r/PoursTea • u/jonnismizzle • 1d ago
Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 Stable genius fails to understand how a ceasefire works
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u/JakkoThePumpkin 1d ago
And this is why he thinks he's ended 8 wars, he told them to stop & just assumed that they did.
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u/Flimsy_Sorbet_7973 23h ago
And he can't even say the names of some of the countries when reading them off his Teleprompter!.....Nor find them on a map!
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u/Global_Face_5407 23h ago
This always make me laugh. He did absolutely nothing. He never helped broker peace or negotiate terms of ceasefire.
He hears about a tense situation, he calls one or both sides and threaten them with tariffs.
Regarding Pakistan and India, Modi went on the record to say that Trump absolutely never called him or his Pakistani counterpart to have any sort of sit down to negotiate for peace. He called Modi once, rambled about tariffs to which he was essentially given "k.thx.bye." as an answer and that was it.
The Rwanda and Congo peace agreement he had them sign at the White House ? Whitin a few week something like 300 civilians had been massacred.
But all of this doesn't really matter because apparently he's a time traveler. He claimed to have stopped the war between Serbia and Kosovo. A war that has been ended in 1999.
I know a guy like Trump. If he talks to you Monday and you receive a promotion Tuesday he'll tell everyone that you got the promotion because he told you to go get it. Thing is, that guy is mentally handicapped and that's sort of expected of him to create tall tales to make himself interesting.
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u/One-Pepper-2654 21h ago
I am a middle school teacher. I can assure you this type of thinking starts at age 12, or younger. Parents think they are perfect, they never say no, no consequences.
I was teaching parts of speech and asked one of these little angels to identify what part of speech "apple" was in a sentence. The student replied it was a verb and no amount of teaching could change his mind. He decided it was a verb so it was a verb. Here's where it gets weird: he convinced a whole bunch of other kids in the class it was a verb, and they ganged up on me and tried to change my mind. I know some of those kids knew it was a noun, they just didn't want to lose face with the leader.
And that's Trump. When faced with facts dig in and create your own reality that fits your ego. and don't lose face with your sycophants.
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u/Global_Face_5407 20h ago
Thank you for teaching.
It has to be getting progressively harder in current times, where truth is getting muddied by opinion more and more.
I believe Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He's popular because people see themselves in him. They like that he refuses to give up on his ego. That he will never give an inch no matter how wrong he is. They see this as bravery and defiance. They fail to understand that it is a sign of a man that is unable to learn, grow or better himself. They think that whomever screams the loudest has won the argument. It vindicates them into doing the same. They can just galvanise themselves with what very little knowledge they have and be convinced anybody disagreeing with them or trying to prove them wrong are liars.
Humility is no longer something that people seem to even take into consideration. "I don't know" is seen as weakness and stupidity rather than an opportunity to learn new things.
I have conservative friends. They are somewhat moderate, but that kind of ideology is slowly seeping in their mindset. If we talk about something we disagree about and I don't immediately have the answers they're seeking I'm automatically branded an ignorant and my right to express myself is attacked. My absence of facts validated by data is good enough for them. It means their beliefs are true. When I try to explain to them that it's not how rationality work, they accuse me of trying to make up excuses. It is all in jest, we are still friends, but I know that deep down they cannot help but feel that I'm timorous for refusing to factually claim things I do not know for sure are true. They confuse my humility and my appetite to learn new things, even if they go against what I believe, as weakness.
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u/AdmiralXI 22h ago
Even countries that didn’t even know they were at war. Not many presidents can claim that - especially Obama.
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u/DunAnOir 1d ago
Well done, America. Solid choice. A masterful statesman and a perfect ambassador for your country on the world stage.
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u/cerunnnnos 23h ago
Art of the Deal! Who needs consent? Definitely not women or children, or people of color. And a foreign policy built on a lack of it as well.
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u/boksinx 22h ago
Whether they like it or not, Trump represents the true modern Americans, dumb arrogant motherfuckers.
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u/BafflingHalfling 21h ago
I told a friend this in 2016. "If he wins, he's the president we deserve."
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u/mightyjoe227 23h ago
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u/GreenFuzzyMalachite 23h ago
A spoiled child unchecked.
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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 22h ago
Never took that punch to the mouth he deserved when he was a kid.
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u/One-Pepper-2654 21h ago
Yep, violence is the only thing bullies respond to. I wish I punched my bully while I was in school.
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u/Wise-Ad-4940 23h ago
That may be so, but at least he was a bit more coherent. This is just embarrassing at this point.
There is a reason why air traffic controllers must retire at the age of 56.8
u/CookIndependent6251 21h ago
He was always cruel and stupid. I read just a bit about his family and I had to stop because of how messed up these people are.
