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Utopia Talk / Politics / Loud noise scares trump, XI unphased
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Jesse Malcolm Barack
rank | Thu Sep 24 17:04:06 https://ww...ary-flyover-meme-b3055723.html Trump flinched next to China’s Xi during a military flyover – and it became an instant meme President Donald Trump cringed during a military flyover alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping — and it became an instant meme. The viral incident occurred during a red-carpet ceremony put on for Xi at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Wednesday. The Chinese leader is in the U.S. for a high-stakes summit with Trump. As the two men stood side by side on the tarmac, a pair of B-1 bombers flew overhead, and the supersonic aircraft produced an overpowering roaring sound. The 80-year-old Republican president, whose gloved hand was lifted to his brow in a salute, glanced upward before dramatically closing his eyes and wincing. Meanwhile, Xi appeared unresponsive during the planned flyover. “Alpha male would never cringe like that,” one X user wrote, “Beta Trump.” The moment quickly took on a life of its own on social media, with commenters skewering Trump for what they described as an over-the-top, comic reaction. Others marveled at his seemingly unfailing ability to produce a memorable photograph. Trump’s dramatic wince, in the eyes of some users, made him appear weaker than Xi — and that sentiment came through in a number of memes. One depicted Xi as a hypermasculine man with a pronounced jawline with the caption “mogged,” a term that means being completely outshown or made to look inferior. Another commenter posted a meme of Trump instructing a U.S. military pilot to “scare” Xi with the flyover. Then it cut to Trump himself, rather than Xi, mouth agape and looking terrified. |
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