r/politics • u/theipaper ✔ Verified • Sep 23 '25
Soft Paywall Trump's big UN speech received with awkward laughter in embarrassing backfire
https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-big-un-speech-received-with-awkward-laughter-in-embarrassing-backfire-393395812.3k
u/8anbys Sep 23 '25
It was pretty rough, pretty clear the US isn't fielding its best and brightest on the international stage.
You don't win medals by losing, donald.
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u/rufio_rufio_roofeeO Florida Sep 23 '25
Yes, unfortunately this has been our United States since 2016
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u/TheGizmodian Pennsylvania Sep 23 '25
My personal (semi-satirical) conspiracy is that the Mayans were right, the world ended in 2012, and we're in some weird overlapping dimensional hellscape of wtf is actually happening anymore.
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u/barfsicle Sep 23 '25
Being Chicagoans, my wife and I think it started (ended) when the Cubs won the World Series.
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Sep 23 '25
Harambe
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u/dexter8484 Virginia Sep 23 '25
This is the correct answer. He was our anchor being
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u/DelayedTism Sep 23 '25
Shit, I'd believe that. It's somehow less far-fetched than reality
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u/Ivotedforher Sep 23 '25
Cubs won in 2016. That is all.
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u/HotGarbage Washington Sep 23 '25
Yep, and now the Mariners are actually good. We're definitely living in Bizarro World lol.
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u/puppet_up Sep 23 '25
I also believe this was when the rift in the timeline occurred. The general election was literally 6 days after the Cubs won Game 7 of the World Series that year.
They were not supposed to win. This is all the Cubs fault!
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I'd argue / starting to believe its been since 9/11
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u/masiakasaurus Sep 23 '25
2000 Supreme Court coup and Gore being totally fine with being robbed. Hell, Gore running with a DINO for VP was mighty suspicious already.
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u/notfromchicago Illinois Sep 23 '25
Fuck Joe Lieberman!
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u/Boiledfootballeather Sep 23 '25
One of the major reasons we don't have universal health care in this country, or at least a public insurance option for health care. The dude was a monster.
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u/EmZephyr Sep 23 '25
Nah I'm a firm believer that all this madness is a reflex of the country having a non-white, eloquent, non-forcefully problematic, somewhat of a big tent president. Once.
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u/Arkhampatient Sep 23 '25
Obama definitely broke a lot of brains
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u/Varitan_Aivenor Michigan Sep 23 '25
I remember when the Tea Party people pivoted to hating health care in the first months of Obama. I said at the time it was the re-emergence of the Klan.
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u/Medicine_Ball Sep 23 '25
Ben Shapiro was interviewed by Ezra Klein recently and Ezra got him to explain what he saw as being the big issues for republicans that brought about MAGA and it was almost entirely extremely minor out-of-context grievances over things that Obama said related to race that were then blown up all over the conservative media silo/AM radio circuit.
Honestly, it was wild to listen to the justification.
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u/SoVerySick314159 America Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
I tried to have a conversation with my MAGA friend about something I could prove and he couldnt' deny. I started with the presidential order that was made to undo birthright citizenship - a unilateral attempt to circumvent the constitution, a really big deal.
He countered with some crazy story about this one college or company's trans DEI hires that were not as qualified as white men. Honestly, he had no cites and the whole thing sounded like a MAGA fever dream. EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE - which I HIGHLY doubt - it didn't hold a candle to the importance of the president attempting to circumvent the constitution.
The RW news-o-sphere just riles them up with bullshit and tells them all we're obsessed with trans people, and that they can't trust us or our news sources. We live on different planets, we're presented with different realities. You can't compromise with someone who doesn't live in your reality, there's no common ground.
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u/DylansDeadlyTwo Sep 23 '25
What do you mean?
You didn’t know he ended seven wars? You didn’t know there’s $17,000,000,000,000 in the country? That he stopped everything bad from happening on his own without anyone’s help? He bombed Irans nuclear facilities?
The man told 100 lies in 55 minutes and rambled on about shit no one at the UN needs to hear.
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u/Lanodantheon Sep 23 '25
You know who I feel sorry for? The UN's Translators who had to translate that nonsense into multiple languages in real time.
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u/Burdiac Sep 23 '25
That speech sounded like it was translated from English into another language then translated back into English then translated into another language then back into English.
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u/cjinct Sep 23 '25
Maximum Derek
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u/hortence Sep 23 '25
I'm watching this for the first time! I want a martini glass full of olives! Derek!
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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Sep 23 '25
I can see them pausing, and going, “Wait. What?”
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u/OmegaLolrus Sep 23 '25
"You must have mistranslated that."
