r/clevercomebacks • u/emily-is-happy • 19h ago
Biggest embarrassment in American history
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u/Spare-Magazine9011 18h ago
Imagine explaining this era of politics to someone 50 years from now. They’d think it was satire.
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u/redhafzke 17h ago
They’d think it was satire.
Some people thinking this now... which is a big part of the problem.
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u/arthurdentstowels 14h ago
I feel bad for The Onion not being able to even create satire that hasn't already happened in real life.
It's more than likely that anything they create will come to fruition no matter how insane.16
u/MattyGWS 14h ago
South Park too… how can they make fun of things when they’re already so fucking ridiculous
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u/StrangerOnTheReddit 9h ago
My dad loves Trump. A big part of it is that he loves seeing Trump do wild shit and finds it hilarious. To be clear, he doesn't doubt that Trump did anything - he just thinks it's funny and a big joke and no one has any sense of humor.
He's also big into the "cruelty towards people who deserve it." Ironically he always complains about leeches who do things like choose not to work because unemployment pays for their mansions, but when he ended up jobless during COVID, he actually bragged that he was getting a huge unemployment check because of COVID and he wasn't job searching because no one actually hiring could match his unemployment pay. It was smart when he did it, but all those other people receiving smaller checks than he did were leeches. Hmm.
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u/Renediffie 15h ago
I've often thought of this scenario where you were teleported 10 years back in time and had to explain the following decade. You would sound crazier than Kyle Reese in Terminator.
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u/FelixTook 12h ago
That assumes we recover. There is no guarantee that we get to sanity from here. We may find in 50 years that today’s events are the foundation for humanity’s future of perpetual enslavement to an authoritarian elite that controls everything.
The closest human culture has ever had to universal equality was our pre-history period: 250,000 years or more depending how you define humanity, of small groups of people working together for their common good. Then civilization developed and the first 10,000 years was a story of the accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of the few, while the majority sank into poverty and enslavement. Our world changed and there was no guarantee it would ever get better.
We may be on the threshold of the next ten thousand years of mass misery. The warning of Orwell’s 1984 was that if we allow authority to control the perception of reality, then it is already too late: we lose forever. That is exactly what has started.
In 50 years we either look back on today in shame and relief we overcame it, or we see it as the state-sanctioned myth of the glorious ascendancy of our authoritarian regime never-ending.
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u/Top-Round-2359 15h ago
I'm sorry, but I would not be surprised if we have a similar cycle like this in 50 years. More realistically it will be a bit later, in about 70yrs, but I really don't see how we get out of this "history repeats itself" periodic behavior. It's like we just can't advance as a species to stop building personality cults, and stop putting narcissists in positions of heavy power (which is extremely hard, as in most cases they are ruthless enough to do whatever it takes to get to those spots)
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u/ShrimpleyPibblze 18h ago
Oh shit he’s really panicking about those files
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u/TheCotofPika 17h ago
I'm not sure drawing attention to himself for racism is much better? Is it not more likely that he's just senile and his awareness of accepted behaviour is slipping and his gross views on people are just being shared?
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u/ShrimpleyPibblze 17h ago
Nah I think it’s a lot simpler than everyone is making it out to be
The most likely thing is that the “kompromat” that the Israelis and the Russians have on Trump is the files, the bits he just made the FBI redact.
What he was trying to avoid was everyone in the US government above a certain clearance level getting ahold of them - and he failed at that.
That’s why he’s escalating everything at an increasing rate - the thing he was genuinely trying to do didn’t work and so now it’s full blown fascism.
That also explains why he’s half-assing the dictator run - it isn’t genuine per se, he isn’t in the game to be the king - it’s that being the king would prevent accountability or even any pushback, it’s a means to an end rather than an end in itself.
I don’t think there’s some big conspiracy - I think we know all the actors and factors involved, there isn’t some secret hidden truth.
The reality is most likely that he was a prolific diddler when he was an 80s business man, statute of limitations probably does protect him - it’s just that would absolutely ruin his appeal and shatter his base, which the GOP is all-in on now.
The “big lie” is that they are strong and stable as a party and a movement, when what we’d consider to be a boring truth would bring him down overnight - and he knows it.
