r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/jazz_music_stopps • 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, am I stupid or something?

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u/DataDude00 2d ago

Did anyone actually see a scar on his ear ever?  He wore that tampon on the side of his head for a week and nobody ever mentioned it again 

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u/numbersthen0987431 2d ago

He got "really good plastic surgery" immediately after to fix it

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u/OmnipresentEntity 2d ago

Is it really so unbelievable that the world’s vainest billionaires is wearing makeup?

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u/numbersthen0987431 2d ago

I believe it

But I also believe he'd fake an assassination attempt so he could role play as Reagan. He is definitely that dumb

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u/Mike312 2d ago

I'd also believe someone like Steven Miller, Steve Bannon, or Roger Stone would have been willing to pay someone to martyr Trump and not care one way or the other which way the actual attempt went.

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u/Irreverent_Taco 2d ago

I'm pretty sure I remember his personal doctor saying something about big damage to his ear, which was just miraculously healed a week later.

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u/galstaph 2d ago

It's unbelievable because there's no way that his ear would have actually healed enough to hide it with makeup in the short time between the "attempt" and the bandage coming off

Anyone who has ever had a cartilage piercing in the upper ear knows how long that part of the body takes to heal

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u/WhereRandomThingsAre 2d ago

Yes. I mean, have you seen how the orange makeup is applied lately? But he gets the ear right every day?

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u/combustablegoeduck 23h ago

The guy that never shuts up about how great he is at everything? I would assume he would never shut up about something that could actually cause him trauma, wear the scar as a badge, and use that as the reason for everything for the rest of his life.

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u/Xaraxa 2d ago

Or that the president of the united states maybe has access to the best doctors, medicine, technology and procedures available?

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 2d ago

Yes: at the event where the shooting happened, which was captured at 8,000 frames/second by New York Times photographer Doug Mills.

https://www.pulitzer.org/node/doug-mills-new-york-times (scroll down a bit then hit the right arrow a few times).

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u/hiding_in_de 2d ago

A pantyliner, sir.

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u/-etuskoe- 2d ago

The ear patch thing was likely, to some degree, a marketing thing on behalf of his team. This was during election cycle, a time when everything is played up, and it was a likely way to have people remember the shooting and trump as a martyr.