"Baby Trump" Balloon stabbed and deflated at Alabama event

Stevicus · Nov 10, 2019

UPDATE: ‘Baby Trump’ deflates in Ala. while president cheered by crowd

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Well, I guess it does look kind of sad lying on the ground like that.

Known as “Baby Trump,” the helium-filled caricature depicting the president wearing a diaper and holding a cellphone has appeared at protests in London, Los Angeles and Argentina.

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A GoFundMe page raised nearly $8,000 in two days to get the giant balloon to Tuscaloosa ahead of Trump’s appearance at the Alabama-LSU football game.

“We need your help to bring this VIP (very important protester) to the biggest matchup college football has ever seen ...” organizers wrote. “It wouldn’t be a big Gameday in Tuscaloosa without a blimp overhead, so let’s make sure our special guest is greeted properly.”

But apparently, the balloon was slashed and deflated before the game started.

Unfortunately for the balloon, “Baby Trump” never made it to kickoff, however. Shortly before the game began, the balloon was deflated after getting slashed by an angry protester, the Montgomery-based ABC station reported.

Inside the stadium, the real Donald Trump was greeted with cheers, applause and chants of “U-S-A” after he and first lady Melania Trump were shown on the big screen.

This article had more info on the perpetrator: https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...d-baby-trump-balloon-during-alabama-lsu-game/

He said he would do it again.

Police identified the suspect as 32-year-old Hoyt Hutchinson of Tuscaloosa. They said officers arrested him after he sliced into the balloon and tried to flee.

Hutchinson was charged with first degree criminal mischief, a felony, and was released on $2,500 bond, according to AL.com. It was not clear if he had retained an attorney. After his release, he posted a Facebook live video, saying as he stood in front of a TV with the game playing: “Some liberals tried to come to my hometown and start some trouble. That ain’t happening. I did get arrested. I got charged. That’s all right. I’d do it again given the opportunity.”

Bob the Unbeliever · Nov 10, 2019

Yes, because committing crimes of property damage to support a literal criminal (trump)?

Is so Law And Order.

shmogie · Nov 10, 2019

Stevicus said:
UPDATE: ‘Baby Trump’ deflates in Ala. while president cheered by crowd

Well, I guess it does look kind of sad lying on the ground like that.

But apparently, the balloon was slashed and deflated before the game started.

This article had more info on the perpetrator: https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...d-baby-trump-balloon-during-alabama-lsu-game/

He said he would do it again.

Was he a closet liberal triggered by the Trump balloon, and hate drove him to kill it ?

Or, was he a Conservative who killed it because he wanted to say in your face to the liberals ?

At least ANTIFA didn´t try to beat the snot out of every white person they saw, and some good ol´ boy didn´t drop all of them with his AR.

Whatever, it is funny as hell.

shmogie · Nov 10, 2019

Bob the Unbeliever said:
Yes, because committing crimes of property damage to support a literal criminal (trump)?

Is so Law And Order.

Wow, Trump is a literal criminal ?

Apparently Bob you don´t understand the words literal or criminal.

To be a literal criminal, one must have either confessed to committing literal crimes, or be found guilty of committing crimes in an appropriate legal setting.

Whoever meets those criteria is truly a literal criminal.

Neither applies to Trump, yet.

columbus · Nov 10, 2019

I'm no Trump supporter.
But whoever designed and made the performance art piece, inflatable baby Trump, had to expect similar performance art.
Like slashing the balloon. I've got no more sympathy for them than if the people who created Obama pinatas lost them.
Tom

Saint Frankenstein · Nov 10, 2019

Aww.

Also, that guy stabbed a baby. What a weirdo.

Cooky · Nov 10, 2019

Oh, so this was the same balloon used in London? And they raised $8,000. To have it shipped? Oh no!

LOL...

9-10ths_Penguin · Nov 10, 2019

shmogie said:
Wow, Trump is a literal criminal ?

Yes.

