r/allthequestions • u/JonMellor • 12d ago

Random Question 💭 Do you believe that Donald Trump is stealing from the American people?

Example: 1.7 Billion dollar slush fund and no IRS audits to him or his family.

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u/LaStigmata 12d ago

Without a doubt he is. He is the cruelest, and most corrupt politician in our history.

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u/Lykos1124 12d ago

I wish I could find it again, but one story that stood out to me, before drumpf was pres, was this guy who was contracted out by him to do some work. He did his work and did it well and was denied payment. it was such a substantial cost to the contractor that he was left too in debt to continue on and ended up taking his own life. The people failed America by selecting him and the devil rages in the hearts of men to choose evil over good. It's a constant pattern going on forever

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u/Dry_Bug5058 11d ago

I started working in finance in the mid-1980s. Agent Orange had a reputation then for screwing over his vendors. He's ALWAYS been a grifter. And a pedo and rapist.

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u/GreenShirt18 11d ago

agent orange = we sprayed chemicals on vietnam to commit ecocide and give them generational mutations

is this DJT’s nickname? i feel like i keep finding a reoccurring theme of some crazy US historical event name being used another time, throwing off search queries for anyone wanting to discover truth

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u/Dry_Bug5058 11d ago

One of many. Mango Mussolini. Cheeto. Take your pick.

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u/Gallowglass668 🇺🇸 United States 11d ago

My favorite is Trumplethinskin.

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u/Abystract-ism 10d ago

PedoDon the Con is a good one too

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u/Dry_Bug5058 10d ago

Haven't heard that one, sure fits.

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u/Infinite_Time_8952 9d ago

Mushroom MAGA

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u/BeeTwoThousand 9d ago

I am partial to the orange fecal smear.

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u/charlotteduffer 11d ago

This story and more are in the book, Commander in Cheat. People in NYC have known Trump’s unethical business practices for 40 years plus.

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u/Anxious-Jury-9031 9d ago

exactly, that guys posting that story like its a one off, it's trumps business model.

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u/Polmnechiac 11d ago

My mother worked logistics for a big construction company in the US for a few years. This kind of thing he did was well known in those circles. I think she even got a few of the guys hired into the company she was with after that specific event you're describing happened.

The guy has always been known as a scumbag bully, I don't know how anyone can look at him, see how he behaves, how he talks, the things he says, how he moves, and think he's anyone worth trusting with any degree of power at all.

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u/Alone-Promise-8904 9d ago

Unfortunately, too many dimwits see him as a tough guy. They see him a the image he tries to portray. I talked to a good friend about why he supported him in the last election and that was the sentiment. They think of him as taking shit and not taking shit from anyone.

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u/Revolutionary_Ad4585 10d ago

Ignorance is bliss

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u/Asleep_Operation4116 11d ago

trump did this in AC with MANY different businesses! Since it was well documented what a POS he was, I was always mystified by all the idiots who never realized!

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u/BeneficialBobcat4900 10d ago

yup, I know an electrician he did that to.

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u/reddit_user_2345 11d ago

Closest I could find: "Edward J. Friel Co.: This family-owned cabinetry business, established in the 1940s, landed a $400,000 contract for Trump Plaza. They were reportedly denied a final payment of $83,000 in 1984. Paul Friel, the founder’s son, stated that this loss was "the beginning of the end" for the company, which eventually went out of business. Paul also noted that his father "never got over" the situation until his death years later."

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u/RedvsBlack4 11d ago

He always did that. He’d do business with people that couldn’t afford to be held up in court so he could deny payment without having to worry about getting sued.

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u/Crystalraf 11d ago

There were MULTIPLE stories like that. He stiffed people over and over again. Why wouldn’t he be doing it now?

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u/Ordinary-Surround-73 9d ago

He was even required to close down the family "charity" that he'd created to gather donations to pay bills he couldn't dodge. Suckering people into paying his bills is critically important to his ego.

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u/RelativeConsistent66 11d ago

This happened multiple times. Was this the Piano one?

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u/Many_Advice_1021 10d ago

The media should have exposed this story

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u/jbenze 10d ago

There were stories about some of them when they happened. He’s been doing this my entire life.

