Can Trump still surprise you (first couple minutes of video)? Your thoughts?

No, the topic is whether Trump's ability to tell that text added to a photo was a label, not part of the tattoo, was surprising to anyone. Or if that no one around him had told him that it was added text was surprising.  Or if his response to the journalist was surprising.

I am not an expert on tattoos or gangs and I have heard experts have different views and I have no opinion, nor was I asking for one. Nor was I  asking about the allegations against the person who has the tattoo. I think I am the expert on the topic of my own question.

At first glance it looked as if part of the actual tattoo.  But yes, after looking closer it obviously not part of the tattoo.   

Trump is a master of manipulating the media, he makes them talk about what he wants them to talk about.   Yes, they spin and add more/ignore things.   But even in this case, it is causing the media to admit he has the knuckle tattoos and allows the public to see and decide if they believe the tattoos mean what the police, ice and judges say it means. 

I do not care, two immigration judges have ruled he is a gang member.  He was worried about RIVAL GANG retaliation....he beat his wife and threatened to murder her. 

He needed to be deported.  Just being an illegal and beating his wife is enough for me to say deport. This post was edited by my2cents at May 2, 2025 10:51 AM MDT

I'm not sure what you are saying - possibly that Trump is pretending to not know the photo is doctored in order to control the media. So that would not surprise you.

The rest of your answer is irrelevant to the question.

Exactly, I am saying by not acknowledging the photoshop of the literal MS13.   He keeps people talking about the tattoos that do in fact exist and that this guy is a thug that the MSM and elected Dems are defending.  

Why would they use their hand when they can use their face?

LOL ... True - their head is a much larger canvas.  Silly me! This post was edited by Spunky at May 2, 2025 10:06 AM MDT

I think that photo has a bit of food for thought.

There is no marijuana leaf tattoo – there is no smiley face tattoo - there is no cross tattoo - and there is no skull tattoo.

Tattoo’s are like a dress code to gangs – you don’t get in if you have a smiley face tat. So I find the WH explanation for Garcia’s tattoos ridiculous. Cheers and happy weekend!

It is a pot leaf,  there is a dead smiley face, there a cross and there is a skull tattoo.  
There is a picture of his hand with the tattoos that was taken with the Dem Senator at the prison in El Salavador.  

This post was edited by Spunky at May 2, 2025 4:19 PM MDT

Maybe they're on the other side of his face. :)

Maybe he has a tattoo on the other side of his face that he really regrets getting because it cost him his job.

It is a tattoo of the rapper 50 cent’s – he was working at the dollar store but his 50 cent’s tattoo was confusion the customers so they had to let him go. Cheers and happy weekend!

I don't know, I do not know any tattoo artists to ask. 

But you would think if it means that, the media would have figured that out quickly. 

As I said, police, 2 immigration judges, the immigrboard all say he is MS13.  

And just being in the country illegally is deportable. He is a woman beater.  And been suspected of human trafficking.

He has had due process for years now. 

How many times are you going to repeat the "he's in the country illegally" comment?  Was he convicted of women beating?  Was he convicted of human trafficking?  Was he convicted of anything?  Does he have a rap sheet in El Salvador?  Does he have a rap sheet in the U.S.?  

It relevant it is why he was deported.  How many times are others going to claim he is innocent and needs due process?  Or that he does even have the tats. 

I will keep repeating the facts that the judges ruled.

His Republican enablers are troubling, but I am more amazed at Democrats who still think they can combat this with a 'strongly worded letter' (Chuck Schumer).

Scared little people and that's how everyone else sees them. All of them not wanting to get their hands dirty.

We've got a few people out there fighting and the resistance is growing.

In fairness, he is the minority leader the only power he has a filibuster and a strongly worded letter.