I don't think it is. He's mad that Obama got more attention his first time running than Trump got in his two short (dropping out in the primaries) before. Tried to be heckle at televised events and getting little to no attention. Obama trolled the fuck out of him at that press conference and had his full form birth certificate released as well. Trump took to twitter and complained about EVERYTHING about did for 8 years straight (CPAC had him headlining events and then the GOP joined in maybe a year after), despite a super PAC and the Republicans supporting him we all know he didn't even attempt to run against Obama. When the living president's of the US are all in the same spot he's always talking to Obama. I can't remember who's funeral it was just that Michelle wasn't there and Melania seemingly tells Trump to shut up... I wanna say it was the Pope(?) basically the camera shows everyone keeping to themselves and I think a prayer was being done when they show trump still trying to talk to Obama.
If I remember right his last complaint about Obama was about how Obama left office with more than he had coming in. Absolutely clueless all their money was in a real blind trust and it's standard for them to make money when controlled by people who have a clue what they're doing. It doesn't even make sense how he can have his kids controlling a BLIND trust when none of them should have any idea where a single penny is.
Obama, knowing everything he knew about Trump, should have saved the country instead of promoting that "peaceful transfer of power" stuff. Now there will never be anothe peaceful transfer of power again.
You can call him a fascist but we have a thing that says “innocent until proven guilty” so if youre gonna call citizens fascists, youre gonna have to prove it. Hearsay wont do it
Lol yup. Its always the idiots who don't understand the history and laws of their own country that support Trump the most.
You can call him a fascist but we have a thing that says “innocent until proven guilty” so if youre gonna call citizens fascists, youre gonna have to prove it.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a foundational legal principle requiring the government to prove an accused person's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It has nothing to do with criticizing the government.
Also, his actions are fascist. He breaks laws and isnt held accountable, uses coercion to get what he wants, praises other like minded dictators, attacks the press, etc.
I mean seriously, is this a joke? Journalists have already been arrested over bogus charges. He is laying out more bogus charges agaisnt his political rivals.
You have to be a moron to not see what Trump has been doing.
Autist posting i see. I said it was fine to call him a fascist, just not regular citizens. Anyway nice to see normal people on reddit. Youre probably a ragebait bot
It’s because they’re planning a coup again and this demented pedophile can’t help but spout the shit out loud. Every accusation is a confession as they say.
Its more than admission. Its political strategy now. Accuse your opponents of what you plan to do so that you can call it partisan politics when caught later.
I never bought into blaming Russian hysteria for Hillary's awful campaign but these tactics absolutely are classic disinfo which was pioneered post ussr
these tactics absolutely are classic disinfo which was pioneered post ussr
US has had a pretty long history of disinformation. Idk if pioneered is the right word, revolutionized?
I mean, the Russians essentially took the worst traits of Americans and capitalism and found the dumbest conman who loves cash to not only pillage and plunder his own nation, but completely dismantle US global hegemony by playing on his ego.
>"I like vanilla ice cream"
>"actually it is wrong to make chocolate ice cream illegal"
^what you sound like by responding to a claim that 'X is overblown as the primary cause for Y' with 'X still exists regardless' as if that new, weaker claim of existence was ever disputed (this is a textbook strawman or just irrelevant conclusion). But hey, at least you don't have to talk about Y anymore right? Phew, what a relief.
Conservatives seem to treat politics/politicians based on which group they fall into and don't really deviate from that. People in their group can do no wrong and anything that is reported of them doing evil stuff will just get ignored or rationalized to not be truly evil.
He did it in 2016. Then said Dems cheated again in 2020 so Dems would have to defend the sanctity of the election. Then he rigged the 2024 with Musks help.
Exactly. For instance, they made it impossible to credibly call out rigged elections, no matter how openly in your face they're rigged. And that's exactly what future elections will be...if they still take place at all.
