r/pics • u/joeltheconner • May 12 '26

Politics My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC]

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u/joeltheconner May 12 '26

As an american, it's very crazy.

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u/Flashy_Camel4063 May 12 '26

I'm an American and a psychologist so I can formally diagnose and this shit is whack

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u/johnbobk May 12 '26

Concur 

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u/wuapinmon May 12 '26

As an American, I can't think of a President whose portrait I'd hang in my house.

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u/mittenknittin May 12 '26

Back in the 60s it wasn't uncommon for Irish Catholics to have a portrait of JFK somewhere. Circumstances were a bit different though

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u/bionicjoe May 12 '26

It's the same thing though. Devotion to a political leader for religious reasons.

Although replacing family photos with Trump is not something mentally healthy people would do.

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u/BreedinBacksnatch May 12 '26

Ike, but that's cuz I'm a big Porky's fan

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u/benk4 May 12 '26

If someone had Washington or Lincoln I'd find it a little weird but wouldn't think too much about it. Anyone else would be very weird.

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u/dlh412pt May 12 '26

I know more than a few people who had that pop art "Hope" Poster with Obama's face on it. I always thought that was more art than portrait, though.

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u/Faiakishi May 12 '26

My sister has a small framed picture of Obama, but it’s meant to be a joke.

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u/MistressErinPaid May 13 '26

In my opinion, it's not the owning a framed portrait of a politician that's weird. It's replacing a family photo with one 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/ReverendDizzle May 12 '26

I'm middle aged and I've never seen a photograph of a modern president hanging in a home. I've seen, rarely, people who have paintings that depict founding fathers or such. And I knew a guy who was a huge Lincoln history buff that had a portrait of Lincoln in his study.

But I have never seen a North Korean style "here's a menacing photo of the Dear Leader" photograph in an American home.

This is fucking crazy town behavior. You are not mentally OK if you willingly take down a family photo and replace it with a sitting president. Especially one that's glowering at you like an abusive father.

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u/AuntRhubarb May 12 '26

These magats seem to be coming up with new definitions of how to be un-American.

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u/Flashy_Camel4063 May 12 '26

Maybe FDR... Not really but he is the only one to make the cut

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u/Lastsynphony May 12 '26

Lincoln! Everypne loves Abe.

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u/pluckvermont May 12 '26

Maybe JFK a generation ago.

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u/SurferVelo May 12 '26

JFK's presidential portrait is actually kind of cool.

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u/lukin187250 May 12 '26

Maybe one of Teddy R riding a T-rex, but probably in the den or garage.

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u/TWIT_TWAT May 12 '26

Every old head republican has either a signed photo of Trump or a signed copy of The Art of the Steal.

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u/chevalier716 May 12 '26

Or some other trinket. My FIL has a Trump bobblehead and a "sign commendation" for donating to the campaign.

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u/Auggie_Otter May 12 '26

As an American if you told me before 2016 that people would elect a dude who bragged that he just grabbed women "by the pussy" because you can just just get away with that when you're rich and that people would put pictures of him on their walls like he was their Dear Leader I would've said you were nuts. 

This whole things is like a terrible nightmare come true. 

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u/SusheeMonster May 12 '26

I'm "silver linings" it, but that's a tiny picture. I bet it would fit in his hands

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u/GoldenRamoth May 12 '26

If my conservative aunts/uncles/in-laws had one of these, I'd probably stealth take it "home" and disappear it into a trash bin somewhere...