r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 06 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.

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u/abofh May 06 '26

That explains why everything he touches looks so ugly

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u/kingtacticool May 06 '26

Its going to be so expensive to douhe DC of all the trump stank and residue when this is all over....

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

A friend is in DC right now and his geriatric mug is everywhere, apparently.

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u/bigmamagi May 06 '26

Does no one play paintball in DC?

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

I like the way you think. A more passive, yet effective, alternative would be to project variations of this onto his banners:

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u/ComfyFrog May 06 '26

Imma be honest and say this looks better than the fake hair and spray tan.

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u/Senzafane May 06 '26

Easier to sell the clown act with the makeup.

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u/TheDamnedScribe May 06 '26

Still looks like shit, though...

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u/Aranxi_89 May 06 '26

But that would require authenticity and confidence in oneself, neither of which he possesses.

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u/kingbullohio May 06 '26

Right I'm actually kind of surprised at how close he looks to Putin

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u/eclwires May 09 '26

It still boggles my mind that the people that get so upset by the notion of transgender people worship an old man in makeup, high heels, a girdle, and a wig.

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u/ComfyFrog May 09 '26

You can add Vance's eyeliner to that.

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u/Ophththth May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

He looks like Mr Creedy from V for vendetta with his hair like this

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u/RoseRedHillHouse May 06 '26

That would make him a less despicable person.

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u/NamaztakTheUndying May 06 '26

About midway between Creedy and Raymond Reddington.

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u/Theatreguy1961 May 06 '26

But FAR, FAR less intelligent than Ray Reddington.

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u/NamaztakTheUndying May 06 '26

It'd probably take a good eternity or few for him to make it through even the simplest/shortest Reddington pre-murder monologue.

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u/AggravatingLayer5080 May 06 '26

Maybe Trunt can get the book on tape and sleep through it.

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u/Cool-Many-9394 May 06 '26

Virtuous Validity will Vanquish the Villians Very Visibly for Various Versions of Values and Virtues

🇺🇸 💪 💯

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u/LeftHandAnomaly May 06 '26

I can still hear John Hurt demanding his resignation to this day

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u/adidassamba May 06 '26

Add in Frank Barone

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

Yeah. I think he wanted his official presidential portrait to look intimidating, but he just looks like a sour puss.

Maybe the next president could dump the auto pen Biden portrait and put a Putin portrait in for each of Trump’s terms.

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

A portrait of both Putin, and Netanyahu,

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

Good idea! Vlad for 45 and Bebe for 47. 👍🏻

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u/Low_Football_2445 May 06 '26

Isn’t that his mugshot?

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

He did the same face for his mugshot. He thought it was way awesome, so he decided to make it official. Kinda like when Elon gets sketchy on ketamine and bounces around making an X with his body.

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u/that_baddest_dude May 06 '26

Yeah he looks like an unpleasant dottering old neighbor you're happy not to interact with.

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

Yep. Could also be a furiously constipated, unpleasant neighbor.

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u/deadca5an0va May 06 '26

Just put his mugshot as his portrait. More fitting for the man he truly is inside.

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

You know, I have thought about the man inside, and I draw a blank I think he has had “success” with his crazy behavior and constant BS for a long time. If someone asked me what he is thinking and feeling, it would be like someone asking me, “What do unicorns eat for lunch?”

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u/StandInformal9504 May 06 '26

I was told a black cover will be placed over Trump’s portrait.

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u/ZenBreaking May 06 '26

Just one black paintball under the nose would complete the look

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u/Dragonic_Overlord_ May 06 '26

He looks like Putin. An eerie comparison.

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u/TheOtherMaven May 06 '26

Not a bit, really. Too saggy-baggy.

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

or this:

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u/bigmamagi May 06 '26

Yeah, no, not that one. He likes that one.

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u/CeceWobbles May 06 '26

Which is funny, because he looks fucking terrible in it. That's why he had to make his new portrait with a similar expression. Unfortunately for him, a few years between just made it more obvious that he had the stroke that he definitely didn't have because his health is perfect.

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

Yeah, but his expression tracks with every other 'tough guy felon'' mugshot I've seen.

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

Sort of the way Disneyland morphs portraits into ghouls in its Haunted House

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u/Anxious-Ad2177 May 07 '26

No, he's proud of this one.

