Trump reveals he fell for MS-13 obvious photoshop

Normally I would say that Trump is just doing his thing ... pushing his bullshit no matter how absurd and never, ever backing down.

However, after what I have observed Trump do in his first 100 days, I think it is indeed possible that Trump is this stupid.

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He wasn't a member of a gang, and then they looked, and on his knuckles, he had MS-13.

There's a dispute—

Wait a minute, wait a minute. He had MS-13 on his knuckles?

Oh, he had some tattoos that are interpreted that way, but let's move on.

Wait a minute, Terry. Terry. Terry, he did not have the letter MS-13.

It says MS-13. That was photoshopped.

That was photoshopped, Terry. You can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because frankly I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry. But you're not being very nice.

He had MS-13 tattoo—we'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else.

Terry, do you want me to show you the picture?

I saw the picture.

We'll take the photo. Here we go, here we go. Don't photoshop it. Go look at his hand. He had MS.

He did have tattoos that can be interpreted that way. I'm not an expert on them. I want to turn to Ukraine. I want to get to Ukraine.

No, no, no, no. He had MS as clear as you can be—not interpreted. This is why people no longer believe the news. Because when he was photographed in El Salv—in El Salvador—they aren't there. But let's just go on.

They aren't there when he's in El Salvador. They're there now, right?

No, they're in your picture, Terry.

Ukraine, sir.

He's got MS-13 on his knuckles.

All right, okay. We'll take a look.

You do such a disservice.

We'll take a look at this. Why don't you just say yes, he does? You know, go on to something else.

It's contested.

Oh my God. The President of the United States literally falls for the **** that he sells. I'm going to put on the screen the photo of the photoshop job that an 8-year-old could identify and yet apparently Donald Trump can't. It is literally typed in Arial font, is uncentered on his hand, and has no depth whatsoever because it is two-dimensional and was added in Microsoft Paint.

I'm just going to come right out and say it: if this guy's judgment is this piss poor, we should all be really horrified at the prospect of him negotiating on our behalf—or worse, going head-to-head with killers like Vladimir Putin.

When you wonder, by the way, who falls for those blatantly, blatantly staged videos that people make for Facebook—I think we found our guy.

Also, you see how mad he gets that he's challenged by someone who he suggests should be grateful for the opportunity to just be able to sit down with him?

Yeah. How dare you challenge me with facts after I deigned to allow you to speak with me?

This guy actually thinks that he's entitled to full agreement and any opposition whatsoever should be immediately shut down. But sure, something something First Amendment champion. Got it.

Granted, I also have to take issue with something Terry Moran, the reporter, said. When Trump challenges him that the fact that MS-13 is photoshopped on Garcia's hand is disputed: "I'm not an expert on that," "we'll take a look," "contested"—just say they were not. Bring a picture in. Show him that he is an abject **** who either fell for his own **** bargain basement propaganda or has the brain of a guinea pig. Make the whole interview about this.

It is the perfect distillation of exactly who Donald Trump is: stupid and confident about it.

And this should go without saying, but if any very, very small children or those who have never seen a computer before still believe that the MS-13 on Garcia's hand is real, here's a photo from El Salvador and dictator Nayib Bukele's own Twitter account from just a couple of weeks back, showing Garcia's hand with no MS-13 tattoo.

So either Kimar Brego Garcia got an MS-13 tattoo and then had it professionally removed during his time at SECOT—the max security El Salvadoran gulag—or Trump is a ****. Take all the time you need with that one.

What's craziest, though, is that Trump’s already tried this conspiracy theory before and no one bothered to correct him.

Weeks ago, he took to Twitter writing: "This is the hand of the man the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States because he is such a fine and innocent person." They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he's got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two highly respected courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. Make America great again.

And then he posted this photo of Garcia's hand again, showing four symbols and MS-13 above them.

Now clearly the MS-13 was added as a way for Donald Trump to be able to interpret the symbols that he's being told represent MS-13. He is just so dim that he couldn't tell that those were added after the fact as identifiers, and this barely functioning light bulb thought that Garcia just blatantly had MS-13 tattooed onto his hand—and somehow no one before him had thought to mention it.

My God, guys. The stupid—it hurts.

But regardless, even without the blatantly typed letters, let's look at the symbols that are supposed to represent MS-13: a cannabis leaf, a smiley face, a cross, and a skull. Certainly seems spooky and mysterious. Only small problem: there is literally zero indication whatsoever that any of those obscure symbols represent the gang MS-13.

You want to know why? Because this is what members of MS-13 get tattooed onto them. They're not looking for cute little symbols to hide up the letters and numbers because they literally have no qualms about just writing MS-13—and sometimes it's really big.

I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly seeing a whole lot of discretion and subtlety when it comes to the tattoo habits of these gang members. These guys aren't putting tiny bunny rabbits and pizza slices on their fingers. It is giant letters and numbers that literally just say MS-13.

In fact, Oscar Martinez, the author of the book The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman, took to Twitter and wrote: "I covered MS-13 for over a decade—its history, crime, symbolism, cruelty, pacts with Salvadoran governments. I wrote a book about it. Never ever did any of the hundreds of sources I spoke to say anything that would allow us to believe Trump's strange interpretation of tattoos."

In other words, the actual tattoos of MS-13 gang members negate the theory being floated by Trump. Experts on MS-13 don't know what he's talking about.

And of course, all of this comes from a guy who is outright desperate to try and get some traction among the lies he's spewing as it relates to Kilargo Garcia. And if you don't believe me, just listen to Trump here:

"As you know, the Supreme Court—after we get out all of the fake news from CNN and all these other people—we won that case 9 to nothing, mhm. And basically that's really a decision that will be made by the government of, uh, El Salvador. ‘Cause that's where—I assume that's the one you're talking about. He's from El Salvador, staying there, and he's from El Salvador. So that's a decision up to El Salvador. But it's interesting because we won that decision 9 to nothing in the Supreme Court. And, uh, if you listen to the news, you wouldn't know that. You really have no idea."

Fair enough. So it's up to us?

Okay, Trump says that he won the Supreme Court case 9 to nothing—which is not true in that he lost the Supreme Court case 9 to nothing.

In other words, he is so desperate to give oxygen to literally any narrative he can find that he will outright rewrite history when it comes to a Supreme Court ruling, taking a victory lap over a unanimous loss.

And when that doesn’t work, he’ll simply invent meaning to a weed plant tattoo to suggest that it's gang-related. If you’ve got a shopping bag with a smiley face on it because you just bought groceries, for example—do you get sent to El Salvador?

How about crosses? When does Caroline Leavitt get deported? After all, let's not pretend that that cross is anything other than a clear and obvious gang sign.

If all of this sounds really stupid—then you agree. This whole conspiracy theory is almost as dumb as the guy who fell for an even dumber conspiracy theory.

So look—I know that I’ve made a lot of fun here, but in all seriousness, the fact that the President of the United States, the guy with the nuclear codes, cannot identify a picture with a Photoshop so basic it could have been done on a Windows 99 desktop should give us all serious pause.

This is someone without the requisite tools or judgment to fulfill the duties of his job. And the people around him who are too afraid to tell him the truth are doing him—and the rest of the country—a disservice by allowing him to humiliate himself in front of the entire country and world.

At this point, if one thing is clear, it is that the emperor has no clothes.