Reuters – Images of U.S. President Donald Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb has set alight the internet, prompting comparisons to science fiction and fantasy villains.
Trump with a Magic Testicle
The pictures were taken while Trump – on a nine-day trip to the Middle East and Europe – along with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited a new Saudi center for combating extremism.
The trio placed their hands on the orb to formally open the center, and set a welcome film in motion. Social media users were swift to let their imaginations run wild.
“Oh my god. Trump has obtained the Bajoran Orb of Time,” tweeted games developer and U.S. congressional candidate Brianna Wu, in a reference to a mythical object from the “Star Trek” universe.
“I am gone from Twitter for like a few hours, and now Trump is a holding a Palantír!” Twitter user chrisError wrote, a reference to one of the magical crystal balls used by characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” series, notably the evil wizard Saruman, to see across time and space.
Many users also referenced Hydra, the fictional villains in several Marvel comics properties, with some posting pictures of the event along with the group’s catch phrase: “hail Hydra”.
Others took a different approach to poking fun at the U.S. president. The Church of Satan, a U.S.-based religious group which claims to have “defined Satanism”, posted a picture of the event on its official Twitter account with the comment: “For clarification, this is not a satanic ritual”.
Trump, a famously prolific user of Twitter, has thus far not made reference to the activity on his personal or official Twitter accounts.
I know Trump’s embroiled in a shitpile of scandal, from his son in law trying to set up back channels with Russians, to the walls closing in with fired FBI director James Comey testifying soon about Trump obstructing justice. It’s nice to get some sweet relief with pictures from the most awkward twat in the world. He walks like he’s holding in a shit, and sits like he has a bad back, but god I love when he takes a picture with that shit-eating of his.
If he’s the kind of guy I think he is, then between his hand on Gandalf’s balls and the clown grin on top of those 12 chins, it’s safe to say his aides are trying to get that picture to disappear before Dick Farm Don sees it.
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