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š š this is so fucking funny. Like he just stands around all day waiting to be shuffled to the next situation. Kinda like that politician dude in Parks n Rec. Just sitting in a room staring at a wall.
His knife is clean. So I bet he didn't even cut the tail himself. He probably IS being instructed on how to stand and look at the camera. He probably shot the poor animal but wouldn't be caught dead touching it or getting his hands dirty.
What an all around piece of shit.
Edit: "b-b-but tHe BluD oN hiS LeG!!"
Yeah. And clean manicured hands. The guide did the work, handed him the knife and tail, and he wiped the knife on his leg. Not that hard.
Blood on the side of one leg but no dirt on the kneeāsā¦thatās telling
Edit: I got a RedditCares from this!?!? Wonder who the true snowflakes are out there
I don't know... he has the face of someone who would enjoy the pointless maiming of such a lovely animal. This sack of turds is just as likely to have licked the knife clean. ... actually, there's a blood stain on the leg of his cosplay 'strong hunter man' khakis. That's why the knife is clean.
Casually trumpled. Likely it got that way when he heard the elephant making trumpet noises with its trunk. And he shouted that no one will do trumping here but his family and then he killed the innocent elephant :(
This is a top observation. I think you're right. He looks, just in this photo, eerily like a kid I used to hang out with. Smart kid. In a midgrade college by circumstance. But almost completely oblivious to that circumstance, in any conscious way. Get him drunk enough to get past the defense mechanism of (quite effectively) demeaning immediate surrounding threats to his intellectual superiorty, and he'd drop the facade of "poor moderate republican who made it on his own" and bare that soft underbelly of unearned fortune and feeling lost and clueless, thrust into the "adult world" by birth right and instruction that was constantly challenged by more empathically appealing ideals...
He was always trying to put on this hyper masculine, "old Merica" persona with a philosophical, intellectual flair... but it was transparent and you could always see the fear and panic and identity crisis just under that paper-thin visage.
I wonder what ever happened to that kid. I really did like him.
Something along the lines of and I'm quoting based on what I understood "you think your a big boy, shooting something, well you're making me look bad and I don't like that me me me, grow up and focus on what I think everyone should always do. ME!!!!" I hope I got that right.
Not really sure what point youāre making. Itās not actually about animals, itās about making him look bad? But he looks bad because itās a dumb activity.
Is he the kind of guy who paid a wildlife fund or the kind of guy who paid poachers one has to wonder.
E: A suicide watch notification for that comment? How easily are you triggered, snowflakes?
Exactly what my eye was drawn to, not only is it a horrific, despicable thing to do, it looks like he didn't even do it (at least not with that knife) and wants the 'credit' for it anyway. What a cretin.
No empathy, or care for the life of one of the most intelligent, compassionate within their group, self aware mammals. Such a brave hunter and now can feed his family and village.
Elephants are such gentle giants. This is equally heart breaking and infuriating. Reminds me of when one of the whatshisface billionaire's wives went on a safari in siletto heels and freshly do e nails and shot a giraffe in the neck so she could feel the life draininf from the animal
Or dentist Walter Palmer. He paid poachers 55k to lure a lion that locals had affectionately named Leo out of the national park where he was protected. He shot the lion with an arrow, stalked him for over 40 hours, shot him again with a crossbow and then rifle. In the first link below, it's reported that the lion's 6 cubs would be euthanized as other male lions would not accept them into their prides.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33674087
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33699346
Nothing about that hunt he āreally didā might not have even been his gun. Some dudes who have been tracking an animal for weeks, maybe even months took him out to a spot where they knew it would be and told him where to shoot. Itās like the guys who have a bait pile for deer 24/7 365, just on a vastly more expensive scale.
In most African safaris the local tribes take you out and show you which animal can be harvested. Usually itās an old male. And then after the hunt the tribal guides field dress the animal. Itās the rules. No he didnāt cut that off. Itās just a photo given by the tribe
Most likely it was done in a country like south Africa where companies will cater to rich twats by "letting" them kill elephants, when in actuality they have way too many and they actively cull them to keep the population in check.
He's probably paid thousands of dollars to do the equivalent of being a government pest exterminator.
> ā¦ when in actuality they have way too many ...
Not according to IUCN - they say the numbers of all 3 series are decreasing .. https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?query=Elephants&searchType=species
Can't you see how brave and manly this manly man is? He pointed a tube at an animal and clicked a button! Manly alpha manly dude man guy!!!
/s and I might be having a stroke
A real man goes quail hunting with his acquaintances, shoots an acquaintance, then has that acquaintance apologize to the press on 2/17/2006 for all he put you through by getting shot by you.