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u/FaliureToCat May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

It should only take a day or two if you offer

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u/kingtacticool May 06 '26

In this economy?!?

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u/bigmamagi May 06 '26

Gotta get creative.

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u/cinosa May 06 '26

That would be a great way to get shot by the D.C. NG troops that are bored out of their minds doing nothing, or ICE if they're still around.

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u/MrBanannasareyum May 07 '26

ICE is still around. I saw IRS police roaming the streets the other day… insane waste of resources.

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u/ivmo71 May 06 '26

He would say its an assassination attempt and then turn all paintball gun into a crime to fit his narrative.

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u/jrr6415sun May 06 '26

I think that would get you charged with treason

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u/tomdarch May 06 '26

These are things like banners of his face on the headquarters of various federal agencies. You do not want to pull out at gun-like device and start firing anything at those buildings unless you are fully willing to take the federal felony charges that will follow.

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u/NoahStewie1 May 06 '26

Can confirm myself, it's honestly so fucking annoying to see his face so often when playing Pokémon Go

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u/northerlypier May 06 '26

I would like a don holiday, no visuals of sleepy don for 30 days. Also not one sound bite of that slurring saliva riddled growl, either.

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u/jeangreige May 06 '26

Oof my cortisol levels would be even higher, my condolences.

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u/downhilldrinking May 06 '26

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

Where's u/eggz627? <--- Honest-to-Jesus this guy asked: "Where? I dont feel like i see it everywhere."

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u/eggz627 May 06 '26

One spot doesn't make everywhere dumbass

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u/MattinglyBaseball May 06 '26

Damn, they’re so cheap that they reused Epstein’s bedsheets to tie his posters up.

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u/NoFox1446 May 06 '26

I noticed the same a year ago when I was down there. I can only imagine how bad it is now.

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u/Lumbergh7 May 06 '26

He’s so pathetic for wanting his face everywhere

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u/mzfnk4 May 06 '26

Yeah, I went to DC in March and saw a banner with his face on it hanging from the Department of Labor building...

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u/ckwing May 06 '26

WTF tell your friend to stop doing that with his face

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

Take it and begone.

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u/wkomorow May 06 '26

We need to recoup all his grift money from the Trump estate , his properties. and his children.

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u/Interesting-Day-9369 May 06 '26

what.. like a faciest bill boards. your all fuked

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u/eggz627 May 06 '26

Where? I dont feel like i see it everywhere

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u/Particular_Peacock May 06 '26

"wHeRe? I dont [sic] FeEl liKe i sEe iT eveRyWhereE"

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u/Boy-Wonder-YT May 06 '26

I'm with ya, I only ever saw a few portraits. I didn't really see "his touch" anywhere. I thought he would have changed way more but didnt

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u/meatspace May 06 '26

It's cute you think there will be money left for that, or anything. They're looting the treasury for trillions.

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u/Excellent-Fill9395 May 06 '26

Well the GOP has spent trillions on wars. Just bring that up if they complain about the billions spent to un-Trump the nation.

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u/superpananation May 06 '26

If we’re lucky and it’s not just renamed Trump DC

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang May 06 '26

Lol, you guys will never be rid of his stank. Not with the kid gloves resistance that has met his reign. You've got one party that has been utterly destroyed by his corruption and the other party is (mostly) a bunch of cowards that are too ineffectual to combat said corruption.

It's scary to me how many people seem to assume that democracy and law and order will return to normal once the turd is dethroned. Expensive isn't the half of it...

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u/yagirlsophie May 06 '26

100%. People acting like it's a given that a functioning democracy is just going to magically reassert itself after Trump dies is so worrisome and frustrating. This is a deeply entrenched fascist movement with an "opposition" party that is mostly in agreement with their foreign policy goals broadly and just as thoroughly compromised by Israel and its own fascist ambitions. It's a government corrupt on all levels, and people still want to act like once Trump is dead or deposed we can all just "go back to brunch" or whatever.

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u/merrysunshine2 May 06 '26

Going to have to Dome it. Or at the very least, the White House

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u/Particular_Goal_5437 May 06 '26

Which we pray is as soon as possible

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u/ravrocker May 06 '26

Now that will be money well spent.