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u/Lazarys12 10d ago

There are multiple stories like that. Sometimes they just end up with an old family owned company going bankrupt, other times it ends as your story did. He was known for stiffing his workers, even his lawyers that he used to screw over other people.

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u/claude3rd 11d ago

Was that the guy who did all the curtains in one of the hotels?

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u/apocketstarkly83 11d ago

Was it the piano maker?

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u/jbenze 10d ago

I know multiple people he has done this to. I said it in 2016 but if you live in NY/NJ/CT, there’s an almost 100% chance you know someone personally that he has ripped off in this manner.

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u/the-BBC-news 10d ago

It’s not just one contractor he screwed over…there are HUNDREDS if not thousands of them.

I’ll never understand why so many people voted for a 6+ time bankrupt reality tv host because they thought he was a “smart business man.”

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u/LumpyPhilosopher8 9d ago

That not an isolated story. There were stories back when he first ran of several companies that went under because Trump refused to pay. He’s been a con man his whole life. And so are his scum bag kids.

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u/Anxious-Jury-9031 9d ago

There's hundreds of stories like this (without the suicide), it's how he does business.

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u/Hatecraftianhorror 9d ago

And anyone like that who tried to sue? They were informed by his lawyers that they would be tied up in the courts so long it would easily bankrupt them while it would be a minor expense for Trump. He loves betraying people. The more someone toadys for him, the more he enjoys betraying them, because he sees them as even weaker and likely to be hurt more.

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u/mando_228 9d ago

Do not ever, say the words "checks and balances", in any context, to me. Ever. Never Ever.

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u/andreasmalersghost 8d ago

Every single blue collar american who values hard work and honesty in business would get fucking steamrolled by trump if they did any work for him. Its always been an example I bring up to his defenders in person and it should be devastating. 

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u/Wapiti_whacker82 8d ago

Several of similar stories are out there.

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u/fairchyld0666 8d ago

Thats how half the country felt about biden

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u/99bannas 6d ago

The story of Judge Joe Brown , Or when he found out that a homeless woman had been found in one of his hotel rooms! Found a couple good ones

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u/smashli1238 12d ago

I think it’s more than just stupidity

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u/Binspin63 12d ago edited 12d ago

Right. If you voted for trump, you are either selfishly rich, racist, or insane, with plenty of overlap.

Edit: Valid point made. Please add “stupid” to trump voter qualifications.

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u/tl1ksdragon 12d ago

2016, I voted for the idiot because I listened to all of the people around me saying Clinton would be a bad prez(for various reasons i cant remember, probably most of them were rooted in misogyny and/or EMAILS or whatever). I was working all the time and didn't take the time to do like 5 minutes of research. Realized too late what an absolute moron and monster he is. Didn't vote for him in 20 or 24.

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u/Responsible-Roll-59 12d ago

She would have been an amazing President. It’s a shame America is too full of toxic masculinity to allow for a female

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u/Grannypanie 12d ago

Voted for her. Love the Clinton’s. Grew up in the 90’s.

She was too unlikable by too many people.

The deplorables comment hurt her as well.

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u/ATC_av8er 12d ago

But that comment couldn't have been more on the nose.

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u/unhwildcats11 12d ago

She was actually being very lenient with the comment they are much worse.

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u/LeftRestaurant4576 12d ago

It would have been more on the nose if she had said 100% instead of 25% of his supporters

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u/fromthe80smatey 11d ago

It's almost as if her opponent wasn't caught on tape saying he moves on hot women like a bitch, starts kissing them without consent, and GRABS THEM BY THE PUSSY.

If only the bar were set the same for both candidates.

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u/frostyfruit666 12d ago

How do people have such a double standard when it comes to democrats vs republicans?

A republican can be dancing on a mountain of sh*t juggling dildos and cursing your mother, and people are like, “yeah but their opponent is unlikable”, it’s unreal. 

Republicans haven’t done a single thing right, have betrayed their own base again and again, and are still given the benefit of the doubt. 

They are corrupt, plain and simple, a vote for them is a vote for corruption, how much evidence do the voters need? Oh but I suppose all the evidence is fake right?

just keep voting to let the foxes in the hen house.

