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/DisfavoredFlavored Canada 1d ago

I remember the moment he announced Bin Laden's death. Dad and I were just watching the news like"welp, he just got 4 more years."

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u/gatsby712 1d ago edited 1d ago

Bush got 4 years just for waving a loudspeaker around a disaster site and promising to get revenge. It isn’t hard to get re-elected unless you’re either mismanaging a pandemic or old as shit. 

Edit: oh and for coasting on Bill Clinton’s economy and government surplus for a few years before the economy crashed. Kind of like Trump coasting on Obama’s stable economy too. Wait. I see a pattern here. 

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u/Ohnoherewego13 North Carolina 1d ago

Whoa there. You can be old as shit as long as you're orange. It's a special qualifier.

I wish I was joking.

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u/Easy-Round1529 1d ago

Or bernie tho too lol

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u/UncIe_John 1d ago

Trump got 4 years for throwing paper towels at Puerto Ricans

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u/Pizza_Low 1d ago

You forgot brownie you’re doing a heck of a job. During the after math of Katrina when he totally botched the pre hurricane evac and the rescue

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u/styr 1d ago

There's an old saying in Tennessee, I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again.

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u/ApprehensiveRemote84 1d ago

Clinton sold us to China if I remember correctly. That was the start of his oh look they’re buying 5000 Jeep Cherokees and we’re going to buy 500 billion in goods from them once they get and keep the manufacturing jobs. I didn’t mind Clinton but economic policy not my fave.

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u/ScrewAttackThis Montana 1d ago

2 days before that he roasted Trump at the correspondents dinner and he released his birth certificate 3 days before that. Was a pretty wild week of him bitch slapping conservatives lol.

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u/Sleepy_cheetah 1d ago

How I miss those days. He just handled shit.

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u/dhuntergeo 22h ago

The good old days of competent presidents being rewarded