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Four years ago, I started saving the best of the incredibly bizarre, stupid and bad vibes photos being rapidly produced by the Trump administration to cathartically post today. Here is my Surreal Trump Photo Dump

 Hell Dinner
these are in vaguely chronological order, most are of trump, but some are of other related weirdness. It's been played to death, but this was definitely a tone-setter
Another early banger, a sensible oil of this should be his white house portrait
probably the GOAT, my mind still reels when I think about seeing the ORB for the first time
Like a good concert set we're front loading some fan favorites, let's hear it for the ORB one more time
Happy Birthday, Mr. Secretary
thank you, sir
have to pay homage to a truly legendary fit
ominous
trouble brewing
feed the fishes
fun with friends
say what you will about the man, he knows how to drink a water
I will genuinely miss Melania's Malevolent Christmas auras
first in a series of truly powerful stances
I can barely remember what this is about, but the man loves prop Papers
thirsty boy
i think what stood out to me for this one is that they were lined up by height
the happy couple
found a guy
probably the most physical exertion he's done in his life?
this is what peak performance looks like
a big letter for a big boy
another of his best tics
fashion
he just feels powerful next to big stacks of blank paper
just had these two saved next to each other, don't know why. I think that's rebekah mercer?
family of powerful stances
???????
"vigilance"
this one's labeled "mccainmad" so i think he's pouting about mccain being celebrated in death, lmao
feelin' good
spot the difference
guys being dudes
blood christmas
Eyyyyyyyy
your mother and i are very disappointed in you
oh you know what fucking time it is
"This is the most powerful image in human history. Even Kubrick at his best could not conjure something so indescribably humming with otherworldly malevolence and terrible meaning" - @willmenaker
he got these guys from a casting call
tried not to grab so many cable news pics, but c'mon, these faces
i was there for this one
remember fake melania?
another normal stance
what's he thinking?
lol
how'd that work out?
always happy to meet a BIG Guy
looks good, sir
aaaaaAAHHHHH
towards the end the makeup started getting sloppy in the back

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