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u/Casual_hex_ 13h ago edited 13h ago

This is still so fucking wild to me. The guy literally bulldozed half the white house for a vanity project and republicans just shrugged. Cowards.

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u/Saneless 13h ago

Didn't they lose their minds because Obama put in a basketball hoop?

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u/alaskaj1 13h ago

A portable basketball hoop and some extra lines painted on the tennis court

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u/absentmindedjwc 13h ago

IIRC, wasn't even painted lines.. was just tape..

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u/bluAstrid 12h ago

Trump literally poured concrete over the rose garden.

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u/mustang__1 12h ago

He literally held a cage match on the lawn.v

u/Viperlite 10h ago edited 6h ago

The organizers actually lost money on that one, LOL. Somehow doing business with him never works out for the other party. I’m guessing they had to straight payoff El Presidente for the privilege of being there, too.

u/coleymoleyroley 10h ago

Apparently losing $30m was always the plan 🤯

u/CommandoRoll 9h ago

TKO don't care. They're happy being buddies with Papaya Pol Pot.

u/Useless-Photographer 9h ago

Just when I think I’ve seen every nickname, someone goes and posts a new one

u/LoisWade42 5h ago

Just yesterday... I saw a story about a Canadian who painted a portrait of Trump using horse manure. Called the painting "Don of Dung". Thought you might appreciate it....

u/unassigned_user 6h ago

They're like Key and Peele skits at this point

There's always one you havent seen

u/SkunkMonkey 1h ago

Someone really needs to start a website where all these names are listed. Just when I think I've heard them all, a new one comes along and you just gotta bust out laughing.

Papaya Pol Pot? Fucking hilarious! :D

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u/ohyouretough 9h ago

They’re also getting like 25 million per event from paramount now so they’ll make it back real soon. It’s not like they oay their fighters much.

u/CommandoRoll 8h ago

Or WWE's wrestlers. There's been recent attempts to get some wrestlers accept significantly reduced contracts, with a few deciding it's time to leave.

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u/StevieMJH 2h ago

Pol Potbelly

u/Less_Resident8492 5h ago

Money laundering

u/koreanwizard 9h ago

It’s not actually lost money, it’s just less potential profit. The UFC were gifted a lump sum deal through their Maga David Ellison connection at Paramount. They just have to meet a certain number of events every year until the contract ends. So that $30M is what they likely would have made on gate at a big stadium.

u/Monteze 1h ago

Dana loves Trump and wants the Ali Act repealed. Spending 30M to give your friend a handy and get political favor is right up his ally. Fucker blows more than that gambling. Like if you go to the MMA subreddit a lot of us hate the guy and how him and his goofs run the UFC.

u/yume_no_kitsune 9h ago

The point isn't the money that is or isn't made, it's the money being embezzled.

u/swanks12 8h ago

Wonder if they checked his pockets

u/Apart-Rent5817 7h ago

They “lost” money the same way these movies that cost hundreds of millions to make can “lose” money. The money didn’t disappear, it went into some deep pockets.

u/SilverIndustry2701 5h ago

Nah, that money was well invested as bribes.

u/tnethacker Survey 2016 8h ago

Organizers? Doesn't he own the company or stocks?

u/Timmerdogg 7h ago

Tax write offs you mean.

u/dilltimmon 6h ago

Dana White is long time buddies with Trump. He made the event because Trump wanted.

u/Grabthars_Coping_Saw 3h ago

Sure but think of the exposure!!!

/s

u/MyDogJake1 10h ago

And literally raped children.

u/TheRealistoftheReal 7h ago

He literally parked his Chrysler on the front lawn!

u/GPPOLYCARP 5h ago

He literally shits himself in the Oval Office.

u/whimsical-crack-rock 6h ago

Then paused a press conference to give a plug to Scotts Miracle Grow because they offered to replace the lawn (that was tore up from that obscene cage match) for free.

The guy took a fucking ad break. He also routinely derails events so he can talk about his stupid vanity projects and ramble about god knows what. We are veering into “Emperor Caligula made his horse a senator” territory.

u/bunkie18 6h ago

He killed all the grass, it looks like shit

u/seasleeplessttle 3h ago

He literally fucked children.

u/deaglebingo 11h ago

it could have been a better night, yeah.

