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Donald gets pranked and no impeachment necessary [1]
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Date: 2025-03-12
The inspiration for this was Rachel Maddow's Tuesday show where Donald Trump was fooled by a Mikhail Gorbachev impersonator in 1988 right out in front of Trump Tower. When I went looking for the video, what did I find, but a Daily Kos member otto's post from 2016.
Screenshot from the video of Knapp and Trump behind him.
Otto's Gorbachev impersonator diary.
Knapp in later years, complete with the wine colored birthmark on his head.
Trump and Ronald.
Here's more detail about the prank.
The impersonator, Ronald Knapp, even wrote a book about it:
Trump has been pranked many times over the years. We should have been wondering about Trump's intelligence and grip on reality decades ago. The 1988 Gorbachev prank proves it. After the prank was publicized, Trump claimed that he knew it was an impersonator all along. Right.
In 2018, a comedian named John Melendez impersonated Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who had just beaten bribery charges, and was able to get through to Donald on Air Force One. Trump gave him support, saying that had been treated so unfairly. Of course, the comedian recorded it. Last year, a new set of charges against Senator Menendez stuck, after he was found in possession of traceable gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash ferreted away in his clothes in a closet. He was charged with being a foreign agent for Egypt, and later for Qatar. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Here is CNN's take on it with a very amused Jake Tapper.
Comedian Joh Melendez.
Comedian Simon Brodkin did an amazing amount of research that allowed him to get past all kinds of security and the Secret Service to throw 50 red golf balls with a large white spot and a swastika, all over the ground while Trump was giving a short speech at Turnberry golf course. Yes, the same golf course that just got vandalized by pro-Palestinian protesters.
Brodkin with the Nazi golf balls.
The golf balls were one of several options for the nature of the prank, but he ruled out the others as least likely to succeed. The video is 13 minutes long. Unbelievable he could get that close to Trump. Here's a story about it by The Guardian, along with other pranks he has pulled.
Brodkin being led away by the Secret Service.
The Secret Service scrambling to pick up the balls.
In 2014 Trump was conned into retweeting a picture of British serial killers Fred and Rosemary West thinking they were this "fan's" parents.
Serial killers Fred and Rosemary West.
Perhaps Donald should have had the intelligence to have a clue when the request came from @feckhead.
In 2015, the Harvard Lampoon tricked Trump into believing that the Harvard Crimson newspaper was endorsing him for president.
Donald had no clue he was being pranked by the Harvard Lampoon.
The prank gets complicated with the story about the chair being a prize stolen by the Harvard Lampoon staff and a metal bird stolen by the editors of the Crimson, but it's worth a read.
In June of 2020, Trump was going to hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. TikTok users who did not like Mr. Trump came up with a plan to deprive him of his crowd at an arena that holds 19,000 people.
BOW Center Trump rally.
The campaign was thrilled when a million ticket requests were made. But the requests weren't real and they used up the tickets available, leaving only a few for real human beings.
BOK Center. Tulsa, OK.
The campaign had to cancel events outside of the arena planned for the overflow crowd that didn't exist. Classic. Taking away his precious crowd.
BOW Center.
CNN did their story about the small crowd with Trump, which an official blamed on radical protestors and the media. CNN and other new media ran their stories clueless as to what happened till later.
Last year, Trump tried to pull an April Fool's Day joke on his supporters with an email went out with a header that said he was suspending his campaign, but when the email was opened, they go this:
We wish you had surrendered.
We all wish it hadn't been a joke. The world would be a much happier place without him. Seth Meyers had his take on it.
Protesters at Trump rallies and speeches get hauled away quickly now. Trump has no sense if humor to deal with today's events. There is this one way to fight back by pulling pranks on Trump. People just have to get creative, like the people listed here.
Maybe we should all ask Trump for the money to buy a Tesla after he illegally advertised them with Musk at the White House on Tuesday.
A lawsuit about it would be the equivalent of a prank we could get away with. Today there are 119 cases against the Trump administration showing on the Just Security Litigation Tracker. None of these are frivolous lawsuits.
A case could be made that Trump has violated 5 CFR ยง 2635.702 "use of public office for private gain." There are supposedly criminal charges that could be made, but I couldn't find any. This was definitely not an official act. Violations of the code can result in disciplinary actions including dismissal.
We could literally get Trump fired. No impeachment necessary.
Call or email your Congressperson or Senator. Tell them it's not a joke and cite the code. This would be the best prank of all on Trump and Musk. Donald, there are consequences. Here they come.
Donald has lost his grip on reality.
"I'll paint any car for $99.95!" Earl Scheib.
Look at that. The door opens and doesn't fall off!
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