Trump highlights a 'pro-algae (likely paid) protester'
President Donald Trump reposted a photo mocking a person he labeled "a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor," whose sign read 'First they came for the algae...' . The sign alludes to the famous post World War II "First they came..." statement about Germans not speaking out against Nazis, and Trump framed the image as evidence of organized, paid agitation around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The repost came after Trump told reporters that vandals had cut holes and that "pro-algae protesters" were creating algae in the Reflecting Pool. This matters because the president is using a satirical image and routine public-space maintenance to portray symbolic changes as politically weaponized, shaping public perception of his claims.
Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.
inahays.bsky.social349I'd argue closing the strait of Hormuz gives it a run for their money
V_Mags_Fox 🔜 AC31“Welcome to the Trump Federally Protected Wetland.”
Steel Rat Gamer18Green new deal, with the tallest pool in the world
JerryB18Like I keep saying. Algae has a well known liberal bias.
Professionally Certified Woolgatherer12Don't forget allowing Covid to spiral out of control, leading to months of carless streets!
GreenEngineer12Gas at $6 a gallong would like a word… That’s something that no president has ever achieved before.
Patrick11It was the Green New Deal none of us expected from him.
Jonathan Bliss8iirc, algae contributed to Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event and thus explosion of life forms 500 mya
Tina S7Too funny. He accidentally fell in to a liberalism.
Blue Skies In Utah6iran has closed the reflecting pool.
Zoe Samuel4Closing Hormuz is probably a bigger deal in terms of long-term impact, but yes, credit for the CDR project in the Reflecting Pool as a more immediate pro-climate move.
Tessa Hill4Haha I just posted nearly the same thing!
markabian ambassador (ret.)4maybe they’re making vegan soylent green to feed the nation
TheKingOfPies3Still convinced this is the only scenario where he would be an environmentalist:
bflmouse.bsky.social3Trumps screwing with both the solar panel market inside the US and the oil market globally has done more to advance renewable energy worldwide than decades of climate activism. It's probably fairer to say that all the positive things Trump has done have happened by accident rather than by design.
Stephen Murphy3Lovely way to ‘reflect’ on the whole episode. 😂 Personally I think attacking Iran will be the list pro-climate thing any American president has ever done.
William R Knecht3Unless they're cyanobacteria, in which case ingesting them will turn your brain into Jello & you'll start voting Republican.
sunnyjim.bsky.social2I love this because he will hate it
vILLAGE GENIOUS2idk I've seen a lot of EVs with temp plates on them around my parts recently so I think the gas prices thing might be a decent shout
tom2bold of you to declare war on aquarium owners like this 🤨
Green Hombre2Establishing Iran as the global carbon tax administrator is pro-climate as well. Climate activists are amused by the turn of events.
Some gaze of raccoons2Something something something Green Party
Some Random Dave2If he's not controlling the algae, he's probably also not controlling mosquitoes. (However, they're not, as a species, an endangered species, so no environmental points there.)
Randy Tayler2"Draining the swamp" was an anti-environmentalist agenda the whole time?
Brian Dear2Yes but to balance all that oxygen goodness they’re using big filthy diesel generators to power pumps to drain the Pool into the Potomac, so I’m sure in the end this’ll add another ppm or two of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Trump: “Here is another example of a crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor. The sign says, ‘First they came for the algae…’ which is in reference to a famous post-WW2 statement about Germans not speaking out against Nazis ‘…Then they came for the Jews, & I did not speak out—bc I was not a Jew “
JackInPNW458Satire requires intelligence to appreciate it. I understand Trump's confusion.
Philo of Alexan226I didn’t know it was protest frog migration season already
Seth Masket107Sir it’s your contention that people are being paid to protest algae?
Qouthraven106Hahaha the fact that he even feels the address it means it’s getting to him
Jules64He didn't write that. He wouldn't have gotten the reference.
Walter (dead)44Very proud of our large wet boy for getting the joke
Mick Muldoon19The man can’t admit to anything. No guilt. No empathy. No understanding.
Ty McBrayer15Trump is losing his mind over this. Who knew single celled organisms could defeat a man with a single brain cell. Keep up the good work! , Team Algae. Personal upside, I’ll never misspell algae again.