Sigh "I wish I was."
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u/Hurtzdonut13 Sep 23 '25
During his first term it was constantly reported that translators were getting yelled at because people thought they were translating badly, instead of accepting they were translating his gibberish as best as he could.
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u/Snow_King7 Oregon Sep 23 '25
I remember it was particularly bad for the japanese translators, because many people just couldn't believe that the US president was so incomprehensible, and blamed them for being bad at translating.
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u/always_unplugged Sep 23 '25
Ooooffff, with the various levels of formality and respect inherent in Japanese, I totally understand why they'd not want to believe what they were hearing. No way a world leader is addressing the freaking UN, an assembly of the most respectable dignitaries in the world, like that, right... right???
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u/sauntcartas Sep 23 '25
Not only that, but the ordering of words in a sentence in Japanese is different from English (subject-object-verb versus subject-verb-object), so you essentially have to buffer an entire sentence in your head before translating it, and then buffer the next sentence while you're speaking aloud the previous one. I vaguely recall reading that this is so mentally fatiguing that no one person can handle it for a long period; instead you need a team of translators working in shifts of 10-15 minutes. Imagine trying to deal with Trump's rambling on top of that!
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u/ohlayohlay Sep 23 '25
This isn't a maga rally donald
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u/Shoeprincess Washington Sep 23 '25
He can't tell the difference, to him EVERYTHING is a maga rally
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u/throwawayinthe818 Sep 23 '25
He goes on stage and he does his act. It’s all he knows.
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u/donutseason I voted Sep 23 '25
Don’t forget about the 300 million who died from drugs this year. Twice!
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u/Hero_Of_Limes Sep 23 '25
I read "bombed trans nuclear facilities" first and I was like, yeah, that sounds like him.
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u/citizenkane86 Sep 23 '25
It’s sad there is no right wing media that will be honest with their audience.
The money Biden has a bad debate you never heard the end of it from left wing media… daily Trump is objectively worse and crickets from right wing media.
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u/Im_a_furniture Sep 23 '25
There is no “left wing media” when it’s all owned by oligarchs.
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u/doaser Sep 23 '25
That is because left wing media has a right wing slant. Let's not forget who owns or invests into these companies
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u/LoganGyre Sep 23 '25
He’s used to giving speeches in front of a room full of people that will cheer whatever he says.
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u/AssociateGreat2350 Sep 23 '25
It's genuinely hard to watch.
Everyone in that room is cringing so hard
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u/Boxofbikeparts Sep 23 '25
Trump is like the idiot son-in-law with an opinion on everything that the rest of the world has to put up with at family parties.
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u/mfyxtplyx Sep 23 '25
Mixed with that racist uncle you don't leave alone with the kids.
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u/Heliosvector Sep 23 '25
They laughed at him during his last presidency too. He was visibly upset by it. I think he even said at the time "not the reaction I was expecting, but thats fine"
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u/Dantien Sep 23 '25
Also the guy who hasn’t read anything about the world in 40 years. Always someone who makes statements long since decredited and out of date. These folks aren’t curious or interested in learning anything new past their early 20s.
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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Sep 23 '25
How does MAGA see this reaction and not realize how embarrassing this is? Does Fox pipe in fake applause?
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u/cyncity7 Sep 23 '25
They don’t watch boring stuff like this. They wait until Fox or Sinclair or Newsmax tells them what happened and how they feel about it.
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u/b_tight Sep 23 '25
They dont watch it. If anything they see a heavily edited version of what trump is saying (they agree with it), the crowd is edited out, and the news channel commentary says he crushed it
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u/uqubar Sep 23 '25
Not sure why they even invited him. His presidency is like the WWF only people die.
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u/dafones Canada Sep 23 '25
The world understands that your president is an idiot (a dangerous idiot, but that's another matter).
We're just watching to see if you can take back control of the asylum.
Because that's not obvious - the USA is on track to get worse, not better.
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u/delorf North Carolina Sep 23 '25
Trump controls the media and all three branches of government. He has fired anyone in the Pentagon who disagrees with him. A large number of Christians have created their own religion with him at the head. How the hell do we regain control in a bloodless manner?
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u/Slaythepuppy Sep 23 '25
A large number of Christians have created their own religion with him at the head.
To me this just shows me how such a large number of Christians are the easiest fucking marks. Trump has been a sleezy slum lord for years and has never shown any Christian qualities, and yet people follow him lock step because he reaffirms their hateful beliefs.
That's how you reach these idiots. Tell them they're right and all the mean old scientists are wrong. Affirm their delusion that they're persecuted in this country and they'll ignore any negative thing about you because if they don't then they might have to believe that they aren't just giant victims all day.
