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'Come on, of course he's pretending to suck dick at a random time during a public speech on a completely unrelated topic!'
Listen to yourself, for crying out loud.
Is this monumental straw-grasp really where your attention should be focused, this close to the election?
Go ahead and explain in your own words what you think Trump is doing in this video.
I don't have to speculate about what I "think" he's doing, I actually saw the context directly. I know it might be a foreign concept to you, but I don't just blindly accept without question what I see on social media. You may be content to be this gullible, but I'm not, and that's a flaw on your part, not mine. Intellectual laziness.
He was talking about having problems with malfunctioning microphones, and was pantomiming messing with a mic and talking into it to see if it works. He did almost exactly the same thing with an actual dying mic in his hand not two minutes before this clip.
You're only making yourself look like more of a pornsick coomer by insisting so hard that he, for no apparent reason, just decided to start pretending to suck a penis.
The context is that Trump has had a long history of making sexual comments such as "grab them by the pussy" and comments on the size of Arnold Palmer's penis.
The other part of the context is that your entire Lemmy comment history is full of Trump apologia. You are the only person in this comment chain who is trying to explain away Trump's obvious sexual innuendo as something else, when the video is right there for everyone to see. And a user named "damnedfurry" accusing someone else of being a "pornsick coomer" for calling out Trump reeks of projection.
You must be mistaking Lemmy for Truth Social, because nobody on Lemmy is buying your garbage.