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TheBlackAdder

(28,183 posts)
Mon May 27, 2019, 12:50 PM May 2019

Whadda Dick! Trump Created A Trophy To Give To A Sumo Wrestler To Upstage The Event

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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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Whadda Dick! Trump Created A Trophy To Give To A Sumo Wrestler To Upstage The Event (Original Post) TheBlackAdder May 2019 OP
He is merely reverting to his previous gig as a professional wrestling impresario. Odoreida May 2019 #1
Yes ... good at hitting people with chairs. scarytomcat May 2019 #20
disgusting. 2naSalit May 2019 #2
God, he is SUCH an asshole!! smirkymonkey May 2019 #3
I can only imagine the field day the Japanese press are having with this embarrassment abroad. nt UniteFightBack May 2019 #4
Best comment on the Twitter thread: The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #5
+1 uponit7771 May 2019 #6
Lol...+1 Docreed2003 May 2019 #8
Also describes the trophy. LakeArenal May 2019 #10
I was just about to post that! smirkymonkey May 2019 #17
UGLY American IADEMO2004 May 2019 #7
How much help did he have Grammy23 May 2019 #9
I did not know it was a Trump award katmondoo May 2019 #11
Ugly. I thought that too. Not at all the Japanese esthetic. I wondered at this odd uggggly thing CharleyDog May 2019 #15
The trophy winner helped him carry it. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #13
Of course it was big Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 #19
Hope Asanoyama puts it up on EBay. LakeArenal May 2019 #12
This is kind of like if Putin went to the World Series and presented a big-ass trophy The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #14
Our tax dollars at work . . . Vinca May 2019 #16
Everything tRump has to be huge and garish. Totally Tunsie May 2019 #18
Couldn't help but notice that Dear Leader's tie matches the sumo's butt crack cover rurallib May 2019 #21
So embarrassing. Surprised he didn't hand him a bag of Big Macks and Fillets o'Fish. Judi Lynn May 2019 #22
 

Odoreida

(1,549 posts)
1. He is merely reverting to his previous gig as a professional wrestling impresario.
Mon May 27, 2019, 12:54 PM
May 2019

Say what you will, that is one job he was good at.
 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
3. God, he is SUCH an asshole!!
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:02 PM
May 2019

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.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
5. Best comment on the Twitter thread:
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:07 PM
May 2019

"Here we see a hugely over-grown, decidedly obese, weirdly coiffed oddity and a sumo wrestler."

LakeArenal

(28,817 posts)
10. Also describes the trophy.
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:19 PM
May 2019

Trump was actually presenting himself in a trophy.

The guy is soo narcissistic.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
9. How much help did he have
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:17 PM
May 2019

Hoisting that 60lb trophy for the presentation??? You gotta know that asshat couldn’t lift anything that heavy.

katmondoo

(6,454 posts)
11. I did not know it was a Trump award
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:21 PM
May 2019

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

(757 posts)
15. Ugly. I thought that too. Not at all the Japanese esthetic. I wondered at this odd uggggly thing
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:27 PM
May 2019

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

(115,674 posts)
13. The trophy winner helped him carry it.
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:22 PM
May 2019

Who, by the way, didn't know who Trump was and said he'd have to look him up on Wikipedia later.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,674 posts)
14. This is kind of like if Putin went to the World Series and presented a big-ass trophy
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:26 PM
May 2019

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.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)
18. Everything tRump has to be huge and garish.
Mon May 27, 2019, 02:11 PM
May 2019

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

(62,406 posts)
21. Couldn't help but notice that Dear Leader's tie matches the sumo's butt crack cover
Mon May 27, 2019, 04:15 PM
May 2019

Good idea to try to match the costumes of your heroes.

Judi Lynn

(160,519 posts)
22. So embarrassing. Surprised he didn't hand him a bag of Big Macks and Fillets o'Fish.
Mon May 27, 2019, 04:20 PM
May 2019

He looks so seedy, and he IS so seedy.

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