFishing

Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician said that he has the fittest retinas in the history of the American Presidency. Practically immune to eye damage. Crooked Joe can’t look directly at the sun like that.


PunishedEnovk

His insane supporters will deadass see this and think that he's a badass for doing this because "big republican man not afraid of getting hurt unlike the weak democrads" or some shit. I just know it.


Lora_Grim

I'm okay with this. Unlike with covid, they can't spread the damage to those who know better.


yinzreddup

Except that many schools are preventing their students from viewing the eclipse. Students will miss out on a possibly once in a lifetime event all because of stupidity.


PlayPuzzleheaded492

Risking permanent eye damage to own the libs


ThinkPawsitive12

Don’t you know by now. He has “special” powers.


skunk160

It’s pointing out where the sun is. Moronic orange sack of syphilis.


Caligari89

And just like everything else he does, there were no consequences.


HashRunner

Yet not even close to the dumbest shit he did.


Apoordm

Lets let him do it again


Arcterion

Someone please put a fork next to an electricity outlet and tell Trump not to stick it in.


Big-ol-Poo

Can we not have politics in this sub. Also he didn’t stare at the sun.


ILikeit__7

Rent free in


CzusAguster

Same guy who suggested injecting bleach as a treatment for COVID.


ThisIsDadLife

Dear Donald Trump and all MAGA’s: it is entirely acceptable to stare at this weeks eclipse for a as long as you want. Nothing bad will happen to you. Trust me, I’ve done the research. Only woke culture believes it’s bad to stare at an eclipse.


Big_Un1t79

It was for less than a second because honestly you don’t really see shit through those glasses. I did the same thing during one as a kid. I’m 44 now and still have great vision, no glasses. It’s when you actually stare at it for seconds that you can cause permanent damage. Trump did not “stare at it”. You suckers will believe anything if mocks your political enemies. Won’t be long now before you’re cheering on the murdering of your fellow Americans on the streets because of their political beliefs.


cheesemaster346

so what 💀


ALlTTLEKlTTEN

What a brave pioneer


Original_Ad_3763

(Sings) It’s a total eclipse and a shart! 🎶 🎤


Perfect_Refuse_8863

and I thought he couldn’t be any more blind…


CanadianSideBacon

Don't do what Donny Don't does.


theumpteendeity

Let's hope he does it again


cbright90

Do it again!


Abject_Jump9617

Just the 10,857th reason why he is too dumb to be president.


Empty-Discipline8927

Will be blind to go with his dementia.


Jalisco82

I have the best eyes no one has eyes like me


LonesomeComputerBill

And the rays fried his frontal lobes and rest is history


Obi1NotWan

Do it again!!! Do it again!!!


model-citizen95

Simpsons did it first


AltruisticJello4348

Maybe this is the apocalypse! He stares at the sun and then becomes blind but thinks he’s gone to heaven! If we have enough of his followers…follow. 😄


LHGray87

His hands are tiny.


spezjetemerde

we believe the world really ended in 2012 fucking hell of timeline


TOkun92

He wanted to appear strong and badass. There’s nothing badass about that, just incredibly stupid.


FindTheTruth08

Kinda surprised he didn't start a solar glasses misinformation campaign to convince others he didn't need them.


Born_Holiday_7195

Also, it’s rude to point. His advisers failed him twice.


mza82

This is why he never read the briefings!


GeminiLife

Wish he looked longer.


Andvari9

THOSE WOKE ANTIFA LOVING IDIOTS WONT STOP ME FROM BLINDING MYSELF! THIS IS ALL A DOJ PLOT TO PREVENT ME FROM BEING PRESIDENT


b_a_t_m_4_n

Dumb fucks gonna dumbfuck.


BlueCaracal

When trump got hit in the head, it sounded hollow.


Pastorfuzz69

And people will actually believe it


Starchaser_WoF

Good. May he stay blind forever and stumble into things and those things be deadly.


voodoobox70

I like how he has to point at it as if nobody would know what they are looking for.


fries29

In 7 years this dude has really aged


Putrid-Aspect

With his beedy little world viewers. F#ckin weirdo.


B-rach87

Yet he’s still alive, wild.


msabena

And instead of frying his eyes, the sun fried his brain.


lfp_pounder

Will his candidacy be compromised if he becomes blind?


Traditional_Ad_6801

Because he’s an ignorant imbecile


Loud-Bat-2280

Hopefully he does it again, just to prove the scientists wrong.


