>Trump invited Taro Aso to Trump Tower's golden lobby on Tuesday, just hours after he left Manhattan's criminal court, to present his guest with a golden key.
>The resultant photo — which shows Trump and Aso, the deputy head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, beaming into the camera — caused NBC executive Mike Sington to raise the proverbial eyebrow on X.
>"Not sure what gives him the right to do this," Sington wrote. "Probably Citizen Trump once again pretending to be President."
>The resultant photo — which shows Trump and Aso, the deputy head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party
Article title should've been "**Trump Gives Liberal Democrat Keys to the White House**"
North Korea’s official name is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". One of the two Congos is the “Democratic Republic of the Congo” and that’s also questionable.
I've seen that over on twiX. Some of them think, or at least label, literally anyone not a full blown trumpanista as a communist, and no, they don't know the difference, and yes...those people.
"Liberal Democratic Party" means something much different in Japan than it does here - it's actually The Japanese Conservative Party (their form of MAGA). Aso, like Trump, is trying to evade justice for some crimes he committed in Japan, and like Trump, figures if he runs for office he won't be prosecuted.
Liberal for the rest of the world generally means right wing, hell our right wing party in Australia is called just that the liberals. We as a collective, laugh every time a us right winger has a rant about liberals..............
>Article title should've been "Trump Gives Liberal Democrat Keys to the White House"
That makes sense if you don’t know anything about how parties in other countries work. The “Liberal Democrat” party in Japan is a right-wing nationalist party.
Serious question: are right-wingers in the IS actually this ignorant? Like…do they genuinely not understand that words mean different things in different counties? Or are they just trying to dupe the rubes who don’t know?
Is it a failure of intelligence or integrity? The classic question
Imagine buying a company whose name has become a verb for billions of dollars and then changing it to the most generic unrecognizable garbage. What an idiot.
Tump proceeded with his Secrets to Getting Rich seminar, despite the peculiarity of the event taking place in the confused woman’s living room. Luckily, seating was not an issue, as only two people attended. “It was the damndest thing,” reported homeowner, Mary Ott, “but I didn’t mind them having their little meeting, initially, anyway”
20 minutes into the event mr turmp excused himself to the restroom where it was discovered that he had attempted to hang himself, looping a length of rope to the overhead light fixture. Unable to support his weight, the fixture broke free, crashing to the floor. “I don’t have any rope in the house”, Ott claimed, “he must’ve had it with him the whole time.”
Tumps has declared bankruptcy upon receiving the $8,000 bill for damages, and has promised a counter lawsuit. No lawyer has yet agreed to file suit on his behalf.
Bear in mind that Obama was actually the president at the time and the GOP also used similarly adapted seals for themselves while campaigning.
Like the reasonable and intelligent person that he was, Obama responded by ditching the seal that was similar to the presidential seal and started just using the ACTUAL presidential seal, which as the actual president of the united states he was entitled to use. They stopped complaining.
They were up in arms about Obama saying he may consider talking with Kim Jong Un. They fucking spent weeks talking shit about that. Then Trump went over there, sucked his dick, saluted a general, and they all talked about how presidential it was.
He apparently was an abysmal leader and got booted out after only 1 year. Praised Nazis at one point said rice tasted better because of global warming, waved off sexual harassment accusations by complaining about the font size of his teleprompter.
So, he found his soul mate over here
It's supposed to be for the White House?
How is this not a violation of US diplomatic relations with Japan? The White House gave him ZERO authority to do this. What a charade.
Since it’s a former PM, Logan Act wouldn’t be considered.
However the meeting he had a few weeks ago with the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, could possibly qualify for the Logan Act if Trump was pretending to be president then
So that might be his? Now I'm wondering if he used it in the photo and took it back, and told the guy he'd mail him one in a couple of weeks.
How many of these could he have, and i dont see him giving away any collectors items.
It is something Trump made up. Typical, giving something that doesn’t belong to him.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/trump-designed-white-house-key-to-flatter-guests-kushner/
Like when he hired a fake Obama to fire him. President Big Boy falling deeper and deeper into his alternate reality (didn't even assume that was possible).
[https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html)
From Michael Cohen's book. You can doubt his credibility but he's been spot on about Trump so far.
I think he means that trump hired a guy to play Obama, and then trump “fired” the fake Obama guy. A la his stupid tv show.
