Every wrestler needs a stage name. Trump is “The Orange Toad” (or just “Taco”). He has signature moves and repeated catchphrases, just like any wrestler. 2/12

He even has a costume - the red MAGA hat. This is his wrestling gear. Without it, he looks like any other old businessman. With it, he becomes the character. 3/12

His signature moves? Direct audience address. Crowd chanting. Making up insulting nicknames for opponents. Creating systems of enemies and “hostile establishment.” 4/12

All of this exists in wrestling in EXACTLY the same forms Trump uses. The crowd participation, the clear villains and heroes, the dramatic confrontations. 5/12

And his story with Zelensky and putin? Doesn’t this remind you of “love-hate” storylines that play out every season in Wrestling League? 6/12

Those promises to solve everything “right here, right now.” The endless stretching of drama. The mysterious meetings. The dramatic announcements that lead nowhere. 7/12

Classic wrestling plot development. Keep the audience engaged with hints and threats, but never actually resolve anything quickly. The show must go on. 8/12

Trump is simply a wrestler. And like every wrestler, all his moves are empty. The gestures exist only for the sake of gestures. The performance IS the point. 9/12

So expecting real actions from Trump is like waiting for wrestlers to have real fights. You’re missing the entire point of the show. 10/12

Europeans keep analyzing his “policy positions” and “strategic thinking.” But you’re trying to find military strategy in a circus performance. 11/12

Trump doesn’t want to solve problems. He wants to perform solutions. There’s a big difference. And until Europe understands this, you’ll keep being confused. 12/12

@brokenpixelua Greco-Roman wrestling was invented where? The play acting of American wrestling might be a thing with its two-dimensional characters and bad guys needing to be announced as bad guys. (hence US cluelessness about un-announced bad guys)

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@brokenpixelua C'mon. He's just demented. And always has been vile. That's your combination.

@formerGrump How does that contradict the fact that he uses cheap show technologies for the plebs?

@brokenpixelua Spoiler alert. WWf is fake as fuck

@brokenpixelua Nice thread but you stole the idea, and you stole the photo.

@brokenpixelua Kayfab⁉️🐸

@brokenpixelua That's a pretty huge cope from the fact that his actions have one regularity. And this one regularity is that his actions are beneficial for russia. He doesn't harm russia in any way, no matter what. You're telling us that Trump is performing as russian bolognese?

@brokenpixelua Trump is not wrestler of anny kind,he is inflated Baloon.He puts his nose to much into EU.Because of him EU is in big danger,not just Ucraine.Being fixed ucraine on militarry american rocketry ucraine risk her own existence.Bruxelles makes big and fundamentall error by givving to

@brokenpixelua Trump is not a wrestler. Trump is a moron without culture, a pathological narcissistic idiot, an egomaniac, a pathological liar, a disgrace to this world. There's nothing to understand but getting rid of him.

@brokenpixelua @threadreaderapp unroll please.

@brokenpixelua @ChrisO_wiki Also, he’s a narcissistic psychopath, no joke, no exaggeration. He cares about nothing except money and “narcissistic supply.” He doesn’t care about any policy that doesn’t strengthen or protect him personally. See Dr. Erich Fromm re malignant narcissism.

@brokenpixelua He's just an idiot - he's not paying 4d chess nor is he using Wrestling tactics. Stop interpreting anything into his actions. He's plain stupid, that's just it!

@brokenpixelua The problem is that hollow shows and performances don't solve problems. With his "character", he masks his inabilities as a politician.

@brokenpixelua Trump is just lousy Showmen thinking that he is Godsend.

@brokenpixelua Excellent post. Totally agree. We are in the Attitude Era of politics and have been for the last 10 years

@brokenpixelua Trump is an idiot. There, everything explained.

@brokenpixelua And Zelensky is clown controlled by American regime.

@brokenpixelua @ChrisO_wiki That’s actually a very apt comparison… btw he’s been a huge wwf fan forever

@brokenpixelua like that?

@brokenpixelua We fail to understand Trump because he is so stupid that he reaches under levels of human understanding. It is bellow what a person can see as animal intelligence.

@brokenpixelua My former work colleague's grandad invented the "catch-as-catch-can" wrestling style (Billy Riley). It was coached for many years thereafter by my old boss Roy Wood. Both were from Wigan, UK. Wrestling we know...that razzmatazz junk from the WWF/WWE...thats purely Yank invention.

@brokenpixelua Apt characterization of Trump and his theatrics.

@brokenpixelua Nailed it Wrestling is not real. He is just show. Getting paid for it.