# Real headlines related to trump and his enablers that sound like made-up 'The Onion'-style joke headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 16, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652 "2023-10-16T15:31:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/181 "2025-07-24T20:12:26Z")
That was the one I was taught in the navy but it seemed kind of forced. I like **CM** ’s better and it retains Violet’s name. And the missing indigo was because when Newton looked at the spectrum he insisted there had to be seven colors since seven is a sacred number (seven classical planets, seven holes in the human skull, holy trinity plus four elements). I don’t see it either. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/182 "2025-08-06T11:15:46Z")
> **[Trump suggests undocumented farm workers are ‘naturally’ designed for field work](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-undocumented-farm-workers-naturally-farms-rcna223147)** > > The president’s preoccupation with immigrants and genetics seems to be getting worse. trump in a recent CNBC interview: > These people do it naturally. _Naturally_. I said, ‘What happens’ — to a farmer the other day — ‘What happens if they get a bad back?’ He said, ‘They don’t get a bad back, sir, because if they get a bad back, they die.’ I said, ‘That’s interesting.’ … In many ways, they’re very, very special people. I’m sure the “farmer” he “talked to” was a big strong guy with tears in his eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/183 "2025-08-06T11:17:35Z")
“They don’t get a bad back because if they get a bad back they die”? Sweet Jesus… ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/184 "2025-08-06T11:30:28Z")
That wasn’t _ **trump** _ saying / thinking that, he was just repeating the words of the farmer who called him ‘sir’, who clearly is a real farmer he actually talked to, and not a totally made-up fictional scenario trump created in order to promote his own batshit genetics theories! I’m shocked, _ **shocked** _, that you would even imply trump himself thought that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/185 "2025-08-06T12:03:27Z")
How could Trump have even spoken with a farmer? Does he even speak Spanish? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/186 "2025-08-06T12:47:24Z")
You’ve forgotten about the South African “refugees” he granted asylum to. Now _those_ famers, I believe he spoke to. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/187 "2025-08-06T13:46:15Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How could Trump have even spoken with a farmer? Does he even speak Spanish? Big difference between a farmer and a farmworker. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/188 "2025-08-06T14:47:18Z")
I can’t even picture the Orange Peril anywhere that has dirt coarser than what he would encounter in a sand trap. Not that he’s ever hit a ball into a sand trap in his life. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/189 "2025-08-06T16:26:09Z")
> [@solost](#): > > That wasn’t _ **trump** _ saying / thinking that, he was just repeating the words of the farmer who called him ‘sir’, who clearly is a real farmer he actually talked to, and not a totally made-up fictional scenario trump created in order to promote his own batshit genetics theories! I’m shocked, _ **shocked** _, that you would even imply trump himself thought that. Farmer John Barron. ---
**Author:** ![chiapup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c4cdca/32.png) [@chiapup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiapup)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/190 "2025-08-06T16:53:50Z")
# _ **As Trump Broadens Crackdown, Focus Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists** _ [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-immigration-visa-crackdown.html](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-immigration-visa-crackdown.html) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/191 "2025-08-06T18:05:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > “They don’t get a bad back because if they get a bad back they die”? What? Do they just take them out back and shoot them like a lame horse? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/192 "2025-08-07T00:10:01Z")
Don’t give them any ideas. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/193 "2025-08-07T11:25:57Z")
Why do you think they hired Kristi Noem? Her empathy and razor wit? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/194 "2025-08-07T12:43:22Z")
OK, as soon as I saw this headline I thought “this one’s got to go into the headlines thread”. Full headline: **Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda** > **[Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support...](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/07/former-superman-actor-dean-cain-reveals-hes-becoming-an-ice-agent-to-support-trumps-mass-deportation-agenda?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us)** > > The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amid the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US “Truth, justice and the American way” my azz… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/195 "2025-08-07T17:17:47Z")
“Guys! I’m one of you! Take the handcuffs off! I’m not even Hispanic you assholes, I’m.a quarter Japanese!” ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/196 "2025-08-13T15:30:18Z")
“Oh, good to know, you’re on our list next” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/197 "2025-08-13T16:13:05Z")
What, no posthumous nom for Hulk Hogan? > **[Trump names Strait, Stallone and Kiss for Kennedy Center Honors and says...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-kennedy-center-honorees-6c553c800ba334ad1ea47858b3dc271c)** > > President Donald Trump has announced country music star George Strait, “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone and the rock band KISS among the first batch of Kennedy Center Honors nominees in his new role as chairman. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/198 "2025-08-13T22:05:19Z")
I don’t know these peoples politics, but I hope they refuse. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/199 "2025-08-13T22:12:10Z")
I have the feeling that Stallone will be happy to accept. Just a hunch. > **[Sylvester Stallone calls Trump 'second George Washington' and a 'mythical...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/11/15/sylvester-stallone-trump-election-george-washington/76327624007/)** > > Sylvester Stallone introduced President-elect Donald Trump at a gala on Thursday, praising the former president as a "mythical character." ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652/200 "2025-08-13T22:51:21Z")
Some of Cain’s parents were put in an internment camp during WW2. You’d think that would have taught him some history. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-headlines-related-to-trump-and-his-enablers-that-sound-like-made-up-the-onion-style-joke-headlines/991652.md?page=11)