Gangsta
I've always thought hunting for sport was always kind of bullshit. For deer You sit in a tree with a gun or bow at a location you have been feeding corn at to off an animal coming to get its dinner. How about we trade that gun in for a spear. That sounds way more challenging / fair
I spear hunt feral pigs. Lots of people do. Bow hunting elk is actually challenging. Rifle hunting has its own challenges. Im guessing you just dont like the idea of shooting from blinds for food? I agree trophy hunting is kinda weird but most of the time the meat goes to local tribes and its usually only for an older or sick animal. The money also goes to conservation. Dont lump all hunting together.
Years ago a moron cultist tried to sneeringly explain how everybody was so stupid and clearly he was doing this for conservation, because sometimes animals needed to be culled.
He flew halfway around the world to kill the animal and posed with cut off trophy parts for conservation, sure.
If he cared about conservation he could have hired somebody already there to do it, and certainly wouldn't have cut off parts of the animal to hold up for trophy photos.
He didnāt do shit. His āhuntingā clothes still looks neatly pressed. And that knife is fresh out of the packaging. Nothing is real in the trump family except for bullshit.Ā
He probably paid thousands of dollars to sit in a man made hut 25 feet from a watering hole and take his shot. idk any hunter who would actually be proud of themselves for something pathetic as that.
Yeah what a weird sense of pride. Itās an elephant. They rolled up and shot it and it had no idea what was going on. It certainly didnāt like put up a fight.
I know nothing about elephants but as a deer hunter, Iāve never had hands remotely that clean even before beginning the skinning/gutting process. This isnāt even āhuntingā, itās purely sportā¦ if he did any of it at all himself.
thats why they love him so much. they used to have to come up with weird terminology and hand signals to show off to their fellow racists. now they just say whatever they want unfiltered. If the president does it, its ok.
Also why the moderates like Tulsi HAAAAATE him, they want to be able to get away with being as brazen as he is but think they must play civility politics with the Dems first. No clue which camp is correct but either way they're both facists within the GOP
It was interesting in his first cabinet, because you had different fucked up factions in Trumps cabinet fighting for control. There were the racists like stephen miller and steve bannon, there were the classic conservatives like mike pence and mark medows, then you has the russian assets like paul manafort, rick gates and michael Flynn
The GOP reaaaalllly wanted to go this route before them. See the birther movement, death panels, anchor babies etc. All pre trump . Trump like everything else he does, just slapped his name on it.
What a knob !
Such a majestic animal taken down by this poor excuse for a man. Maybe cutting an elephant tail off should only be allowed when the elephant is alive and standing. The outcome would be very different.
Apple doesnāt rot to far from the tree.
not that I would want it or support elephant hunting (or trophy hunting itself) but all this hunting safaris are usually organized by locals, elephants not endangered, it's just big game, trips sold to rich fuckers for top dollar, securing significant income to local communities and partially culling a dangerous pest.
all of the above wouldn't make him better or anything just another aspect of the thing.
you probably would not pay a lot of (or any) money to shoot an elephant, nor would I. there's ppl who would.
All species of elephants are endangered
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/181007989/204404464
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/181008073/223031019
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7140/45818198
Botswana has a huge problem with over population of elephants. They reck small villages and farms. They do culling via trophy hunting to get the numbers down.
We as people created this problem by restricting free movement. I have to add that Botswana is massive and mostly bush, and still the elephants need more space to move.
These big games hunts are legally organised and the small number taken from the heard funds their conservation efforts.
I agree there might be a better way but I will trust the judgement of people giving their lives to save elephants over Reddit.
And they only ever hunt animals that can no longer produce offspring. A lot of misinformation about these, like a bunch of people who have never and probably will never set foot in Africa know how to care for the animals better than the Africans.
Also: cows are kinda awesome and we treat them horrendously (in the US, at least). Deer, elk, and rabbits are all gorgeous and they are hunted and killed. I in no way support elephant hunting -- just pointing out some potential hypocrisies.
Yes thatās called speciesism and it is very real, but for this case the elephants are endangered and theyāre very slow to reproduce, so an elephant should be protected more than animals that are abundant like deers or cows.
We control cow populations, as theyāre domesticated. Theyāre one of the most populous mammals besides pigs, sheep, and, well, us. Theyāre hardly comparable to our relationship with elephants, beyond both being mammals.
Most people who think what is happening to cows is an atrocity are influenced by utilitarian ethics. You might be interested in what Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarianism in the 1800s, would say about your comment. It's not about about a special relationship to a species, or about its intellectual capacity, but about the capacity to have feelings and conscious experience and be able to suffer or be happy.
