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Memoirs from the Meme War
When news broke that Donald Trump was discussing the purchase of Greenland, I did a quick Photoshop.
Greenland in 10 years. pic.twitter.com/akqWowauyu
— jon gabriel (@exjon) August 15, 2019
It got more traction than I expected, appearing on news sites in the U.S., New Zealand, Spain, Denmark, and Greenland itself. Both pro- and anti-Trump people shared it, becoming a political Rorschach test: would the image make you laugh (about 80% of the respondents) or inexplicably enrage you (20%). Lighten up, people.
Anyway, today, the President of the United States shared the image.
I promise not to do this to Greenland! pic.twitter.com/03DdyVU6HA
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 20, 2019
It’s a strange, strange world. Probably should have spent more than 10 minutes on the Photoshop.
Published in General
If I recall correctly, part of Trump’s initial pitch to Kim Jong-un was how much opportunity Kim Jong-un could realize if North Korea were to develop its coastal lands and enter the tourism business -that the county (and he) would be much wealthier than they are now as a hermit country.
#Arrival !!!!!
Here’s an article about the photo in one of Turkey’s biggest newspapers.
I think the next step is to show a Trump hotel 1/3 or 1/2 built and under construction with a couple of large construction cranes with some additional faux satellite imagery of cement trucks and long-bed trucks carrying steel beams arriving and leaving the site. Let’s have some fun.
From FoxNews this evening:
Dear Danish People,
Jon was just kidding. It was a joke. No, really. There won’t be a large Trump building like what is depicted in the Photoshopped meme.
What size would you like? We’re flexible.
I think this tweet was great. It’s worth at least a chuckle whatever one’s politics. That said, Jon’s best tweet is still this one from 2014.
Does that mean we now have to call him Doctor Gabriel?
He’s not a real doctor, he only has a PsD (Photoshop Doctorate).
@exjon Jon Gabriel, PsD. I like it.
Yeah, well, even his PsD is fake. He doctored it.
So it’s a PsDedPsD?
Yes, but that’s just his way of coping with the PtsD from the meme war. It’s a vicious cycle.
Jon, are you Donald Trump’s long lost son? From the Washington Post with a picture from the U.K. Guardian:
“The real estate mogul cum president decides he wants to buy the world’s largest island with U.S. funds. He and his son publicize images of what a massive building emblazoned with the Trump name would look like on the undeveloped island. “
Now I know why Ricochet is so understanding of Trump, our Editor in Chief is his secret son!
No, Eric Trump also tweeted the image out.
Trump is a genius I tell ya…..
Greenland Is Farther East, West, North, And South Than Iceland
We would have Iceland surrounded….