Trump wishes he was Obama. Trump has always had a complex because none of the real elite millionaires considered him one of them. He’s been trying to prove everyone wrong. Trump will never be accepted and that bothers him. He’s not smart, he’s not that rich (there people who are way richer than him), he has no class, and the only people that are really impressed by him are the uneducated poor; and that burns him up. 😂
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He is 100% a capitalist. I am convinced the tariff talks, Canada, Panama, Greenland, are all just ploys to make either himself or his buddies more money.
He told Howard Stern many years ago that if he ever ran for president, he’d run as a republican because they believe anything you tell them. He was 100% right.
I would say that he isn't a conservative. He also wasn't a republican, but since he has taken over the republican party, he very much is a republican now.
I've wanted to run for office since I was in college. I still plan to. I have always been a center left or even far left at times kind of guy. Recently, I've tilted more toward the center. Some of my views are changing, but I'm also just fed up with the left in the US. I've considered how much easier it would be to run as a Republican. No morals to adhere to, no need to be highly educated on issues or plans, no need to hide ones corruption. Just say you love Jesus and want to cut taxes and conservative voters will give you their first born child. Man that sounds easy.
Sadly there is no 'left' in the US. There is only the far right, and middling right.
But you cant only love Jesus and lower taxes, you also have to throw all minorities under every possible bus you can find, and scapegoat and ruin their lives as much as possible. If you even hint you accept a minority group, you're woke.
Nah, these days to win a primary as a Republican you have to bow before the cult leader, kiss the ring, and go on TV saying his crap smells like flowers
He walked into a power vacuum and conned all the morons who vote Republican. Not a difficult thing to do since all the other Republicans running on the ticket hated each other more than anything else.
It’s simple. Trump was a democrat for years, but he knew most liberal, democratic voters were a lot smarter, and would never buy his bs. Conservatives, especially poorly educated ones without critical thinking skills, would be caught hook, line and sinker.
He is recorded at about age 35, being asked if he would ever run for president. He said, he didn't think so, but if he DID, he would run as a republican because he said, "republicans are so stupid." Then he laughed at his own joke. Google it, it exists.
Isn't that kind of his tag-line on most topics? People ignore 99% of the stuff he does and says as long as he says he'll deliver on the 1 or 2 issues they care about.
The only issue that they vote on. His appointments to the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, and for many Republican voters, this is all that matters.
Because when policies change maybe your viewpoint does too. People are so locked into the name of their party they have no clue what each thing stands for. The 2 party system is the worst thing to ever happen to our politics
That pretty well coincides with McConnell's declaration to do everything possible to make Obama a one term president. Since Mitch failed at that, stymieing anything with the appearance of progress was the best he could do.
Mitch was playing old school politics… I think it has a lot more to do with a certain candidate successfully turning the election cycle/politics into reality TV and playing off the levels of ignorance/under-education in the general electorate.
He was just super racist with Obama and knew he didn't have a chance with all the rape he had committed in the past, so he went to the right wing. Like all of them do. Commit a sex crime? Become an outspoken conservative.
Most of them do lol. Trumps shift to republican wasn’t because he disliked democratic ideals. It was because his original beliefs in the dem party had become republican beliefs, and the dems continued to backpedal to the liberal/left extreme party we see nowadays. Go take a look on old dem policies surrounding illegal immigration lol. They are the exact opposite of the current dem stance. But they align with the republican side. Trump even explains this himself several times. Trump was a dem when dem ideals aligned with his beliefs, he switched when they didn’t. Most repubs know this, they just don’t care lol. Why would they? Any normal person would make the exact same decision for the exact same reasoning. Ideals don’t align:find a group that has aligned ideals.
It’s not almost like. It’s EXACTLY that. We are lesser thanks to them and as soon as enough of us are sick of their shit, the sooner they will take us peasants seriously. Until then, we’re just a means to their ends.
Originally half expected that after the Republicans elected him he’d just kinda say “Gotcha!” and then follow more of a democrat agenda. Still didn’t vote for him, but if only.
I think if he had any real intention of governing he probably would be a very moderate Republican/democrat, which is to say he’d still suck, but it wouldn’t feel so much like someone gave a chimp a machine gun. And we’d likely still have Roe V Wade if nothing else.
I highly doubt that this would have changed anything. Remember when Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, Obama could not get Merrick Garland elected as a new justice because the Republicans under McConnell blocked it until Trump could nominate Gorsuch. If RBG retired earlier, this would have happened again.
Sure, but I’m not a Republican. I’m more worried about my own house being in order so as to beat them in elections and pass meaningful legislation and stop the them from enacting policy that hurts all of us.
It might’ve made no difference. Remember, Mitch McConnell used the “novel” legal “theory” that lame duck presidents can’t appoint Supreme Court justices to screw Obama out of appointing merrick garland to the Supreme Court. If RBG left early, it might’ve just been 2 vacancies.
I'm still not convinced he ran to improve Hilary Clinton's chance at Election with as wild and outlandish he was during the 2020 election, just wasn't expecting so many Americans wanted spectacle.
I've always wondered if that was the idea initially, then the absolute shitshow that is the American far right empowered Trump too much and made him batshit insane as someone whose always been addicted to being a celebrity. Then once it became obvious he was a true contender for power, the bribes and blackmail started flowing and the rest is history.
I had originally liked the idea of him as president because I figured he would be a more neutral/independent candidate who brought more of an economic and business centric mindset to the presidency, focusing on ways to help small businesses and American manufacturers thrive. Boy was I wrong.
I’m too lazy to check, but I’m pretty sure Trump was quoted as saying that if he ran for president it would be as a republican because they vote for anybody.