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u/Relative956 22h ago
A lot of people voted for that moron. He is proof that you don't need to be smart to get rich, you just need to be ruthless.
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u/Predditor_drone 22h ago
you just need to be ruthless.
Also be lucky. Also be born to a rich family whose name and resources you can leverage.
If trump were born poor with zero notoriety, he's too impetuous and ignorant to accomplish anything on his own. That's part of why he's the hero for those kind of folk, they're dumb enough to believe it was cunning and work that got him where he is and they think they can do the same.
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u/National_Ad9742 21h ago
This. If this guy was poor he’d be the annoying person you tolerate at the family bbq because the family matriarch hasn’t kicked the bucket yet and she insists on everyone is welcome.
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u/LoanDebtCollector 20h ago
If he was poor he'd have been in and out of jails for petty crimes since he was 18.
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u/Jeoshua 19h ago
If Trump were born poor, he would have had to learn skills, empathy, and how to actually deal with reality in a way that isn't backed by the weight of money. He would not be like this, at all.
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u/IThinkItsAverage 17h ago
His father and grandfather were bigots. Like an actual Nazi sympathizer and one of them was at a KKK rally. Also generational draft dodgers.
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u/LordDarthShader 19h ago
That's a big if, he doesn't seem capable of learning anything.
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u/Jeoshua 19h ago
His Grandfather wasn't born into money... and he learned. He learned crime.
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u/Samatic 21h ago
Trump has to be the luckiest man on the planet. It bogles my mind to see just how lucky he is with almost every aspect of his life.
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u/Cool-Tap-391 21h ago
Every day im perplexed how he never had his teeth knocked out.
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u/markrm369 21h ago
Because he can pay the guys to do much worse to you if you knock his teeth out. And yes, he thinks that makes him tough.
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u/EddieVanzetti 21h ago
Because he was coddled by his mother, and then insulated by his father's riches. The only time he ever got a taste of what its like to be bullied, he found out its mashed potatoes
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u/mechapoitier 20h ago
And yet every day he’s the most aggrieved, the most vengeful for how poorly life has treated him.
He has everything he could want, at the expense of everybody else. Why now do we not tell him how amazed we are?
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u/HumphryGocart 21h ago
Being as stupid as he is, he realized early in life that the only way he could make a go of it was to be a con man. He knows he’s an absolute failure, hence the massive insecurities. On top of all that, he’s ruthless and doesn’t possess an ounce of decency. In his life everything must be raped
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u/Older4YoungerFun 21h ago
Sad tging is the family fortunes came from CANADA which he treats the worst...you'd think he'd have some gratitude or his name would be absolutely nothing without CANADIANs making great grandfather rich
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u/Chimpstrider 22h ago
Con men don't need to be intelligent. They just need to have a pool of marks even less intelligent than they are. The USA is his perfect environment
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u/Ok_Drag5089 22h ago
Warren Buffett said it years ago. If you don't care who you screw over, making money is easy.
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u/mechapoitier 20h ago
I come from a long line of entrepreneurs. I run a business I cofounded right now. It does ok but not amazing. Every once in a while I get in a very understandable mood and I come up with a way pretty quickly that I could make a lot of money but the caveat is it inevitably damages some pillar of society. So I don’t do it.
Trump fans are the kind of people who, if they could come up with ways to do that, they’d do it all the time. They think Trump is the only person smart enough to be like that.
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u/DeliciousStand372 20h ago
“a lot of people dont know “dumb” has a b” - Trump talking about himself
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u/Kdoesntcare 20h ago
"A lot of people voted for that moron,"
Multiple times. Republicans proving that it's easy to control the poorly educated, republicans using literal nazi propaganda to support trump.
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u/Kazureigh_Black 23h ago
This man is what happens when the bratty spoiled kid who screams in public when they don't get their way, makes up rules during games they say they get extra turns, and just takes things from strangers and cries when they are told no is allowed to grow up with absolutely no discipline and gets told they will always be right and nobody has the right to correct them.
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u/Eisen-Erik 23h ago
I was in a situation where i met a brutally rich guy in bar. He was constantly harrasing the girlfriend of a friend of mine, saying things like "why not me? Look at him he has no money/value etc." until she hit him. I saw a 30yo brutally rich man, crying and wheeping because he saw his own blood for the first time. Mentally he was kind like a 13yo kid
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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 22h ago
The punch to the mouth Trump never took.
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u/Eisen-Erik 22h ago
Yeah, i dont say brute force is an option -never. Either talk to people and learn from each other in a social way and beat people verbally. But this is no human anymore. He rejected every human aspect that is nobel, empathetic and adequate. He should not be allowed waddeling and talking around people without supervision
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u/gjiorkiie 22h ago
you know maybe i could stomach the evilness and the complete lack of empathy but on top of that he is also the stupidest motherfucker to ever live! What a combo!