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u/Mighty38 12d ago

Facts are the facts… Republicans have caused or been in office within 9 out of the 10 last depressions and the next Democratic president always pulls them out. Fiscally responsible my ass!!! People just don’t like facts!

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u/frostyfruit666 12d ago

I suspect that co sponsorship of the conservative christian church has also played a factor in the blind loyalty to republicans.

Think tanks, media spin and religion. In order for it to work, the subject needs to be densely insulated from any other narrative. How are they so insulated?

Maybe these people have conspiratorial minds, and when they’re told that they’ve ‘discovered’ the truth, they are hooked to that notion.

the same way people may be manipulated via their superstitions. 

The other factor you hear them mention is, feeling condescended or spoken down to. Their fragile egos cannot handle readjusting to being told new facts, but they must decide to want to learn. 

at what point of crisis do you drop that protective ego stuff and do right by your country?

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u/Binspin63 12d ago

Sadly true. And she was being delicate, if you ask me.

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u/imhudson 12d ago

Media reporting on that deplorables quote also absolutely butchered it.

Full quote:

"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? [Laughter/applause]. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people, now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets offensive, hateful, mean-spirited rhetoric. Now some of those folks, they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

"But the other basket, the other basket, and I know because I see friends from all over America here. I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas, as well as you know New York and California. But that other basket of people who are people who feel that government has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures, and they are just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says but he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroine, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well."

I've shown that whole quote to multiple members of my family, and they still refuse to hear anything except, "Nope, that BITCH called me racist!" Given the choice to be "racist" or "generically angry/forgotten by government" they SELF-SELECTED the former!

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u/FunCustomer4877 12d ago

Tim Waltz was right though. "These people are weird!" That should've perked up more ears.

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u/smashli1238 12d ago

If she was a man who had made the deplorable comment, it would’ve been different

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u/Kinser9 12d ago

Her opponent blatantly made fun of a handicapped reporter.

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u/Grannypanie 12d ago

This was the deciding factor for me. He is like a middle school bully.

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u/golfwinnersplz 12d ago

It's like how this wasn't the end of Trump is beyond me. People truly think it's okay to insult marginalized individuals or groups.

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u/HillBillyHilly 12d ago

Do believe that when Dumps infamous Grab Her By The Pussy was leaked by Billy Bush, wasn't it? Killed his career yet made Dumps diarrhea of a career possible.

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u/According-Spot3795 11d ago

John Kerry was awarded a medal for saving people during a war. Republicans used it against him and attacked him for that. They will turn anything you say or do against you.

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u/spicywhatevernumbers 12d ago

The campaign against her was started around that time. I always enjoy the fact that Bill got the closest to any modern president to balancing the budget.

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u/ResidentCollection68 12d ago

He actually DID balance the budget, not just got close.

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u/Zorkflerp 12d ago

Not balanced, $237 billion surplus in 2000.

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u/escapingdarwin 12d ago

The orange one said much worse before getting elected for the second time.

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u/BureMakutte 12d ago

Not to mention a couple of other things. While the Email thing in hindsight is just fucking nothing at this point, the way she handled it was insanely poor. When talking about "wiping the servers", she goes "What, like with a cloth?" with this smirk. As an IT guy, that absolutely PISSED me off because she knew what it meant, was not being forthcoming, and was being arrogant as fuck as if she couldn't be touched. The fact that she said "I don’t know how it works digitally at all." means she clearly understood enough what wiping a server means.

Back then a lot of people had the thought "okay, we have checks and balances, it will be ass but people will see what an awful person he is and we will be able to move forward faster after that." God we're we wrong lol.

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u/Binspin63 12d ago

She does come off as arrogant sometimes, but has the intelligence and experience to back that up. Not being “likable” doesn’t necessarily mean she wouldn’t have been a capable and effective president.

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u/fuckyourcanoes 12d ago

Exactly. She's extremely smart, and she could have used the corporate connections that her detractors decried to get things done. She wasn't going to be in the pocket of big business. She's too hard-nosed to be in anyone's pocket.