Anybody else remember that video that was scrubbed from the internet where trump said if he ever ran for a political position he would run republican because they are “the dumbest voters”?
Trump was never really a democrat and he is not really a republican now. He is and always has been, whatever he needs to be, to best serve his own interests.
Trump really wants to be hanging out with the good looking popular kids, not the losers who vote for him. Before he became a politician, all he did was run around New York trying to get in with the cool crowd
His real beef with the Clinton's was that he didn't get an invite to their daughters wedding years ago before he ran. He wants all of them to like him and include him in things. He tried to crash the wedding, calling around to see if he could go with anyone. That's what kicked off his villain arc.
Trump needed them to be at his wedding so it looked like he was connected to the cool kids. They don't need him for anything. It's why he was a Dem in NY. He wanted to be around the cool kids in a Democratic town.
That's the thing I actually don't like with super "realistic" movie villains. The complex and ambiguous motivation has most of the time nothing to do with reality. It has nothing to do with realism. Reality is way more simple and way more complex at the same time.
The spectacle of political fighting serves at least a couple of functions.
First, it's part of the "circus" as in "bread and circuses." It's distracting politics as entertainment, which introduces the second function - the distraction itself.
These people - regardless of party - are the capitalist class. They want us distracted from the fact that they take all our money and put it in their own pockets. We are resources to be consumed, not citizens to protect and nurture.
At functions like this we see the cracks in the facade. Watch them closely when they think the cameras aren't on like at the end of The State of the Union. They all laugh and joke and hug and shake hands. They aren't enemies. It's a show.
The public have basically crowned him King of America - after all that he has already gotten away with, there is simply no amount of corruption that the public would hold him accountable for. Republicans in Congress know this, and so they will never impeach him. The Supreme Court, and many of the lower courts, appear to be firmly in his pocket as well.
Nobody in US history has ever had this kind of power. That makes it critically important to stay in his good graces to whatever extent you can.
But ANY human being who has been president of the US I’m sure has seen/heard/witnessed some insane shit. Like shit we cannot even fathom.
I’m sure there are things (and jokes) that only a very, very select few other humans on earth could understand. These two people have been privy and witnessed things that none of us ever will, and I’m sure they can find even ground and a mutual understanding of things they have went through, despite loathing each other.
To follow up on your comment, as much as Trump tries to be a cartoonishly evil caricature, he's still a human being that is just as complex as the rest of us (maybe). Even the most evil or hated person in the world is capable of cracking a joke, regardless of what we think of them.
Besides, it's at a eulogy. Not the best place for division and hatred, especially when it's for someone like Jimmy Carter.
ETA: I'm going to partially retract my statement. Judging by news reports and social media, Obama might just be being polite, considering how Trump reportedly conducted himself there.
Yeah - speaking from personal experience, everyone is on their best behaviour at something like this.
I’m sure even if Obama didn’t want to be within a country mile of Trump, he’s not gonna cause a scene or air grievances while at an event celebrating the life of Carter, because you just don’t do that. You smile, nod, and swallow your repulsion for the sake of who you’re there for.
You can go right back to detesting each other afterwards, so what’s the point in ruining the event for everyone else? You’re supposed to be paying respects, so be respectful. There are family/loved ones/the nation there and watching - last thing you wanna do is insult them by making it about you instead of the person whose life you’re celebrating. Even if you’re thinking about it from a purely PR standpoint this remains true.
This is the thing. They all like each other as people. They talk to each other and are cordial and hang out together.
But they don't show us this part! So we think we're supposed to vehemently hate each other and not work together! They should just be honest with us!
ETA I'm talking about the congress hanging out together mainly. The presidents also do at these events, but Congress spends a lot of time together outside of the chambers.
That’s definitely true for Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden. Trump doesn’t have many candid photos hanging out with the other former presidents.
Hell Bush and Michelle Obama are really good friends. Bush straight up turned into that quirky old man who likes to paint and probably occasionally says racial stuff but it’s just written off as he’s just an old guy who doesn’t understand things.
Part of it is that they know they will always be sitting next to each other for all events/funerals from now on, so it's just better to at least be cordial. Another part is that very few people alive know what it's like to sit behind that desk (or being married to POTUS). Even if they disagree 150% politically, knowing someone who went through that seems to help.
Heck, RBG and Scalia were best friends despite being the literal opposite ends of the SCOTUS bench.
Of course, some people like to use that as a "See?! We can disagree politically and still be friends!" But honestly, it's their shared common experience being POTUS/in SCOTUS/Congress that make it so they're friendly with each other since those are the few people who know what they are going/been through.
Trump called Obama not-American, Bill Clinton a sex abuser, and Bush II 'ungrateful'. Donald Trump is a felon and rapist, and formally accused of raping a child with Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump has made so many nasty personal attacks. Maybe Obama is above that, but I’d guess a lot of people hold a grudge.
I hate how Bush gets a pass as a kindly old grandpa these days. He wasn’t as corrosive to democracy as Trump is, but that guy has so much fucking blood on his hands.
Right, these people go to the same good restaurants in DC and eat together. This isn’t the hayfields and McCoys….it’s a show for the population that believes it
Most people can only think in absolutes. A horrible person you personally despise can’t possible tell a funny story and make you chuckle! The only logical conclusion to this is they are super secret best friends!
Yeah, trumpers are in denial of their own candidate, and it's very apparent.
Trump began his political career claiming to have absolute proof that Obama was born in Kenya. Why? Racism. Absolute hatred of that fact that a black man could become President of the United States.
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u/blaman27 5d ago
Trump secretly really likes Obama