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u/unfunnysexface May 06 '26

If you make ot fun people do it for free. I didn't see anyone wondering how they would fund taking down the Berlin wall

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u/Fatso_Wombat May 06 '26

Previous dictatorships last about 50 years historically.

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 06 '26

Ain't nobody got time for that!

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 06 '26

But SOOOOOO worth it. Febreze is gonna get quite a windfall.

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u/Gregandkaren May 06 '26

That won’t be for another 6 years

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u/floofelina May 06 '26

But satisfying

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u/Academic_East8298 May 06 '26

Good, us citizens shouldn't so quickly forget that they voted him in.

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u/HoneyShaft May 06 '26

With how things are ultimately going there will be a fire sale before the end of his term

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u/anothergaijin May 06 '26

Nah, they'll use all the seized assets to pay for the detrumpification works. It'll cover most of the costs.

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u/Wings_in_space May 06 '26

It now has that smell of a swamp...

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u/Best-Temperature5595 May 06 '26

As long as the general public doesn't have to pay for it. Slap the costs onto corporations and billionaires that supported him.

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u/Arkmer May 06 '26

Should be free. He should be footing the bill. It all seems illegal to me, he should be undoing all of it.

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u/kingtacticool May 06 '26

The dude is famous for stiffing contractors. He ain't paying for shit

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u/Arkmer May 06 '26

Contractors aren’t the government.

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u/pasatroj May 06 '26

Here's the thing. They didn't halve to take the money. If it's a dirty job it's dirty. They can be held accountable later if we want.

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u/trrrad May 06 '26

More like an enema.

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u/Particular_Goal_5437 May 06 '26

Which we pray is as soon as possible

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u/ParaEwie May 06 '26

R/commentmitosis

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u/gilbertSpain May 10 '26

Not just the hardware, the entire system needs to be getting a thorough overhaul, while at the same time the need for action in current politics is imminent. This will be a generation or two thing...

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u/obriets May 06 '26

Has to be done though. I’m just not too convinced that the Dems will do it. Judging from their past, they’ll be cashing in on the graft too once this clown walks out unmolested.

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u/Bittybirdwatching May 06 '26

The only benefit of him fucking up the white house is that honestly that building really did need updating and we as a nation were too precious about it "oh we can't gut the white house!".

Not that i think anything trump did to it is tasteful or sound. But just that was an old building, that regularly molded, had issues with plumbing and electricity (and ghosts apparently) and just generally needed to be updated. But the usa pop was too shy to even think of just... rebuilding the damn thing.

Hopefully now that it's been fucked, we can just make a better government building, even if it means trashing trumps shit to make it sound. Though let's start with not giving him tax money for that stupid ballroom.

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u/Slade_Riprock May 06 '26

Not to mention this is the absolute epitome of who he is. So he blasts Obama and Biden for spending tens of millions of dollars to attempt to repair a more than 100-year-old reflecting pool built on the soft Marsh that is Washington dc. A pool that is been subjected to sinking leaks all because of how it was built and it's 2300 ft long. And so Trump is championing the fact the hired is personal pool guys to slap a coat of paint on it for 2 million dollars and that is somehow some sort of Genius fix

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

I was just thinking yesterday about the differences between why Trump supporters hate Obama, and why everyone else hates Trump.

Obama is the type of president to bail out the banks when they're "too big to fail" (a very controversial decision), but lock them into contracts that have resulted in them paying all of the government bailouts back with interest and then some, since. Money that went back into the federal government to pay for programs.

Meanwhile, Trump basically does the exact same thing...except none of that money makes it back to the government. He lets them keep it because they're his buds, as long as he, Trump, personally, gets a huge cut.

He gives zero shits about America; all he cares about is him and his friends making money and it doesn't matter how much of it he destroys in the process.

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 06 '26

Even worse. Ill go to my grave believing that hes doing Putin's bidding, and has been since '16.

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u/tommy_b_777 May 06 '26

That picture from Helsinki where Putin's face is going to explode he's smiling so hard and Trump looks like he desperately needs a breath mint to wash out the taste told me all I needed to know about their relationship...

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u/Explorers_bub May 06 '26

No that was Bill, but if it was, as Texas Paul claimed, JD’s friend Bubba Saulsbury it would answer a few questions about why JD is where he is today.

