r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • 4d ago
Soft Paywall Trump Goes Off Deep End After MSNBC Mocks Cankle Cover-Up
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-loses-the-plot-after-msnbc-mocks-cankle-cover-up/9.8k
u/Zealousideal_Emu981 4d ago
Every time he’s mocked, he proves the joke right.
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u/Yeeslander Tennessee 4d ago
EXACTLY
He's fundamentally incapable of shutting up, has zero impulse control, and must retaliate against every perceived slight--he naturally validates every criticism as a matter of course.
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u/JakeHelldiver 3d ago
He is self-soothing. A narcissist is a person whose ego is so fragile that they can only interact with the world through an ironclade shell of self delusion. Anything that gets past that she'll causes them to react as if they're being assaulted.
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 3d ago
A narcissist created by his narcissist dad. Mary Trump's information about that family is highly interesting and illuminating!
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u/JakeHelldiver 3d ago
That's how it happens. It's the same with Elon. There's an narcissist parent and an enabler parent the abuse usually travels down to the first born.
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 3d ago
In Trump's case, he wasn't the firstborn, but his elder brother escaped the shackles and went to be a pilot instead of following his father's wishes, so the yoke of Chosen One was transferred to Don.
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u/apparentlynot5995 3d ago
Fred Jr was the scapegoat kid who couldn't get anything right, Donnie was the golden child.
Says the scapegoat eldest child with golden child younger brother.
In our family it skipped a generation until I broke the cycle and went to therapy and childhood development classes so I wouldn't expose my future children to this madness. It sucked, was lonely and hard to do, but seeing my kids happy and having a stable and loving childhood is so worth it.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 3d ago
I broke the cycle and went to therapy and childhood development classes so I wouldn't expose my future children to this madness.
As a fellow in this, let me just say, bless you for doing the work, and I'm really glad to hear it's paying off!
By the way, any good resources you might feel like pointing to? Any good literature or organizations or stuff like thaf?
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u/apparentlynot5995 3d ago
Thanks. It's super hard, even now that I haven't spoken to them in over 10 years.
This was 20 years ago, but my local community college discounted the childhood development classes when I passed the background check and volunteered hours at the college onsite daycare. I began therapy about 3 years later, whenever I could afford to go, because I was living out of my car at the time rather than go home to my parents.
Dr. Ramani on YouTube is a great, free resource. I've seen some other rec's here, but that's the one I tend to gravitate towards when things aren't feeling so great in my heart.
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u/BadmiralHarryKim 3d ago
Trump's grandfather dodged the draft in Germany by migrating to America (where he became a pimp).
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u/Chewzilla 4d ago
Quick someone get this man the nuclear football
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u/YoBGS- Illinois 3d ago
Hang on, Vlad said he'd give it back once he's done playing with it. Trump let him see it in the beast and hasn't gotten it back yet.
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u/miaabeckerrr 3d ago
Imagine being the sitting president of the US and losing your mind online over people talking about your ankles. At this point he’s basically writing SNL skits for them in real time.
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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy Rhode Island 3d ago
I don't know if SNL or NBC have the balls to run with that, but I'm sure Trey and Matt are already putting it into an episode of South Park
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u/TheBritishGent 3d ago
I'm picturing Trey at a whiteboard, finishing off the episode storyboard when Matt runs on breathless screaming HE HAS CANKLES before collapsing.
Trey just nods, wipes the board clean, and the process starts again.
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u/Normal_Attitude_5148 3d ago
He doesn't want anyone to know he has swollen cankles and bruised wrists. He literally should be in a nursing home, not destroying America.
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u/mjkjr84 3d ago
He should be in prison if you're being generous.
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u/Normal_Feedback_2918 3d ago
Preferably an El Salvadorian prison. He really likes those, so let's be sweet and let him try one out first hand.
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 3d ago
I say Alcatraz. He can be the only inmate. People can still pay to visit the place, but now they're paying to mock him to his face.
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u/Cleev 3d ago
In his defense, he thought the US economy was only 13 years old when he decided to fuck it.
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u/Alert-Disaster-4906 3d ago
Imagine being the sitting president and showing off to other world leaders a collection of cheap and gaudy white house 'memorabilia'. And being fuckin' proud of it. 🤡
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u/SupahSpankeh 3d ago
Merch. Not memorabilia, merch. And merch which suggests he's gonna violate the constitution just like he violates kids.