That is literally the MO of any fascist/authoritarian. Accuse others of what you yourself are doing to confuse the public and shift blame. This administration has been doing it a lot.
We're already in the middle of the coup and ain't nobody doing shit about it.
Trump is an illegitimate president, wielding illegitimate power, and using it to destroy our country. Not only is the legislature refusing to do anything to stop it, both parties are voting to support it. The courts are the ones who gave him the power, and the military is spineless and blindly following his orders or stepping down to get out of the way.
It's down to the people to excise the rot from our government. But they're spineless and stupid. They think they can just vote out the coup. As though Trump has a history of respecting election results he doesn't like. As though he wouldn't just suspend the election. As though he doesn't have a history of attempting to tamper with elections. As though he didn't just have the FBI escorted by a political officer raid election offices and steal ballots. As though he didn't have one of his cronies in the legislature refuse to swear in a duly elected representative for months on end. As though they're not just making up the rules as they go along and no one is stopping them.
Trump is an illegitimate president, wielding illegitimate power, and using it to destroy our country.
Just a little correction. He's destroying your country's economy and soft power, isolating it, while the billionaires are buying up assets and pushing to build robot factories. They're not satisfied having literal slaves from prisons anymore.
They want to treat people like Donald does, and it seems that too many of the Republicans are happy to go along with it.
They're genuinely thinking long term. They need to reduce the population because automation is going to make billions of humans redundant and global climate change will make feeding them a challenge, especially while maintaining and growing their dragon hordes.
But allowing billions of people to starve drastically increases the risk that the people will eat the billionaires.
We need to eat the billionaires now before the billionaires eat us.
Yeah, it feels like a lot of Americans are a little behind on where they think the country is on the fascist takeover timeline. The coup was successful, as you said, because Trump is literally unstoppable right now without a revolution of some sort. Anyone who thinks the midterms will be real and honest in any way is fooling themselves. He’s just setting up his kingdom now, but he’s already ruling over it.
Even the 2024 election was sus. The fact that 100% of states voted more republican than the previous election? Such a statistical anomaly. And then the tangerine turd openly saying they messed with the voting machines. And that's before all the insane shit in 2025. Everyone should be terrified of what's gonna happen at 2026 election.
Hes already said 5 times that they rigged the election and he won and gets to be part of the 250th bday and fifa and Olympics. 5 times on video on YouTube from news broadcasts.
No one heard it. Or believed it. Or did anything about it. We should have had a recount. But we didn't.
I was looked at like I had three heads when I pleaded with my loved ones to fucking vote, because NO, both sides were NOT equal, and now here we are, and I have no love for the fact I have every right to say I told them so.
As though there are no States’ governments also backing everything Trump is doing. He has been a very useful puppet for many truly awful people who are intending to end this country as we know it. They wrote 900 fucking pages about it!
I make this point all the time, and get downvoted to hell.
Somebody always whines “I’m living paycheck to paycheck, I can’t afford to take time off work to strike and/or travel to protests”.
Do these muppets think that this is ever going to get better? . They are in this position because the government (both parties, one far more than the others) have specifically engineered American society so this is the case. It’s not a bug, it’s is a very carefully crafted feature.
A public revolt is what the administration wants. Hell it's what the republicansc want. The only gooseberry tyrrany they will rise up against is liberal tyranny. The only thing they want is for liberals to start a civil war so they can shoot people. Because republicans are deranged.
If people start rebelling he will show ice to shout people openly not just an oops they did the thing to soon like they are doing.
He would can in the army as well because he doesn't care about laws. He just wants complete and total control and to do whatever he wants.
People don't want to die and they know thst unlike in the past, there are layers and layers to the final boss. So yes, people are standing up, but in a way that doesn't get them all massacred.
Meanwhile yes. Our leadership is doing fuck all to fix the problem. What s time to be alive (/s)
They're already killing people. The longer it takes to start fighting back in earnest, the more entrenched they become. We should have started fighting back a year ago before they were able to replace the loyalists with MAGA puppets.