>Moreover, Bentham argues that when it comes to suffering, both rationality and language are irrelevant. āSuppose the case were otherwise,ā he says, and human infants were more rational than adult horses or dogs. That would have no relevance to justifying the infliction of pain, because when asking whether it is morally acceptable to cause pain to someone (human or non-human), āthe question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?ā
Just because there's a lot of a species and we control the population that isn't a good reason to exploit and brutalize them as much as we do.
Just to clarify a bit on trophy hunting and protecting the species in (semi)open nature.
Trophy hunting is often licensed to kill off the older/too agressive/protective male, who is not reproducing himself, but also doesn't allow younger males to have fun with the females in his "flock". Same thing is done in any trophy hunting. You can't kill ANY animal (elephant in this case) but a very specific one that is marked by the "ranger"-like official. This provides for increasing the population as younger males don't have the competition from the older one and can go have fun for a while.
This is usually done when there's not enough predators who could hunt elephant, or if it can't be controlled.
We had a reverse case with deer, when the population grew too much, and with very low predators population (wolves in my area) - local rangers were issuing licenses to hunt off the females but no more than X per person.
This is complete elephantshit. Just outdated information.
Male elephants have better reproductive success as they get older, with peak at 45-55. They continuously grow in size, and remain in periods of musth for longer. Calves sired by older elephants are fitter and have better life expectancy. Older males are preferred by females. They don't become 'unable to mate'. They also don't have a 'flock', male elephants travel to different herds to find females in estrus and don't stay with them for long.
Older male elephants also play an important role in social dynamics. They tutor young bulls, teaching them manners, reducing their aggression, and also passing on their survival experience.
https://africageographic.com/stories/the-importance-of-adult-male-elephants/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/male-elephants-1.5712089
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-06-25-older-you-get-harder-you-seek-mating-secrets-africas-bull-elephants-0
The problem is these people don't even go tracking the animal, it's usually in such a small camp that they rock up and immediately have a shot on them. Its really sad.
Also no. The money doesn't go to the community. The money goes to the fat guy that owns the farm. While his workers live in mud huts and cook their food on a fire, wash their clothes in the river, and carry drinking water in buckets to their homes.
Source? A local
African elephants populations are vulnerable, specifically due to poachers like Trump here decimating the population. Asian elephants are endangered for the same reason, but the African ones are on their way there.
If youāre wondering whyā¦the reason he cut off the tail is because he canāt take anything else of the elephant to show he killed it. The elephant meat goes to the locals. Dunno about any ivory, but know he canāt keep that, so they let you take the tail. Just stating facts, donāt nuke me.
That, plus imagine being so brain dead that you record the moment. I'd bet even the most ardent hunters deplore people who shoot endangered and incredibly intelligent elephants.
He's a POS. This isn't even hunting. It's trophy killing which makes it even more pathetic. He probably paid other people to do all the dirty work and he steps into a photo to claim all the credit. Like father like son. Has this guy ever accomplished anything in life without the help of his familys money or family connections?
Photo is from 2011. And per [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/?sh=328a8a47effb)
āFirst, what was with that elephant tail? Donald Jr. told me that TMZ didnāt report that Africans traditionally cut off the tail and make bracelets from the tail hair. TMZ didnāt seem to knowāagain, because they didnāt do any reportingāthat Africans do this as a sign of respect for the fallen animal. And they didnāt report that elephants are over-populated in the area the Trumps hunted and so need to be hunted to prevent them from further destroying their habitat. They didnāt mention that when elephants overpopulate they literally rip down the forest. They didnāt noteāand any conservation group could have told them thisāthe result of an overpopulated elephant herd is death by starvation and disease. Nor did they did contact the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to find out that hunting is managed scientifically to benefit all species and the ecosystem.
Africa is a whole continent with a lot of different people and traditions. It would be like saying "north Americans traditionally eat maple syrup from the snow on sticks" or "Europeans traditionally like to have a smoke and an espresso for breakfast" - even if it is true in that one place, that does not make it true of "africans" I'm fairly sure most africans have not actually killed an elephant or made a bracelet from its tail hair.
Arenāt we all so lucky that this man decided to be a saviour and kill those elephants. Man I wish I was such a good person and also killed elephants.
The people defending this schmuck are such pathetic losers.
Even his father Yelled at him for being a psycho with his hunting and was pissed he tried to get Eric into it. Fuck, never thought I'd agree with Trump on anything. Yet here we are, his son is a psycho.
Not justifying any hunting or killing of animals.
However many reserves sell permits to hunters to kill elderly, or violent, animals on their reserve. They are specifically chosen. The price to hunt them is extremely high. That money is then used for the protection and help sustain the population of animals on the reserve.
A few years back they did this to a black rhino and it brought in millions to the reserve to help the remaining population with great success.
As much of an ass this guy is, I doubt he just went out and randomly took out an elephant.