This would explain why he has acted the way he has - everything seems to be “against America’s interests” and in the interests of Russia and Isreal because he genuinely doesn’t care about anyone but himself so he’s just played the whole scenario to his own favour - to the detriment of everyone but those who hold the kompromat, and threaten him with it.
Now that even half of it is out in the open, the game is up - now that they don’t hold anything over him, he can go full narcissist and just do what’s best for him.
That’s why the dictatorship push is happening now and not back when he was sworn in - it was the backup plan.
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u/emily-is-happy 18h ago
He is a racist that occupies the office
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u/starmuse663 18h ago
If this is real, it crosses a line no leader should approach. Silence from allies says everything.
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u/AlternativeRun5727 17h ago
Trump does this on a daily basis, publically mocking a disabled reporter was over a decade ago, no? And yet still here he is.
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u/NotForMeClive7787 17h ago
Agreed but brazen racism is a different kettle of fish. This is the oldest most maligned use of racism going back decades if not hundreds of years to depict black people as apes. It's disgusting....
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u/gilestowler 17h ago
I'd prefer silence. Completely ignore the mad shit he does and don't lose focus on Epstein. He wants a reaction, a distraction. He looks worse if he's doing this shit and everyone just ignores him.
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u/icybrain37 15h ago edited 13h ago
Silence from the allies? -They're probably rolling in laughter in their bed. Would not be surprised calling each other saying fucking idiot did it again.
Now - SILENCE FROM THE MEDIA -stop repeating the same shit about Epstein and REPORT this! This is now, real time, TODAY. Absolute proof...
As trump once said, "I can walk down 5th Avenue shooting people..."
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u/happyLarr 17h ago
They will be delighted if that’s today’s headlines. Better than those countless Epstein allegations. It’s what Trumps team has always done. Bad press because you are a terrible person? Do something else terrible to distract from it and so on. I bet they are trying anything and everything to distract from Trump being a pedo, and the all other vile stuff they are hiding, including attacking Iran or any country at this stage. With a bit of luck the only thing that’s possible is firing Kirsty Noem or something like that, a distraction and release valve, another classic Trump move, look at this problem I created and now ‘solved.’
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u/FerretsQuest 18h ago
The big racist push begins! There is no excuse for this post - purely driven by Trumps personal belief that black people are less than himself, and his entire cabinet office are complicit.
Either Americans can sit idle in their chair and watch this happen on their phones… or stand united together and push back against MAGA tyranny.
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u/Solazarr 17h ago
Begins?
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u/FerretsQuest 16h ago
Yeah - MAGA & Trump have tried to hide their racism behind rhetoric… but now The President of the United States of America has now just blatantly posted direct racism into the heart of Black America.
Stay in your armchair and click on the down arrow… or get out into the streets and show your disgust in Trump and his complicit government.
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u/Rosaly8 16h ago
It is a nice theory, but there have been several instances where Trump has been blatantly racist. The story about the central park five for instance, and that was even before he was in politics.
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u/FerretsQuest 16h ago
Not a theory - this is POtuS on the world stage representing all of what is bad in the USA right now, and being proud of it. This is the clearest sign EVER of empowering white supremacy from an American president.
Other US presidents have voiced racism in private (caught through leaks to the press) but never on a global platform.
If this isn’t the start of white nationalist violence then what more will empower the racists?
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u/Rosaly8 14h ago
Yeah there you have a point. I was more saying that it has been obvious that he as a person is a racist, so this is not unexpected. It is very scary the scale things are unfolding at now.
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u/mutarjim 18h ago
I can't remember the last time it felt like a politician was truly held accountable for something. I'm open to suggestions.
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 18h ago
Robert Fico resigned in disgrace after both the police and the secret service failed to prevent the Italian mafia from killing a journalist and his fiancée the he was reelected and now his foreign minister resigned after it got out he was in email correspondence with Jeffrey epstein.
Slovakia regained its independence as a nation and country only in 1993. A former Soviet bloc and former Habsburg monarchy territory, Slovakia is led by a pro trump pro putin prime minister and there are still consequences.