No inappropriate caps, no "!!!", no "MAGA" at the end... This post is not from the Orange guy
Leslie A. Larson12Steven Miller in the house.
Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪11SPOILER ALERT: In the original version of the poem he's referring to, the fascists first came for the Communists, the Trade Unionists and the Social Democrats – all targets of the Trump regime.
Van Alan10It’s been 10 years and I still can’t believe the President of the United States is this fucking stupid
GC Rust10I said it yesterday: 80 year old man doesn't understand real life shitposting.
Tyrant Biggles8I haven't heard a conspiracy theory as crazy as Trump's Algaegate since Laura Loomer wanted new tires.
Love Wins Always8Some of Trump's posts are obviously from him, but I don't think he'd know this quote in a million years—or describe it this way if he saw it.
Ryan Leonard8Is is possible to have a negative sense of humor?
Jerry Shaver8trump clearly didn't write that. He doesn't have any idea what the sign is referencing.
Christian Petersen7Meanwhile, at the nation's capital...
Granuailynn6When you have absolutely no sense of humor...or empathy...you cannot comprehend things like satire...or other people who think differently from you...b/c they do...
Terrible Band Names6It's odd how Trump and his ilk never quote the rest of the poem. hmd.org.uk/resource/fir...
John Wares6My god he almost understands
Dave Domingo6I miss the days when "the president is an idiot" was hyperbole.
Mastiff Mom5More satire, the sign is peeling
Sergeant Swamp💙5He keeps spinning the story to deflect his stupid failure.
drwhofan1.bsky.social5But all frogs are pro-algae.
Tenebrae Wyatt5Why is the dumbest, most tone-deaf, and least read human in charge of this country? I feel like I'm being represented by a sandcastle.
arknet5At this point, he's at a stage where if he's challenged in the right environment in the right way, by the right reporter, he might really lash out. Don't know what Republicans will do after that. It's very possible Mitch McConnell is already done. Four months is a long time to keep this up.
The Duchess of Snork5Just a reminder that these microorganisms rose from nothing. They are here in the Reflecting Pool because they worked hard, overcame obstacles, and persevered. It's a real life Horatio Algae story.
Netaloid 📸5One of his aides clued him in to the reference. He's dumb as a brick & never would've gotten it himself
❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆5”alone, we are tiny and weak like chlamydomonas but join me, and we can stand proud cell wall to cell wall like volvocaceae!”
Karl Mathews 🌱4ROFL paid algae protestors! OMG! Call out the national guard!
badhabitfun.bsky.social4Oh the money he wasted on this. 😂😂😂
jimtragos.bsky.social4Trump didn't write that. That's for sure. "A famous post-WW2 statement" isn't a difficult phrase for your average 7th grader, but it's a bridge way, way too far for the orange ignoramous.
Susan Behrens4Trump seriously tweeted out the frog 🐸??? Quick, some reporter please get a mic in that frog’s face and interview him/her in costume. 😆 🤣
Denverite4I would like to think no one is stupid enough to think someone is pro-algae, but I have unfortunately seen clips of true believes doing the most insane mental gymnastics to justify Trump, even when played clips that directly contradict what they just claimed
HPMG4Trump didn’t right that post ‘In reference to ‘ is a too well constructed phrase for him
KeysInHand4So... which social media manager confiscated his phone for more then 2 seconds to write that. I mean dumb has a b in it, we all know he can't actually read.
Patrick Windrose4Nazis need to keep Niemöller out of their mouths.
SiviSpacemanPablum4Wow, he’s really close to getting it
😈 Leela The Monster 🧛♀️4Who wrote this for him? Shitler wouldn't know that quote.
Blake3Someone should alert DOGE that the park service is running a biodiversity study.
Mash3Omg now I know the frog is out there. Trump is stupider than I thought was humanly possible.
drawpipe.bsky.social3Why is he so familiar with the saying? I wonder….
Junkyard Bard3We're through the looking glass.
the tl;dr of this post: “I am pathetically easy to troll.”
bluelenses3Just now realizing that I too am pro-algae
Jason Smith3Not a single chance he wrote this. He wouldn’t know a WWII reference if it sat on his face and yelled it in his ear.
Paul Davidson3Pink frog person is 100% not being paid to do that!