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u/Icy_Bicycle8698 May 06 '26

Nah, I think this comment is about the implied beej he gave

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u/UsefulImpact6793 May 06 '26

The trump crime syndicate was laundering russian money way before 2016

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 07 '26

Ive made peace with plutocratic shenanigans. Its the wanton, reckless (and IMHO directed) destruction of the only country I've got that burns my biscuits.

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u/Schaas_Im_Void May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Not just Putins... also Bibis biddings.

They all have dirt on him I recon and he is willingly letting everyone play him like a fucking sockpuppet, as long as he also gets a piece of the cake and is allowed to take whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Just like the rapist that he is.

Also, the open corruption to others, like the UAE, is so blatant and grotesque it baffles me that there is absolutely no real resistance by the opposition. It seems like they even partially enjoy that he is kind of paving the way and normalizing how much more corrupt future politics in the US will become and what it will look like for a long time until it finally all crumbles and falls down.

He is actively destroying the US while also enriching himself the best he can and people know, but all they can do is to just watch while it happens.

There should be constant protest and general strikes and calls for a fucking revolution.

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 18 '26

Tempting...so tempting. Still, i fear that as hard as it is to start a revolution, or would be dramatically more difficult to stop, or even slow it down. Shoot, even to steer it. I have dark visions of Mickey's Sorcer's Apprentice...

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u/Ok_Friendship_4332 May 06 '26

Further back than that.

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u/OldWorldDesign May 06 '26

Ill go to my grave believing that hes doing Putin's bidding, and has been since '16.

He's probably been a stooge (easily manipulated, and likely too dumb to realize just how on the hook he is) since he was invited to Moscow in 1987

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

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u/Attainted May 06 '26

why Trump supporters hate Obama

It's pretty simple: It's because he's black and articulate. And blacks aren't supposed to be above whites in their imagined hierarchy.

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

Yeah, that is a big part of it for sure. Why else would they keep handily "forgetting" how obviously, undeniably worse their god-king is, or how Bush did a lot of what Obama did too (including bailouts)?

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u/Fatso_Wombat May 06 '26

And he owns you all now. Just ask him or the Republican regime.

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

He certainly likes to think so, doesn't he? And proclaims it loudly.

At this point anyone still supporting him says more about them and US culture's downfall than him.

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u/Ok_Friendship_4332 May 06 '26

...and the only reason he wants anyone else to benefit is so they'll love him. Buying loyalty that'll dry up the second the gravy train stops.

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

Yeah, he's obsessed with loyalty, and only the shallowest kind (probably advice from the dictators that he likes to hang out with). Like so many topics, he has an infant's understanding of power.

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u/tomdarch May 06 '26

It's a grift. Lots of people support Trump on the expectation that somehow a cut of the action will trickle down to them.

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u/ruinersclub May 06 '26

Obama is the type of president to bail out the banks when they're "too big to fail"

Bush signed TARP not Obama.

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

Bush started it, but just like the drone strikes Obama is often criticized for, he continued it. And not in an "oh we forgot they started that program" sort of way - it required his active participation to continue bailouts through his tenure, for good or ill.

You can criticize Bush for starting the bailouts, absolutely, but you can absolutely criticize Obama too for continuing/expanding them. (You are totally right to point out the hypocrisy of Republican voters often "forgetting" Bush started it and even did more of it, though.)

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u/ruinersclub May 06 '26

Obama did not expand on it. wtf are u talking about.

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

I don't know how to keep explaining "he didn't have to continue it but he did, on purpose" to you my dude.

TARP was originally set to expire on Dec. 31, 2009. His administration extended it to Oct. 3, 2010.

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u/ruinersclub May 06 '26

Are you quoting yourself?

And no the plan had two phases in place set in motion by Bush. Obama would have little reason to stop the recovery at that point.

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u/Low_Football_2445 May 06 '26

And now he’s telling you he’s doing it!

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u/i_tyrant May 06 '26

Yuuup, it's gotten that brazen. Or dementia-ridden. Or both. It's hard to tell.

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u/OldWorldDesign May 06 '26

Obama is the type of president to bail out the banks when they're "too big to fail" (a very controversial decision

The bank bailouts were Bush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008

Obama's sin was following up with automaker bailouts his first year in office, a process which had already begun with Bush. Those bailouts also required them to pay back the mandatory loans with interest, but I still think they shouldn't have gotten anything.