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u/Critical_Raisin_2504 21h ago
Violence is the only language some people understand - good on your partner!
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u/geek66 22h ago
And a solid third of the country can not see that this is not how truly successful people are.
He could have just invested the money his dad gave him and he would be wealthier, well until this admin.
But his game has always been grift, he never paid for his helicopters, or planes, golf trips, or even his prostitutes- it all came out of some company until he bankrupted them
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u/ShredsHardcock 21h ago
You need to understand that at least a third of the country have never been in the same room as success and are not raised in an environment with successful people. This is why so much of the wealth class starts at the upper middle. Because you live surrounded by it and go to school with it. You learn things and internalize things about how people carry themselves that folks lower on the economic totem pole simple do not. They have the benefit of educated parents. They have the benefit of financially intelligent parents.
Source: well, i, instinctively know what a pair of slacks and a button down looks like, I know how to wear them, and I grew up in a literate household with successful parents, you feel me?
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u/Maximum-Elk8869 22h ago
This man is what happens when significant portions of the American electorate are uneducated, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, conspiracy theorists, obstructionists, petty, cruel, vindictive, religious zealots and liars. He is what he is and we are what we are and Americans elected him to office twice based on those criteria.
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u/thisisredlitre 21h ago
Youre forgetting the larger, more significant portion of the american electorate who didnt bother to vote at all.
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u/FiveStringTelecaster 22h ago
He is what happens when that segment of voters is never forced to experience consequences for their stupidity.
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u/Either-Assistant4610 22h ago
His entire family shouldn't have gone beyond the trailer park. The bad ones.
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u/CueAnon420 23h ago
Trump admits to fraud and pedophilia.
You know why? Because I said so.
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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 1d ago edited 23h ago
There's a big difference between a liar and a bullshitter
A liar still hold some importance to the truth and defends/distracts from it
A bullshitter truly doesn't care about the truth. Will say anything any time, whatever it is that works for them. And if it doesn't stick? No worries. The truth wasn't important anyway, so they don't care and just say more bullshit. This is literally what Trump does and his base call it 4D chess. This is why Trump can literally say word for word 'I can say the stupider things and you all clap', because that's all it is.
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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 22h ago
He’s a shitty salesman selling his shitty self. It’s a wonder why anyone buys any of his bullshit. And, it’s all bullshit.
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u/ImpluseThrowAway 1d ago
Trumps tenuous grasp on reality gets weaker and weaker with each passing day.
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u/InternMammoth4121 23h ago
I'm sure this is what rapists think all the time.
"You agreed to it because I say you did."
Remember, this is who conservatives were waiting for their whole lives. This is their guy and their values.
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u/Letsbuildanicerworld 23h ago edited 23h ago
Just in: Trump agrees to resign! If asked he may not say so, but I told him he’s resigning, so he is.
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u/Objective_Watch3097 23h ago
So now he is just openly admitting that he is either 1) lying about stuff, or 2) so deranged that he thinks he is so powerful that he just says stuff and the rest of the world just does it.
Neither option is what you want in a leader.
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u/desertguy1961 1d ago
We have a delusional psychopath in the Oval Office.
He genuinely believes that if he says something it’s true.
His followers, of course, also believe that anything he says is true. And there are too many of them.
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u/Positive-Opposite998 23h ago
This guy is president of a country. Can you believe that?
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u/Stewie01 23h ago
He thinks he's the boss of the world 🤣
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u/JeanEBH 22h ago
His cult believes the propaganda phrase “leader of the free world.”
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u/meeseekstodie137 22h ago
no he doesn't, he knows putin is his boss, he's just fronting for the cameras, he's actually fairly submissive when someone is around who has something on him, even moreso when it's a dictator he admires
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u/annoyed_meows 23h ago
Will the house and senate flip Nov 3? Will that sideline this clown? When's this nightmare going to end? I can't have any of his supporters in my life anymore. I used to think this stance was too extreme. Over the past year I've decided that I wasn't extreme enough early enough with these delusional brain dead traitors.
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u/strangerinmyownland 23h ago
Because a mentally challenged three year old believes the delusion he is having.
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u/AN0N0nym3 23h ago
That deal was negociated by Trump alone...as he was really alone talking to no one in an empty hallway at the white house.
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u/Pblaising 23h ago
No sane human believes this. He is insane. Wouldn’t be so bad if it was your crazy uncle. Unfortunately, for the rest of us humans, he’s not.
