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[-] [email protected] 104 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure EVERY European politician randomly CAPITALISES words like some LUNATIC

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

And signs their essay texts with their name. Very common as we all know.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's Mark Rutte. He certainly would write it like this.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I don't believe this is real, but the all caps words aren't random. They're clearly for emphasis, the same kinds of words I might capitalize for effect. That is not really the unbelievable aspect of this scenario.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

@[email protected]

This user is great when it comes to mimicking this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

He's a true American PATRIOT who loves America BIGLY

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Hasn't Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I'm pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn't seem too surprising.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

kissing his ass and conceding all his demands is not "handling trump well" lmao

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I would love and hate to see proof that Mark Rutte really texted this to Trump.

The "Truth" post is 100% real, inarguably, but I haven't seen anyone reporting the picture is of a real message from Rutte to Trump.

E: never mind that is... apparently Rutte's office has confirmed the message is really from Rutte????

?????

I need to go lie down.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'm confused why people are surprised at this, to be honest. It's entirely expected.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can tell you as a Dutchman, reading this I could hear Mark Rutte's voice and it aligns with his anglophile suck-up character.
I couldn't see him writing it any other way.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is Mark Rutte.
He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
He's a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
or a democratic socialist or left of that.

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