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u/Informal_Bunch_2737 3d ago
Makes me wonder if there is a kiosk with a sad employee at the exit. Or if he just charges their credit card.
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u/DarkChado 3d ago
This point? He has been doing that for a looong time. Bit yeah, it is getting worse...
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u/arwinda 3d ago
That's a scary thought - and not entirely impossible.
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u/puppet_up 3d ago
It's crazy how screwed up reality is right now. The idea of Putin having the United States 'nuclear football' that was personally given to him by the President of the United States is something that would even make Tom Clancy shake his head and think "I can't write that, it's way too implausible!"
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u/Msdamgoode I voted 3d ago
Honestly I’m surprised he’s not still shitting on E Jean Carroll and racking up fines.
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u/SceneRoyal4846 3d ago
That’s why people should heckle him saying him and Epstein were gay together.
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u/AlphaKennyThing 3d ago
Many people are saying the Epstein report contains information that indicates the fanta menace was a bottom for Epstein and that's why he doesn't want the info to become public.
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u/tiny_tuner 3d ago
The mark of the narcissist.
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 3d ago
As someone who was raised by a narcissist, I can confirm that the attitude of "That bad thing that you see with your own two eyes and even have on video? Doesn't exist, and I don't know why you're creating problems.", is very on-brand.
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u/apparentlynot5995 3d ago
Absolutely. Gaslighting is so enraging and exactly why I got away from my parents, and now the only comfort to be had is it's not happening under my own roof. Ugh.
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u/VeryImpressedPerson 3d ago
Yes, that's malignant narcissism personality disorder, with a touch of STD.
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u/TheShipEliza 3d ago
It is crazy it took so long for someone like Newsome to come along and get into the slop where Trump lives. It is so easy and it is very effective.
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u/JoeSicko 3d ago
Walz was trying
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u/TheShipEliza 3d ago
Fair point. He did a good job.
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u/Nervous-Internet-926 3d ago
Until the DNC told him to stop because they didn’t want to alienate Republican voters (who were never going to switch sides to begin with).
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 3d ago
And that’s exactly the problem. The DNC sees the right as potential voters, not ideological enemies. They reserve that vitriol for the progressive left.
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u/green_eyed_mister 3d ago edited 2d ago
Walz did but he doesn't have the resources to stay on it 24/7. I think Newsome must of tapped the Wendy's and Moonpie Twitter managers to help keep an eye on tRump. Newsom isn't authoring those posts but he enlisted someone to help him do it.
Walz was on his own.
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u/d_to_the_c Oklahoma 3d ago
Also Walz isn't naturally sleezy and Newsome is. Walz could only go so low... Newsome will dig deeper into the filth to keep up with Trump.
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u/green_eyed_mister 3d ago edited 2d ago
San Fran politicians are a different breed, I will concede that (confession, my work is centered on CA government projects and has been for the last 4 years, but I am no longer a Californian). But sleezy now has a low bar given the current occupant of the White House. Newsom doesn't brag about grabbing women by the genitals, he doesn't make fun of disabled people, he hasn't suggested he was more mistreated than Jesus. The political sleezy meter has gotten a new scale.
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u/borbor8 3d ago
As a Californian (and an American), thank you for saying that. This type of covert “both sides” bullshit is the reason we’re in this mess. I have a friend who, while discussing Trump’s horrors, always sneaks in some terrible thing about Clinton: how SHE is the reason Putin hates America and invaded Ukraine, how corrupt she is,, etc. It’s absolutely nuts, not because Clinton was a perfect candidate, but because, for one, she is not to blame for Putin, and also, neither Clinton nor any past actual president, Democrat or Republican, ever did what Trump is doing.
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u/green_eyed_mister 3d ago
Putin doesn't like Hillary because she is too smart for him to control and she doesn't philander like Bill. It would be harder to get dirt on her. But your friend isn't the brightest if she really believes Putin invaded because of Hillary. Putin doesn't do anything because of Hillary. He does exactly what he wants because it is what he wants to restore the glory days of the iron curtain. https://www.cfr.org/article/limits-putins-ambitions
Hillary doesn't enter his thoughts. Putin barely cares about tRump except controlling him.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 3d ago
Walz is too much of a legitimately good dude to really go full caps lock deranged boomer.
He just called conservatives "weird" and it resonated to such a degree that it echoed across the country.