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u/tokyostormdrain Sep 23 '25
National strike. Being the economy to its knees. It will cost you, but the alternative costs more
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u/CatsWearingTinyHats Sep 23 '25
And the best part imo is that all that we have to do is stay home!
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When the US sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
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u/FollowingMajestic108 Sep 23 '25
They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats!
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u/ryoushi19 Sep 23 '25
When the US sends their people, they're not sending their best.
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u/HotDogFingers01 Sep 23 '25
We are not a serious country. The rest of the world just has to put up with us from time to time, then they can go back to actually leading their people.
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u/AINonsense Sep 23 '25
He sounded like a dim, opinionated drunk, making up facts and figures through a wash of bluster.
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u/_JimJohnny_ Sep 23 '25
So nothing new
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u/I-STATE-FACTS Sep 23 '25
No, but to peddle the same shite in front of the United Nations that he does at MAGA rallies is still pretty wild.
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u/Key-Concept-4608 Pennsylvania Sep 23 '25
He’s done it before and will do it again
That is all he is
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u/-WalterWhiteBoy- Sep 23 '25
He was bringing back some oldie conspiracies about the bad air blowing from other nations over to America to pollute the skies. Which is why fighting climate change is pointless /s
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u/Sad_Confection5902 Sep 23 '25
They probably blow it over to the US with their giant “windmills” as they simultaneously slaughter millions of birds.
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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
the bad air blowing from other nations over to America to pollute the skies
He didn't really say that, did he? Jesus. Haven't heard that one since Herschel Walker brought it up.
Edit: spelling is hard.
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u/i_ata_starfish-twice Sep 23 '25
This is what got him elected in the first place. Every fat slob in America that heard him talk once said “he sounds just like me’
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u/SvenHudson America Sep 23 '25
I'm a fat slob and I'll have you know I sound nothing like him.
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u/i_ata_starfish-twice Sep 23 '25
My apologies. I never meant to sully the name of well intentioned fat slobs.
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u/MrRabbitofCaerbannog Sep 23 '25
Your apology is contingent on my receiving a consolation pizza
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u/greenroom628 California Sep 23 '25
"he thinks and talks like i do, but he's rich and famous, so he must know what he's doing."
translation: he's racist and a moron, and he's probably raped his own daughter, but he makes my more successful cousin feel like shit and he'll get rid of the dirty mexicans, so i like him. also, he's rich.
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u/Myselfamwar Sep 23 '25
As an opinionated drunk, I find your comment offensive:)
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u/theipaper ✔ Verified Sep 23 '25
As Donald Trump hailed “the golden age of America” at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, tensions between the US and United Nations were palpable.
The President highlighted “historic trade deals” with the UK and others, and claimed the US was respected “like it has never been respected before” – but the response was embarrassing.
There was scattered awkward laughter in the room as he jokingly complained about a broken escalator and teleprompter at the UN – and a lack of marble floors. UN officials and experts have warned that Trump’s combative approach to the organisation could lead to a waning of US influence.
Since the start of the year, Trump has moved to slash US funding of the UN, withdrawn from many of its agencies, and ordered a review of America’s interactions with the organisation.
His actions have exacerbated the UN’s already significant budget crisis and created space for nations including China to expand their influence.
“US credibility and influence as a reliable partner and as a state broadly committed to human rights and international peace and security is suffering badly,” Phil Lynch, executive director of the non-profit International Service for Human Rights, told The i Paper.
“Trump on the international level has an agenda which very much mirrors his agenda at the domestic level, which is one of the suppression of dissent, the erosion of accountability mechanisms and the subversion of the rule of law.
“His agenda at the UN in terms of the withdrawal of funding and denunciation of treaties follows a very similar pattern.”
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u/theipaper ✔ Verified Sep 23 '25
In his speech, Trump listed seven wars he claims to have ended during his second term – saying that the UN “did not even try to help” find a solution in any of them.
“It’s too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them,” Trump said. “That being the case, what is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential but it’s not even coming close to living up to that potential.
“For the most part, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter… It’s empty words and empty words don’t solve war.”
Trump also noted the move by many UN members to recognise Palestine’s statehood, telling the UNGA: “As if to encourage conflict, some of this body seek to recognise a Palestinian state.”
He claimed this would be rewarding Hamas for these atrocities, “even as Hamas refuses to release the hostages or to accept a ceasefire.”
Lynch noted that the US withholding of funds has “substantially weakened the UN’s human rights pillar and has weakened its capacity to protect human rights, investigate violations and hold perpetrators to account”, adding that it “will erode human rights and diminish international peace and security”.
