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/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/VanceKelley Washington 1d ago

Bush 43 launched an illegal war against Iraq in 2003, joked about how he made up the WMD thing, got thousands of US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, and America re-elected him to the White House in 2004.

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u/regretscoyote909 1d ago

And then he hilariously published a fucking book with his art of veterans that he sent into those wars.