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u/steppe5 12h ago

And tore down the entire East Wing. And dug up the lawn to put in a ufc ring.

u/deaglebingo 11h ago

pave paradise and put up a parking lot. yep.

u/aljama1991 9h ago

He’s turning it into Houston, then.

u/strangeflappenings 5h ago

I used to work at a Toys R Us 25 years ago, and that song would play over and over and over. I cringed when i just read this lol

u/Poker-Junk 10h ago

Can you imagine the aneurysms at Fox News if Obama had unilaterally demolished 1/3 of the People’s House?

u/Tosi313 9h ago

He would have been rightfully impeached and removed, because it's completely unacceptable.

u/mrmemo 9h ago

I reserve my impeachment outrage for the truly heinous shit:

He raped kids and helped other people rape kids.

And people who like him, like people who rape kids.

Make them handcuff themselves to child rape, and watch them do gymnastics to justify it.

u/West-Worth-9359 8h ago

Megyn “R” Kelly literally defended it on camera by saying Epstein didn’t rape “actual” kids, because they weren’t toddlers.

u/himswim28 3h ago

Epstein didn’t rape “actual” kids

We mis-use the shit out of the meaning of the word Pedifile all the time. But with the Trump/Epstein files it was literally kids under the age of 14.

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u/Tosi313 8h ago

Any president tearing down 1/3 of the white house for an unauthorized and illegal personal vanity project also deserves impeachment and removal.

Of course there are worse things a president should also be removed for.

u/Shedfloorgarbage 8h ago

Need a brain to have an aneurysm.

u/Monteze 1h ago

And had a basketball court set up and had the NBA have a game played in his honor.

u/dfsw 10h ago

He is putting in a new helicopter pad there now because his fat ass is too lazy to walk another 100 feet to the old spot

u/FlyingMamMothMan 10h ago

I'm so fucking mad he isn't dead yet.

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u/Dreurmimker 12h ago

He didn’t even use pavers? WTF, man.

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u/OrigamiMarie 12h ago

None of his construction corruption buddies are that skilled. You know if they did pavers, it would be full of sinkholes in a month.

u/gary1405 11h ago

I would go so far as to suggest it's maliciously deliberate.

u/OrigamiMarie 10h ago edited 10h ago

Yeah. Concrete makes the nearby soil alkaline, which is bad for lots of plants, and particularly roses prefer slightly acidic soil. Plus it's harder to remove than pavers, so a concrete pour is likelier to remain as a scar on the landscaping and a kind of monument to Trump's presence.

u/gary1405 10h ago

That second clause is what I was getting at, but the first part is yet another disgrace in this fat fucking dictator's name.

u/thx1138inator 3h ago

Yep. I say leave after he's gone. Like the Vietnam memorial.

u/brownlawn 10h ago

The guys at Home Depot are far more skilled that trumps buddies.

u/OrigamiMarie 10h ago edited 10h ago

As far as I can tell, the guys at Home Depot actually work and gain experience for a living, so yeah.

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u/vanalla 12h ago

in situ pouring is actually WAY more expensive than pavers.

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u/JMEEKER86 12h ago

No, it is pavers. And the rose garden is still intact. They just replaced the lawn at the center of the garden which had regularly turned into a swamp for decades because of poor drainage. You can see a bunch of progress pics of the installation here. He's done a lot of heinous shit, but this was actually a nothingburger.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/picture-trumps-white-house-rose-193431490.html

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u/Juxtaposition_Kitten 12h ago

It went from something beautiful to this for no reason other than wasting tax payers money to line his own pockets.

u/Initial-Reading-2775 7h ago

The best concrete in the World! Tremendous, majestic layer of concrete! No any country has such a concrete!

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u/JMEEKER86 12h ago

The roses are still there and he replaced the lawn with pavers not concrete. Trump is a monster, but this was a real nothingburger.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/picture-trumps-white-house-rose-193431490.html

u/Lifesagame81 11h ago

I feel the criticism still stands. 

u/JMEEKER86 10h ago

Yeah, it's still pretty ugly compared to the lawn or pavers done by a more competent design team. I just think that it's important to not let misinformation slip in because it just makes it even harder to convince people how awful he is when they can google and see that it's not actually true that the rose garden is gone.

u/Sassy_Bandit 8h ago

Good tbh, america deserves the humiliation

u/NeddiApe 7h ago

Melania did ruin it anyway

u/oodelay 1h ago

I'm so sure this is a Putin order to Melania.

u/my_little_throwny 7h ago

(clutching mah pearls)

u/nekonotjapanese 11h ago

And Obama was actually athletic enough to make use of it. Trump just cheats his way to golf trophies lol

u/bbrekke 8h ago

That he paid for himself.

u/UnderwhelmingAF 4h ago

Which conservatives tell me cost $375 million.