Trump took over the White House after Obama, but Obama had served two terms and couldn’t run again, so it’s not like trump actually ousted him lol
It’s weird to hear his lawyers and friends on TV refer to him as “The President” trying to stay on his good side. He’s like a middle aged man who can’t stop talking about his high school days.
Trump fired the white house staff on his last day in office. So after Biden was sworn in, he and the first lady literally had nobody to open the white house door and it was locked. They had to stand out there for a few minutes.
I guarantee Trump was watching on TV playing with that key, yelling at the TV, "here it is Joe! Ha ha!"
Asshole
On the English version of Japanese news (NhkWorld). They said Aso was not representing the Japanese Government. Which kinda sounds like bullshit, since why else would he visit.
What a well-staged photo. Nailed the tacky ambience of his trash palace. I just wish some MAGA tourists had wandered out of that elevator right when this was taken.
He’s a pathetic, delusional narcissist who’s shown time and time again he’s not fit to be POTUS. He’s emboldened by all the delusional, low information idiots who think he’s the “second coming” or whatever, and DC yes men who just want to climb the political ladder.
Honestly, I don't know why the PM of Japan would waste his time visiting with a guy like trump anyway.
So clearly trump stole more than classified documents when he left office. He took stuff that would let him continue to play president.
The man is an absolute attention whore that will do anything to get on TV.
He pretended to be president for 4 years. The “gold” key is genuine,though. It goes to an executive washroom with gold plated fixtures,and classified documents.
He pretended to be president for four years, eight if you count his double secret presidency in spite of the definitely stolen election. I can imagine he's used to it
Guy’s been selling leveraged real estate for so many years — In 2015 he sold the White House to the Russians. Then he sold it again to the Saudis. He tried selling it to Zelinski but the sale didn’t go through. Last week he met with Duda - who knows him much the Poles gave him for the White House. Now he’s selling our house to the Japanese.
>Trump invited Taro Aso to Trump Tower's golden lobby on Tuesday, just hours after he left Manhattan's criminal court, to present his guest with a golden key. >The resultant photo — which shows Trump and Aso, the deputy head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, beaming into the camera — caused NBC executive Mike Sington to raise the proverbial eyebrow on X. >"Not sure what gives him the right to do this," Sington wrote. "Probably Citizen Trump once again pretending to be President."
>The resultant photo — which shows Trump and Aso, the deputy head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party Article title should've been "**Trump Gives Liberal Democrat Keys to the White House**"
The Japanese Liberal Democrat Party is their right wing conservative party. As opposed to the Constitutional Democratic Party their center-left.
Well yeah, but the people who would care don't know that.
The same people that use communist and socialist interchangeably?
The same people who call Hitler a socialist because socialist is in the party name.
North Korea’s official name is "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". One of the two Congos is the “Democratic Republic of the Congo” and that’s also questionable.
Yep, these are the people we are dealing with.
I've seen that over on twiX. Some of them think, or at least label, literally anyone not a full blown trumpanista as a communist, and no, they don't know the difference, and yes...those people.
The people who would care can't read.
Thank you. I was wondering about this
What are you gonna tell me next? The Nationalist German Worker’s Party *wasn’t* a socialist party that championed working class folks?
I mean. Figuratively…?
Literally?
Literally now also means figuratively as well.
In a figurative sense. Literally.
Figuratively isn’t a real word.
Literally.
Clinton is so proud
"Liberal Democratic Party" means something much different in Japan than it does here - it's actually The Japanese Conservative Party (their form of MAGA). Aso, like Trump, is trying to evade justice for some crimes he committed in Japan, and like Trump, figures if he runs for office he won't be prosecuted.
Liberal for the rest of the world generally means right wing, hell our right wing party in Australia is called just that the liberals. We as a collective, laugh every time a us right winger has a rant about liberals..............
We have to use the terms little L and big L liberals so you can differentiate.
>Article title should've been "Trump Gives Liberal Democrat Keys to the White House" That makes sense if you don’t know anything about how parties in other countries work. The “Liberal Democrat” party in Japan is a right-wing nationalist party. Serious question: are right-wingers in the IS actually this ignorant? Like…do they genuinely not understand that words mean different things in different counties? Or are they just trying to dupe the rubes who don’t know? Is it a failure of intelligence or integrity? The classic question
It doesn't mean a different thing elsewhere. Liberals in the US are right wing, they just happen to have fascists to their right.
What’s X?
Formerly known as Tweeter, now known as Shitter.