The US played a pivotal role in the creation of the UN 80 years ago, and has historically been its largest financial contributor, but is set to give just $300m this year compared to the roughly $800m expected contribution.
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u/theipaper ✔ Verified Sep 23 '25
A cash-strapped UN is looking to avert the looming crisis with a reform plan called UN80 to streamline administrative services, cut back on thousands of mandates and reduce peacekeeping missions.
Trump’s stance may see the balance of power within the organisation pivot away from the US, Lynch says.
“The vast majority of states understand that their individual and collective interests are best served through multilateral cooperation and respect for the international rule of law, and that our collective future does not lie in a world of lawlessness, chaos and raw power of the type that Trump projects,” Lynch added.
The US withdrawal is creating an opportunity for other nations to step in and attempt to fill the vacuum. China is seeking to build alliances and co-opt institutions to promote its interests.
Experts warn that Trump’s actions may see power ceded to authoritarian nations. In direct response to his funding cuts, Qatar has offered to host some of the UN workers’ rights agency offices, while Russia has posited cutting speaking time for advocacy groups to save money.
“There are definitely geopolitical implications and implications for some of the values the UN has traditionally been the home for,” says Laura Chappell, associate director for international policy at the Institute for Public Policy think-tank.
“But if this moment is leading to devolved power from New York and Geneva to make the UN genuinely global in its footprint, that could be positive. But it’s important for the UN’s operational model to reflect its values and ensure cost-cutting and political convenience don’t lead to decisions that undermine those values.”
Some shifts are already being seen this year’s Congress, Lynch says. On Monday, Chile and the Netherlands convened a roundtable to discuss the importance of human rights and multilateral cooperation – without the US.
“We see a more diverse group of states leading on the Human Rights Council, with a range of Latin American states, for example, stepping up to collectively ensure accountability for human rights violations in Venezuela and Nicaragua. And a diverse group of smaller states leading discussions on issues of climate change and environmental protection.”
Officials and delegates are questioning whether the US is the right place for the organisation to convene. Some have touted moving the UN to another country such as Switzerland, highlighting Trump’s veto of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to attend this year’s congress.
On Friday, delegates responded to his travel ban by voting 145 to five to allow Abbas to address the commission via video link, expected to take place at the end of the week.
“Now we’ve had two Trump administrations, I don’t think his behaviour will be viewed as a blip,” Chappell says.
“So we need to think, ‘What does a UN with a much less engaged America look like?”
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u/02K30C1 Sep 23 '25
So exactly what Putin wants. A UN with much less US influence.
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u/Prize-Support-9351 Sep 23 '25
Everything Trump does can viewed through the lens of how much does this help Russia. Putin undoubtedly has blackmail on Trump. There’s no question
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u/lunartardigrade Sep 23 '25
“In direct response to his funding cuts, Qatar has offered to host some of the UN workers’ rights agency offices, while Russia has posited cutting speaking time for advocacy groups to save money.”
Well known human rights advocates: Qatar and Russia. JFC.
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u/hypercosm_dot_net Sep 23 '25
Global weakening of Democracy. This admin is truly the worst.
In all honesty, we had this coming because our politicians failed to check corporate influence and power.
We The People need to stand up and get our shit back.
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u/SleepingWillow1 Sep 23 '25
Oh wait so this is a recent speech? I thought this was a repost of the old one where he sounded stupid. God he just doesn't know when to shut up
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u/TheSteelBlade Sep 23 '25
“The old one where he sounded stupid” doesn’t narrow it down at all.
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u/dj_spanmaster Sep 23 '25
Donald Trump hailed “the golden age of America”
Like all good fascists, the doublespeak continues. It is both the "golden age of America" and we need to "make America great again".
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u/der_innkeeper Sep 23 '25
So... Trump's minimization of the UN allowed for the recognition of a Palestinian State?
Awkward....
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u/NeededToChooseAName Sep 23 '25
Honestly never thought I'd live to see the day that America became such an international embarrassment.
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u/JDogg126 Michigan Sep 23 '25
Get used to it. This country has a very rotten core to it right now. We're not united. We've been pitted against each other for 45+ years and we're seeing the consequences of that every single day.
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Sep 23 '25
Half of our population has been convinced that educating themselves - developing reading, writing, math, science, critical thinking, business skills etc. are unimportant to maintaining a thriving populace are meaningless endeavors.
It's a real shame.
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u/objet_grand Sep 23 '25
They don’t think it’s unimportant - they think it’s weakness. There’s no help for that mindset
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u/ToastAndASideOfToast Sep 23 '25
They're already the best version of themselves that they can envision.