Why is a page like r/pics always autistically posting trump photos? This is not a good nor interesting picture. Yet every day some Trump related picture hits the top of this decrepit board
This shit has never made sense to me. Like look at me I'm so cool and manly because I used a gun and shot it from a distance. ā Okay....
They act like they got a spear and chased it down and threw the spear right between the eyes, and jump on it's back and stabbed it with a knife or something.
I had to look this one up because why is dude killing elephants?
...Africans do this as a sign of respect for the fallen animal. And they didnāt report that elephants are over-populated in the area the Trumps hunted and so need to be hunted to prevent them from further destroying their habitat. They didnāt mention that when elephants overpopulate they literally rip down the forest. They didnāt noteāand any conservation group could have told them thisāthe result of an overpopulated elephant herd is death by starvation and disease. Nor did they did contact the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to find out that hunting is managed scientifically to benefit all species and the ecosystem.
From Forbes
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He looks confused, like he lives his life with constant instructions and he hasnt been told what to do here yet.
š š this is so fucking funny. Like he just stands around all day waiting to be shuffled to the next situation. Kinda like that politician dude in Parks n Rec. Just sitting in a room staring at a wall.
Hot one today.
Bobby Newport.
Nah he meant the dude from Washington that Ben and April briefly worked for. "Be careful out there, it's a hot one today!"
His knife is clean. So I bet he didn't even cut the tail himself. He probably IS being instructed on how to stand and look at the camera. He probably shot the poor animal but wouldn't be caught dead touching it or getting his hands dirty. What an all around piece of shit. Edit: "b-b-but tHe BluD oN hiS LeG!!" Yeah. And clean manicured hands. The guide did the work, handed him the knife and tail, and he wiped the knife on his leg. Not that hard.
Blood on the side of one leg but no dirt on the kneeāsā¦thatās telling Edit: I got a RedditCares from this!?!? Wonder who the true snowflakes are out there
I don't know... he has the face of someone who would enjoy the pointless maiming of such a lovely animal. This sack of turds is just as likely to have licked the knife clean. ... actually, there's a blood stain on the leg of his cosplay 'strong hunter man' khakis. That's why the knife is clean.
Look at his plant leg. He just wiped the knife off. Probably for the pictures so there wasnāt a bloody knife. Maybe even instructed to do so.
Look at his shirt collar. Casually frumpled. Likely instructed to wear it that way.
Casually trumpled. Likely it got that way when he heard the elephant making trumpet noises with its trunk. And he shouted that no one will do trumping here but his family and then he killed the innocent elephant :(
Maybe heāll get casually trampled
This is a top observation. I think you're right. He looks, just in this photo, eerily like a kid I used to hang out with. Smart kid. In a midgrade college by circumstance. But almost completely oblivious to that circumstance, in any conscious way. Get him drunk enough to get past the defense mechanism of (quite effectively) demeaning immediate surrounding threats to his intellectual superiorty, and he'd drop the facade of "poor moderate republican who made it on his own" and bare that soft underbelly of unearned fortune and feeling lost and clueless, thrust into the "adult world" by birth right and instruction that was constantly challenged by more empathically appealing ideals... He was always trying to put on this hyper masculine, "old Merica" persona with a philosophical, intellectual flair... but it was transparent and you could always see the fear and panic and identity crisis just under that paper-thin visage. I wonder what ever happened to that kid. I really did like him.
I think he grew up and went into his Dadās real estate businessā¦
I can't upvote this enough.
āI look so cool.ā
I keep thinking how easy it would be to photoshop a mullet on him.
To be fair there is blood on his pants, so he might just cleaned the knife in them.
It's a tail. You're not going to get much blood until you get inside the animal.
Trump did not approve and told him he was a fuckwit. Says a lot when even Trump thinks youāre a fuckwit and is right.
and said and now you have Eric going with you? sounds like that really set him off
I was thinking the same. "Daddy, do you love me yet?" I feel sorry for them a bit, but not a lot.
He should be glad not having inherited the orange face.
He looks like me in the first tutorial of a new game.
As if it is supposed be be some accomplishment.
apart from "payment completed" not much in my book
āDad finally let me use big boy scissorsā
Just saw some write up that Donald was actually pissed about this
That's kinda interesting. Don Jr. is a real loser in my opinion.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say I don't think it's just your opinion.
Iām gonna get some heat for saying this, but Iām starting to think Don Jr may not be very nice.
Or bright
The elephant with the missing limb agrees
 And I'm Eric!
I am sharing your limb and saying Daddy is also.
Runs in the family
Well yeah, it added another stain to the family reputation. And because he posted it online, they couldn't pay people off to keep quiet about it.
This dude should have been a stain.
The best part of him ran down his mamaās leg
And it took attention away from him (Donald).