Liam B3Now we know he didn’t write this one.
intotheblue123.bsky.social3That woman’s wildest dreams have come true
66ALW993Paid by... Big Algae? Is that a thing? 🤔
watchutalkinboutwillis3frogs like swamps It's not that complicated
Lizard3Have you verified this is a legit post?
Justin.3Trump has algae derangement syndrome. You hate to see it
Happening Again2yeah, trump, you're the nazi they're warning about
Chris Richter2The only thing funnier than a straight man that just doesn’t get it, is a straight man that doesn’t get it that everyone hates.
Turing Pest2What cracks me up is that I *know* somebody had to whisper in his ear who Niemöller was & what it meant 💀🤡
onekhzMKE2Amphifa is not saying "Boo-Urns!"
Microfilm2This man has zero sense of humor, actually negative-numbers sense of humor. What a fckng pill he is.
Paul Lee2Well at least we know he didnt write that.
. . . - - - . . .🇨🇦🇺🇦2I don’t believe he wrote that for 1 minute.
Do you wonder about life?2Didn't the frogs 🐸 come from the #algae?
blu71.bsky.social2He's covering up for yet another failed project! Everything that man touches turns to shit!!
Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗2Not Trump's usual voice, or his ghost writer's. Reads like it was written by AI. Also there's not really any point to the post, which again suggests AI.
ProudSocialist⚛️💙🏳️🌈🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦2Looks like Stephen Miller's writing this shit. There is no way that this orange piece of shit is writing this at all.
W.A. Kuemmel2“A lot of people don’t know this …”
Greatest American Hero 2After the first sentence, it reads like an AI summary.
You’ll Never Walk Alone2The pool thing might actually end up being his demise. 😂
thefullcooler2I really hope this is the note we end on
Michael MyArse 🏆2Damn, if someone paid me to wear this costume it would be the best job ever
curmudgeonesse.bsky.social2Then they came for the lilypads...
kasialove.bsky.social2I think this is my all time favorite post of his
Hayden2🎼What’s it all about, Algae? 🎶 Is it just for the moment with yoouuuu? 🎶
shit-the-nyt-says.bsky.social2Wow, they trolled the president so hard that he couldn't ignore it.
Lexx Moya2This is it. This is why he wants people arrested and making up lies about vandals. It was a botched job and he is embarrassed and lying to soothe his ego.
TekNeex2Damn, so he’s out there just comparing himself to Nazis now? Gotta be honest, I didn’t have that one on my bingo card.
ponyspaws.bsky.social2Trump’s tiny little brain can’t figure out that they’re making fun of him. Instead, he thinks it’s some deep state conspiracy to vandalize the reflecting pool.
Rhiv2The frogs have joined with algae!
Kentucky Hills2Satire is an art completely lost to him.
André Lambelet2They really are dum(b)er than slime mold, aren't they?
Ken2Even if it’s possible to put policy aside the way he uses social media is beyond unbecoming for any public official. He thinks he’s the most disrespected because the other guys didn’t rage tweet/morse code every criticism. Policy aside or not he’s still a little bitch.
Random Sarah2Someone else wrote that post
H. Perry Horton2Like most Trump products, try as he might, he'll never, ever sell this.
Plain Simple Garak2This can't be real.. This has to be artificial unintelligence...
TDub 2Y’all, this guy has sprung head first into the nutty end of the pool
DAMMIT, I’ve been pro-algae for free and other folks are getting paid?!?
Gimlet Eye4It's the Algae Lobby...very well-heeled, very liberal
Insane and he's our fucking president.
Gvnzng aka Victor2Marco Rubio likes this post
afferentinput.bsky.social2They even have their own thinktanks!
coloneltompeeping.bsky.social2You obviously haven't ingratiated yourself with the rainmakers in Big Algae.
lol post obviously written by someone else, probably miller, but also "crazy pro-algae (likely paid) protestor"
Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow171I keep seeing quote posts of this from people who seem to think that trump knows the niemoller poem and I mean COME ON PEOPLE
Peter Hentges7Can’t believe they’re letting “amphifa” go there.
topiltzin.bsky.social5Evidently psychopaths have neither a sense of humor nor any understanding of irony.
VermontBubbe3Yeah, esp because he didn't sign it. Gotta love amphifa though!
Spaaaace Ghoooost2No one has to pay us to hate them.