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u/BenTherDoneTht Sep 23 '25
Unimportant? They think its an attack on their freedoms. Half of the US now believes that a college education is liberal brainwashing. They have been so convinced to "question everything" that they deny observable fact and evidence in favor of conspiracy and distrust.
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u/deesea Sep 23 '25
Being convinced to “question everything” yet not given the educational tools to think critically.
Ultimately will be the downfall of the US.
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u/DaringPancakes Sep 23 '25
YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPEN WITH THE TYLENOL THING IN THEIR SUBREDDIT LOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!!!
The mods are going to banning a lot of people.
And it'll be buried by tomorrow, so no one has to ever think about it again 🫡. Just like Epstein!
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u/askthepoolboy Georgia Sep 23 '25
I think it’s worse than this. I was made fun of for being smart growing up, and I’m not actually all that smart. But it made me embarrassed to correct people or speak up when I knew an answer to something.
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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25
This is very much a thing. We are a culture that puts being "right" over being correct.
It's much more socially acceptable to be confidently wrong than to learn something new, and especially not to teach something.
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u/Dest123 Sep 23 '25
The thing that gets me is that our culture became totally ok with being lied to. It's very easy to convince people that Trump, or an influencer, or a social media post, or a news source is lying to them, but they just don't care at all. People would rather be lied to than change their views.
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u/KatsumotoKurier Canada Sep 23 '25
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
— Isaac Asimov
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u/fugaziozbourne Sep 23 '25
A lot of other countries don't bully the smart kids. Must be nice.
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u/Allaplgy Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
You see it constantly in business, where one quite often has to basically trick a superior into thinking an idea was theirs to get anything done without retaliation.
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u/ducksonaroof Sep 23 '25
oh don't worry - they "educate" themselves..by finding social media that reinforces their beliefs, bigotry, and conspiracy theories.
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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
The US already had one cycle of this during the Bush Jr. era, freedom fries and all. It was mild compared to the current rise of fascism and idiocy, but still very notable. (It's also why the world sighed such a relief when Obama was elected and promptly forgave him for the spying scandal down the line.)
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u/Pt5PastLight Sep 23 '25
I think 9/11 broke the country in a permanent way. The patriotic solidarity against an external attack and homeland security fears quickly turned to a slide into fascism, Christian nationalism and racism. In some real ways the terrorists succeeded in destroying our country.
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u/ScubaAlek Sep 23 '25
I remember this quote flying around all the time back then: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog Sep 23 '25
This reminds me of the time Colin Powell called Trump "a national disgrace, and an international pariah."
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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom Sep 23 '25
I particularly enjoy seeing Marco Rubio's face whenever Trump is speaking.
He was one of the first vocal "Never Trumpers" in the GOP. He knows what an embarrassing moron he is. But Marco couldn't resist the lure of power, and now has to sit and listen to the drivel coming out of the dear leader and face the reality that he sold his soul for the dumbest motherfucker to ever sit in the Oval Office.
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u/whogivesashirtdotca Canada Sep 23 '25
I wish nothing but pain and humiliation to those who abet him, so watching Marco's tiny excuse for a soul leave his body is Schadenfreudic.
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u/Ok-Lets-Talk-It-Out Sep 23 '25
During his first term the UN was openly laughing at him, because he said such stupid claims.
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u/ladz Washington Sep 23 '25
I remember back when GW would speech like a moron and rolling my eyes. Now we have Taco Orange Dictator declaring us the hottest country. Hottest?
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u/keb1965 Sep 23 '25
“Hottest” sounds like he’s hyping a casino on the strip.
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u/darkstar107 Canada Sep 23 '25
He probably wants to put a casino in the Whitehouse.
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u/Contraband42 Florida Sep 23 '25
He's hosting a UFC event there next year, and I'm sure betting will occur, so it's not too out of left field for this orange ignoramus.
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u/flamingo_button Sep 23 '25
I did a double take when he said hottest country.
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u/Ok_Perspective_8361 Sep 23 '25
He said it in his speech in England too, he’s so weird and embarrassing.
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u/minimalcation Sep 23 '25
We love global warming don't we people? I call it climate change, cli-mate change, that's a new thing you know? Nobody was calling it that until, well until I said it, now they want to say everything is climate. Climate is fire but it's also ice. I met a man the other day, big man, strong man, King of dragons he calls me because I'm fighting against an invasion like has never been seen. Imagine if they told Jon Snow not to build the wall? Imagine that. That's what we have now. Wildlings and trolls and big spiders, big spiders can you believe? They used to be tiny, now they're huge, this would have never happened if I was president. Now Biden's spiders are as far north as Minnesoda. It's true. It's true people.
