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Trump’s master class in trolling
American Thinker ^ | October 29, 2025 | Susan Quinn

Posted on 10/29/2025 10:51:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When it comes to trolling, President Trump takes the trophy. He has made it into an art form, and while much of the MAGA crowd enjoys it, his trolling drives the Left crazy. He’s getting a great deal of criticism for doing it, but there are those folks who enjoy his mastery:

The goal for online behavior and mainstream media engagement remains the same: titillate Trump supporters while angering the left. In a word, trolling.

So far, it’s working, whether it’s Trump’s infomercial for Musk’s electric vehicles, DHS chief Kristi Noem’s cosplay theatrics [with weapons] or FBI Director Kash Patel posting a perp walk photo of a judge he had arrested.

Trump has been especially criticized by Michael Edison Hayden, an author and expert on “far-right extremism.” He may fashion himself an “expert,” but his comments did nothing to demonstrate his legitimacy:

According to Hayden, the White House has ‘bet big on MAGA as a completely separate cultural bubble’ in hopes that it can completely replace the legacy media altogether.

‘It’s a bold play and we will find out whether or not it was completely hubristic in time,’ he added. ‘But that’s why they feel like they can mock immigrants so sadistically and openly try to humiliate the press. They think MAGA will supplant the non-MAGA world and this is how they try to assert dominance.’

These comments show how out-of-touch Hayden is with what the president has done and said, and how he likely misrepresents Trump’s future plans for MAGA. He also mischaracterizes Trump’s treatment of “immigrants,” conflating illegal aliens with legal immigrants, thereby downplaying felonious criminality—although I suspect Trump does get some satisfaction from humiliating the press, since it is clearly an arm of the Left.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: spammingfr

1 posted on 10/29/2025 10:51:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Trump’s master class in trolling,

So far it's working.

Excellent!


2 posted on 10/29/2025 11:02:34 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Well, THE king of that!


3 posted on 10/29/2025 11:20:17 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

MAGA simply stands for catering to the nation not the 1%…. Its a return to restraint and normalcy, which indeed needs to supplant the nonsense of wokeness and fiscal abuse currently enjoying the spotlight.


4 posted on 10/29/2025 11:30:42 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Navy Patriot

The poop video turns off moderate voters though.


5 posted on 10/29/2025 11:44:37 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee
I believe the poop video turns off one moderate voter.

We can always check to see if she's quietly trying to stifle a laugh.

6 posted on 10/29/2025 12:15:35 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Sam Gamgee

It wasn’t his. He just reposted it.

Moderate voters are too stupid to get turned off.


7 posted on 10/29/2025 12:17:37 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Long Live the King


8 posted on 10/29/2025 12:56:56 PM PDT by DFG
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s beyond me why people who claim to be conservatives just love to have a president who trolls the American people.


9 posted on 10/29/2025 10:10:31 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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