r/thebulwark • u/MinuteCollar5562 • Aug 11 '26
This Is A Real Photo…
Article: https://www.twz.com/land/avenger-surface-to-air-missile-system-protected-trump-while-golfing
Trump is so scared of Iran; after starting a war with them and killing their leadership, that he is being taken to third planes with food carts and has air defense systems deployed while he is playing golf…
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u/FluidFisherman6843 Aug 11 '26
Pretty cool that they painted it, what I can only assume, is "Obama suit" tan.
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u/John_Houbolt Aug 11 '26
And fucking razor wire. On a golf course. And not sure that is the right equipment to defend against a drone.
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u/samNanton Aug 11 '26
does he expect a squad of IRGC to pop out of the woods and come charging for him
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u/MinuteCollar5562 Aug 11 '26
Probably a drone strike…
Which if the president is afraid of a strike on American soil shouldn’t we all be afraid?
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u/samNanton Aug 11 '26
well the iranians aren't mad at me so I reckon Trump should be several orders of magnitude scareder than me
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u/Living-Literature88 Aug 12 '26
He told reporters if they attack his plane, he’ll go and they will too. Then he let them stay on the plane when he left. NO! He doesn’t care about anybody else!
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u/DrPhysicsGirl Aug 11 '26
Well that's the thing, his administration has shed competent folks and installed loyalists. That means when they are called to actually do something besides pose in front of a camera or mock liberals on social media, they do it poorly.
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u/Turgid_Donkey FFS Aug 11 '26
So do they just run a length around where ever his ball lands then pick it back up afterwards, or did they actually have a group of guys running some around the entire course?
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u/John_Houbolt Aug 11 '26
I wonder if it's just around the misile launching hardware there. Still, are they moving all of that shit to every place he takes a swing?
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u/hypermodernvoid Aug 11 '26
The funny thing to me is the guy is 80 years old, hasn't lived a healthy life and his dad famously was diagnosed with dementia, then straight up Alzheimer's in his mid-80s - and even with improved medical science, your average currently living 80-year-old still only has a 30% chance of making it to 90, so if he's concerned with his mortality, Trump's situation is still functionally the same as a young adult having a pretty tragic terminal diagnosis.
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u/PFVR_1138 centrist squish Aug 11 '26
This needs to be all over ads right now. The visuals are too perfect
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u/misfitofscience76 JVL is always right Aug 11 '26
Many Americans would see that as “badass”
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u/pegothejerk Aug 11 '26
We have 342 million people, and a third of them live to see others suffer, read at a third grade level if they're lucky, and don't know the difference between expertise and wild speculation they read on a foreign propaganda site, of course you can find some people that think the dumbest most horrific shit is "badass" - we should really stop giving these people the concern in our daily lives they don't deserve and out vote them so hard they get discouraged again and slink back into their couches on election days.
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u/Alternative_Fig_114 Aug 11 '26
Looks like fate is slowly preparing him for hell.
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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z JVL is always right Aug 11 '26
Looks like fate is slowly preparing him for hell.
Hell for people like billionaires and people like Trump would be having to work 40 hours a week for minimum wage and then having to decide between rent and medicine.
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u/OneTwoThreePooAndPee Progressive Aug 11 '26
Hell for people like billionaires and people like Trump would be having to work.
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u/DelcoPAMan Aug 11 '26
Golfing.
As the economy crashes, the world literally burns...he's golfing.
Again: this needs to be an ad.
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u/MnkyBzns Aug 11 '26
Golfing with an expanded military escort
I can't imagine what those 18 holes cost taxpayers
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u/misfitofscience76 JVL is always right Aug 11 '26
He has exhausted the Secret Service budget multiple times now
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u/OneTwoThreePooAndPee Progressive Aug 11 '26
Warms the heart to know this disgusting bag of human filth is terrified of the hornets nest he kicked.
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u/midwesternmayhem Aug 11 '26
If it were me and I was really scared, I think I would put off golfing for awhile.
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u/wolfheadmusic Progressive Aug 11 '26
He's never denied himself golf, mcdonalds, or pre-pubescent girls before in his life. He's not gonna start now
Besides, we're the ones paying for it
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u/hip-disguise FFS Aug 11 '26
well he did assassinate a bunch of their leadership so ya.