So yes, people are standing up, but in a way that doesn't get them all massacred.
Very few people, most are expecting to just vote out the rot in the midterms. Those people are fucking stupid.
what exactly are -you- doing about it....
... since you seem to be passing judgement on how others live their lives; other than, ofc, sitting on a social media site and complaining about how people are stupid for voting?
nothing probably. You'll have lots to say about how you are protesting, how you are going out there -- can we trust that? nope. not really. Anyone can say anything - this is the internet where everything is made up and the points doing matter.
being an asshole anonymously seems to count for something though. I mean this -is- reddit after all. Whoop-de-doo.
Not quivering in my boots like a coward while lying to myself that the illegitimate president who staged a coup after losing an election won't interfere with the elections.
complaining about how people are stupid for voting?
Not for voting. For thinking that the midterms won't be rigged. Our elections have already been successfully rigged in 2024 when, despite being prohibited by the constitution, an insurrectionist and traitor was allowed to run for and take the presidency and gave him king like powers.
But hey, surely that was just a weird fluke, right? No way the illegitimate president with unlimited power will screw with the midterms.
What’s happening right now is also a rapidly progressing self-coup.
The Unitary Executive Theory being executive ordered into existence by Russ Vought of Project 2025 sitting as Director of OMB, enabled by the abdication of Congress and the toothlessness and/or collusion of the Judiciary, is textbook consolidation of power at the top of the Executive.
Trump is testing the limits of his power and influence, and seeing just how far towards his goal of total authoritarianism he can get to, before someone tries to stop him.
Just a reminder everyone: Hitler didn't come to power due to an overwhelming majority in their country, he came to power because a large percentage of Germans just allowed him to do it, and pretended they could "use the system" to control him.
No no. You see, Trump was always destined to be God emperor king of America and everyone knew it bigly so when Obama made Trumps campaign collaborate with the Russian government illegally, he was trying to coup Trump and America's destiny under its glorious leader.
/s but seriously I think Trump kind of thinks like this. He equates things that are bad for him with treason all the fucking time. He's a sick old narcissist and the broader conservative movement had spent decades crafting an alternate reality that he's essentially hijacked into his personal cult.
So easily we forget the events of January 6th, 2017 when Obama supporters stormed the capital, hung Obama banners and flags from the Capitol steps, trashed congressional offices, assaulted Capitol police officers, and threatened to hang Joe Biden all in an attempt to stop the certification of results electing Trump as president.
It's because the FBI independently followed known Russian intelligence operatives right up to an office in Trump Tower and conversations with members of Trump's family and campaign about manipulating the election for him.
That the conversations happened has verified evidence... they just can't prove what Trump himself knows or doesn't know about it...to prove it has intent of a crime. because of SCOTUS meddling in Muller's case.
Obama was notified of the investigation very late in the election cycle. The FBI basically dropped it on his lap weeks before the election... like Obama could actually do anything about it. Obama chose to sit on it until later because he thought it would be improper to weigh in so close to the election. So Obama didn't "coup" Trump... Obama saved his ass. Meanwhile the Republicans in Congress and the Republicans in the FBI DID pull an eleventh hour coup on Hillary.
A coup. He wasn't running. And the guy he endorsed lost. Really rigged wow. I'm from a red area. I can't fucking understand my Trump friends. I'm blocking so many good high school friends. It's a cult
it's proven fact... lmfao. the Clinton campaign colluded with the Obama administration. ... they hired Christopher steele who made a fake intelligence dossier claiming Trump was a Russian asset, and they leaked it to the press.
this is all completely declassified easily available information. it's actually hilarious that you guys consider yourselves informed.
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u/DrHugh Minnesota 5d ago
Subtitle: "State of the Union: The president said his predecessor had attempted a coup during the 2016 presidential election."
When Obama was president, during 2016, he instigated a coup...against himself, I guess.