Former president’s body odor was called into question by a former congressman

Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican representative, encouraged people to ‘wear a mask’ when they’re in the presence of former president Donald Trump due to his apparent odor.

Mr Kinzinger, a vocal critic of Mr Trump, took to his Twitter account this week to insinuate that the former president possesses a strong smell.

“I’m genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven’t talked about the odor,” Mr Kinzinger wrote earlier this week.

“It’s truly something to behold. Wear a mask if you can,” he added.

The accusation garnered a lot of attention on the platform, with many mocking the former president for his alleged smell.

  • Flying Squid
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    962 years ago

    What?

    When reached for comment about the accusation, a spokesperson for Mr Trump returned the insult to Mr Kinzinger.

    “Adam Kinzinger farted on live TV and is an unemployed fraud,” the spokesperson said in a statement provided to The Independent.

    Not only do I doubt he ever farted on live TV, but if that spokesperson thinks a fart gives you a constant smell, they really need to visit their doctor.

    • @[email protected]
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      292 years ago

      Also, since Trump isn’t president and his company is being shut down, isn’t he unemployed too?

      • Flying Squid
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        222 years ago

        You mean angrily typing into your phone to post messages on TruthSocial all day until 3 a.m. and then starting again 2 hours later isn’t a job?

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        Yup, we’re the post-capitalist equivalent of the butter-passing robot.

        “What is my purpose?”

        “You watch the world fall apart while the people who broke it tell each other they smell bad.”

        “Oh god.”

    • @[email protected]
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      492 years ago

      This is LITERAL 5 year old level insult slinging going on between the ex president and an ex congressman. Im so sick of politicians being such pathetic wastes of space

      • Billiam
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        292 years ago

        Did you expect any other response from Mr. “No puppet, no puppet, you’re the puppet”?

        • @[email protected]
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          That Fucking Guy habitually says lies in threes like that to incant them to be accepted as true

    • TechyDad
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      312 years ago

      Now? During the 2016 Republican primaries, Trump insisted that he had large hands and large genitalia because one of the other candidates said he had small hands.

      Trump has never been dignified.

      • Swarming
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        42 years ago

        Well I don’t disagree with that haha, just sad that American politics is now at the level of, ‘You smell!’, ‘No, you smell!’, ‘Nuh uh!’

      • @[email protected]
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        72 years ago

        The origin is he was called a “short fingered vulgarian” in a print article in Spy (which called Kissinger a socialite war criminal). It means that he is cheap (short fingers don’t reach deep into pockets to get at money) which he took literally to mean having small hands. Dude just slid right past the actual insult and moved on to a different one that he either preferred to argue against or substituted because he didn’t understand the original.

        • TechyDad
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          52 years ago

          And Trump responded to that by sending photos of his hands to the author of that piece for 25 years.

          Imagine if someone personally insulted you on a message board in 1998 and you responded to it by continuously replying to that same thread all the way up to today with “evidence” that they were wrong!

          • @[email protected]
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            32 years ago

            I heard he also wore large fake hands and screamed “NOBODY LOOK! NOBODY LOOK!” after they accidentally fell off

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    It’s funny that donnie gets upset about this, but doesn’t seem that bothered about other accusations.

    • @[email protected]
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      192 years ago

      What’s funnier is it’s one of the few things he has any possibility of fixing about himself and yet he can’t.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    There are plenty of reasons to despise our society’s fascist nosedive, with Trump as the highest profile symptom, but this ain’t it

  • PugJesus
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    512 years ago

    “Body odor”

    It’s probably the shit in his diaper.

    • TubeTalkerX
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      112 years ago

      On Stage one of the candidates starts sniffing:

      Wait a minute, did someone here make a Boom-boom?

    • FuglyDuck
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      202 years ago

      He was using his bathroom in Mar A Lago as a document storage closet. it was probably more than “just” that.

  • MxM111
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    52 years ago

    As if one has to be close or have a nose to smell this shit.

  • NotAFuckingBot
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    122 years ago

    Saying that a piece of walking, talking, treasonous shit smells is like saying that it’s bright on the surface of the sun.

  • @[email protected]
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    212 years ago

    When reached for comment about the accusation, a spokesperson for Mr Trump returned the insult to Mr Kinzinger.

    “He farted once”

    How old are these people?