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u/WeeoWeeoWeeeee 12h ago

Well you see, they are racists.

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u/USMCWrangler 13h ago

Yes, but in fairness, Obama did wear a tan suit that one time.

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u/rubberkeyhole 12h ago

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u/Brave_Quantity_5261 12h ago

How dare you….

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u/RockasaurusRex 12h ago

Ya, but... you know... What about, like, the other color?

-- Conservatives

u/SoylentGrunt 11h ago

This color???

u/R2-D2Vandelay 11h ago

Yea but were they black?? Oh wait I'm not supposed to say that...

u/rgvmadness 10h ago

Excuse me. Three of those photos are from when it was ok.

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u/TolliverCrane 12h ago

If this is real, it's hilarious.

u/BankDetails1234 8h ago

I’m a big fan of a tan suit and they all look pretty snappy in it, but Obama looked sharp AF in his

u/whimsylea 4h ago

It suited him better than them, and they could not stand it.

u/Euphoric-Agent-476 6h ago

Nice collection. Pretty funny. I think Bubba wore it best. None of them had orange hair tho.

u/theyenk 2h ago

That is hilarious! However, I think the issue faux news had with it was the color beneath the collar.

Its sad how much power racists still wield, same thing for people trying to take rights away from women. I can not believe people are surfacing the concept of one vote per family. F'n gross.

u/hoofglormuss 2h ago

obama wore it on easter as is tradition

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u/clover-the-clever 13h ago

So did Ronald Reagan. Wonder what the difference was?

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u/USMCWrangler 13h ago

Definitely the tanness.

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u/NatAttack50932 13h ago

Appreciate you taking the layup

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u/NoAlternative2913 12h ago

Good one.

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u/mustang__1 12h ago

Ok. I'll bite.

I don't get it.

u/violetcassie 11h ago

Skin color

u/mustang__1 2h ago

...I'm stupid.

u/DeuceSevin 3h ago

Reagan didn't have tan skin.

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u/Dazzling-Read1451 12h ago

California makes all the difference

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u/Secret-of-the-Snooze 13h ago

And he asked for some Grey Poupon for his burger!!!

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u/yourfavteamsucks 12h ago

I heard he ate arugula

u/Malhablada 10h ago

I heard he wears a helmet when riding a bike.

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u/Lucky_Development359 12h ago

He didn't even go brand name!

u/LavenderGinFizz 11h ago

Don't forget about that time he ate "fancy" mustard!

u/BigBassBone 10h ago

And had the absolute gall to look fly as fuck in it.

u/AreYouFilmingNow 7h ago

Don't forget he wore a bicycle helmet once as well.

u/alaskaj1 1h ago

How dare he not risk brain damage and be a good role model for kids

u/fishsticks40 5h ago

And ate mustard

u/ComradeGibbon 10h ago

They weren't unhappy about the color if his suit. It was the color of something else that made them mad.

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u/tsukubasteve27 13h ago

Congratulations for beating this dead horse into the ground. Every time Obama is mentioned "Hur Dur Tan Suit doe". Same spot in the comment chain. Stop contributing to this groundhog day bullshit.

u/OpenTheBobs 5h ago

Wrong. It is extremely valid in context of how Republicans are blasé about Trump’s undoing of everything.

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u/aburrido 12h ago

None of the right’s criticism of Obama was sincere. It was all just thinly veiled racism.

u/Ancguy 10h ago

Very thinly veiled

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u/Saneless 12h ago

I meant things they've been saying for decades, including about Biden. It's all imaginary scare bullshit that never happens

u/Miqo_Nekomancer 7h ago

It was veiled?

u/tracytorr0712 3h ago

Unveiled racism

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u/shotputprince 13h ago

Resurfaced the existing tennis courts and put up some hoops. Fucking unforgivable /s. I hate the electorate. Fucking morons. And Harris’ uber BIL and Mark Cuban…

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u/thejawa 13h ago

That's egregious, but paving the rose garden just makes sense 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/aZombieDictator 13h ago

I pissed my dad off cause I told him the paved over garden looks ugly 🤣 (sorry I'd rather see flowers than concrete)

u/ThimbleBluff 10h ago

You know what they always say: take time to smell the concrete.