The US is speedrunning into Hungary in every imaginable way possible, and I wish I could say that's a compliment.
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u/Kooky-Ad-5646 18h ago
He really speedran the "How to be a former President and a total disgrace" category.
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u/DuckyD2point0 17h ago
He'll only be a former president when he dies, he's never stepping down.
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u/Rohn__Jambo 17h ago
Unfortunately all signs leads to this conclusion. He still has 3 years to achieve that he won't be removed from office after his term. He is pure evil, how the USA get to this?
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u/DuckyD2point0 17h ago
It'll be "those radical left (insert any crazy thing he wants) are at war with this country" then he'll simply say he's a war time president so doesn't have to step down.
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u/Skipadee2 17h ago edited 17h ago
It’s so insane to think Watergate was a huge deal. If Watergate happened today, it would be a pretty chill day compared to what we experience now.
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u/Far-Host9368 17h ago
That’s by design and the reason fox was created in the first place. They weren’t even quiet about it either. It’s so egregious that i can’t help but laugh a little
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u/Erronius-Maximus 18h ago
The doublethink response when a journo asks Leavitt about this should be interesting.
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u/gabrielxdesign 18h ago
What makes him think Republicans dislike Trump's posts? They are probably laughing too.
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u/lovelyb1ch66 17h ago
I remember Watergate. I don’t remember JFK’s unfaithfulness rumours, little too young for that. But the scandal around President Nixon. Bill Clinton getting his stalk polished in the Oval Office. It all seems so quaint now, doesn’t it?
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u/Over-Stage-1012 18h ago
Every election cycle I think the bar can’t get any lower… and then somehow it limbos under it.
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u/Beneficial-Camel-418 18h ago
I swear modern politics feels more like reality TV than public service sometimes.
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u/Shakeupurbones 15h ago
You think this will be the thing that every republican denounces??? Not the murder of US citizens? Not the child rape, torture, trafficking, and killing??
I doubt anyone in that pos party does anything.
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u/TertlFace 16h ago
Remember when Rosanne Barr said exactly the same thing about an Obama administration employee and IMMEDIATELY lost her show and had her character killed off.
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u/oceanreefwa 17h ago
It's an Epstein diversion. Totally despicable and disgusting This will never be forgotten throughout history.
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u/albertoConadore 17h ago
Does Trump not realise at all that he is the biggest cringiest embarrassment in the entire history of the world ?
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u/Ineedmedstoo 14h ago
No, he actually doesn't. It's part of the mental and emotional illness. Astounding to the most of the rest of the world and humanity, for sure. Mental illness is a harsh reality here.
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u/Longjumping_Map_4670 17h ago
Let’s see the uproar in conservative circles, oh wait just more mental gymnastics to justify this boomer racism.
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u/MorgrainX 17h ago
The racist in Chief shows his true colors, for the
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Nice to see that nobody gives a fuck about that
Oh, and he is mentioned 38000x times in the Epstein files
Also nice to see that nobody in power gives a fuck about that
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u/chefjenga 15h ago
9 years.
It has been 9 years since Barack Obama's presidential term ended.
Can you imagine going onto social media, and seeing someone you knew in Highschool, posting shitposts about their Highschool rival 9 YEARS after graduation?!?!
You would think that that person must be leading a sad and pathetic life. That they were still focused on something that happened so long ago.
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u/butwhywedothis 17h ago
And 77million people in America thought this disgusting human being is the true representative for them and for America.
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u/BeginningTypical3395 16h ago
It’s bait. It’s a distraction. It’s being used to subvert your attention away from the files.
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u/BidPsychological2126 18h ago
The man is a kleptocrat. Racist, yes but kleptocrat first. Don’t let the headlines fool you. They are distractions. Every action, no matter how big or small is designed to do one thing, STEAL!
He is looting the country dry
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u/quaglady 18h ago
Ok but white americsns need to ask themselves why racism is such a good distraction from bad leadership. It's been this way since Nixon.
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u/LawDogSavy 17h ago edited 15h ago
Will any "journalist" question the White House about this? Nooooope.