Conservatives tried desperately to find something to slander him with but they're... not smart, or savvy, or clever, so the best they could swing was saying he had a DUI 35 years ago, and making up super fucking weird beastiality fan fic about him, which definitely made them look worse than anyone, because who does that?
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u/mynumberistwentynine 3d ago
It was so easy too. All it took was calling them weird, and it worked.
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u/Akerlof 3d ago
I think everyone was just shocked by how badly he was violating centuries of behavioral norms in his first term. Also, since those behavioral norms were so fundamental to the system, the people in the system weren't really equipped to get down in the dirt with him.
Then he lost to Biden, and people thought it was just an aberration and we were back to normal.
Then he got reelected, and again they weren't equipped to really get down in the dirt with him. Because, again, it looked like a return to normalcy with Biden.
So it's taken time to a.) realize the the old ways are well and truly dead, and b.) figure out how to be a playground bully who plays to your own side without coming across as an idiot who lost the thread. Trump's a populist who has his following regardless of what he says, a Democrat doesn't have that kind of loyalty and his own constituency won't give him the benefit of the doubt any more than Republicans will.
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u/GentlemenHODL 4d ago
Every time he’s mocked, he proves the joke right.
Exactly like Kanye and South Park's fishsticks episode.
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u/MotherTreacle3 3d ago
To this day Kanye fundamentally doesn't get the joke.
And it's hilarious.
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u/Jim_Nills_Mustache 4d ago
It’s so easy, he’s so thin skinned, the fact it took this long for everyone to come around and start mocking him is honestly just sad
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u/ChoombataNova 3d ago
People have been mocking him nonstop since at least 2015. I have personally been mocking him nonstop sonce 2015, but he has been the target of every late show comedian, every Daily Show derivative comedy news show, SNL, etc. Even politicians have been mocking him from the start. There is an old theory that Trump ran for president after Obama roasted him at a White House Correspondent's dinner in 2011. This is not a newly discovered approach.
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u/colicab 3d ago
Not everyone is mocking him. A lot of the talking heads are calling it childish. They understand the irony, they just don’t care.
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u/highorderdetonation Texas 3d ago
Gul Dukat wouldn't care about cankles. Just saying.
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u/Ok_Dimension_4707 3d ago
Why would he when there are greater injustices to focus on, like the disturbing lack of statues of him on Bajor?
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u/davechri 4d ago
The President of the United States of America is a pedophile
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u/g_rich 3d ago
And shits his pants, has small hands is an idiot, a Nazi, a racist, a sexist and an overall just a shitty person who belongs in the bowels of hell for all eternity and not the White House.
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u/beamrider 3d ago
A weak man's idea of a strong man. A stupid man's idea of a smart man. A poor man's idea of a rich man. An incompetent man's idea of a competent man. A loser's idea of a winner.
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u/illuminerdi 4d ago
He prefers his lovers to be small enough to fit in his hands.
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u/dondeestasbueno 3d ago
Makes his micropeen seem bigger.
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u/Electronic-Yam-69 3d ago
"I like women with small hands, they make my dick look big." --MM
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u/hairijuana I voted 4d ago
Why’s he posting in all caps like that? Who does he wish he was, Gavin Newsom?
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u/Callabrantus Canada 4d ago
(Sad)
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u/wandrlusty 3d ago
Tiny hands accordion
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u/Callabrantus Canada 3d ago
World's smallest violin, and somehow it fits perfectly in his baby hands.
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u/Deicide1031 4d ago
Why are people even still afraid of him?
He’s declined so much that if you look at him even just 2-3 years ago there’s a noticeable difference.
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u/fushitaka2010 4d ago
I told a friend recently that they’re not actually afraid of Trump. They’re terrified of the base turning on them. And the base love them some orange pedophiles.
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u/sobakedbruh 4d ago
Ever notice how they assume every liberal is some trans person with blue hair, but one of the leaders of the MAGA base has bleach blonde dreads and face tats?
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u/beamrider 3d ago
When asked a lot of them think like 20% of the population identifies as 'trans', which is like two orders of magnitude too high.
I guess because right-wing media harps on the issue so much they all *THINK* the Democratic party's platform was based around trans rights.
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 3d ago
Why did they go with "blue hair" as an insult? It's been a joke aimed at specific old women for decades. Green or purple or pink would have made a lot more sense. I can't hear anything but "elderly white woman" when they use the phrase.