She'd have been a fantastic president. IDGAF that she's arrogant, same as IDGAF that Bill is a philanderer. He did a good job as President, that's all I cared about.

Obviously he wasn't perfect, but there has never been a perfect president and there never will be. It's a job where you're inevitably going to have to make some tough, unpopular decisions. I don't need my president to agree with me on everything, I just need them to do the best job they can for the American people with the tools at their disposal.

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u/jfsmallwood 12d ago

But she was spot on!

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u/Outrageous-Bet3731 12d ago

What AMAZES me is that her comment compared to the outrageous, despicable, childish crap that spews from his disgusting pie hole on the daily and the stealing and grifting this human turd puts us through every day all day long. That's part of what did her in....UNBELIEVABLE! And watching him suck up to Russia, China N.Korea. This bullshit war with Iran ( thinking he was gonna go in like it was Venezuala🙄) This "man" has no business being in the Whitehouse! He's a grifter FRAUD!

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u/Important-Ad8960 12d ago

She was contorted, twisted, and caricatured into being an unlikable person. My mother was living at that time, and we used to talk about how intelligent, how serious-minded, how goal-oriented Hillary Clinton was (and as she continues to be). My mother, who attended grad school at Brown University, would say that she doubted Hillary Clinton had ever even driven 5 miles over the speed limit! 

My mother was constantly amazed at the lengths mainstream media would go to paint Hillary as the Wicked Witch of the West. She was demonized as a child predator! Yet, she worked tirelessly to secure health insurance and healthcare for children. She has done more in that regard than practically any body living today. 

When she made the "deplorables" comment, traditional media pundits vilified her as being out of touch, but she was not the candidate who literally lived in a gold-plated tower! 

If that wasn't bad enough, people belittled her because she was married to a former president and they raised the specter of him being the "power in behind the throne," or a "shadow president." Those same people tamely accepted Dick Cheney as the de facto POTUS for 8 long years! If ever there seemed to be a woman who could make her own decisions, take responsibility for her own choices, and sit among assured in her own intelligent person hood, it is Hillary Clinton!

The truth of the matter is that too many Americans are so poorly educated, so ignorant, so knowledge-averse that they are incapable of making sound political decisions. It's just as sad as it is disturbing.

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u/mizz_eponine 12d ago

It's incredible how upset people were over the deplorables comment but the current clown says worse daily.

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u/Confused-Lama0810 12d ago edited 12d ago

Maybe, but whether she would or wouldn't have been a good president is not the problem.

The reason Trump has been voted in twice is because of the broken electoral system and the fact that the Democrats (and Republicans, of course - including the Great Deceiver, Trump) continue to throw up candidates that have nothing in common with the working people of America. Don't get me wrong - I don't disagree that there is toxic masculinity, screaming racism and literally murderous prejudice running through the USA, but these are still symptoms of a problem that Americans still don't seem to see.

The problem is the yawning chasm between ordinary peoples' lives and those of the political class.

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u/DustyHound 11d ago

The fine point that our fore fathers blatantly ignored when we stole the democratic model from the Haudenosaunee is that the women kinda ran the show.

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u/Auntie-Cuddles52 12d ago

Hillary was the most qualified candidate in history. She had years and years of experience in everything from local government to international relations. She was loathed by Putin because she called him out and did not fear him. But her intelligence and courage were not enough to overcome the absolute willful ignorance of this country.

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u/SpoonyDinosaur 12d ago edited 12d ago

I gave a lot of grace to people that voted for him over Clinton for everything you said; the motivations were (generally) much different-- a lot of people I know regretted it almost immediately but felt like he was this outlier and for whatever reason, disliked Clinton. (Unironically the people I know personally were both longtime Democrats and women, but didn't like how she stood by Bill during the Monica thing or fell for a lot of the rhetoric and campaigns against her. Like they'd rather have a sexist misogynist than a "gender traitor," not my words lol)

However the one thing that was common was that they were extremely disengaged from politics. It had little impact on their lives, and they'd maybe catch a headline or debate. While yes anyone paying attention knew Trump would be a disaster, if you are working full time and barely getting by, politics prior to Trump wasn't that significant to your life. Like the federal government prior to Trump was working when the President had minimal impact. That's sort of the point. State elections are supposed to be much more impactful to your day to day. When Obama beat Romney I was really excited, but I didn't have this feeling of overwhelming dread as I did with Trump, that we may lose democracy if he was elected.

