r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d 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/jtsa5 1d ago

If anyone else other than Trump did anything wrong it was like the world was ending. When it's Trump everyone has kid gloves on.

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u/RemarkableWave8066 1d ago

Obama wore a tan suit once and the Fox News goons had aneurysms for a solid week

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u/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

You guys remember "terrorist fist jab"? That one was the one that pissed me off the most.

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u/gatsby712 1d ago

Remember that time Bush got us into two wars because of 9/11, but it wasn’t until Obama that the guy who caused it was killed. I member. Turns out the Republicans didn’t care about justice, they just cared about using the crisis to make some oil money for their VP and President. 

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u/lostalaska 1d ago

All I remember was the big "Mission Accomplished" banner on a Navy carrier with bush waving and smiling. Are you now telling me he didn't accomplish his mission? /srcsm

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u/tr1mble 1d ago

Now watch this drive

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u/smokeyser 1d ago

The mission was definitely accomplished. Halliburton had control of the oil fields.

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u/proletariatblues 1d ago

That reminds me of the episode of Scrubs when they are all arguing politics. JD knows almost nothing and, while reading ‘The Iraq War for Dummies’ says, “You know what’s so messed up? I just got to the point where President Bush gave his “mission accomplished” speech on a battleship and I still got, like, 400 more pages to go.”

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u/Cockalorum Canada 1d ago

Funny story - that "Mission Accomplished" carrier was anchored just off of the coast of San Diego.

They filmed him flying in to imply that it was off on active duty, and not just a film set.

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u/cupo234 1d ago

Officially the Mission Acomplished was supposed to be the ship's. But they did decide to film there

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u/aenteus Pennsylvania 1d ago

Fool me once…