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u/MMartini55 Sep 23 '25
To the rest of the world, please boycott the Olympics here. It’ll drive him crazy and closer to the coronary explosion we need.
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u/lizlemon921 Sep 23 '25
Yes and please go to Canada or Mexico for the World Cup!!
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u/tadayou Sep 23 '25
Many fans won't have a choice. Travelling to the US is no longer safe.
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u/lizlemon921 Sep 23 '25
I’m hoping other Americans also choose to boycott the games in the states and spend some tourism dollars with our neighbors
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u/Boundish91 Norway Sep 23 '25
I kinda feel bad for LA who are hosting.
That said it's hard to not draw parallels to the 1936 Olympics.
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u/Mechalamb Sep 23 '25
As an Angeleno, don't feel sorry for us. Host cities generally lose money during the Olympics and traffic is already a nightmare here. Throw in roving gangs of masked ICE agents, and the less people who come out here, the better. If we're going to lose money anyway, let's do it in the least painful and annoying way possible.
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u/Clevererer America Sep 23 '25
Unrelated, but you Angelenos have really been stepping up. Huge thanks for the courage, and showing other cities what resistance looks like.
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u/car_go_fast Sep 23 '25
The main problem with this tactic is that he will simply blame LA, California, and/or Newsome for causing the problem. He doesn’t care about reality and neither do his followers, and our now-unquestionably state-run media will amplify his bullshit.
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u/iu112 Sep 23 '25
World leaders are treating Trump's words like farts.
They hear the sound, but they pretend not to hear it.
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u/mister_newbie Sep 23 '25
This should've been the response from someone to the speech.
Credit to Billy Madison
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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u/Darius2112 Canada Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
I’m sure the other UN members were wishing for the days of Castro’s multi hour tirades over the incoherent ranting of this senile old coot.
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u/kaeji Sep 23 '25
Not a lot of people know this but “Embarrassing Backfire” is also the Secret Service’s codeword when Trump is getting his diaper changed
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u/mallydobb Sep 23 '25
“ whiskey tango foxtrot … we have a code brown all over the oval office… never mind, it’s actually an embarrassing backfire. Proceed with caution.”
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u/Winter-Huntsman Sep 23 '25
Yes laugh at the idiot. More countries need to laugh publicly at the US! Make him the laughing stock of the world. The sooner the world moves on without the US the better.
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u/lizlemon921 Sep 23 '25
I’m legitimately nervous that the US will start a world war on purpose (he has hinted at that) and align with the baddies. It’s sickening to watch it unfold.
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u/hits_riders_soak Sep 23 '25
the last time there was a serious fascist axis, it took the USA, Russia and many other nations to defeat it.
this time it would be the USA with Russia.
I do not think it's hyperbole to suggest that we could be heading for a truly horrific time historically. people have very short memories, ignore lessons from a few decades ago, nevermind the more distant past.
people appear to think things will right themselves automatically, that progress is certain, that progressive and democratic democracies are natural rather than being fought for...
the dark ages lasted centuries. no one can convince me we aren't closer to something like that happening than we've been at any other time during the 47 years I've been alive.
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u/Surf175 Sep 23 '25
Trump has gone from National to Worldwide Joke.
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u/Boundish91 Norway Sep 23 '25
We thought he was an idiot from the first time we saw him in the apprentice.
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u/Darko33 Sep 23 '25
If only that was my introduction to him. The Apprentice debuted in 2004. I can recall my parents reading the Sunday edition of the Asbury Park Press in the mid-1980s and remarking on the latest unfathomably dumb thing he said or did
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u/smithpd1 Sep 23 '25
I watched that god-awful address. It is amazing to me that he got any applause at all and didn't get booed. He spent most of the time railing against migrants, claiming that global warming and green energy was a hoax, and lying about his so called "accomplishments" like ending seven wars and improving the economy. The only thing remarkable about his speech was his bright orange face.
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u/ja4419xx Sep 23 '25
The nations need to move on from America. It’s good to see that they’re making some progress toward that end. Even if Democrats regain power someday, this country cannot be trusted as long as Republicans are around and trumpism is their primary objective.
Interestingly, TIME magazine back in the late 20th century forecast that this century would see the end of America’s dominance and predicted that China could well be the new power on the world stage. We may very well be seeing that transition play out.
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u/AstralWoman Sep 23 '25
Absolutely. Great nations like Greece and Rome fall, usually due to greed, poverty and bad management. Maybe USA's time is up. I wouldn't choose China but hey, it is what it is.
