We all must have collectively fell asleep and woke up in Panem, because President Donald Trump just announced the “Patriot Games,” an unprecedented four-day athletic event with “one young man and one young woman from each state and territory.”
We can’t be the only ones who realize this is weird, right? And also some sort of harbinger of doom?
The “Games” will feature the “greatest high school athletes,” which really isn’t doing much to stop the Hunger Games comparisons. Even a President Snow parody account on X agrees, stating, “is he trying to reheat my nachos.”
Yes, next year is the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, but maybe we should be focusing on making America affordable again, or doing something to prevent the rampant gun violence in schools. Is the Presidential Fitness Test not enough anymore??
We all know that this is another way for Trump to distract from the newest Epstein files release. And I will give him that: He really does know how to flip the script when he needs to. Of course, it isn’t 100% successful, but the effort is there, because this one is really just so insane that it has to be talked about, and The Hunger Games comparisons must be made.
One user on X said “Didn’t have the hunger games on my 2025 bingo card but here we are.”
Another said “promo for the sunrise on the reaping goes crazy.”
I’ll say it for the rest of us tax-paying Americans spending $100+ at the grocery store for just ourselves even when we’re still trying to save money: This is not what we want. We want affordability and to live in a country that isn’t being run by complete buffoons using our tax dollars for games only the most brainwashed are going to watch.
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