Trump Returns to the Service Formerly Known as Twitter

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nytimes.com

Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X.

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"Mr. Trump posted a link to his website and a photo of his mug shot in his first new post on X since Twitter banned his account after the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. “Never surrender!” the caption under the mug shot read."

Captioning "Never surrender" Under a pic of him after surrendering to the authorities. LOL

Never surrender

he stole meatball Ron's "never back down" motto 😆 these guys are all a bunch of assholes. the face eating leopards are eating each other's faces.

People have been saying it for a few years now, but satire is well and truly dead. This entire excerpt could absolutely be out of an Onion article.

"Never surrender!"

-Surrendered Man, 2023

He thinks he's being defiant and intimidating with that expression.

That's the same look my kids had when they were little and didn't get their way.

That's the expression I make when I realise I've been on the toilet a bit too long and my legs have gone numb. Great look, 45.

Never surrender!

Shit, man. We didn't even need to burn down Atlanta this time.

Trump returning to a renamed rightwing Twitter and the NYT giving it breathless coverage is a perfect example of the fucking idiotic media environment we live in. They've got about 300 stories about the misunderstood Trump voters in diners planned, stenographers ready to transcribe his every utterance on social media, and a host of "liberal" commentators chomping at the bit to write the next "has wokeness gone too far" piece. The upper class enlightened centrists of the paper may thoroughly disavow him at their dinner parties, but they're fucking in love with the idea of humanizing fascism, because having the opinion that racism, transphobia, and domestic terrorism are bad and should be fought against is just so boring.

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”

—E. M. Cioran