Twitter users had some knockout reactions after President Donald Trump shared an edited photo of himself as the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa on Wednesday.
Trump tweeted this image of his head on actor Sylvester Stallone’s body.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2019
Stallone played Balboa in the “Rocky” franchise. The image stemmed from a promo poster for the third installment of the series, released in 1982.
It’s unclear who created the image and Trump did not caption the snap. Stallone has not responded to the image.
Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, compared Trump’s pre-Thanksgiving post with a family picture shared by former President Barack Obama and his family:
The #Thanksgiving posts of @BarackObama and @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/p3pmO3SrJf
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) November 28, 2019
“It’s fun to pretend,” “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill captioned his mocking tweet:
It's fun to pretend...#FakePhotoshoppedFantasies pic.twitter.com/Vzp6VryN0y
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 27, 2019
Other tweeters dinged Trump over his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Some also imagined Trump in the ring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
100% chance Trump would back Ivan Drago today https://t.co/Cmmq38OUVi
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) November 27, 2019
This Rocky photoshop is specifically from “Rocky III,” the one where Rocky immediately loses. pic.twitter.com/cmJ8onpfcI
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) November 27, 2019
This is all wrong.
— Nick Jack Pap-pass the Gravy (@Pappiness) November 27, 2019
Rocky defeated Russia, while Trump continues to hand them victories.
Photoshop is fun., pic.twitter.com/B8qpDAGzBM
— Dan SIoan 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈 (@dantoujours) November 27, 2019
There goes the President, posting shirtless fanfic of himself again. https://t.co/Dlk1z8ZfUY
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) November 27, 2019
Now we know what they did to him at that mysterious doctor’s visit? https://t.co/d2oESusuOS
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 27, 2019
I’ll take this all day long. pic.twitter.com/TCz1biOmrg
— Single Payer or Bust🌹 (@stephlynn1982) November 27, 2019
Trump weightlifting in real life pic.twitter.com/Bik5vF9aC0
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 27, 2019
To be fair to Trump, he's very much like Stallone was in Rocky.
— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) November 27, 2019
Incoherent.
im gonna tell my kids this is John Cena https://t.co/ThKTMyQfbp
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 (@senatorshoshana) November 27, 2019
On top of all the other weirdness here, does the President realize that Rocky actually stood up to Moscow? https://t.co/v3JJdip0SF
— Raja Krishnamoorthi (@CongressmanRaja) November 27, 2019
normal American president doing what stable, normal presidents do, tweeting shops of themselves as prizefighters that they found on nazi forums https://t.co/5Aym6qnaPs
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) November 27, 2019
Raging Bullshitter. https://t.co/YJR2SFWEKe
— Col (@Bigshirtlesscol) November 27, 2019
can y'all make an IQ test mandatory before electing a president ffs https://t.co/FuFypyYASk
— drew phillips lookalikes (@drewslookalikes) November 27, 2019
Donald Trump is the epitome of toxic masculinity. All this posturing, all this bullying, all the authoritarianism and embracing of dictators and war criminals is an attempt to hide a really deep and really pathetic insecurity.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) November 27, 2019
It’s just...so unbelievably sad. pic.twitter.com/M3ITJwCJwc
is this real life
— Caleb Hull 🎅🏻🎁 (@CalebJHull) November 27, 2019
Yeah, but Rocky actually fought the Russians https://t.co/5U1fj2fc4i
— Eric Stangel (@EricStangel) November 27, 2019
Truly the dumbest time to be alive https://t.co/9yM7yQYAUW
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) November 27, 2019
Let’s be clear: an Ivan Drago photoshop would have been the superior troll.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) November 27, 2019
"Take off your shirt, sir, and show us that gorgeous chest. We've never seen a chest quite like it."
— Holmes (@HolmesLybrand) November 27, 2019
-Trump last night, talking about his unscheduled physical. https://t.co/jERQPaf4IG
your grandchildren will not believe this era was real https://t.co/Xwn6jqPm9h
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 27, 2019
The President said doctors recently told him he had a gorgeous chest https://t.co/uRl6touadv
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) November 27, 2019
"Not actual size" https://t.co/83B144JLoV
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 27, 2019
You’re the most powerful man on Earth, you use your power to hurt minorities like me and you cage children, but you’re so broken inside that the doctor in me can’t help but feel sorry for you.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) November 27, 2019
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