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President Donald Trump has arrived in Ankara for the NATO Leaders Summit, but one of the biggest talking points has nothing to do with diplomacy.
According to reports, every time Trump uses the bathroom during the trip, his waste will not be left behind in Turkey. Instead, it will reportedly be collected using his personal toilet system and transported back to the United States under Secret Service supervision. The claim has been widely reported by Turkish outlet Turkiye Today and has also been repeated by other outlets covering the visit.
While it might sound bizarre, the reported practice is said to be part of a long-standing presidential security protocol designed to stop foreign intelligence agencies from gaining access to the US president's biological material.
The reported policy exists to prevent anyone from analyzing the president's biological waste for intelligence purposes. Stool samples can potentially reveal details about a person's health, which is why presidential security teams are said to treat them as sensitive material. According to reports, Trump's waste will be collected and flown back to the US rather than entering a foreign sewage system.
This is not believed to be a new procedure. Reports claim that during a 2006 visit to Vienna, President George W. Bush followed similar security measures, with even his used toilet paper reportedly flown back to Ramstein Air Base in Germany before returning to the United States.
The practice also reportedly extends beyond the US. French investigative journalists Regis Gente and Mikhail Rubin have claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin's team collects his feces in special bags before flying them back to Russia. Reports have also linked the practice to claims that Joseph Stalin once had Mao Zedong's feces examined in an attempt to learn more about his health.
Trump's reported toilet system is just one part of an enormous security operation surrounding the NATO summit.
Reports say his presidential limousine has also been transported across the Atlantic, while the US delegation, made up of around 1,400 people, is expected to be the largest attending the summit. The delegation will stay in hotels next to the US Embassy, with Trump's hotel reserved exclusively for his team during the visit.
The unusual security arrangements have attracted plenty of attention, but according to reports, they are viewed as standard precautions for protecting a sitting US president while traveling overseas.
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Presidents are supposed to be respected, but every so often they make a hilarious gaffe. While trying to escape reporters, George W. Bush awkwardly tugged on a locked door. During a 2008 campaign stop, Barack Obama claimed he visited "57 states." And during a banquet, George H.W. Bush vomited on the lap of the Prime Minister of Japan. That last one's pretty hard to top, but if anyone can do it, it's current US president and first Google Image result for the word "idiot," Donald Trump.
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The gaffe economy has been booming since Trump took office. During a press conference, he awkwardly drank water with two hands, and got roasted on Twitter. Then, while boarding Air Force One, the wind blew through his bizarre hairdo, exposing the clean pate beneath his elaborate combover. In Michael Wolff's book, he offered an explanation for Trump's unique hairstyle, attributed to his daughter, Ivanka:
"She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate - a contained island after scalp-reduction -surgery - surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray... The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men - the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color."
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Well, maybe Trump should switch to Amtrak, because he just had another gaffe on Air Force One. At Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, he exited the limo and appeared to have a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe. The tissue stayed attached as the "stable genius" walked up the steps to his plane. Then as Trump turned to wave to his supporters, the piece of paper finally became dislodged. A staff member of Secret Service agent picked up the tissue, and, I assume, will sell it on eBay for a lot of money.
The video of Trump's gaffe went viral, and was greeted with amusement on social media. "The jokes write themselves," said one, while another asked, "How's that for a metaphor?" One person wondered, "How many people do you think saw and didn't tell him?" Another commenter observed, "Nothing is more telling about disliked Trump is by his own people than everyone letting him take this long photo op walk with toilet paper on his shoe," another Twitter user asserted. And of course, someone made a remix with the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme.
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Trump supporters might dismiss the video "fake news," as they do to all factual news that is unflattering to Trump. But I say, embrace it. That is the greatest, most beautiful piece of toilet paper in the world, a lot of people have said that, believe me. And it could have been worse. It's not he puked on anyone's lap.
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Donald Trump is making his second state visit to the United Kingdom this week, but it seems as though he isn't exactly receiving the grand presidential welcome he was hoping for.
Not only has the giant Trump baby blimp taken to the skies over Westminster once again, but it seems as though the anti-Trump demonstrators have kicked things up a notch by bringing in a gigantic robot resembling him in a very compromising position.
Check out this footage of the 'Trump Dumper' robot below:
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The 16-foot-high so-called "Trump-Dumper" model sits on a gold toilet while tweeting, and it was erected in Trafalgar Square this morning for the protest. The elaborate machine, which cost £19,700 ($24966.50) to make, sits with Trump's trousers around his ankles, mechanically making robotic farts while shouting some of the president's choicest quotes, including "you are fake news" and "I am a very stable genius."
In an interview with British broadcaster LBC, the robot's creator, Don Lessum, stated:
"It's a masterpiece. It took a month to make and ironically we made it in China and there were no tariffs on it. It's a 16-foot high statue of Trump, doing what he does the most, sitting on the toilet and tweeting. He's a loathsome character and he doesn't represent America. I want people to know that. He doesn't even represent democracy."
However, this isn't the only controversial tactic employed by anti-Trump protestors. One Trump-hating-teen went so far as to mow a giant penis on the grass of a lawn by Stansted airport ahead of the president's arrival.
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With the 2020 US presidential election less than seven weeks away, it appears that some people are resorting to disturbing tactics within the politically divided nation.
In fact, according to the Daily Mail, an unidentified woman has spent the course of two days putting dog poop in the mailboxes of Donald Trump supporters in Hampden, Maine.
The publication states that police are now looking for the suspect, who is believed to have targeted homes with Trump signs in their front yards.
