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/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

You guys remember "terrorist fist jab"? That one was the one that pissed me off the most.

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u/Qwirk Washington 1d ago

For those that don't, he literally did a fist bump with his wife.

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u/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

Imagine how fucking lame that reporter is to not know what a fist bump is. She's probably just lying but if not she probably thinks mayo is spicy.

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u/tractiontiresadvised 1d ago

TBF, that whole incident was the first introduction to many Americans (including myself) to the gesture. (Remember that this was in 2008!)

However, most of us reacted to this information with "huh, never seen that before but it's kind of neat" as opposed to "OMG TERRORISM"....

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u/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

You hadn't seen a fistbump in 2008? Wat?

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u/tractiontiresadvised 1d ago

Yeah, so what? I'm a nerd who was mostly surrounded by white people (and didn't watch much TV).