#i wanted to come up with a redesign for the king's swimsuit so bad but this was all i could think of. the colors are better i think

[cloverthirteen]

after becoming earth famous and addressing the wishes of fans, the royal family go on a fun tropical vacation where nothing bad happens to the local wildlife

bonus duck floaty prince :)

[robotnik-mun]

Show me one example of Penders acting like Trump. You can't because its a ludicross claim. People are sick of your fake news.

Wow, never thought I’’d get to break out THIS ancient ass meme.

Thanks for that buddy, always wanted to look half-way internet savvy!

Heh, honestly though, on the meager chance that you really are the kind of person who would use ‘fake news’ un-ironically? I’’ll not give you one instance, oh no no no my friend, you get to have SEVERAL instances! Ain’t you lucky?

Leeeet’’s see… well to start with, there’’s the fact that he’’s rather eager to re-write history and has tried to suppress information he didn’t want getting out, not unlike our dear Presidente’’s current struggle with the sinister and secretive branch of the government known as the National Park Service and their dastardly, ruinous plot to point out that Trump’’s inauguration crowd was far, far smaller than President Obama’’s 2009 inauguration. Once upon a time, Ken Penders did his damnedest to suppress co-writer Karl Boller’s’ declaration that the timeline shown in his “Mobius: 25 Years Later” stories was just one of many futures rather than being the one true future. Similarly, he also refuses to acknowledge the fact that the Bunnie/Antoine ship didn't’ start with him, but was rather initiated by Angelo DeCesare… whose heavy involvement in the early days of the book Penders has repeatedly downplayed.

In fact, Penders in general has a pretty hostile history with facts that contradict him, not unlike the Trump- he once called a guy a troll for pointing out that he had originally announced that the Lara-Su Chronicles, even though it’s plainly spelled out on his forum that it is ‘COMING SOON IN 2012!’. For the record, he has claimed at least three times that he would be ready with the release of the book (or the App, it’s difficult to keep track by this point), and has since declared it will have no release date.

Similarly, much like Trump, Penders has made some very outrageous accusations without ever apologizing or rescinding his statements- notably, accusing Ian Flynn of stealing ideas from him only for the actual evidence to not really support this thesis, though to this day he still maintains this accusation even though there is nothing to support. That’s without getting in on him making judgement calls on Flynn’s work without ever having read any of it (same deal with DeCesare). Similarly, he has hinted at SEGA/Archie manipulating facts and that this is directly responsible for people’s poor reception against him, despite the fact that his own bad behavior is what makes people dislike him so much. It brings to mind the various claims of ‘media bias’ by Trump accounting for his lack of popularity despite his own words causing many to disdain him. 

And not unlike Trump downplaying the fact that many of his businesses are shoddily run and maintained, Penders has downplayed just how bad his current work is, even going so far as to declare that retailers told him that it looked superior to anything in the Sonic books, despite that very bluntly not being the case (unless he’s talking about ‘Many Hands’, in which case it would be near impossible for even Penders to do worse). Then of course his claims of a ‘following’ developing for Lara-Su Chronicles, despite there being no evidence at all to support the idea that anybody outside of the Sonic fandom even knows about the project, to say nothing of the *overwhelming* negativity. 

Hmm, what else, what else- ah yes, hypocrisy! Trump has espoused certain values that supposedly align with the Republican Party’s own stated values (he’s not alone in this mind you), but his own personal practices stand in a stark contrast to the values he claims to espouse. He criticized Obama for using executive orders to bypass congress, but now has done the same to go even further and directly impact his agenda upon the public. He screamed about the elections being rigged, but when evidence turned up that something shady may have helped him, he downplayed it and refused to investigate the issue further. Penders presents himself as a liberal champion of creator’s rights, but his actions and writing betray a rather different mindset- while he sued SEGA over Chronicles infringing upon his own work, his Lara-Su Chronicles redesigns and work are very nakedly trying to infringe upon SEGA and the Sonic Franchise. Similarly, he has pinched images from google that he did not create, used without credit or permission from the people who DID make them, and has used work not of his own making for his promo page of ‘The Storm’, namely the inks of Alan Jensen, whose name does not appear anywhere on the aforementioned page. Also, the fact that he stole the name of his new work from a fan of his and never credited him or spoke to him afterwards. Always a shining sample of Penders’ being Penders right there. 

As for how his writing mirrors Trump, Penders rather likes to declare himself a feminist, but his writing betrays a kind of objectification and dismissal of women that is not unlike Trump’s own ghastly opinions of the fairer sex. For all that Penders likes to toot his own horn, he saw no problem with trying to present a romance between a 21 year old and a 16 year old, wherein the 21 year old aggressively pursued said romance, without seeing any issue with the age difference. Further, he justified the death of a major female character on the basis of ‘Cramping Sonic’s Style’ (one of many, many excuses I should add), the ‘noble sacrifice’ for Lupe that he wrote was to show that ‘even a female could make the ultimate sacrifice’, and when confronted over the possibility of Bunnie unintentionally cheating on Antoine with Evil Sonic (which I should add qualifies as rape by deception) made it clear that in his mind SHE was the one who transgressed and that Antoine would ‘forgive’ her. Oh and of course the fact that in the future he outlined in 25YL, Sally Acorn and Julie-Su, who were defined largely as being leaders and soldiers respectively, have no real role in things save to serve as housewives for their husbands, with Sonic even outranking Sally as king and having more of a say in how things are to proceed than she does despite her having more experiance as a leader. Lien-Da, who Penders touted as a ‘bad ass villain’, is of so little consequence that in the future she is similarly happy playing home maker, having never, ever achieved her ambitions nor having enough of an impact to even continue holding the animosity of her sister. Finally, in a major unveiling for The Lara-Su Chronicles, he chose to debut the title character in a blatantly sexualized swimsuit, deciding that evidently eye-candy was more important for his ‘feminist science fiction character’ than anything else. So, as you can see, Penders ain’t too different from Trump on that front despite what he likes to say.

Heck, Penders even comes with his own answer to Sean Spicer in the form of his forum moderator BobR, who responds with great hostility to any criticisms of the Great Penders! There was a kerfluffle a while back when the moderator of the (now sadly defunct) “A Moment of Archie Sonic” blog posted some criticism over some of the deeply amateurish mistakes Penders had made in his then-new reveals of the redesigns he intended for the Lara-Su Chronicles. BobR proceeded to come up with a bunch of bullshit about why said moderator was clearly incompetent and making crap up. Also, Bobby boy once threatened to ban people for not viewing the ugly Lien-DA CG figure as being quality. Penders approved of all of this and did not see fit to chastise the man for his bad behavior.

There’s other things I could bring up, but I think I’ve more than made my case- the comparison is not unwarranted, not even remotely, and every time Penders opens his mouth he only manages to highlight the eerie similarities he has to the guy. Because while their stated politics might be night and day? They’re cut from precisely the same grimy, oily cloth.