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The shocking acts were reportedly carried out on Sunday and Monday, with Alyshia Canwell, a patrol officer with Hampden Public Safety, telling ABC Channel 9 News:
"She has been picking up dog feces and putting it in mailboxes, specifically of people who have Trump signs outside and she has been also defacing Trump signs, writing comments on the signs."
Hampden Police have since released a photo of the woman in question, which has since been circulated online.
The woman in the photo appears to be middle-aged with short brown hair. She can be seen wearing a purple top, a pair of shorts, a black mask, and Crocs.
This is the moment the late Robin Williams roasted Donald Trump in a resurfaced comedy set:
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Many people, Trump and Biden supporters alike, have taken to Facebook to condemn the woman for her behavior.
One person shared: "I loathe [Trump], but this is gross. I expect everyone to act like they weren’t raised by farm animals, not just the people I don’t agree with politically."
Another speculated: "I mean the fact is if she is capable of doing it to one group of people who's to say she won't to anyone else... I mean I hope she gets caught because this is really nasty no matter who you do it too #trumpdumper."
A third commenter referred to the woman's behavior as "ignorant", asking "what if the mailman/mailwoman finds it first? Or someone’s child?? They’ll catch her and it’s going to be hilarious, hopefully, they’ll throw the book at her as it’s a federal offense."
However, not everyone was so critical about the anonymous poop dumper's actions, with one Facebook user remarking:
"Apparently none of you work with animals. it’s dog poop people. I’m not arguing right vs wrong, but it’s dog poop... everyone will be okay. Truly ironic how many of you are going OFF about dog poop, but stay pretty silent about all the extremely-more-terrible things that Trump does on the daily.
It should really go without saying; but please don't put dog poop in anybody's mailbox. It's gross.
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Per The Independent, on Saturday, June 5, the ex-POTUS appeared at a Republican Party convention held in North Carolina, where he claimed that China should be made to "pay reparations" over the COVID pandemic.
However, a number of Twitter users had trouble focusing on the speech itself, and instead couldn't help but notice that the pants of the blue two-piece suit Trump was wearing appeared to be on backward.
The photos and videos of the GOP conference quickly picked up more and more traction on social media, and soon started trending on Twitter under the hashtag #TrumpPants.
Several Twitter users then started sharing pictures of Trump's outfit and speculating on whether or not he truly had worn his pants back-to-front (which, of course, he had not).
One Twitter user even went as far as mocking up a humourous diagram illustrating the whole debacle.
Meanwhile, another person made an allusion to the fly that infamously landed on former Vice President Mike Pence's head during a televised debate, writing: "No fly on Trump's pants? I think I know where it went."
A third wrote: "Holy s***, Trump gave that speech today wearing his pants on backwards. Oh my god."
Another then added: "Pretty good Saturday night studying Trump's pants like the Zapruder film. 9I'm staking out the center here: Pants are on correctly, diaper bulge smoothing the fly.)"
While another said: "My husband just said 'I seriously thought after January 20th I wouldn’t look over to see you searching 'Trump Pants Backwards’ on Twitter, but here we are'."
However, according to fact-checking articles by Snopes and Politifact, an in-depth analysis of the coverage of the event clearly show that Trump's pants do boast a zipper in the crotch area, which suggests that they were on the correct way all along.
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This week, a historic event took place. No, it wasn't IHOP officially becoming IHOb (the reason why that's happening is driving us all mad), but it was the groundbreaking moment that two world leaders met and shook hands.
Hopefully the first step towards peace between the two nations, Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sat down for a meeting in Singapore to treat the rising tension between the two superpowers.
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In his own idiosyncratic way, Trump stated:
"People are going to be very impressed. People are going to be very happy, and we’re going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world.
"I want to thank chairman Kim. Spent a lot of time together today, very intensive time."
There are many secrets of this meeting that we are due to learn in the future, and many we will never be privy to. However, there is one thing that many have discovered today: Kim Jong-un attended the summit with his very own toilet.
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According to South Korean news agency The Chosun Ilbo, the leader arrived in Singapore this week in an Air China Boeing 747, but was also accompanied by an IL-76 transport plane. This plane was carrying food, a bullet-proof limousine, and... a portable toilet.
According to Business Insider, he always travels with his own toilet available - including one in his Mercedes.
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In 2015, Daily NK (a South Korean website focusing on North Korea news) reported that he has a mobile restroom built into one of his convoy vehicles, for whenever he leaves for on-site inspections at state-run factories or military bases. Their anonymous source, from the South Pyongan Province, told them:
"The restrooms are not only in Kim Jong-un's personal train but whatever small or midsize cars he is traveling with and even in special vehicles that are designed for mountainous terrain or snow.
"There are multiple vehicles within the convoy so that people cannot tell which one he is in, and there is a separate car that acts as his restroom.
"It is unthinkable in a Suryeong-based society for him to have to use a public restroom just because he travels around the country."
So why go to all this trouble? Is it simply a matter or privacy, or is it that no restroom shared by another person is deemed good enough for the supreme leader? Well, according to the Chosun Ilbo, the portable toilets "will deny determined sewer divers insights into the supreme leader's stools".
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Jong-un's urine and fecal matter are periodically examined to check his health status - but that information is for certain eyes only. Lee Yun-keol, a former member of the North Korean Guard, has previously spoken about this with the Washington Post.
"Rather than using a public restroom, the leader of North Korea has a personal toilet that follows him around when he travels," he explained. "The leader's excretions contain information about his health status so they can't be left behind."
This may be something we can all agree with Kim Jong-un on - none of us want to learn more about his urine or faeces.
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