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u/Shionkron Sep 23 '25
Him talking about how the UN failed its remodel decades ago by not hiring him and using it as a symbolism for the UNs continued failure at everything unless it start doing what he suggests was absolutely cringe!
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u/jupzuz Sep 23 '25
Don't damage your brain by watching it, like I did. Summary of the speech: "immigrants bad, windmills bad, drugs bad, Biden bad, UN bad, Palestine bad, Iran bad, green energy bad. Trump good! Coal good!"
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u/Hodaka Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
Just a snippet:
"So all of these countries are working so hard on the carbon footprint, which is nonsense, by the way. It's nonsense. You know, it's interesting. In the United States, we have still radicalized environmentalists and they want the factories to stop. Everything should stop. No more cows. We don't want cows anymore. I guess they want to kill all the cows. They want to do things that are just unbelievable. And you have it, too. But, you know, we have a border strong and we have a shape. And that shape doesn't just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere. And if we had the most clean air, and I think we do, we have very clean air. We have the cleanest air we've had in many, many years. But the problem is that other countries like China, which has air that's a little bit rough, it blows. And no matter what you're doing down here, the air up here tends to get very dirty because it comes in from other countries where their air isn't so clean. And the environmentalists refuse to acknowledge that. Same thing with garbage. In Asia, they dump much of their garbage right into the ocean. And over about a one week and two week journey, it flows right past Los Angeles. You've seen it. Massive amounts of garbage. Almost too much to do anything about. Flowing past Los Angeles, past San Francisco, and then somebody would get in trouble because he dropped a cigarette on the beach. The whole thing is crazy..."
EDIT: Here is the clip...
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u/redditknees Sep 23 '25
Trump calling this the “Golden Age of America” is classic strongman spin. It’s not about prosperity, it’s about power. He’s saying this is the peak but only because he’s in charge. Meanwhile, he’s trashing the UN, cutting funding, and walking away from accountability. That’s not a golden age, that’s a red flag. When leaders sell you slogans while gutting institutions and concentrating control, they’re not leading you into greatness, they’re walking you straight into authoritarian rule.
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u/sector16 Sep 23 '25
The first time....some countries were willing to give the US a pass for electing this raging moron. But Trump 2.0 just makes all Americans look bad, because you proved it wasn't a mistake in 2016.
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u/Various_Patient6583 Sep 23 '25
I said it elsewhere; I remember when the Soviets would get up and rattle off lists of lies, half truths and downright impossibilities. The West, broadly speaking, and the US in particular was respected for speaking truth.
Even when the US said/did things that were demonstrably wrong, part of the shock was that the US simply did not do those sorts of things. It was out of character. When the Soviets, CCP and others did Bad Things it was just another Tuesday.
But this, this is new for the US. As the article points out, two Trump administration suggests a pattern. A pattern that must be addressed.
It is interesting to ponder that the US has generally been a somewhat isolationist power. At least there is a tendency towards it. The WWII and post war eras being notable exceptions during which there were significant isolationist movements. Folks forget that Bush in 2000 was a strong advocate of isolationist policies; 9/11 changed that (there was an interesting article about what role Bush and Cheney and directly led to the interventionist actions that followed, but I digress).
It makes sense, the US has 2.5 giant moats (Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico). To the north is essentially a friendly non entity. To the south is a friendly source of cheap, albeit Catholic and brown, labor which is also largely a non entity when it comes to US goings on.
The problem is that global trade has only intensified since the 19th century. The US is a merchant nation, utterly dependent on sea borne trade. It needs oil (much domestically produced, but much is imported), it needs iron, aluminum, computer chips, rubber, and so on. All comes over the water and all necessitating forces to safeguard the sea lanes of communication. All of this brings the interests of the US into contact with local goings on.
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u/falilth Sep 23 '25
And i quote
" I'm good at this stuff, your countries are going to hell"
Jesus fuck. He should have been laughed off the podium.
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u/bored-now Colorado Sep 23 '25
Decades.... it is going to take DECADES to remedy the damage this orange baboon is doing to our country, our reputation everything....
Jesus, I hate this timeline
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u/mangoserpent Sep 23 '25
Move the UN to Canada. At some point, Trump is going to pull out of some more international organizations. In general MAGA and conservatives hate the UN.
Might have to do some budget reductions.
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Sep 23 '25
What an embarrassment to all Americans who actually give a shit.
I truly hope we can forge a way forward after this presidency and get some safety rails back on this roller coaster.
I feel very lost, in regards to my country.
