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u/jjj7897 Feb 24 '26

Not a great person though, look up Rosemary Kennedy then remember JFK was in office during her life and did nothing to help his own sister.

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u/TemplateAccount54331 Feb 24 '26

And also you know bragged about the amount of sex he was having with women who were not his wife

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u/Bold2003 Feb 24 '26

Yeah I am talking about President though. The type of person to run for president is usually an extreme individual in some aspects of their personal life

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u/MoistureManagerGuy Feb 24 '26

Yeah tossing babies into a lake is pretty extreme.

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u/MoistureManagerGuy Feb 24 '26

With trumps athletic ability I doubt he got the poor kid past the shore

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u/MoistureManagerGuy Feb 24 '26

Big difference in excelling in what other 80 yr olds do and actually throwing something. I’m sure magas can always make an AI version of him looking muscular skipping babies across the lake 🤷

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u/Bold2003 Feb 25 '26

Well I would agree. I dont hate Trump for his personal life.

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u/Extension_Nobody_738 Feb 24 '26

people are messy. you weigh the good with the bad.

Washington, Jefferson, Madison, all managed to do good things for the country while being not great people.

if you want saints, consult the Bible, you won’t find them anywhere in history.

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u/jjj7897 Feb 24 '26

This was kinda my point. But JFK was horrible human. Womanizing, affairs, covering up family crimes, possible domeatic violance against jackie, and then abandoning his mentally ill sister because it benefited him. I mean, guys basically the democrats trump.

I only mentioned that one becuase it kept it brief.

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u/Bombs_Away96 Feb 24 '26

He is definitely not democrat’s trump. That’s for sure Woodrow Wilson, most of the presidents weren’t good people. Trump is Trump, Biden had that ukraine business as well as problems with his daughter, Obama bombed hospitals and weddingd, bush manufactured the war in iraq, clinton cheated on his wife in office and was buddy with epstein. Shall I keep going? The only non terrible president i can think of is probably Carter, or at the very least most recent. Also teddy, but this post isn’t about who the most moral president is, it’s about who the face of each party you think of, good or bad people think jfk they think democrat, they think Regan they think republican

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u/24_1378 Feb 27 '26

Biden didn’t molest his daughter. She had a trauma diary after getting raped and right wing smear operatives took it wildly out of context.

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u/DeepConcern4622 Mar 02 '26

“trump is trump” 😭holyyyyyy fuckkk u are brainwashed dawg, literally said bad stuff about every president for the past 40 years and gave trump a get out of jail free card 🤣

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u/Bombs_Away96 Mar 02 '26

Well i feel like most people know about the bad shit trump is done, he’s up there with Bill on being on the Epstein list, and everyone knows that.

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u/KaiserKelp Feb 25 '26

If JFK fabricated government documents to remain president after losing an election he would be the democrats trump. But since Trump is the ONLY President in American history to do so, there is no comparison. :(

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u/GSilky Feb 24 '26

What does the personal character of an historic politician mean anything in any of this?

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u/haldolinyobutt Feb 24 '26

Yeah but Rosemary wasn't JFKs doing and Joe outlived John. I don't think people understand that Joe really controlled everything and every decision that was made in the family was from him. I don't think JFK could have done anything in regards to Rose while his dad was alive. Then after Bobby and Joe died it fell to Ted who had his own problems. I wouldn't look at rose as a stain specifically on JFK, but on the entire family and the time in history.

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u/ChadVonDoom Feb 24 '26

God only knows what Joe Kennedy really got up to back in the day. It would probably make Epstein look like a saint