A senior legal adviser to Donald Trump ― who once described the president as an “idiot†and a “bully†― drew widespread ridicule over her attempted depiction of him as a hero on Tuesday night.
Jenna Ellis, part of the Trump legal team trying to overturn the 2020 election result (despite no evidence of the mass voter fraud they claim), tweeted a picture of Trump leaning on the Oval Office desk alongside the caption: “WARRIOR.â€
Critics had a field day over the photo.
Journalist Mehdi Hasan, meanwhile, noted how Trump in the 1990s had called avoiding contracting sexually transmitted infections to “my personal Vietnam.â€
From the Oval Office he could literally do anything he wanted, anything in the world, but he chose to cosplay his character from the apprentice
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) November 25, 2020
‘In…interviews during the 1990s, Trump compared trying to avoid [STDS] to “my personal Vietnam.” “It’s pretty dangerous out there,” he said in 1993. “It’s like Vietnam.” He added in 1996: “I feel like a very great and very brave soldier.”‘https://t.co/gaJKdOEjit https://t.co/v5FueFw0R7
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) November 25, 2020
Save this tweet – it will be even more hilarious when Trump fires Jenna next week
— Jonathan Jewel (@jonathanjewel) November 25, 2020
WARRIOR?
Donald Trump is much more Benito Mussolini than Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Is Jenna Ellis really a lawyer or is this all just performance art? pic.twitter.com/l2gviIk7D0
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) November 25, 2020