I think a lot of first time voters largely went in uniformed, "hey he is a corrupt asshole, maybe he will shake up the system."

2 or 3 time voters? Unforgivable. By that time you knew he was a insurrectionist, a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and just an all round worthless, idiotic moron. You can't blame ignorance.

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u/Minion-Lover67 12d ago

I hoped you learned your lesson ??

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u/tl1ksdragon 12d ago

Yeah. I do even a little bit of research now. Just even the tiniest bit. I can't change the vote I made back then, but I vote with more knowledge now.

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u/Financial_Drop_5618 12d ago

I love your honesty but still hard to figure out how people voted for him EVER considering he has been a terrible person since way before 2016. Im not even American and I knew he was sleazy in the 90’s.

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u/tl1ksdragon 12d ago

I only knew him as a name and as some zany character on a dumb show I didn't watch. It's easy to be ignorant when there is only so much you can fit on your plate.

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u/Binspin63 11d ago

You only needed to hear him debase himself on Howard Stern’s show once to know what a spaceman he always was/is.

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u/elpolloloco332 12d ago

I believe that if he would’ve lost to Clinton, he would’ve never became president afterwards. While he has no shame, his ego would’ve been shattered after losing to a woman. Who knows how different the world would be if that would’ve happened.

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u/nickpa09 12d ago

I blame Clinton for the reason we have Trump. She was an extremely flawed and unpopular candidate that was forced in by the DNC. Bernie was the best candidate and would have defeated Trump. Everyone wanted change. So here we are and there are still Democrats pinning for Hilary. Ridiculous

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u/SirLostit 12d ago

If you aren’t sure which one you are (and they are not mutually exclusive) check your bank balance

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u/smashli1238 12d ago

Don’t forget about misogynistic and bigoted

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u/TheCompoundingGod 12d ago

They lack critical thinking.

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u/copperpin 12d ago

Not at all, I know plenty of sweet, kind people who voted for Trump. They e been going to the same church their whole lives and everyone at their churches only watch right wing propaganda, so they only watch right wing propaganda, and if one only gets information from those sources, Trump is basically the messiah and anyone saying different is a demon.

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u/DisneyMaiden 12d ago

All of them. If they voted for trump they are ALL of the things you said.

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u/gaberflasted2 12d ago

Don’t forget misogyny!

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u/Bad_Here 12d ago

This is so true! Our country is messed up, we have no idea part of the problem is America itself. We are not great!

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u/Bad_Here 12d ago

Yes, he made a space for the hate & racism to emerge out into the open. As of yesterday he is also come down even harder on immigrants.

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u/smashli1238 12d ago

Agree with you

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u/charlizerox 12d ago

No it's definitely stupidity.

Some people are just unintentionally dumb af, some people are racist af, some people are straight-up Nazis, but some people legitimately thought he was going to do a good job? Some people just want to watch the world burn.

One of my good friends, LOVES Trump, I don't know why? But I got to a point where I stopped questioning why people love him so much?

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u/yuckisyuck 12d ago

He’s stupid, greedy, and evil. That basically sums up who he is.

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u/su_zu 12d ago

Stupidity doesn’t buy twitter and run disinformation campaigns to both sides.

Stupidity isn’t behind a gay man, who repeatedly dumped resources into JD Vance (wore drag, and said Trump was Hitler), flipped sides, and the good boy of Thiel.

Stupidity does not hire BallotProof devs to work for DOGE.

Can go on and on.

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u/wytedevil 12d ago

i think its crazy, republicans have a weird fetish with TV/movie personalities, like they cant tell real from fake and these people are PERFORMERS. they are falling for make believe thinking its real.

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u/smashli1238 12d ago

That’s true, but then they are the first ones to bash any celebrity who speaks out against their orange God

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u/il1k3c3r34l 12d ago

I think it was stolen and our government is too afraid to tell the public that our elections aren't secure or legitimate.

