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The kicker is, the wrestler did not know who Donald Trump was!
The guy who loves to hate fake news apparently does like to create fake awards.
Pomp and circumstance are the fun parts of being president, after all. On this trip to Japan, Trump has managed to find time between Twitter tantrums to play a round of golf with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe (anyone think he did his typical cheating?), eat some cheeseburgers (he normally eschews the native cuisine, but apparently, on this trip, he did sample some Japanese barbecue, though the menu was adjusted to be fairly bland) and attended a sumo wrestling match.
And because he wouldn't want the attention to be off of him for even a second, Trump decided that he wanted to be part of a ceremony honoring sumo wrestler Asanoyama, as he is known professionally, for attaining grand champion status. Shaking his hand isn't ostentatious enough. So he had an award created: the "President's Cup," a typically Trumpian garish 60 pound, four-and-a-half foot tall trophy with a giant eagle on top that did not exist until Trump wanted to be a bigger deal at a sumo wrestling match.
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/05/trump-created-trophy-give-sumo-wrestler
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Odoreida
(1,549 posts)Say what you will, that is one job he was good at.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)Wasn't that his role?
2naSalit
(87,012 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He looks completely bored until all the attention is back on him presenting his stupid-ass phony "President's Cup". I honestly can't wait until the morning I can wake up and read his obituary. Until he is gone from this world forever.
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)"Here we see a hugely over-grown, decidedly obese, weirdly coiffed oddity and a sumo wrestler."
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)Docreed2003
(16,907 posts)LakeArenal
(28,896 posts)Trump was actually presenting himself in a trophy.
The guy is soo narcissistic.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You beat me to it. Hilarious! There are some great tweets on that thread!
IADEMO2004
(5,582 posts)Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Hoisting that 60lb trophy for the presentation??? You gotta know that asshat couldnt lift anything that heavy.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)I thought it was ugly not in the Japanese taste of art. Now I know why it was so ugly. It was a Trumper design
CharleyDog
(759 posts)Now I get it. It's ugly and it's Trump. Same thing. Horrible. Dear Trump: the Japanese are polite to your face, but they will talk about you (in Japanese) about how ugly and horrible you are.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)Who, by the way, didn't know who Trump was and said he'd have to look him up on Wikipedia later.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,509 posts)Matches Trump's ego and makes up for his tiny mushroom dick.
LakeArenal
(28,896 posts)Starting bid one dollar.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,031 posts)to the winning pitcher: Obnoxious foreign leader presents made-up trophy to the winner of the host country's national sporting event, about which he knows nothing. Would we be offended if that happened? I think so. But even Putin isn't as crass and ham-handedly attention-seeking as Trump.
Vinca
(50,342 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)I suppose the winner could always use the trophy as a clothes hamper.
Nice, tho, that tRump coordinated his tie to the colors of the wrestling match. He has so few things that demand his attention. Loser.
rurallib
(62,492 posts)Good idea to try to match the costumes of your heroes.
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)He looks so seedy, and he IS so seedy.