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/SadFeed63 1d ago

That's what I found very infuriating last year when you saw some very direct Trump impressions not get treated like Trump by mainstream media. DeSantis was doing a Trump impression at the start of 2024, and he even got a little bit or overly credulous, Trump-like coverage that talks about his insane bullshit in a totally normal tone, but this was when Trump was comparatively quiet from a news front. Then he called him Meatball Ron or whatever fucking thing and that was that, DeSantis was done and has more often been (accurately) covered like he's radioactive. When Vance got announced as the VP pick, he basically went on a tear doing a Trump impression and he didn't even get the grace period DeSantis did. He got covered pretty immediately like he was a radioactive shitstain, which he is.

Both these guys didn't seem to realize that just being a loud moron is not enough to do a Trump, you need the other half of the equation, which is Trump style coverage. And yeah, Trump gets bad coverage sometimes, of course, all he does is awful shit, but he generally benefits from intense both sides-ing, sanewashing, unearned credulity from the media, covering a lot of his insane shit just as uncritical "Trump says..." direct quotes, etc. They didn't get that cause they're not Trump, he's always treated special. It's absolutely infuriating

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u/Guilty_Internet1943 1d ago

Jealous, huh?

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u/Count_Backwards 1d ago

Trump hates himself. He loves no one and is loved by no one. The adoration of his cult is not love it's worship. Every relationship in his life is transactional: he's surrounded by people who want something from him and is only nice to people he thinks he can get something from. He's literally incapable of understanding empathy or affection or consideration for other people. He's living in a narcissistic black hole. That's not something anyone should envy.