It's almost like they're completely out of touch or something.
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u/sobakedbruh 3d ago
I think they are out of touch with anything above the age of 12.
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u/Soulshiner402 4d ago
They’re not afraid of him, they are using him for cover. They’ll prop him up in front of the cameras for as long as they can just like they did with Reagan.
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u/DeliriumTrigger 3d ago
The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
― Douglas Adams
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u/djwurm 3d ago
There is alot more to it then just the base.. Its also the Republican party is held hostage by the Billionaire class (Peter Thiel, Koch Brothers, etc..), potentially foreign agents, and big corporations due to Citizens United which can funnel ungodly unlimited amounts to them If they go against the grain they stand to lose support, money, etc.. They also lose all the insider information (stock trading), power, grifts, etc.. that make them rich and powerful.
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u/BallBearingBill 3d ago
It's both IMO. Trump will primary you if you're in Congress so they are afraid. CEOs are afraid of getting their industry tariffed. Country leaders are afraid of not getting military protections they were promised as part of NATO and getting tariffed, the media is afraid of getting cancelled, and the public is afraid of the cult base coming for them.
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u/Shnoopy_Bloopers 4d ago
They need to keep their govt job even if it destroys America
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u/WolfDoc 4d ago
Hate to break it to you but his main supporters are definitely not govt employees (except ICE), but private interests. Just see who his backers are and whom he favors.
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u/googleflont 3d ago
Those private interests are not his supporters.
He is their employee.
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u/Ambereggyolks 4d ago
If they started knocking trump, the base would turn on trump eventually. They just need to repeat shit enough to make it stick.
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u/wonko221 3d ago
A lot of these same assholes went from angrily proclaiming "You cannot speak badly about a war time president!" any time someone criticized George W. Bush to throwing W under the bus as soon as Obama was elected.
They are more loyal to anger and fear than they were to W or currently are to Trump.
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u/RJ5R 4d ago
Yep. The decline is accelerating. He's not going to make it through another 3 yrs. Which was probably the plan all along and why Vance is getting groomed
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u/JayR_97 4d ago
I can't imagine Vance getting the same level of support from the Maga cult though. He has basically no charisma
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u/Raesong Australia 4d ago
Considering that by all measures the ultimate goal of the GOP is turning the United States into a Dictatorship, they won't really even need MAGA for much longer.
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u/MK5 South Carolina 3d ago
More like the ultimate goal of the GOP is to turn the United States into an Oligarchy, with themselves as the oligarchs, governing the citizens bodies and morals while letting the private sector handle everything else. The dictatorship is Trump's idea.
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 3d ago
This. Elsa Chang interviewed M. Gessen yesterday on NPR. They talked about the speed at which Trump's authoritarianism has escalated. What took Putin a decade has only taken Trump a handful of months.
But it's the relative normalization of Trump's behavior in mainstream media that's the real problem. The press has an opportunity to call him out on everything, but they still sanewash and compartmentalize his acts and words.
He's emulating Putin at a blistering pace, and (by and large) the press is letting him.
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u/MasterofPandas1 3d ago
MAGA will turn on them violently though when things go bad enough to personally affect them. They’ve been told for a decade that violence is the answer when the government isn’t working for them. Including if Republicans are in charge.
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 3d ago
People dying of covid claimed it wasn't covid because Dear Leader suggested it wasn't.
It's a cult. It'll take a lot more than economic pain or even the death of loved ones to break this spell.
There might well be a tipping point, but I don't think it will arrive before Trump departs this mortal coil.
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u/la-fours 4d ago
Vance will make republicans feel infinitely better about voting R.
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u/YoBGS- Illinois 3d ago
But will make MAGA not show up at all. And right now MAGA significantly outnumbers the Rs
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u/SomethingAboutBoats 4d ago
People are confused that he’s taking so many vacations. Like guys, he’s enjoying some free time waiting for his real job to start when Trump dies
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u/kia75 3d ago
Except Vance isn't taking "vacations". He's flying around and meeting with donors all over the nation and the world. He's campaigning! In each of his "vacations", hes meeted with various moneyed interests!
The US government legally can't pay for Vance to meet with his donors, but they can pay for his "vacation trips", hence why so many vacations! But Vance is doing some politicking on the side.
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u/Mindless_Rooster5225 4d ago
That's good because it's already felt like 4 years for me I can't take another 3.
