Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe

The perfect visual metaphor for the Trump administration.
 By 
Marcus Gilmer
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Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe
The look of a man who had toilet paper on his shoe and no one told him. Credit: Getty Images

In an image that perfectly encapsulates the shitstorm that is 2018, President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One on Thursday afternoon with a bit of what looked to be toilet paper stuck to his shoe.

The incident happened as Trump was departing Minneapolis (where he'd made a fundraising appearance) to fly to a rally in Rochester, Minnesota. After sticking with the president all the way up the stairs to his plane, the paper finally loosened its grip once Trump walked aboard.

Now, this can happen to even the best of us, but there are still some lingering questions about this particular incident. Perhaps the biggest one is: how did no one tell him about it?

That is not just a small piece stuck to a shoe. That's a solid few sheets he's walking around with and someone had to have seen it. He's surrounded by at least a dozen people at all times. Do his aides hate him so much that they wouldn't tell him about the toilet paper?

This was not lost on Twitter users, either.

But there are even more questions that we need answered.

What kind of toilet paper is this? We know the president gets all sorts of amenities, from the bullet-and-explosion-proof "Beast" to bulletproof suits. Is this toilet paper also bulletproof? Because how else can you explain it being on his shoe from, presumably, the venue where he spoke to his car, the trip to Air Force One, and then the walk up the steps? That is some indestructible toilet paper.

Is this the greatest prank of all time? If so, who is responsible?

Does the Secret Service's job not involve protecting the president from random acts of toilet paper aggression?

One can only imagine Trump's reaction once he saw the video. But at least we got another terrific visual metaphor for the Trump Administration before he did.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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