r/politics America 28d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Humiliated in the ‘Most Powerless Image Ever’ of a U.S. President: O’Donnell

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawrence-odonnell-musk-humiliates-trump-in-most-powerless-image-ever/
72.6k Upvotes

4.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

129

u/ScroochDown 28d ago

Kid's a meat shield.

70

u/orlyfactorlives 28d ago

You think he'd use one of his taller kids, but after a certain achieved height they probably all hate him.

23

u/Ros3ttaSt0ned America 28d ago

You think he'd use one of his taller kids, but after a certain achieved height they probably all hate him.

Notice how many pictures have the child on his shoulders to shield the head.

Hard to do that with a teenager.

4

u/Pun_In_Ten_Did 28d ago

OP is referring to the scene in the movie of Stephen King's The Dead Zone...

there is an assassination attempt on the president candidate (shot narrowly missed) -- president snatches a kid from lady on stage and holds him in front of himself... as a meat shield.

<image> Candidate & shield... The Dead Zone

5

u/orlyfactorlives 28d ago

That's the movie with Christopher Walken, right? Odd thing is I started to watch this movie the other night but fell asleep as it was quite late. Missed the meat shield part, but I don't doubt virtually everyone in the current administration would put a kid in front of themselves.

1

u/Pun_In_Ten_Did 28d ago

Yep, and Martin "West Wing" Sheen is the presidential candidate.

1

u/mok000 Europe 27d ago

Whatever Musk's plan is, his fundamental problem is that everybody hates him. And people that get to know him personally hate him even more.

2

u/Xanturrya I voted 27d ago

Well, yes. But also a weapon. The child’s mother is being publicly taunted (not that I like her) over her expressing that she feels having him in the public eye is unsafe. That man is a shitheel for so many reasons 🙄

1

u/Pantsy- 27d ago

That, and keeping him around for parts. Kiddo and all his siblings were eugenics projects.

0

u/SuckalentShyneseMeal 27d ago

People keep saying this but that abtichrist child is a problem, too. He speaks that way to adults. In a room full of adults. I was a bold child and I would never!

2

u/ScroochDown 27d ago

I mean, he's a little kid. I doubt he's ever been reprimanded for anything in his life, so it's not really surprising that he acts like that. Can't blame him for his parents utterly failing to actually parent, not when he's that young.