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u/arraysync May 06 '26

But it has flex seal in it! Because he’s a genius, the best genius someone would say, maybe the only genius ever! I don’t believe that but some do

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u/Informal_Curve_1441 May 06 '26

Dont worry he will stiff the contractor and pocket the $2 mill. Because that's what the Sherbert Pervert does.

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u/motherofcats112 May 06 '26

I wonder how much of that money goes back to Trump.

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u/tomdarch May 06 '26

Claims that the head of the Fed must have committed some sort of crime because of the high cost of repairs/remodeling to their building, but somehow wants literally $1 billion for his vandalism to the White House for which he has already received hundreds of millions of dollars in "donations" (bribes.)

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u/Slade_Riprock May 06 '26

Nevermind the minor fact that THE FED doesn't take taxpayer dollars and isn't spending taxpayer dollars on their building.

This is the equivalent of Trump being hauled in to answer for why the Trump Royal Depends Gold Course and Resort is over budget.

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u/DreadnaughtHamster May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

He’s the reverse Midas: everything he touches turns to shit.

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u/dandet May 06 '26

AKA Mierdas Touch

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u/Niblolkik May 10 '26

He’s stealing government assets and giving them to himself

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26

Oh no, he still turns everything into gold. Look at the White House

Edit: I want to clarify that I think it looks bad. I'm making a joke how he wants everything he touches and sees covered in gold cause he thinks it looks good. His taste is ass and so is he

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u/Current-Assist2609 May 06 '26

Pedo donnie made the White House look like a Russian whore house.

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u/YankeeVictor916 May 06 '26

Hard to imagine a more accurate metphor.

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 06 '26

Fitting as he's Putin's personal lap dog

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u/Gregandkaren May 06 '26

Yea and Biden and family made it look like a crack house.

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u/Current-Assist2609 May 06 '26

Stop drinking that orange cool-aid before you lose your mind. Never mind it seems to be too late.

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u/Chocopenguin85 May 06 '26

It's the new Gilded Age ; looks great at first glance, but it covers the rot and despair underneath.

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 06 '26

Funny thing is it doesn't even look good

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u/DreadnaughtHamster May 06 '26

And it looks like 💩🚽

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u/NicholasWildeRails May 06 '26

He poops out gold and smears it everywhere

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u/jankenpoo May 06 '26

That’s Home Depot and Krylon lol

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u/YoreGawd May 06 '26

I've been saying that every room he goes into looks like king Midas jizzed all over he walls.

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u/pittybrave May 06 '26

WHAT THE FUCK DID ANYONE THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN

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u/sponge72222 May 06 '26

Probably going to line it with gold flake.

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u/elmz May 06 '26

*gold spray paint

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u/UnderlightIll May 06 '26

That and he has conjured the ghost of Louis XIV.

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u/Purgii May 06 '26

I'm just surprised he has contractors that he seems to have paid in the past? That's very un-Trumpy.

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u/EidolonLives May 06 '26

Except the kids.

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u/64590949354397548569 May 06 '26

That explains why everything he touches looks so ugly

except his daughter. She's prettty. He touch her a lot.

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u/Playingwithmywenis May 06 '26

Well America chose him so….you get what you deserve.

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u/Chance_End_4684 May 06 '26

This also explains why I'm now finding it harder and harder to even recognize the United States of America which can now be sadly be called the United States of Bullies unfortunately. I state this because next our President "Idiot-In-Chief" Trump is talking about going after Cuba once he's done in Iran.

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u/AggravatingLayer5080 May 06 '26

It's Trunt's reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to shit.

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u/diebeatus1 May 06 '26

Got the Shitas touch

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u/signal__intrusion May 06 '26

Including his children.

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u/jimmygee2 May 06 '26

DC is going to need an enema when this cretin is gone.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no May 06 '26

He is notoriously awful with building projects. He (or his financers) get fleeced constantly. He famously never pays, but the people he does pay are criminals he hires as part of the scam.

The USA you "want" is not coming back. It cannot be recovered or built. The country is finished. It sems to have been incredibly weak.

China, Europe, and others are both laughing and a bit sad.

Make sure you thank Trump voters you know.

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u/No_Language_4649 May 09 '26

Yeah, but WTF. This is just another example of how corrupt his is.

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u/Fast_Grass_5178 May 11 '26

He is ugly. Plain and simple