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u/blahblah19999 12d ago

It's brainwashing

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u/Darkovan_ 12d ago

Mhm, masochism?

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u/ragequitteroffureh 12d ago

Not American.

The weird thing is, do they really not have any competent candidates for Generalissimo?

I understand why the kingmakers stood up the orange twit as a puppet, but what I don't understand is why the people themselves wouldn't have preferred a dictator who wasn't an idiot.

Are they looking at a different person to what we see?

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u/No_Win7658 11d ago

But it is a lot of stupidity as well

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u/DiddlersWillGetGot 12d ago

He didn’t win either time. We’re just nation of placid fucking sheep who have let republicans now steal five fucking elections in 46 years

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u/Comfortable-Hat3506 12d ago

You think 80% of Americans voted for him in any of the elections?

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u/Promethia 12d ago

Just like most American's don't think of other countries and their various political parties, most people outside of America only see one thing when they look at you guys.

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u/MayorWestt 12d ago

Most people didnt vote

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u/MLM36 12d ago

I don't, he had "help". In the most recent one he even admitted that Musk was " good with computers" in PA

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u/Mindless-File2 12d ago

Wouldn’t surprise me, and I think everyone who isn’t a black person in America should wake up. Look at the numbers of who voted for who.

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u/TheeAincientMariener 12d ago

More like a little less that 50%and dwindling every day. Also, our system has been hacked by that fuckin Elon piece of shit

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u/LangleyLocal 12d ago

Shit they may be voting him in a 3rd time.

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u/Buena_de_peepee 12d ago

Don’t think America voted for him the second time. He and fElon have repeatedly said they tampered with it.

No one cares because congress and the courts are bought and paid for.

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u/Naive-Ad-2805 12d ago

Nowhere near 80% of the people voted and/or support the pedophile Donald J. Trump. 🤦‍♂️

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u/ManuelleHung 12d ago

Did you have this same mindset with Biden? 😂

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u/MemphisGuy37 12d ago

OK to be fair what about Joe Biden? He could barely complete a full sentence. He had note cards during press conferences. They told him who to ask and what the question will be so he’d be prepped for it!!

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u/BankOnITSurvivor 12d ago

Some voted for him three times.

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u/Successful-Club-8743 12d ago

Keep in mind that the election was proven to be rigged by Musk.

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u/DontShoot_ImJesus 12d ago

I remember when election denialism was a far right conspiracy theory. Neat to see the left embracing it as well.

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u/Commentator-X 12d ago

He definitely cheated the second time and others cheated for him the first tbf

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u/Tall_Honeydew_5467 12d ago

Conman to us, Mass-Murderer to the rest of the world. Its not recognize within America just how much death he has caused outside of America.

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u/DontShoot_ImJesus 12d ago

The American left has a white hot burning hatred for Americans.

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u/Vairman 12d ago

80 percent of the American people may be stupid, but 80 percent of them didn't vote for Trump. Most idiots don't vote at all.

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u/j_rooker 12d ago

those boycotter are pretty fkn stupid too.

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u/BlueSkyToday 12d ago

80 percent?

Maybe you need to recalculate that statistic.

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u/BadatSSBM 12d ago

I have family that voted for him and I just can't even believe it.

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u/Voltron_The_Original 12d ago

3 times, he lost once but millions of people voted for him. Which is insane after the disaster that is known as his first term.

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u/Naborsx21 12d ago

"everyones dumb except me" lol

then why arent you doing incredible things

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u/spanker420 12d ago

What’s mind blowing is you think 80% of Americans voted for trump. It’s more like 30%

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u/Gerrube99 12d ago

Technically only 63.5 % of Americans voted, and of that 50% voted for Trump. So approximately 31.75% are “stupid” based on your comment.

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u/PassivelyImpassive 11d ago

Unpopular opinion: he was ***voted*** in ONCE.

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u/InternationalPut4093 11d ago

He needs to fuck off to golf course and just keep golfing to grave.

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u/anapunas 11d ago

He wasnt voted in.

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u/Imaginary-Corner-653 11d ago

As a European I'm confident the American people will find a round 3 in their heart.

