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/innosins Kentucky 1d ago

He's fucking right. They'd be blowing the damn roof off the place if anyone else was pulling this bullshit.

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u/prtproductions 1d ago

Let’s be real here, if I wasn’t an old, white, Republican man.

Edit to add: Rich and Famous

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u/Perpetually_isolated 1d ago

What?

There have been plenty of old white Republican presidents. This shit would never fly.

This is a trump/cult problem. Not a race thing.

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u/_KontagionXXX 1d ago

Race also plays a part though. If it was a black man with a following of black followers the alt right would still lose their ever loving shit. Even if he could still get away with a lot of what trump did. So it’s not SOLEY a race thing. Let’s not pretend race doesn’t play a part. This is why critical race theory needs to be taught fr