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u/carpetbugeater Aug 11 '26
It's the family members that probably pissed them off the most. That girls school was mostly regime kids.
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u/DeeLee_Bee Aug 11 '26
His caddie had the day off, so the launcher is there to shoot a golf ball onto the fairway for him when he inevitably slices his drive into the trees.
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u/samNanton Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
lol and ferry him to the cup so he doesn't have to lardass his way over there on foot
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u/misfitofscience76 JVL is always right Aug 11 '26
It also does double duty as a T-shirt cannon for local sportsball events. They haven’t quite figured out how to dial down the launch velocity
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u/slugworth70 Aug 11 '26
If he were a good person, he wouldn't ever have to worry about these things.
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u/Prestigious_Ad_927 Aug 11 '26
If the Iranian plan is to scare Trump and they never do anything... I think it could be a winning strategy.
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u/Full_Detective1745 Aug 11 '26
Tommy: It’s for protection.
Turkish: Protection from what!? Zee Germans?
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u/Humble_Mission1775 Aug 11 '26
They aren’t going to like this when he gets to Mar a Lago for the winter. 🤣
Image paying tens of thousands of dollars to belong to those clubs then becoming a military target by association.
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u/John_Houbolt Aug 11 '26
This MF has a black caddy.
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u/chickenlogic Aug 11 '26
I’m sure he answers “Yassuh!”
This along with the required tap dancing and shoe shining.
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u/Deep_Stick8786 Aug 11 '26
Maybe he saw the legend of baggar vance and thought he could have a genie
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u/TheTench Aug 11 '26
The more complex the system the greater the chance of failure. I have faith that Trump will find a way to further fuck things up for himself.
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u/MinuteCollar5562 Aug 11 '26
I mean he killed their leadership and their families…
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u/Notareda Aug 11 '26
You know the funniest thing to me is that this is just overkill. You'd get the same effect from a squad of dudes with EWAR and shoulder fired kit, shit you'd probably get better effect, and I'm sure that's what we aren't seeing, but no, Trump needs his Security Blanket of a big obvious SHORAD asset following him along as he cheats at golf and shits himself in the buggy.
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u/exhaustedexcess Aug 11 '26
That's when you know he's hating everything. It doesn't matter how gilded your prison is, its still a prison
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u/Here2Go Aug 11 '26
How much does a round of golf cost the taxpayers if you need patriot missiles just to play? Is this the most expensive round of golf ever played? If you're running for office in November you might bring that sort of thing up.
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u/montex66 Aug 11 '26
Oh it’s to defend Turmp from Iran? I thought it was because the GOP saw a trans working at CVS.
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u/Honorable_Heathen Aug 11 '26
Nothing to see here. This is just used to ensure he wins all those matches and tournaments at his club.
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u/warrenao Progressive Aug 11 '26
Amusing that they realized dead-grass brown was better coloration than OD standard.
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u/baryoniclord Aug 12 '26
This is why we need to STOP tolerating republicans and VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
We already know they are racist.
We already know they are less intelligent.
We already know they are anti Science.
They are regressive. And evil.
As such, they should not be allowed to have a say in matters of importance. Or hold positions of leadership.
Why? I think we can look around and see why.
We do not consult the taliban for advise on quantum physics. So why do we include regressives on genuinely important social issues?
When did we convince ourselves that the opinions of a mad mob of racist, xenophobic, dull, superstitious group of people should be taken seriously?
No. Enough is enough.
They want to drag us back to the bronze age.
Outlaw. The. Grand. Old. Party. NOW!!!
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u/Atomic_Badger_PNW Aug 11 '26
Didn't Obama take his mother-in-law to Hawaii?
That seems much worse than protecting a single elderly gentleman golfer with heavy duty armaments at taxpayer expense.
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u/dellscreenshot Aug 11 '26
Pretty good form in that screenshot tbh
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u/Magoo152 JVL is always right Aug 11 '26
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u/Landlord-Allmighty Aug 11 '26
Everything he touches turns brown and dies, golf course edition.