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Is Trump General Zod, and the Democrats Superman? [1]
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Date: 2025-01-16
So I was watching some Youtube videos of the Superman movie (the 1978 one with Christopher Reeve) and it occurred to me that Trump is the perfect incarnation of General Zod.
First of all, Zod and his henchlings are tried, convicted and sentenced for treason. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have gotten this far with Trump?
Anyway, exactly and precisely like Trump, he is completely unrepentant and offers Jor-El to join him instead of concurring with the jury. Then when Jor-El indicates he concurs with the jury, Zod threatens him and vows vengeance.
Later on, Zod and his henchlings are accidentally freed by a nuclear explosion in Earth’s orbit when Superman had tried to save the world. The analogy here would be that the nuclear explosion was the 2024 election. Perfect analogy! So the world has to deal with Zod/Trump after all.
But in the end, it is Superman who outsmarts Zod and all his accomplices. Superman is the defender of “Truth, Justice and the American Way.” We know Trump and MAGA believe in none of the three, so it is left to the Democrats to be their defenders.
I would say Trump is also a bit of Lex Luthor. Lex Luthor is really nothing more than an opportunistic slimeball who makes his money from crime. But he is not as deeply evil as Zod. But Trump is a businessman like Luthor and a slimeball as well, so there are some analogies. I’d say Trump is ¾ Zod and ¼ Luthor. Like Zod, Trump demands people be loyal to him.
For those writing stories about Trump but don’t want to use Trump’s photo to head the story, perhaps you can use a General Zod picture instead.
EDIT: Changed the first video to a longer one that also shows their imprisonment.
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