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/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/Orangecuppa Ohio 1d ago

I was too young to vote then but I recall asking my cousin why he voted for Bush and he told me "because John Kerry has a long face and I don't like that, Bush looks like someone I can have a beer with".

That was literally it, Policies be damned.

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u/Horskr Nevada 1d ago

Trump might be the weirdest looking dude we've had as president, but I'd bet your cousin voted for him too unless they've done some growing up since then.

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u/Electrorocket 1d ago

Nixon was a pretty weird looking dude.

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u/Twowie 1d ago

I bet thid boils down to his favorite media outlet once made a disparaging remark about Kerry's face, and this cousin just rolled with it. And I'm sure the remark could have been about his hair or attire or posture instead with the same effect.