Stevicus · Nov 10, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
Oh, so this was the same balloon used in London? And they raised $8,000. To have it shipped? Oh no!

LOL...

I'm not sure if it was the same one or if they made another one. Well, I guess they'll have to make another one now, or at least repair this one.

9-10ths_Penguin · Nov 10, 2019

shmogie said:
To be a literal criminal, one must have either confessed to committing literal crimes, or be found guilty of committing crimes in an appropriate legal setting.

No, that's the criteria to be convicted. To be a criminal, all a person has to do is to commit a crime.

As someone who claims to be a retired cop, this is really a distinction you ought to have understood.

Cooky · Nov 10, 2019

9-10ths_Penguin said:
As someone who claims to be a retired cop, this is really a distinction you ought to have understood.

I really hate they way you go personal all the time. Oh well. I guess that’s your style.

columbus · Nov 10, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
I really hate they way you go personal all the time.

As opposed to responding to his post.
Being convicted doesn't make you a criminal. Breaking the law makes you a criminal.
Tom

Cooky · Nov 10, 2019

columbus said:
As opposed to responding to his post.

I responded to the part that bothered me. Which was indeed part of his post.

columbus said:
Being convicted doesn't make you a criminal. Breaking the law makes you a criminal.
Tom

I dunno, I’ve broken some laws and never got caught. Nobody says I’m a criminal, so... :shrug:

Father Heathen · Nov 10, 2019

shmogie said:
Was he a closet liberal triggered by the Trump balloon, and hate drove him to kill it ?

Or, was he a Conservative who killed it because he wanted to say in your face to the liberals ?

At least ANTIFA didn´t try to beat the snot out of every white person they saw, and some good ol´ boy didn´t drop all of them with his AR.

Whatever, it is funny as hell.

Clearly it was some butthurt conservative snowflake who was "triggered" by a balloon.

columbus · Nov 10, 2019

Landon Caeli said:
I dunno, I’ve broken some laws and never got caught. Nobody says I’m a criminal, so...

People often get away with crimes.
I have.
Doesn't change the fact that you and I are criminals.

But we aren't billionaires. The crimes we'll get away with are a couple of magnitudes less significant than what Trump could get away with given his ability to obstruct the judiciary and hire $1000 per hour lawyers.
Tom

Father Heathen · Nov 10, 2019

9-10ths_Penguin said:
No, that's the criteria to be convicted. To be a criminal, all a person has to do is to commit a crime.

As someone who claims to be a retired cop, this is really a distinction you ought to have understood.

As you may have guessed, the bar is set pretty low to become a cop in the U.S., which is why corruption, incompetence, and misconduct are so rampant.

Father Heathen · Nov 10, 2019

columbus said:
People often get away with crimes.
I have.
Doesn't change the fact that you and I are criminals.

But we aren't billionaires. The crimes we'll get away with are a couple of magnitudes less significant than what Trump could get away with given his ability to obstruct the judiciary and hire $1000 per hour lawyers.
Tom

Who knows what dark depravity he got into when he was buds with Epstein.

fantome profane · Nov 10, 2019

The scary thing is that he could have mistakenly stabbed the wrong one. Even I admit I have trouble telling the real Trump from the balloon.

Father Heathen · Nov 10, 2019

columbus said:
I'm no Trump supporter.
But whoever designed and made the performance art piece, inflatable baby Trump, had to expect similar performance art.
Like slashing the balloon. I've got no more sympathy for them than if the people who created Obama pinatas lost them.
Tom

They had to have known that they were in backwater bumpkin territory. This shouldn't have came as a surprise.

Cooky · Nov 10, 2019

columbus said:
People often get away with crimes.
I have.
Doesn't change the fact that you and I are criminals.

But we aren't billionaires. The crimes we'll get away with are a couple of magnitudes less significant than what Trump could get away with given his ability to obstruct the judiciary and hire $1000 per hour lawyers.
Tom

“Criminal” like murderer, is a legal term. So I guess we can say women who have abortions are murderers then?

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