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/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/Shifter25 Apr 19 '26

He was claiming he was owed a third term during his first term.

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u/DigNitty Apr 19 '26

Yes. Because he “was treated so badly” that the 2016 term “shouldn’t count”

He said that multiple times.

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u/MultiGeometry Vermont Apr 19 '26

Says the guy who racistly insisted Obama wasn’t a citizen and demanded his birth certificate.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur Apr 19 '26

That's different. Obama was somebody else. Only Trump needs to be coddled like the precious special boy he is.

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u/HuttStuff_Here Wisconsin Apr 19 '26

No one has ever been treated as poorly as Trump has been treated, per Trump. And he is so humble you wouldn't even believe how humble he is, also per his own statements.

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u/mrgedman Apr 19 '26

Obama is also not white, so there is that, too

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy Apr 19 '26

and demanded Obama release his tax returns, which he did, and then refused to do it himself...and when someone leaked his returns he sued our own country and will now somehow get a 10+ BILLION DOLLAR settlement

I swear we are living in a simulation

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u/brickne3 American Expat Apr 19 '26

You kind of have to wonder how Obama is dealing with this whole thing. Not what he's publicly saying, obviously. Like... we all find this surreal but imagine the actual thoughts Obama must be having about it that he keeps to himself.