SuperTrump

Look! Up in the sky! It's a big fat orange racist xenophobic moron!

Late last night, around 11 p.m. or so, I saw this post on Facebook.

The post claimed it was from the official Twitter/X account of the White House. That could not possibly be true, right? An image like this, and posted late at night, seems like it could only come from a member of the Trump cult, up super late in his mom’s basement after too many Mountain Dews, and super charged after spending 17 hours straight on the Daily Stormer forum. It’s not the kind of thing that would come from a legitimate government resource. Right?

Wrong.

Anytime I see something online, usually in a meme, and too good to be true, I research it, and 99 percent of the time, it is too good to be true. It’s false.

It’s like the ability Charlie has in Poker Face. She can tell someone’s lying, 100 percent of the time. You can’t pull one past her. I’m like that with bullshit on the internet. I instantly sniff it out. But the stuff I sniff out is the kind of stuff I think everyone should be able to tell is fake. If it’s too good to be true and you haven’t heard about it, it’s probably false. Most people, even educated liberals, will share what they want to believe.

One example is a claim that in the book by Mary Trump, there’s a chapter where she walked in on Trump and Ivanka, his oldest daughter, having sex. How can you not tell that would be fake? Why wouldn’t you research it before sharing it on the internet? Wouldn’t you have heard about it in the news?

Another example is a claim that Trump said years ago that if he ever ran for president, he would do so as a Republican because the party is stupid and gullible. The part about Republicans being stupid and gullible is true, but Trump never made that statement.

What’s mostly irritating about this for me is that you don’t have to make shit up about Trump. The stuff that actually comes out of his mouth is bad enough. It’s like making up fake quotes for Sarah Palin. You can’t outdumb her.

But it’s hard for my bullshit radar to be accurate 100 percent of the time because we’re in the Trump era. It’s hard to create bullshit crazier than something like wanting to shoot immigrants in the legs or turning the Rio Grande into a gator-filled moat. It’s hard to keep up with the bullshit. But I did research to see if the White House actually tweeted out the Supertrump image, and holy fuckballs, they did.

I can only imagine that Trump saw a trailer for the new Superman movie, somehow saw himself as Superman, and ordered this to be done, and someone was assigned to the job. Did that staffer do it happily, or did their eyes roll during the process? Did the person call Mom and Dad and say, “Can I move back home now?” Did they throw up during the process? Making someone do this could be described as abusive. It’s like one of those stupid Trump NFT cards. If they enjoyed it, damn…it was probably Stephen Miller.

The White House posting this image to its official Twitter account gives the impression that Trump staffed his regime with nothing but cultists. Who seeks a career in government to serve a cult leader? That answer is, people who are not qualified to work in the government. Hello? Have you see Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, or any of the other Trump goons?

So I screen-captured the image and posted it myself on Facebook, where it now has about 150 comments. People are loving this, but not in the way Trump expected.

The detail for me to point out is that Superman is an immigrant. In fact, he’s an “illegal” immigrant. He never registered with the government or went through the process of naturalization. He snuck in under the radar and right over our border, and then his accomplices, the Kents, hid his true status from the government. At least they taught him how to speak American, almost as good as that African from Liberia. But White America is OK with Superman because he’s White. I feel bad for the aliens who show up green and with tentacles.

An immigrant is how the director of the new Superman movie, James Gunn, referred to Superman, and the Fox News goons have lost their shit over it.

Gunn said, “Superman is the story of America. An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country, but for me it is mostly a story that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost. It’s about human kindness and obviously, there will be jerks out there who are just not kind and will take it as offensive just because it is about kindness. But screw them.”

Yeah, Screw them. And screw Dean Cain too.

Cain, who played Superman in Lois and Clark (spoiler: Clark Kent is Superman), and is now a free-range MAGAt, said, “I think bringing Superman into it, it was a mistake by James Gunn to, you know, say it’s an immigrant thing.”

Fox News’ Jesse Watters got in on the faux outrage action, too, saying that Superman’s cape now reads “MS-13.”

Others in Hollywood fired back. Oscar Nuñez of The Office said, “Superman was born on another planet and migrated to Earth on a spaceship. He happened to have landed on Earth. That is a fact.”

Yvette Nicole Brown (a Twitter pal of mine, yes, we’ve talked), from one of the best TV shows of all time, Community (that’s what we talked about), simply said, “*sigh*.”

Marcel Spears (Love that guy), from The Neighborhood, said, “How is it divisive calling a literal illegal alien an ‘immigrant in the context of the story and the comic? It is accurate. Superman doesn’t shy away from it. They don’t have to create a new character when that’s how the character exists. Read the comics.”

And they should read the comics because Superman was created in 1933 by Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, American sons of Jewish immigrants.

MAGAts are crying that Hollywood has made Superman woke now. But if you read the comics and watch the movies, you would realize that Superman has always been woke. Superman punches up (like me), not down (like MAGAts).

And to think that my initial disappointment about the movie was that it added Superman’s dog, Krypto. I was afraid that would make it too cheesy, but then I heard James Gunn, who directed Guardians of the Galaxy, was directing this, and I have faith in James Gunn. But if Superman has a dog, who watches it while he’s flying out of town? Who dog-sits Krypto? I know Dean Cain’s not gonna do it. Plus, never leave your dog with a MAGAt.

James Gunn’s brother, Sean, who acts in the movie, said, “My reaction to [the backlash] is that it is exactly what the movie is about. We support our people, you know? We love our immigrants. Yes, Superman is an immigrant, and yes, the people that we support in this country are immigrants, and if you don’t like that, you’re not American.”

He’s right. MAGAts don’t have the American spirit. MAGA is not American. Have they not seen the Statue of Liberty, or did they deport her?

Update: The trolls found this on Facebook, and now the comments will go from 16 to 2K before the day is over.

Creative note: I got this idea before going to bed, pushing at least four other ideas aside.

Music note: I told you yesterday, I’m going to keep listening to Regina Spektor for a few days. What’s odd about that is there’s only one song on the album I’m listening to that has guitar in it. It’s mostly piano. Her lyrics are brilliant.

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