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Is this all a last ditch rallying tour before the jail door closes

 

[Brandon F]

Does really paint the impression he is firming up his base for war.

 

[Skellig Gra]

When does this nightmare end?

January 20th, 2025

 

[BFIB]

Abe was more Presidential two seconds after being shot in the head than Trump will ever be.

 

[Guy.brush]

Does really paint the impression he is firming up his base for war.

Yup think he will not bow to whatever Mueller's findings are. He is basically dropping fuel into the fire that steadily grew over the last decades and that he fanned up like a madman for his campaign. Civil War 2.0

And Putin and his geopolitics 101 are chuckling sovietly all the way to the Russian bank.

 

[TheCochese]

I cleaned out the cat box earlier.

I'd deem what I found to be more presidential, and less full of shit.

 

[Ithil]

Trump on literally any subject ever:

I have the most thing of anyone. No one is more thing than me. No one has done more thing than I have. I am the most thing of anyone in the world. Many people are saying I have more thing than anyone they've known. I have the most tremendous thing. No one knows more about thing than I do.

 

[Pagusas]

January 20th, 2025

*if he doesnt change the rules and run for a 3rd term.

 

[VivaciousSoul]

Is mentioning Abraham Lincoln supposed to give his statement more credibility? Does he think it would be less believable if he just outright said that no one could be more presidential than him?

Or is he trying to make sure that everyone knows that he knows who Abraham Lincoln is and that Abe we was the first of the vastly different Republican party?

Edit:

*if he doesnt change the rules and run for a 3rd term.

It's up to us to change congress next year.

 

[Majukun]

What do Americans mean with 'being presidential?'

 

[ClosingADoor]

Good thing he added "the late" Abraham Lincoln, otherwise we would confuse it with the still living ones.

 

[Keasar]

"I can be"

So why the fuck aren't you?

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

What do Americans mean with 'being presidential?'

Don't take Trump seriously.

 

[Makonero]

Good thing he added "the late" Abraham Lincoln, otherwise we would confuse it with the still living ones.

abraham lincoln, the late great actor in those spider man movies, so presidential, did you see the social network? so presidential

 

[rjinaz]

What do Americans mean with 'being presidential?'

How Obama was. Like that. So not sure why he'd want to be presidential. Maybe he should rethink this. He hates Obama.

 

[Incitemaybe]

How is this man happening.

 

[Alcotholic]

This interview says otherwise:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/insider/the-new-presidential-interview.html

Mr. Trump is a news machine. He generates headlines every time he speaks. He has made the White House press corps a growth industry. With other presidents, we sometimes struggled to find nuggets of news in an interview; with Mr. Trump we were overwhelmed. After the session on Wednesday, I have now interviewed seven presidents — some in office, some after they left — and with Mr. Trump the experience is strikingly different in almost every respect.

Bill Clinton was discursive, ranging widely over a variety of topics and citing at length arguments, anecdotes or pieces of information that had recently fascinated him, whether or not they related to the day’s news. He read voraciously and usually had a lot on his mind. These interviews were invariably compelling but not necessarily newsy, and pinning him down on questions was a challenge.

George W. Bush was more reflective, thoughtful and informed than he was given credit for but highly disciplined about sticking to the message he wanted to impart. He gave interviews when he had a point to make. The trick was crafting a question that would surprise him and get him off script to say what he really thought about something.

Barack Obama enjoyed the give and take of an interview, but there was more give than take. He preferred professorial answers, speaking in full paragraphs. He was smart, logical and impressive. But reporters with long lists of questions watched the clock tick and strained to politely interrupt the world’s most powerful person in order to get to more than just a few of them.

None of these men came close to Mr. Trump in his capacity to provoke. A product of the New York tabloid world, Mr. Trump has an unerring instinct for saying things that will produce gasps. An aide may try to steer him away from perilous topics or suggest that something be said off the record, but he usually plows forward anyway. Indeed, while other presidents are routinely joined by multiple advisers and an official stenographer for such interviews, just one aide was present at ours.

 

[Mahonay]

It's getting to the point I honestly hopes he dies. But only after he's dragged through a trial and found guilty of treason and obstruction of justice.

The fucking gull of this man. Just, Jesus Christ. What an awful person.

 

[Lombax]

Fuck this garbage human.

 

[Ricky_R]

The worst thing of all is that his fanbase eat that shit up like candy.

 

[Unit 33]

Why refer to him as 'the late' Lincoln.

Isn't that kinda language mostly used for those that have recently died?

Yes of all the things he said, I take issue with this.

 

[GamerSoul]

This works on so many levels.

 

[Raven117]

Progress...he at least gave ol'Abe credit. </sarcasm>

 

[Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!]

Abraham Lincoln looks very presidential in all that video footage we have of him

 

[Raven117]

What do Americans mean with 'being presidential?'

Pretty much any President other than Trump at this point.

How is this man happening.

I think this is an exceedingly interesting question (though I'm not sure you meant it how I took it).

How is this happening? What happened to the American electorate, political parties, culture, pop-culture, communication, economics, that allowed for person...of all people...to be elected President?

We are all at fault, not just the toothless rednecks... I've been searching for an answer to this question since election day, and cannot find anything that is even close to a full answer.

All I know is this...he is a direct result of America failing to reach for greatness.

 

[Spectral Glider]

I've taken shits that were more presidential than Trump.

 

[KernelPanic]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/890345915663486977

WATCH: On BBC, Anthony Scaramucci compares Trump's bid to repeal Obamacare to Lincoln abolishing slavery.

How to be presidential. Make fake comparisons to real historical legislation.

 

[Mahonay]

Why refer to him as 'the late' Lincoln.

Isn't that kinda language mostly used for those that have recently died?

Yes of all the things he said, I take issue with this.

It's because he has no idea what the fuck he's talking about and is 100 percent just saying random bullshit like he always does.

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/890345915663486977



How to be presidential. Make fake comparisons to real historical legislation.

This motherfucker Scaramucci

 

[Insane Metal]

What a gigantic piece of orange turd this guy is. Holy shit.

 

[TetraGenesis]

When does this nightmare end?

When the world does.

 

[GK86]

 

[Shadybiz]

I think it would be funny if a reporter asked him to name as many presidents as he could. ...I wonder how many he'd get.

 

[Imperfected]

What do Americans mean with 'being presidential?'

"Presentable", basically. Even for as much of a mess as his administration was, for example, Bush Jr. was able to go out in public without completely humiliating himself and the country on a consistent basis.

You can have your gaffes, you can have your bad days, but if just as a baseline you can't fucking meet with another head of state without making everyone in the country look like an idiot, you aren't "presidential".

I mean, that's the whole point of electing a figurehead to represent us.

 

[SoulUnison]

Things that a person could do or say once that would cause me to despise them Trump somehow manages to do almost every day.

 

[Robot Carnival]

I have never want to punch someone in the face so bad...

 

[Majine]

I am surprised he put himself below someone else. It's like his first class in being humble and he cobbled something together to hand in to the teacher.

 

[War Peaceman]

I am surprised he put himself below someone else. It's like his first class in being humble and he cobbled something together to hand in to the teacher.

He is the most humble president after all. None were more humble.

 

[Garlador]

He is the most humble president after all. None were more humble.

*sigh* It's not even a joke at this point...

 

[darkinstinct]

No president has ever played that much golf in his first six months is what he means.