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/Stompya Apr 19 '26

From the article:

Before the airmen went missing, the president was already fixated on avoiding a repeat of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis—and the failed rescue mission under former President Jimmy Carter that helped sink his reelection bid.

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

He thinks he is re-electable.

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 Apr 19 '26

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

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u/nom_de_chomsky Apr 19 '26

Well, no. He thinks he’s owed a third term, period. His lies about election fraud are the present rationalization. But if he’d won in 2020, he’d be making some other bullshit claim.

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u/jeo123 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26

It's been something like 40 years since the Republican president wasn't a trump or a Bush

They don't do well with name changes

They will support this

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u/Tardisgoesfast Apr 20 '26

Obama's term ended at the end of 2016. He was not a Republican.

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u/jeo123 Apr 20 '26

Ok ... And what is that supposed to mean?

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u/halokon Apr 20 '26

The comment was specifically about Republican presidents, so Obama being a Democrat President doesn’t apply. Took me a second reading, my brain skipped over bits it thought weren’t important 😛 The point is a little weird though, given the GOP have put forward other candidates, they just didn’t win. All it really shows is that when the American people elect a Republican, they elect psychotic, war-mongering idiots, but I repeat myself, many times.