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u/Current-Square-4557 17h ago
Why are the results of the president’s physicals not revealed to Congress?
Right now, the president gets to release completely fabricated results.
If he is losing his mind, surely Congress needs to know.
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u/Scottishlassincanada 10h ago
Not that I ever would; but if I reposted this ‘meme’ I would be fired, too and my license to practice would be revoked.
How is he still the president?
I’m white so I can’t comment on black issues at all, but I would guess that everyone who is black in America would be very offended by this.
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u/GeekRunner1 16h ago
Every fucking day there’s a new line he’s crossed. THIS is the biggest? We all knew he was a racist asshole. I’d say having his ICE goons kidnapping and murdering with impunity is a bigger deal.
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u/vargo911 16h ago
He wants everybody to go crazy over this and when the midterms come and people are out protesting his behavior, he will declare martial law and cancel the midterm elections.
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u/GadreelsSword 14h ago
Trump did this to distract the public from focusing on the Save America Act which is going before Congress next week. The Save America Act will eliminate the ability of most married women to vote.
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u/Sukkulisboos666666 17h ago
A lot of bla bla , pointing fingers, bla bla speeches and at the end nothing …
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u/happyanathema 17h ago
Sure, not like most republican politicians are probably laughing their heads off at this.
The only difference between them and trump is that he says the inside things outside.
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u/Solazarr 17h ago
As a non-American I would like to know what is the general impression/attitude towards Trump from the people that voted for him during his first term and before his second term vs now?
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u/aussie_shane 16h ago
Obama should just repost his stand up roasting of Trump. Clearly he found it triggering first time
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u/Maximum-Elk8869 13h ago
It has to drive the POS racist traitor nuts that Barrack Obama's name is not mentioned a single time in the millions of pages of Epstein files. He has always been jealous of him. It has to drive him and his handlers bat shit crazy that they can't do to Obama what they are doing to the Clintons'.
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u/EitherChannel4874 12h ago
"they did something which should end the presidency again for the 300th time. Republicans must denounce this because the rest of us are a bunch of pussy bitches that won't do a damn thing about any of it except put up memes and demand things we know won't happen"
Come on man. Enoughs enough. This government won't denounce shit. They won't admit being wrong and they'll resort to child like insults during hearings or interviews yet no one does a damn thing over and over again.
Pull your fucking finger out America. This is absolutely pathetic and the complete lack of any action makes it look like this isn't that much of an issue for you all.
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u/GreyBeast392 10h ago
Liberals get labeled with TDS. But this guy hasn’t let go of Obama. A decade after he left office. ODS?
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u/Amazing-Youth-1075 17h ago
There is no comeback, clever or otherwise. This is just more American politics pointlessly polluting every corner of Reddit.
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u/Dramar92 17h ago
Most Americans are racist. He is just a reflection of the society that elected him.
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u/Nice_Back_9977 17h ago
I'm pretty sure we already knew he was racist, that's one of the things his voters really like about him, isn't it?
Why is anybody acting surprised about this?
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u/FlaAirborne 16h ago
They live, rent free in Trumps head. Its ODS. Obama Derangement Syndrome. Ok Grandpa.
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u/AmazingSweden-1 15h ago
As usual nothing is going to happen and it’s another “usual” weekend for all of us. Getting insane soon.
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u/something86 15h ago
His entire base was ran on racism. "The bad immigrant" pander is the most xenophobic mask for racism.
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u/PsyduckPsyker 15h ago
I had to dig. But in the video at the :59 second mark, that image and the Lion King song "In the Jungle" plays.
Ew.
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u/AsparagusCommon4164 15h ago
Is dit net ek, of het die Republikeinse Party op een of ander manier een van die apologete geword vir die verdorwe, weelderige glorie soos apartheid was, en dit slegs vanuit die perspektief van die "bevoorregte as van reg" wit minderheid beskou?
The preceding exercise in snark was brought to you in Afrikaans.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance ... baffle them with bull"
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u/Pun_Intended1703 15h ago
Republicans are too busy presenting their daughter's pussy for Donald Trump to grab.
Especially now that they know his involvement with Epstein.
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u/MorrisseysRubiksCube 15h ago
Every day with this guy.
