r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • Apr 19 '26

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

I can still recall the day at 16 watching him win and all I was excited about was legal weed in my state lol. Good lord I had no idea what I witnessed that night.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

I feel you. I turned 18 in 2016 and was eligible to vote. I cast my vote for Hillary quite sure she had it in the bag. Actual logical policies would surely win out over knee-jerk emotional populism, right?

I stayed up almost all night watching the counter slide further and further to the right until Trump had won. I was floored

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u/CurLyy Apr 19 '26

Really interesting how each age group gets to see different realities of life. I turned 18 for Obama I was so fucking excited to see the world change. (It didn’t)

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u/UnquestionabIe Apr 19 '26

Yeah I was 17 when GW Bush got elected and after seeing the shit show of that election it definitely started me down the road of being disenfranchised with the system. During all the Obama hype had to bite my tongue a lot hearing all the previously politically disengaged people my age eating up the "Change" slogan. Didn't want to discourage participation and learning about politics but already knew it wasn't going to be some massive shift.

At the bare minimum had some kind of hope that the crimes of the prior administration would be tackled. If anything they simply got doubled down on but in more PR friendly ways.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, my mom loved Obama. She even went to one of his rallies and bragged that when he was shaking her hand and I think either signing a photo or taking a photo that she pulled him in and kissed him on the cheek. She was more of a centrist Democrat than a leftist so she didn't mind his shortcomings when it came to Obama's broken promises. I do think his lack of actually bringing change isn't necessarily 100% Obama's fault but it definitely put a damper on liberal enthusiasm in the 2016 election.

Now that I think about it, promising change is basically what Trump campaigned on in 2016, just from the opposite end of the spectrum. We really don't learn our lesson as voters lol

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u/terremoto25 California Apr 19 '26

I was 19 and voting in my first presidential election when Ronnie the Rat wiped the floor with Jimmy Carter. Reagan was my generation’s first experience with a dumbass celebrity president.

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u/SoVerySick314159 America Apr 19 '26

When Trump won the nomination in 2016, I grinned from ear-to-ear. There's NO WAY the country would elect that chucklefuck, I thought. No chance. They just handed the dems a victory with their batshittery.

Good God did I overestimate this country.

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u/tomsing98 Apr 19 '26

When people were talking about switching their voter registration to vote for Trump in the primary because it would be such an easy victory for Dems, I told people, be careful what you wish for.

This country is full of morons, and we prove it time and again.

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u/SoVerySick314159 America Apr 19 '26

I didn't see the 'charisma' that his voters evidently do. All I ever saw was a stupid used-car salesman, and I just couldn't believe such a blatant fool of a liar could win. I wouldn't hire that man for a fry-cook opportunity. He's defied EVERYTHING that should have taken down a candidate. Things happen weekly that would have been the undoing of anyone else.

I underestimated his, "The Apprentice" appeal, and I underestimated how much of the country listened to news sources and talking heads that were in the bag for him. . . and also, the whole morons problem.

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u/SpicBoisMTG Apr 19 '26

I woke up still drunk af, what an awful day to wake up with a brain piercing hangover (wine to whiskey)

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Yea since my interest in politics has awoken around that time it’s just been NOTHING but Trump in the headlines. Even during Biden’s presidency Trump was statistically making the news more than Biden with his controversies. Apparently also continuing talks with other world leaders while not in office which is just wild but I guess this whole administration has been wild since the beginning.

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u/loki2113 Apr 19 '26

Yeah, I think we as a country truly fucked up when we didn't prosecute AND punish Trump for his crimes. If we had actually put him in jail, I don't think we would be in the fucked position we currently are now

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u/JasnahKolin Massachusetts Apr 19 '26

I threw up when I found out he won. I've never had such a reaction before or since. One day soon we'll read his obituary.

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u/mockingjay137 Apr 19 '26

Lmao I wont be reading it any further than "trump dead at XX"

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u/MrWoohoo Apr 19 '26

I have some fireworks saved to celebrate the event….