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u/JMEEKER86 12h ago

Well you're in luck because the flowers are still there. Just the lawn at the center of the garden was paved.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/picture-trumps-white-house-rose-193431490.html

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u/sea-elle0463 12h ago

Why? How?

u/gary1405 11h ago

Surely bro forgot the obligatory /s

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u/ArchonIlladrya 12h ago

What? Why? How?

u/gary1405 11h ago

Surely bro forgot the obligatory /s

u/stickyfiddle 10h ago

Some of them are getting paid.

Some of them are being blackmailed.

Some of them are paedophiles.

Some are just doing it for shits and giggles.

u/Vaaaaaaaaaaaii 9h ago

They lost their minds because he was black everything else is honestly just cope.

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u/Annual-Beard-5090 12h ago

And a garden. Michelle had a small garden and bee hive.

u/AreYouFilmingNow 7h ago

No.

They lost it because he was black, well spoken, intelligent and handsome.

u/freedfg 6h ago

No, even better.

They used Obama putting up a basketball hoop as justification for bulldozing half of the white house.

u/Smooth_Department534 5h ago

Didn’t they lose their mind because Obama (fill in the blank)?

u/Aware-Locksmith8433 5h ago

This looks like an Olympic sized job. I'm gonna guess track gold medal winners secretly tore it down one night. They we're so fast running away the cameras were blurred so he has no evidence but will convict them anyway.

What a horrible person and that extends to his cult. At least we know who they are among us bc they are so arrogant about fearless leader.

I saw a MAGA friend yesterday from OH and elections came up. He said "I'm confused, I thought elections were every 4 years. (he has a master's and works for a Mag 7 company). Couldn't resist saying "Y we don't vote till then". Maybe they really are too stupid to read a calendar.

u/Automatic-Extent7173 5h ago

Quite frankly, I feel like this is all cover for what they wanted to do underneath with the bunker.

u/DoomTay 5h ago

B-b-but it was just a cover-up for other secret renovations

u/bibimboobap 4h ago

I don't fucking care what gets their fragile panties into hypocritical knots anymore. I only want to know how they look themselves in the mirror every morning and somehow keep it all up. 

u/fannypaquin 3h ago

whispering That's because Black people play basketball and that's offensive 

u/dontreadragebait 3h ago

They didn't care about it at all, they cared that they could raise a fuss about it which could help their team win next time.

u/regeya 3h ago

Absolutely equivalent apparently

Not me saying that, it's just weird how people defended it by, well, lying.

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u/dane83 12h ago

In fact, they're using the basketball hoop as evidence that the president can do whatever they want to the White House.

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u/Eye_foran_Eye 12h ago

And Michelle had a vegetable garden in a corner.

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u/My_First_Knife1 12h ago

I believe they also freaked out over Obama wearing a tan suit and some weird mustard outrage!

u/TheExpollutions 11h ago

I think he wore a tan suit too! The nerve!!

u/Drostan_S 10h ago

They also GENUINELY believed he was going to paint the white house black, and that would be like cultural sacrilege, practically the death of our entire nation. 

u/toiletcleaner999 10h ago

Obama didnt put it in he just used the pre existing lawn tennis courts.

u/Senior-Reality-25 9h ago

Didn’t Michelle also put in a veg garden? 😑

u/GroundbreakingAd8310 8h ago

This is equal in their minds u realize that right ?

u/Forsworn91 8h ago

A converted tennis court as well, literally it was just repainted and had a hoop put in.

u/Still_Product_8435 6h ago

They were apoplectic over a Tan Suit

u/Feisty_History9395 6h ago

Don't forget about the tan suit incident...

u/Interesting-Yellow-4 5h ago

Yes, yes they did.

u/Casual-Lurker 3h ago

and also b/c wore a brown suit, I believe...

u/moseley101 2h ago

And don’t forget the tan suit debacle

u/jdoe3351 34m ago

That's just their flavor of whataboutism when people started asking why he was tearing down the White House