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riversedge

(79,493 posts)
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 02:57 PM Friday

Trump says he's been wondering if he could slide down a helicopter rope like SEAL Team 6 --

I actually turned up the volume to see if he really said this--and yes Trump DID say it.


CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism

This is not satire.

Trump says he’s been wondering if he could slide down a helicopter rope like SEAL Team 6 — and says, with a straight face, that he wants to try it sometime.

This man is a clown. 🤡


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Trump says he's been wondering if he could slide down a helicopter rope like SEAL Team 6 -- (Original Post) riversedge Friday OP
Do it! DO IT! LakeVermilion Friday #1
Do it ! dweller Friday #2
Yep! Grim Chieftain Friday #35
Proceed. /nt bucolic_frolic Friday #3
Yes! Yes you can!! You will be adored as the manliest ever!!! Strelnikov_ Friday #4
Pay Per Vue chelsea0011 Friday #5
Oh hell yes! And since he's the King, he should get a much longer rope than others -- 2 scoops, right? 0rganism Friday #6
Go for it Donny Botany Friday #7
He said slide, not rappel. niyad Friday #30
Fine slide down that rope, get some nasty rope burns, and then fall to your ????. Botany Friday #48
Doing that slide over the ocean. . . niyad Friday #55
Oh, I hadn't yet heard he had trump swag! electric_blue68 Friday #58
I read it on the internet so it has to be true. Botany Friday #71
Do it, Donnie! ProudMNDemocrat Friday #8
If he wants to try it, he can do so with my blessings Vogon_Glory Friday #9
Obama would have been brave enough to do it Jerry2144 Friday #10
He should do it. He's such an idiot. Srkdqltr Friday #11
Jump, you fucker! Kid Berwyn Friday #12
Go for it Donny Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday #13
Just shove him out of the aircraft... EarthFirst Friday #14
The OP and thread are comedy gold 🪙 MustLoveBeagles Friday #15
Please do. milestogo Friday #16
Blackburn was "my" sweetheart, Orlando Bloom, in Ilsa Friday #42
OMG, I adore him. milestogo Friday #45
Of course Trump could do that. democrank Friday #17
"the first man to surface with a block in each hand". I actually believe that Jerry2144 Friday #57
Like a regular Harry Houdinu, or David Copperfield! electric_blue68 Friday #61
1) Attach rope securely around neck Conjuay Friday #18
That's what a REAL orange he-man would do. Am I right? I suggest the Rose Garden slab as a landing spot. Vinca Friday #19
Nah, somewhere out in the ocean. niyad Friday #39
Do it! About 50 feet should prove the concept... Wounded Bear Friday #20
I know he can do it. He should. It will impress the whole word Autumn Friday #21
He's starting to believe the AI maga-porn depictions of himself Maru Kitteh Friday #22
Yes! And I have some old thin yarn his little hands Ilsa Friday #23
Do it Humpty Dumpty! sheshe2 Friday #24
Replicate that scene from Scarface with the rope and helicopter Kaleva Friday #25
Yeah, I would pay to see that! HappyH Friday #26
One way to know for sure. eShirl Friday #27
C'mon fat fuck, strap in and fucking jump you piece of shit Blue Owl Friday #28
Please try it. Message to pilot bluestarone Friday #29
I'll bet he does it better than any Seal operative ever. Probatim Friday #31
Give him the VC treatment. Jacson6 Friday #32
Do it! do it! preferably out over the ocean. Does blubber float, though? niyad Friday #33
Woe be to the stunt coordinator GopherGal Friday #34
It's called fast roping, you fucking pedophile Aviation Pro Friday #36
Hey don, wanna look like a tougher guy than the seals? Instead of a rope use a bungee cord. Dave Bowman Friday #37
I'd pay to watch that! Ocelot II Friday #38
He'll never be as good as canetoad Friday #40
Somebody's just got to convince him that his bloated cankles will absorb the impact. LudwigPastorius Friday #41
I say we let him try Sailingdiver Friday #43
Watch this video, Donald, and see that Pete Hegseth did the rope thing on "Southpark" recently. Your turn. FadedMullet Friday #44
Forget the rope. Just push him out. sakabatou Friday #46
I love this thread so much that I Rec'ed every reply. nt Ilsa Friday #47
Spurious News: Naval Air Systems Command refuses Trump's request to "slide down a rope" from a helicopter jmowreader Friday #49
I wish I could SADAR Friday #52
Oh please Rebl2 Friday #50
Lets let trump try to do this. LetMyPeopleVote Friday #51
Please try! pandr32 Friday #53
Please proceed! moose65 Friday #54
"Hell, I might could have repelled right into Epstein's Island!"--DJT RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Friday #56
says the guy who needs two hands to lift a glass of water to his fishlips Skittles Friday #59
Of course he can. Swede Friday #60
Please proceed Deminpenn Friday #62
Just remember practice makes perfect SomedayKindaLove Friday #63
shit splatters. onethatcares Friday #64
I'm thinking he'll bust open like a watermelon Kaleva Friday #65
He should go for it. LisaL Friday #66
Let the man proceed malaise Friday #67
Right now, any number of MAGA chud incel "alpha" males are furiously masturbating flvegan Friday #68
Put him in a helicopter and let him try it. Quiet Em Friday #69
Or slide all the way down from the Space Station, like a true Space Force Commander. GreenWave Friday #70
Do it Dumpy! mcar Friday #72
Squeal Team Shit Solly Mack Friday #73
Just tell him he could be the first EVAH to win the Nobel Prize for Bravery! Totally Tunsie Friday #74