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u/UpbeatAccountant3710 3d ago
100%. Trump is the guy that is going to get as much as Project 2025 done. When he pops his clogs Vance will step in and Thiel will pull strings. So fucking sad what's happening over there. Gonna affect everyone on the planet. Would never consider visiting the States now.
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u/polaris6849 Kentucky 4d ago
Even Trump a year ago was vastly different than the Trump of today
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u/Titrifle 4d ago
The trump who was fellating microphones and swaying on stage for a half hour? That was a better trump.
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u/D0013ER 4d ago
Most people aren't afraid of him. Businesses, colleges, Congress certainly aren't. Remember that Congress could end this madness TODAY if they wanted.
Worse, they just calculated that it's cheaper and easier to capitulate to him.
They chose the path of least resistance because it's convenient. Damage to the nation is acceptable collateral.
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u/KHRZ 4d ago
Americans after Biden debate: "This was bad, how could we allow this old man to be our president? We gotta learn our lesson."
Americans a few months later, watching Orange clown rage: "This is fine."
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u/Diligent-Engineer428 4d ago
Because it's the people pulling the strings. There's something bad that they have in him. But not to mention the money he's been receiving from Russia, Saudis and then there are some leaders he threatens with high tariffs.
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u/Syntaire 3d ago
That's the really crazy part. He was a weak, pathetic pile of human-shaped garbage even in 2016, but at least his word vomit pretended to sound somewhat coherent, sometimes. While he was campaigning last year it was so obvious that he's in rapid cognitive decline. Even just comparing August 2024 Diaper Donnie to today's it's ridiculous how far he's degraded.
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u/Stephen_Gawking Texas 4d ago
I do kind of wish Gavin went the extra step of wearing a bunch of bronzer on his face and then refusing to talk about it when pressed. But that’s probably just as damaging to GN as it is to the other guy.
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u/Sea_Original_906 3d ago
Donald Trump has raped, and facilitated in the rape, of children.
Release the files
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u/mabhatter 3d ago
You know they're going to release every scrap of files with any Democratic related person and there will be zero things with Trump. That's why they had the FBI spend a thousand agents redacting them.
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u/aircooledJenkins Montana 4d ago
His health is failing. Just like the failure to release the Epstein files.
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u/user0987234 4d ago
May God rest his soul, sooner rather than later.
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u/Rit91 3d ago
You know in greek mythology the punishment for president cankles would be to forever chase a nobel peace prize floating away from him in perpetuity while his cankles caused him severe agony. To say nothing of the rest of his body not being fit for running causing his lungs to burn.
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u/MadRaymer 3d ago
Part of the reason the media talking about his health triggers him so much is because it's one of the few things that might break the spell on his cult members.
Remember, they actually believe Donald Trump is some strong and virile male specimen. It's like in North Korea, where when they report that Dear Leader scored a mathematically impossibly perfect game in any sport he plays. This is also why Trump's fans photoshop him onto Rambo-era Stallone's body. I suspect some of them genuinely believe he's totally jacked under those ill-fitting suits.
But my point is: once the truth becomes utterly undeniable: that he's a weak, frail, possibly dying 79 year old, it's going to break the spell on some of the cultists because it directly contradicts the hyper-masculine strongman image he's crafted. Trump's very ignorant (obviously), but one of the few things he actually seems to understand is optics and his cult's perception of him. That's why he's so defensive about his health: the facts about it directly contradict his carefully crafted image.
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u/Callabrantus Canada 4d ago
Most regular looking ankles of any American President!!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Edit: Had to report this because my first post was flagged for being in all caps. How the hell can anyone effectively ape Trump if they can't use all caps?
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u/TheFutureMrGittes 4d ago
INTERMITTENT caps
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u/Teripid 4d ago
Cankles, funny from 2016-2024 ONLY.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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u/musicman835 California 3d ago
2016-2020 2024-
You know who didn’t have cankles? Biden, dude rode his bike, he had the best ankles
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u/Shadowchaos 3d ago
he had the best ankles
I don't know why this comment is so funny to me but this is hilarious
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u/11CRT 4d ago
“My eyes are up here!”
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u/Callabrantus Canada 4d ago
"You'll have to tell me if you're looking in my eyes, mine don't work, what with all the syphilis."