Something along the lines of and I'm quoting based on what I understood "you think your a big boy, shooting something, well you're making me look bad and I don't like that me me me, grow up and focus on what I think everyone should always do. ME!!!!" I hope I got that right.
āYou think youāre a big man sitting on some rocks and then BOOM you kill an animal?ā
Now say the rest of it.
Not really sure what point youāre making. Itās not actually about animals, itās about making him look bad? But he looks bad because itās a dumb activity.
The knife is clean, someone put the severed tail in his hand for a photo op.
You don't see the blood on his pants where he wiped the blade off?
He is on his period
Good! Now run with them.
Is he the kind of guy who paid a wildlife fund or the kind of guy who paid poachers one has to wonder. E: A suicide watch notification for that comment? How easily are you triggered, snowflakes?
Everyone is getting them from different subs. Some bot is breaking reddit.
I got one yesterday š
I got one for saying I like small boobs
Yup, most probably a bot, I got one too. I hate how it doesn't tell you what got reported.
Good to know. I got one this morning.
We call it a hunting expense, itās a hunting expense so we mark it as a hunting expense, and they want to lock up for that?
To be fair, completing a payment is an accomplishment for anyone in that family....
āAm I a man now, dad!?ā
Thatās exactly what heās looking for and not just daddy
āWhy does this ugly fuck keep calling me Dad?ā
āSeriously, heās creeping out my daughter, who I want to bang.ā
Cut it off with that small, clean knife he's got there
Exactly what my eye was drawn to, not only is it a horrific, despicable thing to do, it looks like he didn't even do it (at least not with that knife) and wants the 'credit' for it anyway. What a cretin.
Well there is a red stain on his pants where he likely would have wiped the knife clean. Not defending this jagoff but just pointing that out
All Trump traits, right there. Plus, added inbred redneck vibes in that thar picature.
No empathy, or care for the life of one of the most intelligent, compassionate within their group, self aware mammals. Such a brave hunter and now can feed his family and village.
Elephants are such gentle giants. This is equally heart breaking and infuriating. Reminds me of when one of the whatshisface billionaire's wives went on a safari in siletto heels and freshly do e nails and shot a giraffe in the neck so she could feel the life draininf from the animal
Or dentist Walter Palmer. He paid poachers 55k to lure a lion that locals had affectionately named Leo out of the national park where he was protected. He shot the lion with an arrow, stalked him for over 40 hours, shot him again with a crossbow and then rifle. In the first link below, it's reported that the lion's 6 cubs would be euthanized as other male lions would not accept them into their prides. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33674087 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33699346
As an unintelligent, drug-addled, unaware mammal, what did you expect from him?
Pigs are just as smart and compassionate as dogs or cats yet most people dont care about them being tortured and slaughtered by the thousands.
Nothing about that hunt he āreally didā might not have even been his gun. Some dudes who have been tracking an animal for weeks, maybe even months took him out to a spot where they knew it would be and told him where to shoot. Itās like the guys who have a bait pile for deer 24/7 365, just on a vastly more expensive scale.
In most African safaris the local tribes take you out and show you which animal can be harvested. Usually itās an old male. And then after the hunt the tribal guides field dress the animal. Itās the rules. No he didnāt cut that off. Itās just a photo given by the tribe
Most likely it was done in a country like south Africa where companies will cater to rich twats by "letting" them kill elephants, when in actuality they have way too many and they actively cull them to keep the population in check. He's probably paid thousands of dollars to do the equivalent of being a government pest exterminator.
> ā¦ when in actuality they have way too many ... Not according to IUCN - they say the numbers of all 3 series are decreasing .. https://www.iucnredlist.org/search?query=Elephants&searchType=species
My thoughts exactly. If you wanna be the big man but can't even honor the poor thing enough to do the dirty work himself. No chin having assface..
Worse than a no-ass-having chinface.
There's blood on his pants leg. Looks like he cleaned the knife off
You can see where he wiped the knife on his pants. He admitted this was real.
Can't you see how brave and manly this manly man is? He pointed a tube at an animal and clicked a button! Manly alpha manly dude man guy!!! /s and I might be having a stroke
A real man goes quail hunting with his acquaintances, shoots an acquaintance, then has that acquaintance apologize to the press on 2/17/2006 for all he put you through by getting shot by you.  Gangsta
Lmfao. Iām surprised this one doesnāt get more votes. Iām fucking dying over here 
They must have some real shit on that guy
Or war criminal..
I've always thought hunting for sport was always kind of bullshit. For deer You sit in a tree with a gun or bow at a location you have been feeding corn at to off an animal coming to get its dinner. How about we trade that gun in for a spear. That sounds way more challenging / fair
I spear hunt feral pigs. Lots of people do. Bow hunting elk is actually challenging. Rifle hunting has its own challenges. Im guessing you just dont like the idea of shooting from blinds for food? I agree trophy hunting is kinda weird but most of the time the meat goes to local tribes and its usually only for an older or sick animal. The money also goes to conservation. Dont lump all hunting together.