LakeVermilion

(1,501 posts)
1. Do it! DO IT!
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 02:58 PM
Friday

Actually, he had his chances in the late 60's. But those f'ng bone spurs and the need to take the STD war on, kept him off the helicopters.

0rganism

(25,475 posts)
6. Oh hell yes! And since he's the King, he should get a much longer rope than others -- 2 scoops, right?
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:03 PM
Friday

Someone, please encourage this random, spastic, guaranteed-100%-not-insane fantasy. Make it so!

Botany

(76,422 posts)
7. Go for it Donny
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:04 PM
Friday

Please just do it. You have to have real strength and balance to rappel down rope.
Just do it Donny.

Botany

(76,422 posts)
48. Fine slide down that rope, get some nasty rope burns, and then fall to your ????.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:59 PM
Friday

Donny killed that woman Ms. Good, in Minneapolis as sure as if he shot her himself. The ICE
officer’s house had Trump gear, Trump flags, and his brain was so fucked up with real Trump
Derangement Syndrome that he saw her as the enemy and he was fighting for America.

We have millions of Americans who think the same way as that ICE officer.

Botany

(76,422 posts)
71. I read it on the internet so it has to be true.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 06:51 PM
Friday


Although I believe a local paper had the story and interviewed his neighbors.

10 seconds or so with google should let you know the truth.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,630 posts)
8. Do it, Donnie!
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:07 PM
Friday

Better make sure he has at least two diapers on. He will be shitting his pants before he rappels down that rope.

Vogon_Glory

(10,199 posts)
9. If he wants to try it, he can do so with my blessings
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:09 PM
Friday

preferably from a height of thirty feet or more.

Jerry2144

(3,180 posts)
10. Obama would have been brave enough to do it
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:10 PM
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Trump, are you less of a man than President Obama?

milestogo

(22,596 posts)
45. OMG, I adore him.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:48 PM
Friday

The real life Blackburn actually survived this fall, but it took him a long time to recover. And it was at the beginning of his first mission.

democrank

(12,165 posts)
17. Of course Trump could do that.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:15 PM
Friday

Some people say he could even do that right over the ocean with cinder blocks tied to each ankle and be the first man to surface with a block in each hand. Trump is the healthiest president in the history of presidents, so I say he should give it a go.

Jerry2144

(3,180 posts)
57. "the first man to surface with a block in each hand". I actually believe that
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:51 PM
Friday

because your shit floats after a high-fat meal. And what's a bigger fatty turd than the Korrupt Korpulent Koprolite in the White House?

Vinca

(53,364 posts)
19. That's what a REAL orange he-man would do. Am I right? I suggest the Rose Garden slab as a landing spot.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:21 PM
Friday

Wounded Bear

(63,858 posts)
20. Do it! About 50 feet should prove the concept...
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:24 PM
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Make it a Pay per View, would probably raise some cash.

Autumn

(48,762 posts)
21. I know he can do it. He should. It will impress the whole word
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:24 PM
Friday

and no other leader would ever even try.

Maru Kitteh

(31,267 posts)
22. He's starting to believe the AI maga-porn depictions of himself
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:29 PM
Friday

Good. Please - do try it. And try every other truly unhinged meme of you attempting dangerous feats of strength and daring too. You deserve it.




