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/Count_Backwards 1d ago

Trump keeps reminding me of the Mule from Asimov's Foundation series. He's this ugly stupid crass hateful demented clown with orange face paint and badly tailored suits, a long record of failure, and a nonstop stream of verbal abuse and blatant lies and terrible ideas coming out of his mouth and yet somehow the media, the judiciary, other politicians, literally anyone with any power to put him in his place somehow can't help compulsively fawning over him as if he's the second coming of Christ. It's literally making me, an atheist, wonder if maybe there really is an antichrist. Some of that supplication can be blamed on the Heritage Foundation, but a lot of the people bending over to kiss his ass have nothing to do with the fascist movement. It's like they see him and they have a stroke and forget what it was they were supposed to do about him. And I agree, it's infuriating to watch because he's not brilliant or scary, he's a toxic narcissist, a toddler in an 80-year-old meat suit. As soon as anyone actually stands up to him he folds: Harris utterly humiliated him in the debate. That should've been the end of his political career, but it was yet another in a long line of things that should've ended his political career. 

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u/Available_Tank_8950 15h ago

It's making me, an agnostic, start wondering about the antichrist too because I feel like people are under mass psychosis and so much internationally linked and years long premeditated Evil is afoot these days that it can't be scientifically explained.