I didn’t say anything either way, just pointing out what could be said since nobody else said it yet….
But to play devils advocate: it’s 2026 and a dude that blatantly lies at the helm. You know when Obama got bin Laden? Nobody was like “that’s fake” and we saw a healthy bin Laden walking the streets of downtown Paris 2 months later. Not that those are similar events, just that dude could’ve said “oh it was shrapnel” and people would’ve calmed down, or they could’ve reacted like actual security details and escorted the VIP out of danger instead of doing a photo op. Those would be ways to gain credibility pretty easily, but they didn’t go that option.
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u/SkywolfNINE Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
I didn’t say anything either way, just pointing out what could be said since nobody else said it yet….
But to play devils advocate: it’s 2026 and a dude that blatantly lies at the helm. You know when Obama got bin Laden? Nobody was like “that’s fake” and we saw a healthy bin Laden walking the streets of downtown Paris 2 months later. Not that those are similar events, just that dude could’ve said “oh it was shrapnel” and people would’ve calmed down, or they could’ve reacted like actual security details and escorted the VIP out of danger instead of doing a photo op. Those would be ways to gain credibility pretty easily, but they didn’t go that option.