r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/pareech Canada 16h ago edited 16h ago

If Obama or any other Democrat and possibly any other GOP President before Trump had done any of the shit Trump has pulled, they would have been impeached in seconds.

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u/QDSchro 16h ago edited 13h ago

Faster than lightning

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u/Spare-Resolution-984 15h ago

And rightfully so

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u/foozilla-prime 11h ago

Wish I could give you more than 1

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u/blahblah19999 15h ago

lightning

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u/JustGimmeSomeTruth 14h ago

They call him Flipper, Flipper

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u/zubbs99 Nevada 13h ago

Or at least marginally restrained by Congress. Like maybe just a smidge even.

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u/Sea-Sir2754 14h ago

When Trump got elected, I thought it would almost be worse if he got impeached because that means we would have the first true DEI president, JD Vance, who absolutely did not in any way shape or form win the presidency.

He was chosen because he would be loyal and because he fit a certain demographic. That's it.

I didn't think it would get this bad this quickly, though. I'd rather let Vance dick around for the next 3.5 years and maybe even return normalcy to his party.

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u/pareech Canada 14h ago edited 14h ago

You think Vance will bring normalcy to the GOP? I think he's so far up Trump's ass that he wouldn't know what normal or being a decent human being is. If he did, he wouldn't have accepted the nomination.

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u/Sufficient_Emu2343 12h ago

VPs are always, as you say, up the president's ass.  It's part of the job.  He'll pull away if he decides to run.  Kamala did not pull away from Biden, and it's widely considered one of the major reasons she lost.

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u/Sea-Sir2754 12h ago

I don't think he is a decent human being or will completely fix the GOP, but if he somehow stumbled into the presidency I could very well see him trying to be a normal Republican and at least giving us a not-super-stressful rest of the term.

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u/SkylarTransgirl 7h ago

Can you imagine how long we would have heard about it if Obama showed this much support for an African auto maker

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u/Sufficient_Emu2343 12h ago

The Dems did impeach him twice.  I imagine they'll do it again in '27 when they take the house.

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u/Language_Plastic 6h ago

Why isn’t the same happening to trump then ? Sorry I am not so well versed with politics in play