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/gatsby712 1d ago

That’s because no one trusts what Trump says, even his supporters. It’s literally what a supporter of his said to me when the tariffs were first talked about weeks ago. “Oh he won’t go through with it.” So you are okay supporting someone who will lie to you. Okay 

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u/turningsteel 21h ago

I was peeking around the conservative subreddit and there were several comments like “it’s getting hard to justify his antics” or “I wish he would just stick to blah blah”. Like they’re so close to realizing he’s a moron but nothing seems to make it click fully. It’s wild.

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u/gatsby712 21h ago

My conspiracy theory is that establishment Republicans will let Trump wreck his popularity so that they can throw him under the bus without worrying about losing their primary. They’ll 25th him for Vance and then let the most unpopular parts of Project 2025 be tied to Trump. They get what they want from Project 2025, they rob the American people, and they get a scapegoat. Trump is so popular with republicans primary voters that only GOP politicians on the way out can vote against him on the tariff for example.