• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    That has to be the worst Photoshop job I’ve ever seen, it was like someone just slapped some computer font on a photo, and the letters are way darker than the rest of the photo. Like you have to be one of the stupidest people on earth you ever believe that photo was real

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      20 hours ago

      I don’t think the letters on there were even intended to be faked as part of the photo. That’s the exceedingly stupid thing here - donvict seems convinced that the labeling is supposed to be part of the fakery and that we all need to buy into it.

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        14 hours ago

        Yep, the editor was attempting to annotate their interpretation of the tattoos onto the photograph. I doubt that the thought that someone would be stupid enough to interpret the annotation as part of the original image ever entered their mind.

        But we’re talking about a real fucking idiot here with Trump.

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        19 hours ago

        Seriously. It’s like looking at a map of a battle and assuming the arrows are actual terrain features.

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        19 hours ago

        Yeah it seems pretty clear that someone was like “His marijuana leaf stands for M, so let’s label that. Then we’ll say this is a smiley, so label that S. Etc etc”

        Then Trump saw it and (just like the COVID hospital cleaning protocols to use bleach and UV light) assumed he was the smartest person in the room - and just ran with it. Problem is he’s too dumb and egotistical to admit he made a mistake.