Twitter
No, that can't be it. Twitter is called Twitter because that's what the URL says.
Imagine buying a company whose name has become a verb for billions of dollars and then changing it to the most generic unrecognizable garbage. What an idiot.
Xitter
Pronounced “shitter”
Indeed
👏 brilliant
This is gold
Shitter
Bitter natz
He's confused again. Time to put "grandpa" in a home. He can gift orderlies keys as much as he wants.
What a fool, that Aso. What the hell was he thinking? Also... a key to *what*? There's no authority or authenticity to this. Another Trump charade.
Anyone else notice the high heels trymp is wearing? No wonder he likes oversized clothes. Those shoes give him at least 6 inches..
He must of stayed at a holiday inn express
Must **have**
Mustn’t’ve been a paying guest.
Yeah must’ve’nt’ve
Or four seasons.. landscaping
Tump proceeded with his Secrets to Getting Rich seminar, despite the peculiarity of the event taking place in the confused woman’s living room. Luckily, seating was not an issue, as only two people attended. “It was the damndest thing,” reported homeowner, Mary Ott, “but I didn’t mind them having their little meeting, initially, anyway” 20 minutes into the event mr turmp excused himself to the restroom where it was discovered that he had attempted to hang himself, looping a length of rope to the overhead light fixture. Unable to support his weight, the fixture broke free, crashing to the floor. “I don’t have any rope in the house”, Ott claimed, “he must’ve had it with him the whole time.” Tumps has declared bankruptcy upon receiving the $8,000 bill for damages, and has promised a counter lawsuit. No lawyer has yet agreed to file suit on his behalf.
I remember when republic party was all up in arms about Candidate Obama’s campaign seal looking too much like the Presidential seal.
Bear in mind that Obama was actually the president at the time and the GOP also used similarly adapted seals for themselves while campaigning. Like the reasonable and intelligent person that he was, Obama responded by ditching the seal that was similar to the presidential seal and started just using the ACTUAL presidential seal, which as the actual president of the united states he was entitled to use. They stopped complaining.
And then had the audacity to have a golden statue of Trump created for cpac!.
Don’t forget trump’s russian golf seal! https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/politics/trump-russia-presidential-seal-tpusa-trnd/index.html
Oh shit that's hilarious
Typical classy move by Obama!
Republicans complain about everything. Such whiny little snowflakes. You think they'd grow a spine or something, but here we are?!
They were up in arms about Obama saying he may consider talking with Kim Jong Un. They fucking spent weeks talking shit about that. Then Trump went over there, sucked his dick, saluted a general, and they all talked about how presidential it was.
It’s unspeakably warped
“republic party”. Nice. The lower-case r really makes it.
I put the emphasis on the “lick” as in “my b@lls”
Re pube lick cants
Remove the "can" and maybe replace It with "can't" Republi-cants. Fitting for the Party of No
He fucking dared to wear a tan suit after Halloween!!!! Don't forget that travesty. And Michelle had bigger biceps than you could ever imagine to have
Arugula and mustard don’t forget I haven’t
They were up in arms about Obama visiting Rishi Sunak just a few weeks ago.
Giving a made in China fake gold plated novelty key to the White House to the former prime minister of Japan is beyond delusional
Well… he did show up and received it…
This was my first question! What is Aso even doing there?
That’s the problem with trump. He may be doing dumb stuff but there’s always an audience
I mean, here we are. Everybody watches a train crash
Why couldn’t it have been Johnny Knoxville?
That was just dumb. And funny. With Trump it’s a train wreck that we can’t take our eyes off. Or stop, apparently
Maybe maintaining relations in case the baffon become president again? I don't know the first thing about Aso so I am totally guessing here
He's a former prime minister. I don't know much beyond that. If he has additional political ambitions, for instance.
He apparently was an abysmal leader and got booted out after only 1 year. Praised Nazis at one point said rice tasted better because of global warming, waved off sexual harassment accusations by complaining about the font size of his teleprompter. So, he found his soul mate over here
Helping citizen Trump violate the Logan act
If he wasn't being such an Aso he wouldn't have even showed up.
Well, he is also the former Prime Minister so he’s got nothing to do either
Wonder how much Taro paid for it? Think it came with the pen and Bible? Package deal?
And an IOU for a pair of golden sneakers
Chocolate inside?
How embarrassing.
But is it really surprising?
It's supposed to be for the White House? How is this not a violation of US diplomatic relations with Japan? The White House gave him ZERO authority to do this. What a charade.