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u/KnightDuty 4d ago
That's funny because in describing some of his actual literal crimes, Reddit censors me. not even saying anything crazy, just literally stating fact and quoting him himself, is deemed inappropriate.
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u/Dr_Trogdor 4d ago
It always gives me pause when you see cable news coverage of what the president of the United States says and they have to bleep out words. Interesting times we live in.
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u/CheerleaderOnDrugs 3d ago
I had a comment removed for 'violent content', which was simply quoting the president's own words, which I confirmed via his own source: a Fox News link.
The comment was restored a few days later, after appeal, when no one would read it.
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u/Exciting_Teacher6258 4d ago
Paywall fucked off: https://archive.ph/FzTzp
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u/PMYourTinyTitties 3d ago
Alternatively, stop posting this clickragebait site. It’s lowering the IQ of this sub more every day
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u/AmishAvenger 3d ago
I hate it based solely on the fact that they regurgitate stuff and hide it behind a paywall.
Posting Trump tweets and sticking a couple of paragraphs around them is not something anyone should have to pay for.
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u/robodrew Arizona 3d ago
THIS. I am so tired of ragebait articles that don't actually offer anything to society. These articles aren't giving us any opinions, ideas, options... it's not even really informing us of anything. It simply exists to fill more content space.
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u/WineBoggling 3d ago
Also: we'd be better off being spared the opinions, ideas and (except in the rare case of truly qualified people) options too. Not absolutely every iota of published news journalism should be op-ed material, and not absolutely every person with a keyboard has an opinion worth putting on the figurative front page.
Give me news, actual news, when there's news that's fit to print, reported clearly and in the past tense--and otherwise shut up.
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u/ringwraithfish 3d ago
Their headlines are always the same: "Trump (slammed/bashed/mocked) for (something)"
And they're articles are always the same: regurgitate some tweet, news clip, or sound bite and then tag a response from someone on it to prove the headline of him being 'slammed/bashed/mocked'.
They guy is a piece of shit, but this dogshit site does nothing but feed into the narrative that he will be attacked for anything.
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u/Significant-Self5907 3d ago
I'm so over the Daily Beast. Fourth graders can write better. I do like most of the substack content though.
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u/ErrorF002 3d ago
I don't understand this subs obsession the newsweek/dailybeast/newrepublic. There are better sources.
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u/Troll_in_the_Knoll 4d ago
Per the White House: 'Trump's swollen ankles are caused by chronic venous insufficiency.' This might explain a lot about his behavior.
If he's having problems with insuffient blood flow his ankles, and that's with the help of gravity, imagine how challenging it must be to get any blood flow up into his brain.
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u/smcedged 4d ago
I'm not arguing your final point, but venous insufficiency is because the body is having a hard time fighting gravity, hence blood pools in your legs which are dependent.
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u/InstrumentalCrystals Texas 4d ago
Except what I see is worsening CHF. Not just venous insufficiency.
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u/mabhatter 3d ago
Yup.
That doesn't mean anything will happen immediately. It's a function of progressive congestive heart failure where older people's hearts can't quite keep up any more.
As demanding as being president is, even for relatively lazy Trump, the condition could accelerate rapidly and incapacitate him. But hey... Weekend at Bernie's! It might improve his ratings.
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u/b0w3n New York 3d ago
He's already willingly admitted he's on statins, dude's not in great health at all. The cankles are absolutely related to that and obesity.
Edit: also he's had a "I'm worried about getting into heaven" thought in the past few days, which is relatively rare for narcissists too.
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u/smcedged 4d ago
You say "except" like I'm saying Trump has and only has venous insufficiency and that fully explains his cankles.
I only said that venous insufficiency is, in and of itself, blood struggling to move against gravity.
Also, not sure what you're seeing but as a doctor I don't see any signs specific enough to come to a specific diagnosis. Swollen ankles happen from lots of things, CHF included.
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u/InstrumentalCrystals Texas 4d ago
Apologies. You right. When I’m reminded he has CHF I get excited, hoping his EF is in the shitter more each day
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u/drivensalt 4d ago
He went off the deep end again?? Can he even tread water with those cankles?
Also, where are those Epstein files?
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u/KGKSHRLR33 4d ago
He talks mad shit about people, but when hes called out he throws a lil hissy fit ha. I fzxkn love it.