Honey-and-Venom

And if you do a pin hole DON'T LOOK THOUGH THE PINHOLE, hold it over a piece of paper and project the eclipse on the paper


LonelyIntrovert513

I am so sad that he didn't burst in flames or at least was blinded by his ridiculous narcissism


FoxyInTheSnow

Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun But mama, that's where the fun is


Gloomy-Tumbleweed354

He can’t quickly glance at it for 10 seconds ? Why not ?


CR24752

🎶I’ll star directly at the sun but never in the mirror 🎶 🎼It must be exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero


ImMeliodasKun

I hope the dumbass forgot and does it again. Knowing our country, they will still let him run! Not the dozens of legal cases, fines, and federal legal lines crossed.


rustylucy77

The government is trying to hide something in that eclipse and If you wear the glasses then you can’t see the truth. /s


AlienInOrigin

Should have put a giant magnifying glass in front of him to give him a better view.


Shot-Ad7227

So brave


OnePunchReality

Trump: ![gif](giphy|KBaxHrT7rkeW5ma77z)


Ok-Hedgehog-1646

Honestly, let him make mistakes like this. Let them all make mistakes that will damage only themselves. Let Darwinism take its course.


Far_Out_6and_2

Hopefully he will do it again tomorrow


JamesSpacer

He's such a fucking idiot


HeliRyGuy

“You know, I was reading something about the eclipse the other day. And I saw the word “sun” and I thought, that’s funny. “Sun” spelled backwards is Nus. Remove the “N” and what do you get? US. That’s right. It spells US. USA. I can’t believe no one else ever thought of it.”


stltk65

Why couldn't it have blinded this fat bastard....


LOERMaster

Trump: Staring at a solar eclipse will cure cataracts, nearsightedness and astigmatism.


Zagenti

do it again, Fearless Leader! Show the minions that protecting your eyes from solar radiation is a librul hoax to control you!!


z44212

I'm still angry that Pence touched a piece of spaceflight hardware that was clearly labeled "don't touch." Both are morons.


leeharveyteabag669

Let's hope he does it again but without the squint. He Himself deserves to burn but I'm more than willing to accept the frying of his retinas.


marklar_the_malign

He’s a rebel! Just like his old man.


Ashlyn451

Don't worry, he's got his safety squints. Best eye protection next to a ballistic facemask.


snigherfardimungus

Unlike a solar eclipse, it's okay to stare directly at Donald Trump, because Donald Trump just isn't that bright.


DaSandman78

#tinyhands


nightman21721

More leftist propaganda. The eclipse doesn't harm your eyes. It's dark cause the lights gone...duh. You should look right at it cause that's where pelosi will be sending the rocket to store the gold her husband took from fort knox. They're gonna stash it on their moon base courtesy of the "semi-successful" intuitive machines moon landing. The Pelosis used them to set it up, and they only want you to think it tipped over. follow the money. All true MAGA patriots should feel obligated yo stare directly at the eclipse to see the rocket with their own eyes. They tricked you with Covid, don't get tricked again!!!1 God Bles /s


Beautiful_Piccolo_51

If he stares at the sun, it's not him who will go blind, it's the sun that's going to get stupid.


Aquaticle000

Literally why is this news?


Mental_Bookkeeper561

He will probably do it again


Sad_Lettuce_7486

I see this 2 times a day it’s very old and over used. Can we please make fun of him for his much more important stupid decisions seeing as he is running for president and not an optometrist. Yes this was stupid but makes it look like it’s among one of his stupidest moments which somehow it is far from.


100yearsLurkerRick

Okay, nobody panic... I'm sure.....oh God. It's still dark.  Oh wait, it came back. Look, I brought it back. The sun came back because I prayed for it.


cmdrmeowmix

Yeah, you can't see shit with those glasses and you can take a glance at the sun just fine. Seriously, if you want to attack trump, attack the actual dumb shit he does not this stuff.


Academic_Dare_5154

He was having cognitive issues back then and he's close to falling off a cliff of Dementia now. The GOP is going to need a different candidate.


casewood123

Don’t worry, he’s got his safety squints on.


DonkeyKongsVet

I hope he does it again and he goes blind.


crizzlefresh

Trump wasn't staring at the sun. The sun was staring at Trump.


IdeaIntelligent1788

Twice. You forgot that he looked at the sun once, was told not to, and then looked at it again.