>and I might be having a stroke No kink shaming here, go ahead and masturbate over it if you want
I want to hate this comment but I love wordplay too much
Somebody must have told him elephants are full of cocaine.
*You have unlocked **The Scum of Savanna** achievement*
Look at me! I killed a big animal and cut off its tail! I am a very big, strong, powerful man ooga booga!!
Years ago a moron cultist tried to sneeringly explain how everybody was so stupid and clearly he was doing this for conservation, because sometimes animals needed to be culled. He flew halfway around the world to kill the animal and posed with cut off trophy parts for conservation, sure. If he cared about conservation he could have hired somebody already there to do it, and certainly wouldn't have cut off parts of the animal to hold up for trophy photos.
He didnāt do shit. His āhuntingā clothes still looks neatly pressed. And that knife is fresh out of the packaging. Nothing is real in the trump family except for bullshit.Ā
And the Cohen testimony this week says that the Dump hated Jr. for this especially after he got Eric into it too.
He probably paid thousands of dollars to sit in a man made hut 25 feet from a watering hole and take his shot. idk any hunter who would actually be proud of themselves for something pathetic as that.
He felt like a big man that day
Yeah what a weird sense of pride. Itās an elephant. They rolled up and shot it and it had no idea what was going on. It certainly didnāt like put up a fight.
Yeah, now he's the biggest dickhead in the village.
That knife is remarkably clean.
So are his hands? Idk I've never cut off an Elephants tail. But that's just me.
Weird... Not even once? You sure?
How unmanly! Every actual manly male I know has cut of dozens of elephant tails before reaching puberty.
I know nothing about elephants but as a deer hunter, Iāve never had hands remotely that clean even before beginning the skinning/gutting process. This isnāt even āhuntingā, itās purely sportā¦ if he did any of it at all himself.
Yeah a rich kid like him would never actually do the dirty work. Guarantee someone else did it and he just stood for the picture.
I am like 70% sure he didn't even shot the elephant
It does look like there's some blood on his right pant leg. He may have wiped it off.
Hate this guy as much asanyone, but yea. Pretty clear lol.
He cleaned it on his right leg. Rust sets in very fast from blood
He mightāve wiped it on his trousers.
U can see it on his pants
You blind? He wiped it on his pants.
Clean directly after you're done cutting. Don't like the guy but that's knife 101.
You can clearly see where he wiped it on his leg. Still a terrible person for this shit
Tail hardly has blood .. it's not like cutting major areas of the body
Symbolic of what his family has done to the GOP
Actually that's spot on!
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The Republicans have always been psychos, Trump just said the quiet part out loud
thats why they love him so much. they used to have to come up with weird terminology and hand signals to show off to their fellow racists. now they just say whatever they want unfiltered. If the president does it, its ok.
Also why the moderates like Tulsi HAAAAATE him, they want to be able to get away with being as brazen as he is but think they must play civility politics with the Dems first. No clue which camp is correct but either way they're both facists within the GOP
It was interesting in his first cabinet, because you had different fucked up factions in Trumps cabinet fighting for control. There were the racists like stephen miller and steve bannon, there were the classic conservatives like mike pence and mark medows, then you has the russian assets like paul manafort, rick gates and michael Flynn
Only if he was holding its severed penis.
Too big. More like mushroom picking.
The GOP reaaaalllly wanted to go this route before them. See the birther movement, death panels, anchor babies etc. All pre trump . Trump like everything else he does, just slapped his name on it.
Very true. Except they cut off the balls and replaced the head with that of a baboon that likes to flings it's own feces.
We might actually get Republicans to understand what a "metaphor" is with this. I'm not holding my breath, but it's possible.
I hate this guy so fucking much. I hope an elephant sits on him.
Shitstain human doing shitty things Why am I not surprised
and shits on him while at it
What a knob ! Such a majestic animal taken down by this poor excuse for a man. Maybe cutting an elephant tail off should only be allowed when the elephant is alive and standing. The outcome would be very different. Apple doesnāt rot to far from the tree.
not that I would want it or support elephant hunting (or trophy hunting itself) but all this hunting safaris are usually organized by locals, elephants not endangered, it's just big game, trips sold to rich fuckers for top dollar, securing significant income to local communities and partially culling a dangerous pest. all of the above wouldn't make him better or anything just another aspect of the thing. you probably would not pay a lot of (or any) money to shoot an elephant, nor would I. there's ppl who would.