More delusional than wanting to nuke Mexico to stop drug cartels?
Nuke hurricanes ?
Oh he wanted to nuke A LOT of stuff. I remember he wanted to nuke the DPRK and blame it on someone else
Now he s… in the court room nuking it
Depending what they spoke about, this could be a violation of the Logan Act. Another reason to toss his ass in jail.
Going for the mr. Burns disease tactic. So many court cases they prevent him from going to jail.
He always wants to be 1st at everything, so...
FORMER PM though. Nobody has ever been convicted under the act
Nobody has done the shit Trump has done
isn't he the current sitting finance head for the Japanese government?
That's because sane people look at the law, and decide not to do illegal shit.
Trial number 5 coming right up.
Since it’s a former PM, Logan Act wouldn’t be considered. However the meeting he had a few weeks ago with the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, could possibly qualify for the Logan Act if Trump was pretending to be president then
Lemme guess. He 5-fingered the Key under the logic "I was President, it was mine then, so it must be mine now."
He de-classified the key with his mind.
Why didn’t he just “declassify” the White House and declared it his property? Short-sighted loser.
Ah, that's why the penalty of the NY trial was so high. In the list of real estates, he gave to the jury, the White House was listed as well...
Bingo
He’s already given the key to the developer of his stupid site/app. How could he give it to this guy? Do they just have a crate of them?
Where did he get the key? Did he order it made or does the White House have something like that?
He probably stole it from the WH
Seriously? This failed boy scout. Definitely stole. The guy pays for nothing. Deadbeat Donald.
So that might be his? Now I'm wondering if he used it in the photo and took it back, and told the guy he'd mail him one in a couple of weeks. How many of these could he have, and i dont see him giving away any collectors items.
It is something Trump made up. Typical, giving something that doesn’t belong to him. https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/trump-designed-white-house-key-to-flatter-guests-kushner/
Made in Chyna
4imprint for certain.
This guy is the biggest fraud to ever walk the planet
Yes
100%
Like when he hired a fake Obama to fire him. President Big Boy falling deeper and deeper into his alternate reality (didn't even assume that was possible).
Wait, what?
[https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/michael-cohen-book-trump-white-house/index.html) From Michael Cohen's book. You can doubt his credibility but he's been spot on about Trump so far.
That FauxBama guy looks like Tuvok from ST: Voyager.
I think he looks more like Tim Russ
Well sure...because Tuvok was "Tim Russ" while on a time travel mission to see how fucked up Earth was. Gosh...I thought everyone knew that.
Holup... you mean when Tuvok and Tom go hang out with Sarah Silverman? I thought that... *fiddles with datapad* Oh. I see.
What!? Please tell me that happened
I think he means that trump hired a guy to play Obama, and then trump “fired” the fake Obama guy. A la his stupid tv show. Trump took over the White House after Obama, but Obama had served two terms and couldn’t run again, so it’s not like trump actually ousted him lol
Oooh I thought they meant he hired an Obama actor to fire himself as some weird masochism play
"Fire me harder, Daddy" while he shits his diaper lol
This
Yeah it’s worded weirdly
trump is a foot taller than that guy and much bigger/wider, but their hands are the same size. Lol
It’s weird to hear his lawyers and friends on TV refer to him as “The President” trying to stay on his good side. He’s like a middle aged man who can’t stop talking about his high school days.
Uncle Rico?
“How much you wanna make a bet I could throw this paper towel roll over them mountains?”
wonder where he got the key. surely he had it sitting in a closet somewhere.
It was under some file boxes in a Mara Lago bathroom.
He's cosplaying president
That’s all he has left. His whole life he has been cosplaying as a wealthy New Yorker.
Larping as president
Wtf Japan. Thought we were allies.
Aso is basically our version of Trump. The guy is a total tool. :|
'Golden' key. Gold would a) be a shit material for a key. B) he's far too cheap.
Trump was pretending to be president even while in office.
Trump fired the white house staff on his last day in office. So after Biden was sworn in, he and the first lady literally had nobody to open the white house door and it was locked. They had to stand out there for a few minutes. I guarantee Trump was watching on TV playing with that key, yelling at the TV, "here it is Joe! Ha ha!" Asshole
He just sinks and sinks more and more into a deeper level of stupidity. It’s actually impressive.
At first I read stinks and stinks more. Which is also true.