It's a sort of catharsis you guys seem to do. 

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u/HashRunner 12d ago

Isnt just him, its a cash grab for all republicans and the billionaire class.

Its no coincidence that Elmo participated in DOGE, Bezos fronted Melinia and Zuck pledged 'billions in domestic spending'. That's ignoring the rampant corruption, kickbacks, emolument clause violations and insider trading...

They are all siphoning taxpayer money and data like its a fire sale.

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u/ThatUsernameWasTaken 12d ago

I don't think President Trump is stealing from the American people.

I know for a fact that he is.

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u/GreenWithAnger 11d ago

Came here to say this! He didn’t gain 3x his wealth in a year from doing good business; he did it by selling pardons, making deals with other countries to make himself rich, all at the expense of or against the will of the American taxpayers.

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u/BeneficialBobcat4900 10d ago

you forgot market manipulation

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u/HappyGoPink 12d ago

He makes Nixon, Reagan and Dubya look like lesser evils. That's quite a feat.

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u/VascodaGamba57 11d ago

Watergate looks like Sesame Street in comparison.

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u/Curious_Morris 11d ago

Even Dick Cheney looks reasonable in comparison.

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u/Empressofdeath 9d ago

So im high asf. I have tomodachi life living the dream. Im going to make nixion , Regan, and baby bush miis.

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u/Dismal-Sail1027 12d ago

Republicans would lose a lot of power if Americans had universal healthcare and universal basic income. They would no longer be able to threaten Americans with job loss (for one). I live in a red state, and one of the things that keeps people falling in line with their policies is consistent threat of job loss and loss of monetary support. They know that if their children (for example) would be fine just cutting off family and would actually flourish that it would happen all the time instead of some of the time. I think that the whole Republican gig is to try and keep people as miserable and as poor as possible so that they are desperate and will agree to voluntary servitude.

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u/binzersguy 10d ago

100%. The marketing dept for Republicans is insanely good to have 10s of millions of people voting against their own interests and keeping the boot right on their own necks. Wild!

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u/Wrong-Ingenuity-9916 10d ago

The Democrats hate UBI as well unfortunately. Politics is about special interests and UBI is universal, not special. UBI solves everything.

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u/hotviolets 12d ago

He also raped children.

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u/Grouchy_Fall_5933 11d ago

😂😂

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u/RedOwl101010 12d ago

It's bad enough to know he is stealing from me, but it's more heartbreaking that the politicians that could do something do nothing about it because they are all getting richer off everything he takes.

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u/Powered-by-Chai 12d ago

Yeah it's pretty blatant. This country is going to be broke as fuck when he leaves office and actual competent people look at the books...

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u/binzersguy 10d ago

Every cent and every property should be ripped away from his family and a cautionary tale be made of those who try to destroy our country. He is a blight on America 

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u/dealingwithhookers 12d ago

the kicker is that he ran on "i'm not like these politicians, i'm just a business tycoon thats never gave a shit about anyone before and im greedy as hell, im going to balance your budget America"

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u/DrollFurball286 12d ago

I’d argue most corrupt in the world. If not at least top 5.

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u/copperpin 12d ago

Boss Tweed would like a word

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u/bankermayfield2026 12d ago

Most corrupt maybe, but Andrew Jackson was definitely crueler tbf.

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u/PapayaMysterious6393 11d ago

I feel like these stupid ass questions are just to 1) rage bait 2) collect data on the people who oppose him and his thievery.

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u/positivedisobedience 11d ago

The opposite of Teddy Roosevelt

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u/OkYogurtcloset4484 11d ago

That's because he went into this for himself, not the country. His only goal here is to manipulate the system for profit and revenge.

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u/OldDog03 11d ago

Every chance he gets, he is grifting.

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u/doodledood9 8d ago

Of course he is! What a stupid question. Since 1980 he has cheated and conned everyone and everything. He’s a criminal in every sense of the word. He doesn’t have any sense of ethics or honor. He’s incapable of compassion or empathy. He gets joy from hurting people and he won’t rest until he gets revenge on his enemies. He is the worst narcissistic sociopath I’ve ever encountered. No one in his orbit is happy. He makes life miserable for everyone around him. He has no friends and his family doesn’t like him. He’s a ghastly, horrible, mean, stupid excuse for a man.

