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FBI agent orgasm imitation at Trump rally

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Trump publicly imitated an FBI agent's phone sex conversation at a mass rally, an act of spectacular obscenity that his supporters cheered rather than condemned, illustrating that obscenity now strengthens rather than destroys political authority.

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“Trump imitated her as if she is having an orgasm and so on.”
“Trump imitated... an FBI agent who was making love with her partner, and imitated her orgasm.”
“You get Trump for two minutes among in front of thousands of people imitating her having orgasm and so on. Everybody thought now Trump is ruined, it's not.”

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Trump publicly imitated an FBI agent's phone sex conversation at a mass rally, an act of spectacular obscenity that his supporters cheered rather than condemned, illustrating that obscenity now strengthens rather than destroys political authority., illustrating obscene master,shameless obscenity
At a public meeting, Trump listened to a tape of an FBI agent making love and imitated her orgasm, Žižek uses this as evidence that the new right has abandoned the dignity formerly maintained by those in power., illustrating new right obscenity,breakdown of unwritten norms
Trump mimed an FBI agent's erotic phone conversation in front of thousands, and rather than ruining him it exemplified his postmodern obscenity, obscene transgression as a political tool of the right., illustrating postmodern right-wing conservatism,Trump as obscene joker