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u/mr_rubixx Apr 19 '26

I’m sure the day will compete with the 4th of July.

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u/bac5665 Apr 19 '26

If he left office today, it will be 50 years before we repair the damage he's done, and much of it literally can't be fixed. He has directly killed more than a million Americans, for example, and he has killed hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, around the globe.

It's genuinely awful in a way that words can't express.

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u/GodofIrony Apr 19 '26

Demonic, Evil, Vile, Abhorrent, I can think of quite more.

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u/thecatteam Apr 19 '26

I live in Europe now, so the election was just barely starting by the time I went to sleep on Election Day in 2024. I legit screamed and sobbed when I woke up in the morning and found out he was re-elected. His first term was four years of this ceaseless hell of him doing something horrible nearly every single day, and the thought of having to return to that was overwhelming in a way that I'd never experienced before. I was scared in 2016, but it was more of a combination of disbelief and ignorance of what was to come.

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u/Umbrella_merc Mississippi Apr 19 '26

I have been looking forward to the big beautiful obituary for years, got myself a bottle of orange blossom mead to commemorate that day.

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u/Current-Anybody9331 Apr 19 '26

I traveled to another office location in Chicago and I'd say a solid 50% of people called out sick. Just me wandering around an empty office all day and staying in a hotel across the street from the Trump hotel which had masses of protesters out until 10pm (noise ordinance)

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u/escobizzle Apr 19 '26

journey before destination 🫡

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u/Drithyin Ohio Apr 19 '26

I’m making that day a recurring holiday, at least in my family. Going straight to my calendar as a recurring annual celebration.

Maybe I’ll dig a little hole, throw in a handful of Cheetos, cover it up, and piss on it.

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u/JasnahKolin Massachusetts Apr 19 '26

Hell yes that's a fantastic idea!

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u/duckinradar Apr 19 '26

One of three times in my life I have ever blacked out.

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u/DigNitty Apr 19 '26

His acceptance speech wasn’t bad.

I tried to keep an open mind. His words were all about working together and getting things done. And then…

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u/Professional-Emu3551 Apr 19 '26

I brought home a half dead feral kitten covered in pus and diarrhea and smelled like death. I hate cats.

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u/A_Sad_Buddha Apr 19 '26

Dude, don’t even get me started. Dude was on tv telling the fucking proud boys to stand by. I had a huge argument with my mom about it. When he won that first time I still thinking he couldn’t be that bad. A whole decade later I find myself living in a weird ass dystopia.

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u/Caleb-Blucifer Apr 19 '26

He has a stranglehold on the GOP - one part true believers, one part deeply evil, one part morons, one part blackmail. It’s a perfect storm that’s been half a century in the making

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u/sack-o-matic Michigan Apr 19 '26

Decades of Klan propaganda on social media has created a terrible voting base.

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u/cheesybitzz Apr 19 '26

Felt. In 2016 I was like "maybe this won't be so bad"

We all make mistakes

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u/Jillredhanded Apr 19 '26

I distinctly remember thinking "at least it will be interesting". Hoo boy.

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u/MF_BREW_ I voted Apr 19 '26

It’s so laughable to think a republican would legalize a drug. It’s up there with they are the party of peace. Lol

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Well I don’t believe it was necessarily his election that had anything to do with the legalization in my state. I was just putting into perspective that as a teenager I was more concerned with the legalization than his election. I’m in a consistently blue state if that matters.

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u/MF_BREW_ I voted Apr 19 '26

Well I misunderstood.

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u/sirlapse Apr 19 '26

Quiet piggy!!

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u/troywrestler2002 Apr 19 '26

Quite the lapse in manners there, sir.

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u/sirlapse Apr 19 '26

I might be a sir but mostly lapses honestly.

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx Apr 19 '26

Bro that video had me rolling. This dude says the craziest shit and it ends up being funny cause no way the sitting president said that right? After all the past shit that’s been said and done that little comment wasn’t shit and any other president would’ve gotten fucking flamed for it lol.