Junior’s Photo Op With A Dead, Balancing Tuna Has Twitter Howling

Let’s take a moment to be grateful to Donald Trump, Jr., shall we? I mean, he tells whoppers as big as George Santos does, but at least he’s not in Congress, mercifully. He merely sees the need to present himself as a Real Man, a Man’s Man, conqueror of the animal kingdom, the Great White Hunter — as long as somebody else is doing the actual work to make the photo op possible.

First of all, a short tutorial in these “safaris” and the like that Junior goes on. They are not manly endeavors. A starved and dehydrated animal is flushed out by people who actually can hunt and trap and a rich ***hole like Don Junior delivers the coup de grace — if he even does that much.

But he does the photo op for sure. That’s the purpose of all this, is for a Legend to be created. Who this is designed to impress, I’m not sure. The MAGAs I guess. Hey, if Junior is their idea of a hero, a manly man, that’s wonderful. They can have him.

I’m not sure about the story. pic.twitter.com/tsvDtYfEtB

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 4, 2023

And today is your lucky day, friends. Junior even did a video of this for you. Yes, Sir, he did.

Here’s a video allegedly related to this fishy story https://t.co/r225Gx4Kxj at circa 4:03, he takes his hand off the fish. That leaves some options, but perhaps the fish was on a stick or otherwise supported.

— HoaxEye (@hoaxeye) February 4, 2023

Twitter isn’t buying it.

And here’s a comment about this dead fish who either is a ballerina, even in death, or somehow has learned to defy gravity.

There’s a rope tied here where it should be connected to a boom crane but it’s been photoshopped out. Nice try Jr. pic.twitter.com/ldoJ4fnSU4

— Chris Barrett (@Chris_Barrett) February 4, 2023

Junior barely has a grip on something that weighs three times more than he does — plus, if you watch the video, he lets go of it altogether from time to time. Amazing. The laws of physics just suspend for the Trumps.

I, personally, would love to know how he stood a fish that size up. The only ones I’ve handled were slippery as hell and they certainly weren’t way bigger than me.

Note that this sport is called “spearfishing” and not fish shooting. Junior says he shot this fish. So what’s up with that? Anybody?

I ran professional sport fishing service, CG Captain, specializing in both tuna chunking & trolling. I can assure you a tuna that size would have dragged him for a mile, if he stuck it with a dart. And they never hang around in 50” of water.

— DJ Bobby Mac (@zfz55sj9s6) February 4, 2023

Again, there’s no discussion of Junior sticking the fish with any dart, only with shooting it, while holding his breath underwater for 30 seconds. I’ve never heard of shooting a fish before, but then again I don’t run in Bwana, Great White Hunter circles.

The picture looks phony as hell.
Why are they posed on rocks?
That fish weighs quite a bit and it seems pointless to schlep it into that setting just for a photo. You'd need a winch and how would it be winched there?"Catch" pics are usually on a boat or dock, not a pile of rocks.

— John Palasek (@JPWilliams36) February 5, 2023

I’m sure this feat of Junior’s is getting feted somewhere, but it sure isn’t on Twitter.

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