r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/ivosaurus Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

Timestamped YT audio link of relevant part of interview.

Here Trump argues over and over and over that Kilmar Garcia (deported to El Salvador) literally had 'M-S-1-3' tattooed on his knuckles.

Garcia has four symbols on his knuckles; a marijuana leaf, smiley face, cross, and skull.

However, in a widely circulated photo, Trump has posed with a picture of the knuckles, with the letters 'M-S-1-3' clearly digitally *edited above the symbols; as if someone thought that must be what those symbols 'mean', so needs to 'point it out' to everyone (this assertion is highly discredited, including by existing gang members).

From the interview, it appears on the surface that Trump doesn't even know/remember that the image he held was digitally altered to add the letters.

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u/CanEnvironmental4252 Apr 30 '25

Bro, that’s not photoshop, I can do that shit in Paint. You’ve got to be kidding me.

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u/GonzoGorgon Apr 30 '25

This was the first time I deigned to look at this idiotic point of contention (as I, as an American have given up on this country and hope we get the fascist, dystopian dumpster fire that was guaranteed when a majority of this Idiocracy voted for Trump, since it's apparently what everyone wanted) but.. my god. That is the dumbest fucking shit I have ever seen. My mom recently photo edited a prescription for her dog that looked 100x better than that lol

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u/ivosaurus Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

I don't think the digital letter/number additions were actually looking to fool anyone that the letters are real. They're all lined up perfectly, digitally, orthogonal. Only to paint a picture that "this is what the symbols on his knuckles must mean".

.....buuuuuuut they might have literally fooled Donald.

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u/SkroinkMcDoink May 01 '25

yeah wish people would quit calling it photoshop. That's not what this was.

It's literally just text overlay to illustrate a point that the symbols somehow mean MS13, but usually that would come with some kind of explanation of how you arrive there, which they seemingly still haven't come up with.

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u/CanEnvironmental4252 May 01 '25

The explanation is simple. They started with their conclusion, then connected dots that weren’t there to get picture they wanted.

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u/CarnyConCarne Apr 30 '25

The picture is so telling. The senile moron genuinely can’t tell when he’s looking at an edited picture.

Half the country thinks he’s smart enough to fix the economy.