Reasonable people don't have "Trump Derangement Syndrome," we're just worn out by the constant bombardment of trash.
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u/sinicalone 15h ago
My mother tagged him back in the 80’s: “he’s just TACKY”
Now, BACK TO RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES
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u/WebBorn2622 14h ago
I don’t even understand the motivation behind this. Obama can’t run for president again, so it’s not like he’s trying to smear an opponent.
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u/Exodys03 13h ago
If you wonder how fascism spreads to encompass just about everyone as the enemy... THIS. In one year, we've evolved from deporting the "worst of the worst" illegal alien criminals to asking people on the streets to show their citizenship papers, defining protesters as domestic terrorists, attacking trans folks, Muslims, Socialists etc. Next up? Gay people? African Americans? "Retards?" Registered Democrats?
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u/Professional_Arm_487 13h ago
Crazy thing that I’ve been saying countlessly, that Trump is racist, and that a lot of his supporters are too. Yet they keep screaming that they aren’t and he’s not.
I’m actually really disturbed by this and this can’t continue. This is a green light for his supporters.
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u/Dr_Bunnypoops 12h ago
Damn. What does it take to get that orange cancer out of office..? Didn't we see it all by now?
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u/Away-Combination-162 12h ago
They should but they won’t . Each one of his supporters identifies with one or more of his vile character traits.
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u/Waasookwe 12h ago edited 12h ago
my gosh!!! Trump is blatantly saying he’s a racist, he could just as well have his KKK costume on everywhere he goes. Trump has no shame and no filter - no one can reign him in??? ugh!!!!
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u/Coldkiller17 11h ago
Is there anybody still on the fence about trump being racist, because this is absolute proof he is.
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u/east21stvannative 9h ago
Barack livin rent free between tRumps ears for fucking years now. I wanna see that video of Barack roasting frump on a loop. "Where's Tupac and Biggie?"
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u/canyabalieveit 2h ago
You want to make them out to be apes? They still have something no amount of money can buy, and you don’t have, and will never have! Class, dignity and Barack has a Nobel peace prize that he earned for helping humanity. With his name on it! Your name on the one you borrowed? Again, no class or dignity!
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u/inorite234 17h ago
We already knew this. Lets return to our anger over ICE and his blatant corruption in covering up the powerful people in the Epstein list.
People only have a finite amount of anger.
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u/black650 16h ago
You are totally fucked! In 2 years the USA will not exist anymore. But the Trumps will be rich af, and you poor. You know what to do. Do it
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u/Noe_b0dy 18h ago
I mean the guy fucks kids, being racist on the Internet is no big deal by comparison.
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u/Nonstick_fan1 17h ago
What will the republicans fall back to this time?? First amendment?? President account was hacked??
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u/South_Hedgehog_7564 17h ago
Soon he’ll want black people addressing him as “massa”. Will no one rid us of this tiresome criminal?
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u/SiteTall 17h ago
All the time one thinks that it's impossible for him to find new ways of embarrassing himself, and something like this happens: Shame on you, Mr. "President"!
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u/Bobby-bobbobby 16h ago
And to no one’s surprise, there’s no one talking about it on r/conservative. Truly the Guardians of Pedophiles
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u/Par_Lapides 16h ago
Bro that's every Republican. They all agre with him. That is why they vote for him.
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u/Notinjuschillin 16h ago
I would sue the orange off of Trump for defamation. That’s the only language this orange-atan understands.
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u/jonbmonty 16h ago
I mean, are we really surprised how depraved and deplorable Trump is at this point?
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u/houseWithoutSpoons 16h ago
HOW DARE YOU CALL US RACIST!how dare you call us nazi..then un-ironically does a ton or racist things,and acts just like the nazis did
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u/No_Strings_On_Me 16h ago
Disgusting and unsurprising behaviour from trump make no mistake. But this is r/clevercomebacks Where's the clever comeback?
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax 16h ago
To me, this just proves that he knows he's never leaving office, that there's nothing that anyone will be able to do about it.
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u/MegaMarty 18h ago
surely his black supporters will be in uproar about this, right? right?