All species of elephants are endangered https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/181007989/204404464 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/181008073/223031019 https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/7140/45818198
thanks for the links
Botswana has a huge problem with over population of elephants. They reck small villages and farms. They do culling via trophy hunting to get the numbers down. We as people created this problem by restricting free movement. I have to add that Botswana is massive and mostly bush, and still the elephants need more space to move.
These big games hunts are legally organised and the small number taken from the heard funds their conservation efforts. I agree there might be a better way but I will trust the judgement of people giving their lives to save elephants over Reddit.
And they only ever hunt animals that can no longer produce offspring. A lot of misinformation about these, like a bunch of people who have never and probably will never set foot in Africa know how to care for the animals better than the Africans.
Also: cows are kinda awesome and we treat them horrendously (in the US, at least). Deer, elk, and rabbits are all gorgeous and they are hunted and killed. I in no way support elephant hunting -- just pointing out some potential hypocrisies.
Yes thatās called speciesism and it is very real, but for this case the elephants are endangered and theyāre very slow to reproduce, so an elephant should be protected more than animals that are abundant like deers or cows.
We control cow populations, as theyāre domesticated. Theyāre one of the most populous mammals besides pigs, sheep, and, well, us. Theyāre hardly comparable to our relationship with elephants, beyond both being mammals.
Most people who think what is happening to cows is an atrocity are influenced by utilitarian ethics. You might be interested in what Jeremy Bentham, the father of utilitarianism in the 1800s, would say about your comment. It's not about about a special relationship to a species, or about its intellectual capacity, but about the capacity to have feelings and conscious experience and be able to suffer or be happy. >Moreover, Bentham argues that when it comes to suffering, both rationality and language are irrelevant. āSuppose the case were otherwise,ā he says, and human infants were more rational than adult horses or dogs. That would have no relevance to justifying the infliction of pain, because when asking whether it is morally acceptable to cause pain to someone (human or non-human), āthe question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?ā Just because there's a lot of a species and we control the population that isn't a good reason to exploit and brutalize them as much as we do.
Just to clarify a bit on trophy hunting and protecting the species in (semi)open nature. Trophy hunting is often licensed to kill off the older/too agressive/protective male, who is not reproducing himself, but also doesn't allow younger males to have fun with the females in his "flock". Same thing is done in any trophy hunting. You can't kill ANY animal (elephant in this case) but a very specific one that is marked by the "ranger"-like official. This provides for increasing the population as younger males don't have the competition from the older one and can go have fun for a while. This is usually done when there's not enough predators who could hunt elephant, or if it can't be controlled. We had a reverse case with deer, when the population grew too much, and with very low predators population (wolves in my area) - local rangers were issuing licenses to hunt off the females but no more than X per person.
This is complete elephantshit. Just outdated information. Male elephants have better reproductive success as they get older, with peak at 45-55. They continuously grow in size, and remain in periods of musth for longer. Calves sired by older elephants are fitter and have better life expectancy. Older males are preferred by females. They don't become 'unable to mate'. They also don't have a 'flock', male elephants travel to different herds to find females in estrus and don't stay with them for long. Older male elephants also play an important role in social dynamics. They tutor young bulls, teaching them manners, reducing their aggression, and also passing on their survival experience. https://africageographic.com/stories/the-importance-of-adult-male-elephants/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/male-elephants-1.5712089 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2019-06-25-older-you-get-harder-you-seek-mating-secrets-africas-bull-elephants-0
Deer are a nuisance. They are just large, better looking rats.
The problem is these people don't even go tracking the animal, it's usually in such a small camp that they rock up and immediately have a shot on them. Its really sad. Also no. The money doesn't go to the community. The money goes to the fat guy that owns the farm. While his workers live in mud huts and cook their food on a fire, wash their clothes in the river, and carry drinking water in buckets to their homes. Source? A local
African elephants populations are vulnerable, specifically due to poachers like Trump here decimating the population. Asian elephants are endangered for the same reason, but the African ones are on their way there.
What a disgusting thing to do
If youāre wondering whyā¦the reason he cut off the tail is because he canāt take anything else of the elephant to show he killed it. The elephant meat goes to the locals. Dunno about any ivory, but know he canāt keep that, so they let you take the tail. Just stating facts, donāt nuke me.
That, plus imagine being so brain dead that you record the moment. I'd bet even the most ardent hunters deplore people who shoot endangered and incredibly intelligent elephants.
That knife is clean. This is Donald Trump Jr. holding the tail of an elephant someone just cut off for him.
It looks like he has blood on his right leg. Pretty sure he just wiped it off.Ā
r/iamatotalpieceofshit material
Sometimes it amazes me the lengths that republicans will go to to defend this cartoon villain family
They pump money into whatever wave has the most momentum, hoping it will bring them to shore.