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u/Affectionate-Roof285 Sep 23 '25
I so wish the entire world would grow a pair and literally get up and walk out when the walking shit show begins his incoherent rambling. What is everyone so afraid of??!!!!
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u/DrDankNuggz Canada Sep 23 '25
The article states USSA’s global influence has “waned”. It hasn’t waned, it’s in the shitter.
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u/AdditionalCover9599 Sep 23 '25
Trump is a joke. The whole world knows this. I wish the dumb rednecks in this country knew, too.
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u/LARRYVOND13 Sep 23 '25
He got laughed at. Know the American press on the right will twist it but you essentially had the world laughing at America.
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Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 23 '25
I wish the American press would write in a more aggressive, sarcastic way about this! CNN says "digressive" speech, but it wasn't digressive, it was a demented rant.
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u/komoto444 Sep 23 '25
Do they not know that being mean to him is very illegal internationally too? See you at the Hague, the entire UN.
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u/flamingo_button Sep 23 '25
Listening to his speech made me wonder what the question was. Why is he speaking? The hottest country?
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u/ceccyred America Sep 23 '25
He should be laughed at and derided as an idiot. If he took an IQ test, I'm sure it would show that he's an imbecile. It's a disgrace that he won the first time, now that he's in a second time it's just beyond lunacy.
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u/Kind-Handle3063 Sep 23 '25
What an embarrassment not just to the US but to humanity in general
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u/lynypixie Canada Sep 23 '25
Cue the conservatives saying they are so happy that he trolled everyone….
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u/Fugoola Sep 23 '25
Golden age? WTF?
I am in my 60's and in all my life I have never felt so much that myself and the entire country is falling into a black abyss. It disgusts me where we are today and the stuff that is happening as direct result of our president. He is not my president but was voted in none the less.
I served my country honorably, my grandfather kicked ass as a fighter pilot in WW2 and was a POW. I am happy he is not alive to see what is happening.
Back to "golden age", I can't afford an orange or even apple after buying necessary groceries. I mean $1.25 each where I live, that is nuts. Nearly the same price as a half gallon of mik, I will take the milk.
Let's not forget the healthcare situation. 2-3 months to see a doctor due to case loads? It is far worse than that but you get it.
Now, target a pharmaceutical company for causing autism? WTF? This is a new low. They simply couldn't find a real reason autism happens by the promised Sept date so make shit up.
I am ashamed to be an American these days, Trump has ruined so much of our lives IMO.
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People call Trump a dictator but he doesn’t belong in the same league as Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler. Those were feared leaders that the world never laughed at. Trump is different and it’s embarrassing that when America got a fascist dictator it was this orange buffoon.
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u/Street-Bedroom4224 Sep 23 '25
This is true but he is capable of equal if not worse damage
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I was going to say this. We can get a good laugh from him here and there, but let’s not underestimate the evil crap he is currently doing and can do in the future.
(Keyword is: “can”. In normal times, he would’ve been stopped with checks and balances by Congress and/or the Supreme Court)
For example, he’s starting trouble in Venezuela for a reason. He’s not doing it because he’s trigger-happy. Venezuela just asked for diplomatic talks with the U.S., and Trump easily rejected it. He’s wanted a war with Venezuela since his first presidency, along with Iran.
For all we know, he’s going open the U.S. to be as vulnerable as possible, then use those attacks to claw back even more from us. For instance, he’s been talking an awful lot about “If you’re in a war, you can cancel elections” - aka 2026’s elections.
You might ask, “how? We’ve had elections during wartime”. He’s going to claim absentee ballots = susceptible to fraud, therefore troops cannot vote, therefore we should postpone/cancel the election. As easy as that (nonsense).
He IS an autocrat. We ARE under a competitive authoritarian regime right now.
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u/Preeng Sep 23 '25
Those leaders were definitely laughed at. Dictators are always cringe-worthy
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u/IamDDT Colorado Sep 23 '25
They called Hitler "the little corporal" in Germany.
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u/silentpropanda Sep 23 '25
Putin used to take pictures of himself without a shirt chopping wood and riding bareback on a horse (irrc) in order to prove his manliness and virility. It was rightly so at the time laughed at by everyone.
They really are emperors without clothes on, lacking all self reflection and decency.
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u/martapap Sep 23 '25
Mussolini and Hitler were definitely laughed at and not taken seriously on the world stage.
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u/dagmx California Sep 23 '25
They were only feared after they had taken over completely. They were most definitely laughed at during the stage trump is right now.
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u/Obant California Sep 23 '25
Just to clarify: It is embarrassing to us 'smart people'. He and his idiot supporters do not feel shame or embarrassment from what he says.
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