Ilsa

(63,855 posts)
23. Yes! And I have some old thin yarn his little hands
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:32 PM
Friday

can use as a rope. No helmet necessary.

Probatim

(3,222 posts)
31. I'll bet he does it better than any Seal operative ever.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:38 PM
Friday

He could monetize this with a pay per view event. The money he'd make would be amazing. The highest ratings. The best reviews. I'd have tears in my eyes.

GopherGal

(2,797 posts)
34. Woe be to the stunt coordinator
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:39 PM
Friday

who has to find a rope thin enough to fit his tiny hands, yet strong enough to hold his 224-lb body weight (plus whatever his diaper-load weighs).

Aviation Pro

(15,257 posts)
36. It's called fast roping, you fucking pedophile
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 03:40 PM
Friday

Why don’t you try helocasting at 50 knots and 50’ up?

It would be a laugh riot to watch your fat carcass bounce along the surface.

jmowreader

(52,906 posts)
49. Spurious News: Naval Air Systems Command refuses Trump's request to "slide down a rope" from a helicopter
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:23 PM
Friday

PATUXENT RIVER, MD (Spurious News Network) -- In a recent televised interview, King Donald Trump expressed a desire to "slide down a rope from a helicopter" like a SEAL Team 6 member.

He won't be doing it from any of the Navy's helicopters, according to the commander of the Navy organization in charge of those helicopters.

Vice Admiral John E. Dougherty IV, commander of Naval Air Systems Command, explained that Trump's outsized weight would prevent the Navy from allowing such a stunt to be attempted. "He weighs, what, 900 pounds? If you throw off the side-to-side balance of a helicopter to that extent as suddenly as it'd happen if Trump tried to rappel out of it, it would crash straight to the ground and right on top of him. I thought for a second, 'maybe I'll rent a Mil Mi-26, a Russian-made helicopter that's the biggest in the world, for him to do it from.' Then I called the Mil works and they told me the dynamics of Trump's immense bulk flying out the side door would crash their aircraft too. Since all these aircraft are on my hand receipt I'm not going to write the Navy a check for a new one out of my personal account because some dumbass wanted to do a publicity stunt." When asked if he worried about the president getting killed, Admiral Dougherty replied, "if Donald Trump wants to commit suicide he's more than welcome to. But he is not fucking taking three to five of my Sailors and one of my aircraft with him."

Officers commanding the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps helicopter organizations confirmed they also won't let Trump use their birds for a similar stunt. "We could send him to Fort Campbell, Ky., and let him rappel down the 34-foot tower at the Sabaluski Air Assault School," explained Major General Clair Gill, commander of the US Army Aviation Center of Excellence, "but the Black Hat instructors there believe he'd yank it over on its side. The 326th Engineer Battalion says they can rent a big crane and pull it back upright with that, but we don't want them to have to. We believe the best result if he wants to rappel is to have him do it off the side of the Pentagon. That building's big enough he couldn't possibly pull it over no matter how many Big Macs he has for breakfast."

Rebl2

(17,416 posts)
50. Oh please
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:32 PM
Friday

do mr president and with no help from anyone. Make sure the helicopter is high and the rope short.

moose65

(3,440 posts)
54. Please proceed!
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 04:40 PM
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Obama would have done it, Donny. You don't want to be outdone by Obama, do you?? Please do it!

Skittles

(169,638 posts)
59. says the guy who needs two hands to lift a glass of water to his fishlips
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 05:22 PM
Friday

what a fucking moron

Deminpenn

(17,299 posts)
62. Please proceed
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 05:37 PM
Friday

A good test run would be from Marine One hovering over the newly paved over Rose Garden.

onethatcares

(16,965 posts)
64. shit splatters.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 05:51 PM
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I wouldn't want to be within 5 city blocks of that mess, but he can do it wlith out my help

flvegan

(65,793 posts)
68. Right now, any number of MAGA chud incel "alpha" males are furiously masturbating
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 06:11 PM
Friday

at the very thought of the forthcoming AI videos showing a younger, svelter caped orange SuperPedoMan doing just that.

GreenWave

(12,368 posts)
70. Or slide all the way down from the Space Station, like a true Space Force Commander.
Fri Jan 9, 2026, 06:29 PM
Friday

Make us proud Donnis!

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