Twitter users had some knockout reactions after President Donald Trump shared an edited photo of himself as the fictional boxer Rocky Balboa on Wednesday.
Stallone played Balboa in the “Rocky” franchise. The image stemmed from a promo poster for the third installment of the series, released in 1982.
It’s unclear who created the image and Trump did not caption the snap. Stallone has not responded to the image.
Jon Sopel, the BBC’s North America editor, compared Trump’s pre-Thanksgiving post with a family picture shared by the Obamas:
“It’s fun to pretend,” “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill captioned his mocking tweet:
Other tweeters dinged Trump over his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Some also imagined Trump in the ring with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I.Vt.):
This is all wrong.
Rocky defeated Russia, while Trump continues to hand them victories.
— Nick Jack Pap-pass the Gravy (@Pappiness) November 27, 2019
To be fair to Trump, he’s very much like Stallone was in Rocky.
Incoherent.
— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) November 27, 2019
normal American president doing what stable, normal presidents do, tweeting shops of themselves as prizefighters that they found on nazi forums https://t.co/5Aym6qnaPs
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) November 27, 2019
Donald Trump is the epitome of toxic masculinity. All this posturing, all this bullying, all the authoritarianism and embracing of dictators and war criminals is an attempt to hide a really deep and really pathetic insecurity.
It’s just…so unbelievably sad. pic.twitter.com/M3ITJwCJwc
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) November 27, 2019
Let’s be clear: an Ivan Drago photoshop would have been the superior troll.
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) November 27, 2019
“Take off your shirt, sir, and show us that gorgeous chest. We’ve never seen a chest quite like it.”
-Trump last night, talking about his unscheduled physical. https://t.co/jERQPaf4IG
— Holmes (@HolmesLybrand) November 27, 2019
You’re the most powerful man on Earth, you use your power to hurt minorities like me and you cage children, but you’re so broken inside that the doctor in me can’t help but feel sorry for you.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) November 27, 2019
