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Trump told a lengthy story about negotiating over the price of Sharpie pens. The company says it has no record of any such conversation.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 113 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Remember when they were foaming at the mouth over Biden having dementia?

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The Biden crime family you mean? 😏

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean that dong is criminally big. Probably why they hate him so much.

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Been seeing a lot of obsession over the size of govt leaders leaders lately. You lot ok?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Something something Burisma

[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

It's ALWAYS projection!

[–] homes@piefed.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But he tripped up the stairs once!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Every time I see a clip of Trump walking down the steps off Air Force One, I find myself praying to a god that I know doesn't exist that he falls face first and dies on live TV... I guess there really are no atheists in a foxhole lol

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, dementia is your brain not being able to recall your life, or in some cases stuck in a certain time period in your mind despite it being decades later.

What trump is, is just a narcsisist, and a liar. Super easy to punch in the face without feelings of guilt.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I mean, dementia is your brain not being able to recall your life, or in some cases stuck in a certain time period in your mind despite it being decades later.

This is completely incorrect. Not only are there many types of dementia, with Alzheimer's being the most common, but the memory problems common to dementia are not at all specific to recalling "your life". Alzheimer's symptoms:

difficulty in finding the right word, difficulties with visuospatial ability, and impaired reasoning and judgment. In later stages the symptoms become more severe, and include greater confusion, and changes in behavior.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260304025025/https://www.thedailybeast.com/confused-trump79-forgets-what-country-his-father-was-born-in/

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-claims-uncle-taught-unabomber-offers-evidence-support/story?id=123833782

https://archive.is/Hfl3J

Here are just a couple examples that I can remember off the top of my head and quickly find online of Trump exhibiting dementia symptoms. There are literally dozens of examples publicly documented, and likely countless that have occurred behind closed doors or been covered up.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sharpies are not pens. Sharpies are markers which are closer to signing everything with a crayon.

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The ones trump uses are definitely not. But the Sharpie brand does sell pens as well now.

[–] jimerson@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

They are really nice pens to write with, tbf.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They are good pens but even if he heard of their pens he would still be signing in bold with a marker. If you asked anyone to go buy you a Sharpie you will wind up with a marker when they get back.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

They're also much easier to hold and use for someone with motor issues, especially the big ones.

[–] HermitBee@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sharpies are not pens. Sharpies are markers

Which is short for "marker pens".

Which is short for "marker penis"

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are we actually sure Trump isn't just an LLM these days? The amount of complete fabrication and nonsense being spewed with such confidence is eerily reminiscent of AI hallucination.

LLM would be a major improvement. If he is, he’s stuck on GPT 0.5

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

There's already a brand name for when you fark things up permanently: Trump. They're not changing their company name for him.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

He's negotiating with the voices in his head

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

His confabulation is becoming more obvious.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

I'd rather he save the country billions (or trillions) of dollars by cutting back on golfing excursions, stopping all the corruption going on in his cabinet, and oh yeah, not bombing brown babies in foreign countries.

[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I love Sharpie. But I can find something else if they cut some Trump deal.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

As far as anybody can tell, he made the whole thing up. The sharpies for signing are real, but likely are standard sharpies that somebody silk-screened a logo onto.

[–] Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why they dry out within hours, smudge nonstop, not even a good shade of black, wipe clean with hand sanitizer on hard surfaces, and bleed to Illegibility on paper. Literal bad at everything they are the maga of pens.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hold up, you’re saying they wipe off when cleaned with strong alcohol based cleaning solution? Weird.

[–] swab148@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, surprisingly enough, rubbing alcohol makes a great degreaser, it's also good for like, when you take a sticker or a label off of something, and it leaves a residue behind? That stuff, rubbing alcohol takes it right off.

Personal anecdote, one of my buddies in college had the misfortune of "being the first guy to fall asleep at the party" so of course we drew a bunch of dicks and stuff on his face. The only thing we could find to clean it off the next day was a bottle of 90% isopropyl, and a little bit got into his eye, he got so mad that he punched a hole in his bathroom wall.

"strong alchol based cleaning solution" lol how is kindergarten going for you? You’ll get it this this time foe sho.

[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Only on Lemmy would someone get indignant about pens…. you don’t have to love Sharpie, just accept that the world includes some who do. It’s ok.