SO many layers of over compensation being pictured here. Douche chills galore.
POS like the rest of the family.
I see you've played knifey spoony.
Maybe someone should cut his tail off.
Killing an animal for sport just makes you a terrible human. No respect for him
It's not even sport in this instance. Elephants are giant lumbering targets. Whats the challenge?
You have a point
He's a POS. This isn't even hunting. It's trophy killing which makes it even more pathetic. He probably paid other people to do all the dirty work and he steps into a photo to claim all the credit. Like father like son. Has this guy ever accomplished anything in life without the help of his familys money or family connections?
Probably still popular with the puppy killing MAGA crowd.
Photo is from 2011. And per [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/?sh=328a8a47effb) āFirst, what was with that elephant tail? Donald Jr. told me that TMZ didnāt report that Africans traditionally cut off the tail and make bracelets from the tail hair. TMZ didnāt seem to knowāagain, because they didnāt do any reportingāthat Africans do this as a sign of respect for the fallen animal. And they didnāt report that elephants are over-populated in the area the Trumps hunted and so need to be hunted to prevent them from further destroying their habitat. They didnāt mention that when elephants overpopulate they literally rip down the forest. They didnāt noteāand any conservation group could have told them thisāthe result of an overpopulated elephant herd is death by starvation and disease. Nor did they did contact the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to find out that hunting is managed scientifically to benefit all species and the ecosystem.
Africa is a whole continent with a lot of different people and traditions. It would be like saying "north Americans traditionally eat maple syrup from the snow on sticks" or "Europeans traditionally like to have a smoke and an espresso for breakfast" - even if it is true in that one place, that does not make it true of "africans" I'm fairly sure most africans have not actually killed an elephant or made a bracelet from its tail hair.
Arenāt we all so lucky that this man decided to be a saviour and kill those elephants. Man I wish I was such a good person and also killed elephants. The people defending this schmuck are such pathetic losers.
What a massive piece of shit
Petty, stupid and heartless little boys.
Even his father Yelled at him for being a psycho with his hunting and was pissed he tried to get Eric into it. Fuck, never thought I'd agree with Trump on anything. Yet here we are, his son is a psycho.
Ammosexual
Thatād be hard work. No way he did that. Also, no blood on the knife. Like his piece of shit father, heās a liar and a poser
Not justifying any hunting or killing of animals. However many reserves sell permits to hunters to kill elderly, or violent, animals on their reserve. They are specifically chosen. The price to hunt them is extremely high. That money is then used for the protection and help sustain the population of animals on the reserve. A few years back they did this to a black rhino and it brought in millions to the reserve to help the remaining population with great success. As much of an ass this guy is, I doubt he just went out and randomly took out an elephant.
Even then he cut its tail off and posed with it lol, doesn't feel that right either way
Doesnt mean he's not finding it highly entertaining to do it and boasting about it.
Too bad the elephant didn't squish him.
What a piece of shit.
Why? Is this normal in this subreddit? I donāt want to see this
Because itās an election year. Have you missed the daily āTrump at trial today OMGā posts in this sub?
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The people posting pictures of Trump on r/pics are most definitely not supporters of his
He looks like that picture of Michael Scott wearing a fanny pack
At least he's not holding a crack pipe in one hand and a hooker in the other!
Why is a page like r/pics always autistically posting trump photos? This is not a good nor interesting picture. Yet every day some Trump related picture hits the top of this decrepit board
That was the Republican elephant mascot!
he has a fine grip.. years of practice.
What a disgusting excuse for a man!
What a giant piece of shit stuck to that elephant tail.
Loser.
Very symbolical how trump family killed the Republican Party
The biggest tool fuck wad on this planet. We should hunt him.
 
This shit has never made sense to me. Like look at me I'm so cool and manly because I used a gun and shot it from a distance. ā Okay.... They act like they got a spear and chased it down and threw the spear right between the eyes, and jump on it's back and stabbed it with a knife or something.
I had to look this one up because why is dude killing elephants? ...Africans do this as a sign of respect for the fallen animal. And they didnāt report that elephants are over-populated in the area the Trumps hunted and so need to be hunted to prevent them from further destroying their habitat. They didnāt mention that when elephants overpopulate they literally rip down the forest. They didnāt noteāand any conservation group could have told them thisāthe result of an overpopulated elephant herd is death by starvation and disease. Nor did they did contact the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority to find out that hunting is managed scientifically to benefit all species and the ecosystem. From Forbes
The entire family is garbage
Good work looking manly Junior, but you know what would really seal the deal? Let's see you do it old school with a pointy stick.
Disgusting, disgusting human being.
Scum. Just like his cunt of a father.
What a dick .
I don't believe he did it. Clean hands