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u/teteban79 21h ago
Agreement and consent are two words he doesn't fully understand. Plenty of evidence of that
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u/JerryDipotosBurner 19h ago
Now take this quote, zoom out and understand that this is the same man with the Hollywood Access tape quote. The same man talking about dating his own daughter. The same man found liable for rape. The same man who is the main character of the Epstein Files. The same man bragging about going into underaged women’s dressing rooms because he owned the place.
And understand that this is the language of someone who does not understands the word no.
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u/chrlatan 22h ago
Unfortunately the only logical way to move forward is for all blue states to become the Developed United States of America and for all red states to form the Agricultural Disharmonic States of America and build a future from their independent co-existence and mutual dependency through trade.
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u/Minimum-Attitude389 22h ago
You mean he doesn't understand the meaning of consent? How strange! /s
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u/Aggravating_Run5443 20h ago
He really truly thinks that him just saying things out loud makes them undisputed facts
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u/al-Assas 19h ago
Magical thinking is a developmental feature of early childhood, particularly between the ages of 3–5 years.
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u/uprightshark 23h ago
Remember America .... this idiot has the nuke codes. Be afraid .. we are!
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u/SpartanKane 22h ago
He really believes himself the King, doesnt he? That he can raise his hand and leaders will kneel for him. Insanity lol I recall when he said he declassified those files he kept with his mind- i hear people say he knows he's being belligerent or that hes senile...i just genuinely believe he's a fool who failed upward because people benefitted from it.
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u/GoneWithTheJizz 22h ago
A third of our country finds this statement to be perfectly reasonable and still believes he was robbed of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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u/WizarddOfAhh 22h ago
Time for all the world leaders to start calling him out for all the bullshit he continues to spout! Can’t imagine anyone takes him seriously at this point, just wreaking the world
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u/yuntaran 22h ago
From ending 8 to 9 wars because he said so! So next year, a nobel peace prize is guarranted! Truly a stable genius!
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u/AppliedEpidemiology 21h ago
It's much worse than not understanding how a ceasefire works. He doesn't understand how the concept of agreement works.
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u/Lucky-Mia 21h ago
Must be nice to just will your thoughts into reality.....At least, it works in his reality. He has russian Vranyo syndrome.
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u/sasquatchangie 21h ago
This man is genuinely sick and demented and I can't believe nobody in our government or our military is even trying to remove him.
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u/ultimate_bond 20h ago
Thats the shit he pulled between India and Pakistan. Thats where things went south between India and US
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u/WangoTheWonderDonkey 20h ago
This is 25th Amendment nutcase delusional. "Because I said so" is also how he "ended 12 wars". He fires off a tweet to the effect "I want you guys to stop this war" and in his warped mind he thinks he's ended the war. The only point at which the two waring sides unite is when they stop to laugh at this doddering fool. They then go back to fighting.
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u/FrictionMitten 19h ago
I am going to take this approach at work and ask for a raise! ffs.
He has gone too long with just saying things and people bending to his will to make them happen. What hold does he have over everyone that this always works?
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u/Agreeable-Boat3509 19h ago
Just a scheme to fuck over Ukraine and get them to back off a highly successful and effective strategy, if only temporarily - either they abide by the fake ceasefire and have their hands tied for a few days while Russia takes pot shots or they reject it and Trump and the conservative media sphere go nuts about how the energy crisis and the war are zelenkys fault because he refuses to try for peace.
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u/Current_Cable_7467 19h ago
ROFLMAO. His Secret Service detail should consist of guys carrying a straight jacket tailor made for him.
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u/Desiato2112 19h ago
There's no better example of the Fantasy World this disgusting child rapist lives in than this.
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u/Narwahl_Whisperer 19h ago
Brought to you by the guy who can declassify documents by just thinking about it.
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u/TURTLE1426 18h ago
It must be fun to live in a country that is the laughing stock of the free world.
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u/Maverick-not-really 18h ago
I mean would you really expect him to understand the concept of consent?
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u/x_wbmr_x 17h ago
This traitor represents your country and he made sure the whole world will connect his name to your country as much as possible.
It will take years for the world to stop thinking about all the problems you caused, all the lies and attacks against your allies. All the praise he said about putin and russia...
The age of humiliation for the US can't come soon enough.
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u/SCWatson_Art 17h ago
I have a theory, and seeing stuff like this bears it out:
I think that since other world leaders call him "President" that *he* thinks he's the President of the World.
And he's just stupid enough to actually believe that.
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u/JustBug3403 17h ago
I swear to you on the grave of my parents I have listened to more coherent 3-year-olds. This is not a hate post, but a statement.
There are thousands of 3-years-olds you would understand. I have no idea what this world salad means.
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u/Mr_R0mpers Pinkie Finger Extended 1d ago
Do you know how many psychologists would crawl over their own mothers to assess this walking case study?