Is Trump’s Throw Down Going Down?

An oddity occurred yesterday noticed in both video and pictures in the Oval Office featuring (left to right) Vice President J.D. Vance, President Donald Trump, and Johnny Infantino of FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (soccer to Americans). The stated purpose of the press conference was to announce the FIFA World Cup will be coming to America in 2026. But what people noticed was all three men appeared without ties and top shirt buttons undone.

Those who follow me regularly know I love to invoke old adages. One that came to mind was “The ties are coming off now.”

This offered another hilarious example of where artificial intelligence gets it wrong as AI is like any other computer data, put garbage in and you get garbage out. AI claims ties removed on men is a symbolic gesture of cutting ties in a relationship or a casual time to relax such as the work day is done so the ties can come off.

Neither of these can be right in this instance as the White House Oval Office press conference began at noon yesterday and the announcement was not about cutting ties but announcing a new one, America has the FIFA World Cup coming here in 2026. That is a big deal as soccer is the most watched sport of the world! Also, noontime in the Trump White House is the day not even half done yet!

So AI’s perspectives neglect one of the oldest references to this action, “The ties are coming off because we are getting ready for a fight.” The adage comes from two facts; Ties around the neck can be used to choke you out of consciousness or strangle you to death in a fight. Also, ties can be one of the most expensive single items in a man’s wardrobe and easily kept nice with removal before undertaking activities that can ruin them.

What got the internet swirling with intrigue is Trump is seldom seen without his traditional red or blue ties and for Vance and Infantino to be seen following his apparent lead has people speculating if this was not some form of a signal. They are particularly questioning the meaning of this after the FBI raid of former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s home in Maryland yesterday morning.

Many people recalled the only previous picture seen of Trump was one where he was getting off the Marine One helicopter at 1:00 in the morning in 2020 after attending his 500^th rally looking absolutely exhausted after a hard day of campaigning. Of course the Atlantic magazine put their own spin on his appearance back then stating, “Trump looks like a loser.”

But, keep in mind, this is the same magazine whose majority owner, Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs), was photographed sitting with Epstein child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Thereafter that same publication ran an article titled “The Great (FAKE) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic” so it is easy to see why the Atlantic hates Trump and Trump hates the Atlantic.

So people are once again openly pondering if “the Trump throw down is about to go down”, a term taken from professional wrestling and fighting Trump and so many Americans love.

CONCLUSION:

People make fun of people who follow QAnon or give them any credibility whatsoever. Some of the journalists who have made fun of me for simply publically pondering the meanings of some of Qs posts are some of the most ignorant people one could meet. They are so ignorant they do not even know what the “Q” in QAnon stands for, or they think it means “Question”.

In fact, Q is a very high security level clearance in our Federal government within the Department of Energy (DoE). Of course about just about everybody understands the “Anon” part references anonymous or somebody not wanting to be identified. Many people believe whoever the poster is does have top secret knowledge as the basis of their posts.

Part of what got things abuzz yesterday was an apparent post to X by FBI Director Kash Patel that simply stated “More coming” posted around the time agents arrived at Bolton’s house at 6:00 a.m. This is a phrase also notably used by QAnon. We saw this post when made but cannot find it now.

Some followers of Q are now interpreting the ties taken off as a nod to QAnon’s idea of “The Storm” coming. The raid of John Bolton’s home was openly mocked by Trump supporters such as Roger Stone and Mike Lindell asking him, “How does it feel?”

I could not report on this (possible) news story it if I did mention how my favorite cartoonist Gary Larson and his “Far Side” newspaper cartoon series (1980-1995) came to mind. Larson had this reoccurring theme where the caption read “Trouble Brewing”. My favorite one featured Crutchfield’s Crocodile Farm right next to Anderson’s Sky Diving School.

In my mind’s eye I picture all of the criminal Democrats using their “golden parachutes” coming down back to the comfort of “The Swamp” with a den of MAGA Republicans awaiting them with President Trump as “Big Daddy Croc” ready to “Take a bite out of crime!”

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