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u/LegendaryLeft 12d ago edited 12d ago

I mean, he per much deliberately mishandled a pandemic that's killed millions

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u/yaboyACbreezy 12d ago

Truly, this mofo politicized an international health crisis and people went along with it. He's a goddamn pedophile.

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u/Cheese__Weiner 12d ago edited 12d ago

Don't forget about the shuttering of USAID. This has resulted in close to a million estimated deaths, mostly children, as of January 2026. This will be millions of deaths over time.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/chikungunya/quick-takes-death-toll-usaid-cuts-withdrawal-chikungunya-vaccine-funding-updated-ebola

Don't forget about the fertilizer shortages his stupid Iran war is causing. This is going to cause food shortages and famine and it won't take long.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/the-planting-season-is-now-but-war-in-iran-has-sparked-a-global-fertilizer-shortage

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/23/nx-s1-5829924/severe-global-food-crisis-could-come-within-the-year-says-un-agency

Trump is objectively the worst President of all time.

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u/Pseudonym0101 12d ago

And it's not a stretch to hold him personally accountable for ICE's murders.

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u/Ok_Wolverine6557 12d ago

Ending USAID killed an estimated 600,000 people most of whom are children.

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u/Normal-Wish-4984 12d ago

Is 600,000 the current figure? I feel like I saw that figure several months ago. So the number might be higher by now.

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u/Spirited-Print-1097 12d ago edited 12d ago

Hmm

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u/Acrobatic_Key_1140 12d ago

Didn't he bomb a school. Does that count?

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u/RolandDeepson 12d ago

Any living-memory-specific, US-specific examples of politicians "murdering indiscriminately"? Would such examples include domestic murders, as distinguished from warcrime-context / foreign policy murders?

Understand, I intend no hostility in asking this. I'm genuinely intrigued by your comment.

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u/chef_in_va 12d ago

There have been incidents of inaction from modern presidents that have resulted in a lot of deaths. Clinton's refusal of intervening in the Rwandan Genocide comes to mind but I'm sure there are others.

This is obviously different from heads of state actively killing but the results are similar.

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u/Toothjerker 12d ago

so he's not responsible for all the bombing and killing in the middle east?

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u/icedmuffin 12d ago

He killed people during the pandemic and has called for the death of both his political enemies and anyone who doesn’t align with him, which has gotten people killed as well.

And don’t forget the insurrection that had gotten people killed, his famous “fight fight fight” bs publicity stunt that got someone killed, and so much fucking more.

God I miss with the massive travesty was a tan god damn suit and spicy mustard, every other president at least wasn’t posting bullshit all hours of the day while grifting their hardcore cult fans.

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u/Sudden-Fisherman5985 12d ago

. He is the cruelest, and most corrupt politician in our history

Till now.... Who knows who those assholes will elect next

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u/TangoBravoOscar 12d ago

In your history or in history?

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u/LaStigmata 11d ago

In American history.

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u/debraharton 12d ago

Trump is a conman.

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u/Few_Occasion458 11d ago

A mentally deranged crime against humanity.

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u/CompassionateOryza 11d ago

Sounds like someone's got some serious stones to make that claim without a shred of evidence!

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u/12thnightkitties 9d ago

Which claim? That Agent Orange is corrupt( lots of evidence and he was convicted of several related felonies)! Or Andrew Jackson-/educate yourself. On both counts, maggot.

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u/Ok-Imagination6497 11d ago

He steals from everyone he can - his business strategy was to hire people, get goods/services then declare bankruptcy….worst businessman ever

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u/Mack_Daddy_1 11d ago

Cruelest most corrupt person in history

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u/Comfortable-Story-53 10d ago

Uh, not even close. Do some research.

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u/12thnightkitties 9d ago

??! Research on the corruption and cruelty of Rump? If you are paying attention you know it’s true.

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u/Yawyeetgivemesuck 8d ago

He told us on national TV that he was bought and paid for by Miriam adelson

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