A few weeks ago, an obviously photoshopped picture of illegally detained prisoner Kilmar Abrego Garcia's hand was widely shared.

Someone had photoshopped the letters M S 1 3 onto his fingers, to explain how Garcia's finger tattoos could perhaps be interpreted as hinting at the gang name — for instance, his smiley face finger tattoo could perhaps mean S and so on.

But after all this time, Trump still thinks the photoshopped letters are a tattoo, and none of his advisers have told him otherwise.

See earlier post about the picture:

https://mastodon.social/@randahl/114365292490552878

@randahl the #Orange needs glasses ... or brain

@randahl there are lots of Orwellian parallels drawn about Trump but this seems the bleakest

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.” Winston Smiths diary.

Trump is defining the truth as something we know to be factually incorrect. It is unAmerican to deny it

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it...If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"

@randahl It's time Dementia Donny was removed from office. He's clearly either lying - which is bad enough - or he's unwell and incapable of seeing the photo as an obvious fake. Both should be grounds for removal.
@randahl I think he knows it is photoshopped, he just does not care about the truth.
@cookingroffa @randahl I bet parts of my body that he knows
@randahl I fear Garcia soon will end up dead with multiple fresh tattoos on his body.
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It would be quite logical to think that the lies and wild accusations were campaign tactics when it comes to Trump. But the fact that he's continuing this way in office is only somewhat surprising to me and is somehow a reason to think about his mental state (the House, Senate, and SCOTUS).
@randahl you don't know if they told him and he's just too thick to get it or too arrogant to admit they/he made a mistake.
@randahl of course, he could just be a malicious prick and know perfectly well what he's doing.
@randahl I saw the interview and it’s amazing see 🤡 immediately starting to criticise the interviewer personally (like “I hadn’t heard of you before and thought that you were good at your job”, etc.) just because he’s getting fact checked and busted on camera for being wrong/lying

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I stopped reading when you said 'Trump thinks@ he does not and never did, he has his lackey's to do his 'thinking' for him.

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Stupidity or pure evil?

@randahl Someone made the clever remark that T. doesn’t know the difference between MS13 and MS Paint. The picture is that bad.
@altim @randahl he knows it’s fake, but he also knows the power of a convenient lie

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Donald Trump is the stupidest MF alive, always was, but now he's a completely senile crazy old man.

And evil.

A bad combination.

We'd be so much better off without him.