• glimse@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is there a link to just the CSPAN clip? I don’t need someone to explain to me what’s happening for 10 minutes

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    “Because so many of you are talking about Friday’s C-SPAN caller who identified himself as ‘John Barron,’ we want to put this to rest: it was not the president,” the network wrote on the social platform X. “The call came from a central Virginia phone number and came **while the president was in a widely covered, in-person White-House meeting with the governors." **

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      2 days ago

      Suuuuuuure.

      He’ll randomly walk in the opposite direction of a head of state during a formal meeting, dance awkwardly to himself on television for a half hour to a song on repeat, get up during a cabinet meeting to stare blankly out the window for 10 minutes, shit himself on live television repeatedly

      …but him calling into a talk show and doing a character he was known for in the past when he’s supposed to be in a meeting is preposterous.

      Gotcha.

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Eh, it sounded like a (really good) impression. Not saying it would be out of character, it’s definitely the sort of thing he would do. But the caller sounded too young and alert.

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    I wonder if it’s an impersonator or something trying to go viral. Trump famously used to do this, but it’s been on the Internet a while, and while we all know Trump is a moron, I find it odd he wouldn’t even bother to change up the name of his alter ego. Also, I feel like he’d call Fox. He probably doesn’t even know what C-SPAN is.

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      2 days ago

      It sounds way more like a person doing a trump voice than trump trying to not sound like himself

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    3 days ago

    Watched the clip, and its absolutely him. Same voice, same jokes, same meandering.

    How anyone could think it’s not him is a mystery