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Summary

Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk, and Sergio Gor's visit to Greenland, framed as a pro-Trump tourism trip, has been criticized as a staged political stunt.

Greenlandic politicians denounced the effort as misleading.

Reports reveal that the group allegedly recruited homeless individuals in Nuuk to wear MAGA hats for photo ops, promising them meals in return.

Local residents condemned the move as exploitative and deceptive, with critics accusing the group of manipulating vulnerable individuals to push a pro-U.S. narrative.

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[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 3 points 28 minutes ago

Whaaaa? Stupid fucking news cycle. They're complicit.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 4 hours ago

Oh it's... It's not the onion...

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

every political stunt is staged, that is the whole point.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 15 points 13 hours ago

This can't possibly come as a surprise to anyone. Lol

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

staged? no waaaaay, absolutely impossible

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Now let's hear from all the MAGAts that

  1. believe the story of it being fake
  2. give a shit about it:

oh...

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

🦗🦗🦗

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 25 points 19 hours ago

Staged describes 90% of what they do.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 42 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Wait till people find out that everything about Trump is staged and this presidency is a farce.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 9 points 16 hours ago

If they didn't learn last time, they're not going to learn this time.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Yet this “farce” you speak of manages to do plenty of damage.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 191 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These guys??? Nawwww.

Really??????? Nawwwwwwwwww.

It's almost like they are liars or something. Maybe they should be sued...

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

Out of a cannon? The only Cannons I know of take forever and put people on pedestals instead of where they belong.

[–] alexc@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Sure. Why not? It would be fun and cathartic for everyone, especially if it were televised, especially with high speed cameras.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 21 hours ago

Please do shoot them out of Aileen Cannon

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 47 points 23 hours ago

Staged AND exploitative. My oh my I don't even have to do ANYTHING to be a better person than a trump excuser. Literal neutrality is better than your party's morals holy hell.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The grift just in plain sight, and Americans are so fucken stupid they'll gobble whatever the clique says instead of listening to the residents who were actually there.

[–] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

One day I'm gonna own the boots...

[–] militaryintelligence@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

If I just work hard enough it'll trickle down. Any day now...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 108 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Reports reveal that the group allegedly recruited homeless individuals in Nuuk to wear MAGA hats for photo ops, promising them meals in return

There just is no bottom.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Remember "blacks for Trump"? Which predominantly was white people?

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Look at my African American!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 17 hours ago

At least he has an actual African American on his side this time.

His name was Elon...

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The like 3 black dudes that were prominently in the stands right behind Trump at every rally?

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Those 3, and the dozens of white people with "blacks for Trump" shirts around them

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't remember ever seeing white people with “blacks for Trump” shirts behind Trump during a rally, surely his team isn't so tone-deaf they'd do that?

The absurdity is definitely funny, but this type of thing won the election.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

welcome to fascism, where the only person is the one with power.

Too bad there weren't any homeless Luigis nearby

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago

Everything MAGA is staged. Seriously… do we have selective memory now?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They also hired people to wear MAGA hats in the US early in the Trump campaign. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

did they ever stop payin' people to fill seats, wear their shit, carry their signs.......

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago
[–] tibi@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

This looks like a false flag to me. Right out of Hitler's playbook... Oh, there are a lot of Germans in Sudetenland, I'll just take it.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because it was to kill H1B controversy that was dividing Republicans, and we for fooled again.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

It's wild that threatening a close military ally with invasion is less divisive.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 13 points 23 hours ago

Look guys, the empire is collapsing. I know things seem bad now, but they're gonna get a whole lot worse.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 32 points 1 day ago

promising them meals in return

History tells us that those meals were not delivered

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago

They offered an extra meal to participate in a MAGA Bum Fights tournament afterward, which was live-streamed to wealthy donors.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago

It's a diversion from the crazy shit actually going down that will really affect a lot of people.

Goebbels would be very proud.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Come on bird flu, you can do it! Any day now!

[–] galaskorz@discuss.online 9 points 1 day ago

It’s never gonna hit the right people. Those jerks have actual health care, despite how nuts they are

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

No kidding? Did anyone think otherwise?

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dark turn? WTF are you talking about? EVERYONE knew it was bullshit. The real story is the one not being published.

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