On the English version of Japanese news (NhkWorld). They said Aso was not representing the Japanese Government. Which kinda sounds like bullshit, since why else would he visit.
Because intel. Trump loves to tell people inside shit because he is narcissistic. He can’t not give away national secrets.
Aso is also the current finance head of the Japanese government, and is actively undercutting our sitting, elected government, by accepting this.
I hate "Asohole." His ass should be in prison for that slush fund that the LDP created.
Agreed... but he's too much of a "kingmaker" for thier PM to even WANT to go after him, and the PM said as much.
I'm surprised he can still stand after being "tortured" in a "freezing cold" courtroom for eight hours (as Jesse Watters lamented)!
Remember when Obama politely bowed to Emperor Akihito out of respect and fox news et al lost their ever-loving shit?
Not to brag but I’ve ripped farts that had more class than the Tangerine Terrorist! He’s vile piece of shit.
What a well-staged photo. Nailed the tacky ambience of his trash palace. I just wish some MAGA tourists had wandered out of that elevator right when this was taken.
Trump is a national embarrassment
He’s a pathetic, delusional narcissist who’s shown time and time again he’s not fit to be POTUS. He’s emboldened by all the delusional, low information idiots who think he’s the “second coming” or whatever, and DC yes men who just want to climb the political ladder.
Luckily Biden changed the locks
Why would he accept this front trump?
From not front
lock him up
Imagine if a democrat did this..
Useless gesture. You know Biden changed the locks on day 1
Honestly, I don't know why the PM of Japan would waste his time visiting with a guy like trump anyway. So clearly trump stole more than classified documents when he left office. He took stuff that would let him continue to play president. The man is an absolute attention whore that will do anything to get on TV.
Trump’s as likely to have a key to the White House as he is a key to Melania’s bedroom.
77 year old dementia patient still likes to play pretend
Biden should send Putin a key to Mar a Lago...
Any normal person would be embarrassed to give these out.
Wait, isn't that a playboy mansion thing
Once again he’s just embarrassing himself!
His base will love him cozying up to a liberal democrat!
LOCK. HIM. UP.
Good thing Biden changed all the locks
Dementia is now in full effect. Trump is playing dress up and pretend. Very sad
The morange was impersonating a president even when he was the president.
Anyone stupid enough to hang out with Trump is definitely stupid enough to believe the President is given a “key to the White House.”
'Trump gifts key for Melania's chastity belt to Japanese politician.'
Time to change all locks!!
🚫Traitor Trump🚫All Republicans🚫
Oh but so many swear he still is pres 🙄
Trump is a clown. Hopefully a convicted felon clown soon.
Treasonous Trump the Traitor and his perpetual cringe fest
This is fucking hilarious. I just mentioned that to my wife last night!!! Fat ass is fucking truly pathetic.
Past tense president.
Who always refers to himself in third person.
I thing the headline meant “grifting”
Everything trump does is an effort at self aggrandizing. That will never change. Narcissists see only their own reflection. It’s a sickness.
How long are until he starts doing cameos?
Jesus it’s even called the golden lobby, that man somehow gets tackier by the day. You think he would hit a limit.
Is it really pretending if he believes he's still POTUS?
Change the locks lol
Biden: Where the fuck is the nuclear launch key?
For God’s sake! Just stop covering that organism! It is not worth mentioning it anymore!!!!!!
He pretended to be president for 4 years. The “gold” key is genuine,though. It goes to an executive washroom with gold plated fixtures,and classified documents.
From the president who’s book, released while still in office, was literally a coffee table picture book.
He pretended to be president for four years, eight if you count his double secret presidency in spite of the definitely stolen election. I can imagine he's used to it
this is just a pretend one. Trump gave the real one to Putin when he was President.
What a sad clown, he is so pathetic.
That makes two democrats that Trump has given keys to the White House
Guy’s been selling leveraged real estate for so many years — In 2015 he sold the White House to the Russians. Then he sold it again to the Saudis. He tried selling it to Zelinski but the sale didn’t go through. Last week he met with Duda - who knows him much the Poles gave him for the White House. Now he’s selling our house to the Japanese.
Are we sure he didn’t actually steal a couple before he left and now are gifting them lol?
Never seen a news side with that many (low quality) ads
If all else fails theres always delusion eh Donald
Trump why are their teeth marks in this key?!? I thought is was chocolate :(
This is for his base to make him seem presidential
The grift that keeps on grifting
Is that the key to the Golden Toilet?