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/gatsby712 1d ago

That’s because no one trusts what Trump says, even his supporters. It’s literally what a supporter of his said to me when the tariffs were first talked about weeks ago. “Oh he won’t go through with it.” So you are okay supporting someone who will lie to you. Okay 

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u/parasyte_steve 1d ago

They knew he wasn't lying about the racism and that was the important part

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u/Kyrthis 1d ago

Ding, ding, muthafuckin’ ding!

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u/HistoryChannelMain 23h ago

And banning all 10 trans athletes in the country from competing in women's sports, a thing Americans have always taken very seriously.

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u/AnnualZealousideal27 14h ago

They don’t mind sending us back 150 years as long as we go all the way.