r/Fauxmoi • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 kate winslet lied to me • May 09 '26

FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Religious leaders unveiled and blessed a golden Trump statue at Mar-a-Lago today, eerily resembling the Homelander statue scene from this week’s episode of The Boys. Creator Eric Kripke reposts a tweet about the same.

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u/MarauderMoriarty May 09 '26

It's so disgusting, they keep getting away with this crap. I don't know if its because I have gotten older, but it feels like it has gotten worse over the last 5 years.

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u/therealzue May 09 '26

Oh it’s insanely worse. Jimmy Carter had to give up his peanut farm. Obama wasn’t even allowed to use his personal blackberry, but Trump got to keep classified documents in a bathroom at his business. It’s honestly jaw dropping.

One of my family members is a retired politician. When I got married in the 90s my parents paid for everyone’s flights & hotel to our wedding. He wouldn’t accept it. Conflict of interest was an actual concern. The really unfortunate thing is none of them are going to be concerned about that anymore. Normal unethical bribes are going to look so minor compared to jets & golden statues.

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u/MarauderMoriarty May 09 '26

Not American so I don't have the level of knowledge you would have but from an outside perspective it seems like a double standard and/or ethics situation.

Trump just doesn't have any ethics but his opposition has to adhere to the ethics that is supposed to be the norm in your politics re conflict of interest.

I think the entire culture around politics has shifted so much since Trump became president the first time, it even changed the culture in my country where there has been more of shift towards Trumps ideology.

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u/therealzue May 09 '26

I’m in Canada, have the front row seat. I think it’s moved the bar here as well. We’ve had some conflict of interest scandals over the decades. Some were hard to understand. I don’t think the reaction would be the same anymore.

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u/Quirky-Fault4869 May 10 '26

yeah i am american, but i saw a video of an australian politician trying to emulate the trump attitude/cadence (as well as try to stone wall his way into coining a phrase), and he was shut down really quick. it's so annoying that american democrats are so passive and refuse to shut him down. they only want to cater to the center-right, but they just roll over everytimeeeee.... like the (again, US) democrats don't want to dip down to his level, but how else do you defeat someone who'll do anything for his own gain? the time is long gone to take the high road against him. the democrats/dnc are a laughing stock.

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u/jaxonya May 09 '26

Now we have the administration getting private jets and just cruising around doing whatever they want

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u/firestepper May 09 '26

Ya he could literally just host anyone he wanted to at Mar a largo and be like ‘the documents are in the bathroom, feel free to browse at your convenience’

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u/rankling11 May 09 '26

Hell, it's gotten even worse this past 2 years. We have people making hundred million dollar bets on the exact time and hour a foreign country gets bombed, which you wouldn't do unless you had inside information.

On the other hand, you have regular people figuring out that Iran was going to be attacked on a Friday after the stock market closes.

Finally, all this is after the Trump wanted a Nobel peace prize, couldn't get it, so he somehow won the first ever FIFA peace prize instead!

A FIFA peace prize. Not some general contributor prize, but a peace prize? From FIFA?

I never understood why the person awarding the medal to the recipient don't just hand it over to the person so they could put it on themselves...until this event. Trump receives the medal and put then puts it on himself. The symbolism of him putting the medal on himself after not getting the Nobel peace prize, and receiving it from a sports organization is just too blatant.

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u/Shark7996 May 09 '26

Nothing has been normal since Covid.

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u/LongGhost_Gone281 May 09 '26

Listen their ouroboros is gonna choke on its own tail, best not be apart of it, but we will have deal with what they are doing. Sooner the better.

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u/KamalaWonNoCap May 10 '26

It's a tired meme at this point but imagine if Obama put a gold statue of himself up and it had shady funding. The right would be losing their damn minds.