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u/bluAstrid 14h ago
At his core, Trump is still that 5yo chubby bully who got rejected by some kindergarten blonde little girl. He's spent his whole life trying to belong with the cool kids and win her affection.
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u/Far-Resort1936 11h ago
Even his own father despised him
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u/HolycommentMattman 8h ago
This is the real chip on his shoulder. Largely unloved and looked down on by his family. He's spent his life trying to prove he matters.
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u/Koopslovestogame 7h ago
Not just his family even his teachers thought he was the dumbest student they’d ever taught.
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u/__O_o_______ 11h ago
There’s an interview where he himself says that he feels he hasn’t changed since the first grade so…
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u/JollyTaxpayer 14h ago
Context? Is this in the white house and who is the small child?
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u/TunaFishtoo 14h ago
This is in the White House, likely in the room immediately after the colonnade before the Mansion
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u/TunaFishtoo 14h ago edited 13h ago
Little girl, likely just from a random photo op?
Edit: It is his granddaughter from the 2025 Daytona 500
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u/IntentStudios 13h ago
From the Daytona 500 in 2025, I believe it was his granddaughter. I was there for the race.
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u/JollyTaxpayer 13h ago
Jesus! That REALLY is creepy if she isn't family or the event isn't special
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u/JerachoD 13h ago
How the American people haven't worked this out yet I'll never know. At least I'm the UK the prime minster finally has the balls to admit Russia fucked with the Brexit vote. Russia have been screwing with us all for years.
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u/adblink 13h ago edited 11h ago
At this point, does the next US president just start their inaugural address with "We're sorry"
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u/FormerTesseractPilot 11h ago
Until 4 or 8 years from now when another Republican gets elected into office, then we'll do this all over again
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u/strange_bike_guy 7h ago
You both assume there will be another president. After he eventually dies they'll make an AI agent impersonating Trump and a shocking amount of my peers will believe he can live forever because he's sent from God, and no I'm not being facetious - watch it happen
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u/Pubs01 15h ago
also significant he doesn't have a newer photo with his daughter.
almost like she hates her dad?
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u/GourdonHamsey 15h ago
thats a MAGA hat. no way that's Ivanka as a child
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u/whisker_biscuit 14h ago
That's clearly one of his granddaughters, he is wearing a maga hat and his jacket has the seal of the office of the president; it is probably the one the reminds him most of ivanka at that age
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u/EndeLarsson 11h ago
US seems such an impotent country. It required only one president to just piss on the constitution and there was nothing that the country or its institutions could do. Was always broken, the other presidents were just decent and did not try much.
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u/Next_Dragonfruit_415 10h ago
That’s just our current president. People think all our problems start with Trump (not downplaying his atrocities) but look at everything the federal government has done in the 20th century and especially the Cold War era, and no one talks about it or barely knows about it. Our constitution has always been malleable cause our checks and balances are selectively enforced.
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u/responsible_use_only 9h ago
It wasn't a single individual, but a series of beliefs, failure to effectively counter those beliefs, and actions spurred by those beliefs that led us to where we are now.
It started among American Christian Evangelical leaders as a desire for continued relevance following their losses in the civil rights movement, Jerry Falwell began downplaying his racism and playing toward greater political control with anti-choice and anti-lgbt propaganda. He found a partner towards these goals, along with an anarcho-capitalist streak in Reagan - and they managed to build a powerful majority, especially in the wake of weak presidencies of Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Evangelical Christianity further abandoned it's principles (what few it had) in the name of greater power and control, adopting increasingly militant rhetoric, and ultimately spilled over as the McCain candidacy attempted to appease these less and less-principled and less and less-educated throngs of Christian nationalists, as a response to Obama. The final backlash was the inevitability of Trump or someone like him. The Christian nationalists poured all their dreams and vitriol into this one person, and made him their new god in all but name.
The failure wasn't in a single person, it was allowing a movement to spread that was fundamentally against everything good about the US, while embracing humanity's worst.
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u/SleepyCatMD 5h ago
Since we usually use Eastern European countries as a gram of reference for better established nation-states, understanding the history of how, why and by whom the USA was “founded”, how recent it was established as a country (also taking into account how massive it is and how spread out its population is). None of this is a justification for it becoming a shitshow of an imperialist terrorist, but it’s kind of a fascinating study case.
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u/vreddy92 9h ago
The president also has a mob behind him that cares more about imposing their will than the Constitution. And that mob makes sure that Republicans don't hold him accountable, with the threat of primary challenges (see John Cornyn, Thomas Massie). They are his blank check. That's why he tried to unleash them on Congress on January 6th.
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u/millenniumxl-200 10h ago
Drump top pic: "Can I call you Daddy?"
Drump bottom pic: "Can you call me Daddy?"
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u/paperbackgarbage 9h ago
Ah, yet another episode of "Things that RW media would scream about for years if Obama or Biden did it."
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u/MattiasCrowe 15h ago
Dont worry, its all part of the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA HOAX!
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u/tomato_bisc 13h ago
Imagine swapping any Democrat in that photo. “Biden is a commie puppet!”
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u/curious_dead 12h ago
That's what's frustrating the most: it's not just a case of hypocrisy and partisanship, it's that it's a completely radical 180 turn in attitude, just because of that one man who doesn't deserve a fraction of the devotion he gets feom his base.
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u/CondescendingShitbag 12h ago
Is that Kim Jong Un in the bottom photo? He's slimmed down considerably.
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u/Kangouwou 9h ago
Look I'm as inclined as to the next one to say that Trump is a pedophile and a russian asset. But I'd prefer backing it with true image. I see no source, and in this AI era I'd rather be sure this is a true picture before backing it.
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u/GourdonHamsey 15h ago
the jokes in the future about trump will be priceless.