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u/Jpkmets7 4d ago
He’s the snowiest snowflake there is. His entire brand is based on creating an image that is the opposite of his true self. He’s a complete fraud and he knows it. I hope that he endures something concrete and unspinnable, like the release of the Epstein files, that exposes him to the world for the scum he is and that he understands that he’s been exposed as a loser. I think he would lose it completely and I’m here for it.
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u/jukranpuju 4d ago
Trump and Putin are both wearing "elevator shoes" with something like an inch hidden insole. Compared to the shoes of the person in the left side of the picture whose face is framed out, the height of the heel cups of their shoes makes it look like they are wearing chukka boots instead of formal oxfords. There is hardly anything more ridiculous than the vanity of old men.
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u/Happy_Landmine 4d ago
Geriatric dementia patient throws a tantrum during another Adderall binge..
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u/IAmNumberFourI 4d ago
O’Donnell also suggested Trump’s love of fast food may have accelerated the health problems of the president, who has also frequently been spotted with makeup patches covering a bruise on the back of his hand.
“That’s one of the ways a lifetime of McDonald’s junk food catches up with you,” O’Donnell said. “One of the places those Big Macs are going to show up is in the ankles hanging over the edge of your shoes.”
Trump being a total porker and fat loser for 30 years made it inevitable.
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u/mahlerlieber Indiana 4d ago
I have a doctor friend whose colleagues have speculated his prognosis to be 6 months to 2 years, given the diet, the lack of exercise, and the stage of the illness.
Mr. Putin should take note as well. Your body will eventually give up, and there is no amount of money or power that will change that. You can slop around all you want, but eventually you'll die.
We are all waiting...less than patiently.
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u/sniffstink1 4d ago
Trump goes off deep end
Daily even over anything and nothing.
Buttery males sure like to worship weak people tho.
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u/Wander-Wisp 4d ago
Lol, dude's got such a fragile ego, can't handle a bit of ribbing. TBH, If he focused half as much on real issues as he does on petty sh*t, we might be in a better place rn. But hey, that’s just my 2 cents.
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u/11CRT 4d ago
They still claim that a woman couldn’t be president with the mood swings once a month. Has there been any month he hasn’t had a mood swing yet?
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u/Phaedrus317 4d ago
Normally I'd be pretty heated about body shaming, especially toward an old man whose issues are caused by a commonly diagnosed medical condition.
But obviously Trump is a pedophilic piece of garbage and there is no high road to be taken where he's concerned. Fuck him forever.
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u/mahlerlieber Indiana 4d ago
The man has created (and continues to create) suffering all over the world.
In a polite society, the thing to do is to be aware of someone's suffering and not to make fun of it. But this guy has demonized polite society...so turn about's fair play.
Fuck him, and I hope he suffers mightily.
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u/donkeyrocket 3d ago
I mean, the health of the US president is often a very public focus of the country. It becomes doubly so when physical signs do not align with the supposed clean bill of health the White House touts. Triply so when said president spent years moaning about the advanced age of the previous president who despite a cancer diagnosis is still certainly healthier than Trump.
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u/1leggeddog 3d ago edited 3d ago
It's not just his ankles that he's covering up...
it's also the pedophilia
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u/SpamEatingChikn 3d ago
This is what makes him such an insufferable, miserable human. He plays the whole tough guy shtick but he’s really just a pussy, crybaby bitch. Yet some how his base of bros think that means tough guy. Fucking embarrassing to anyone with half a brain
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u/sixheadedbacon 3d ago
Why does he have to be so weird about the whole thing?
He easily could have said "I have a medical condition that affects me and countless others across our country. Mocking a medical condition is a low blow, even for you."
Instead we get... this weirdo behavior.
Would have been hilarious to see Biden go on an all-caps tirade every time someone made fun of his stutter.
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u/OddNothic 3d ago
Because, historically, Trump demeans and mocks people with medical conditions and disabilities. The fact that he is joining those he despises creates cognitive dissonance for him.
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u/NotOK1955 4d ago
Cankle-gate: a clandestine move to cover trumps ugly body.
Can’t hide ugly…and he’s ugly on both the inside and outside.
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u/MegaPint549 3d ago
Believe me they’re youge. The greatest cankles. The doctors, they say to me. I’ve never seen such sturdy thick ankles, Mr President. They’re beautiful. Melania loves them, where are you Melania. She’s over there. She’s always commenting on my cankles. So big and thick. Not like Sleepy Joe. Thin ankles. Weak little twigs. That’s why he had to steal the election
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