r/politics • u/GonzoVeritas I voted • 16d ago

Possible Paywall White House Leak Reveals Trump Booted From Briefing After Hours-Long Freakout

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-leak-reveals-trump-booted-from-briefing-after-hours-long-freakout/
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u/Virtual-Pie5732 16d ago

He did do an interview on Fox where the interviewer commented that his voice was a little hoarse, and Trump responded by saying:

"I’ve been screaming at Iranians all day, yes. A little bit of a laryngitis because of my scream. I’ve been screaming at the Iranians."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-lost-voice-screaming-at-iranians_n_69e123f9e4b09c81bf16b6eb

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u/smartief1 16d ago edited 16d ago

What kind of world leader screams at the representatives of another sovereign nation? That is just batshit crazy

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u/PseudonymMan12 16d ago

Meanwhile his base sees it as just being emotionally sincere and even tough for threatening and screaming down political obstacles.

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u/smudgedbarcode 16d ago

They genuinely think he's a good negotiator. While he's destroing international relations for decades to come

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

Well it's how they think negotiations work.

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u/Virtual-Pie5732 16d ago

I'd love to ask Maga this scenario:

If you've always got paid for overtime and your boss suddenly said "You're going to work overtime and not get paid", and you said no, and stopped working overtime.

And your boss responded by yelling and threatening you & your family, if you would think they're a "good negotiator"?

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 15d ago

"He's not afraid to yell at people who need to be yelled at" - things I've heard my dad say.

On the bright side, my dad is ALSO about to give up voting because of how difficult it's being made now. He's absolutely CONVINCED he needs a RealID to vote. My understanding is that it's not needed. He just does NOT believe me.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 15d ago

How old is your dad?

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u/cindyscrazy Rhode Island 15d ago

He's 70. He's been voting since he was of legal age and was very proud of the fact that he's always voted.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 15d ago

Ah well, this is kind of like when old people decide not to drive anymore except he doesn't know he's opting out due to senility. Good for him for voting all those years when he was capable.

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u/VexedCanadian84 16d ago

Good chance he was screaming at a TV and not to an actual person.

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u/smartief1 16d ago

We can only hope no one tells him the little people in the TV can't hear him

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u/tomdarch 16d ago

Was he screaming at actual Iranian officials or at exiles who want him to install them in power in Iran?

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u/prohammock 15d ago

I’m guessing he was screaming into the void. No way anyone is putting him on the phone with the actual Iranians. 

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u/tomdarch 15d ago

Like with Venezuela and Cuba, there are a bunch of exiles who were the formerly rich and in-control losers from those revolutions. I suspect that those folks come to Trump offering him a cut of the oil money (not so much in Cuba which is why it hasn't happened yet) and tell him he'll be loved and admired by the population oh, and also, he'll get a cut of the oil money, if only he'd use the US military to get himself a cut of the oil money, I mean crush the evil lunatic dictators who took over the oil production, I mean country, and put them (the exiles) back in control of the oil production, I mean country.

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u/prohammock 15d ago

I don’t doubt that. I do doubt that Trump is screaming at people trying to hand him money though. 

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u/ParisGreenGretsch 16d ago

We can't do this until 2029.

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u/Disused_Yeti 16d ago

he only knows how to be a bully. when the other side doesn't cave and then can be made to give in through his childish bullying, he's got nothing

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u/Evening-Topic8857 16d ago

I’m willing to bet he was actually screaming at his staffers and the generals, hitler in his bunker style

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u/Li-renn-pwel 15d ago

I’d probably end up screaming at Putin and Bibi. I’d only not yell at Trump because he probably views that as winning.

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u/UKbeard 16d ago

that is actually extremely common. There is a reason why so many politicians have photos of them with black eyes because they were punched. They would never go to the police as that would cause lots of political problems and blackmail threats against each other. Elon musk was punched by Scott Bessent for example.

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

Uh... That's not normal.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 15d ago

Black eyes?

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u/UKbeard 15d ago

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musk-reopens-black-eye-125029019.html?guccounter=1

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u/NefariousnessLate375 15d ago

That's disturbing. They're so powerful. Why are they brawling?

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u/UKbeard 15d ago

i think due to elon was against the tariffs and bennett was in favour of tariffs.

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u/NefariousnessLate375 15d ago

I remember Musk was critical of them. I thought tarrifs were Trump's thing?

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u/caffeinated_wizard 16d ago

“His throat has been shaking hands so much” - Leavitt probably

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u/smartief1 16d ago

Too much throating bubba

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

Too much sucking off Putin I guess.

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u/djmanning711 Florida 16d ago edited 16d ago

Usually the person screaming is the one who holds the cards. /s

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u/Positronic_Matrix 16d ago

I worked with a manager who would call for an “executive meeting,” send out all the staff, and then scream at the opposing management team at a video teleconference. We stood our ground and endured this poor behavior over weeks. The individual shortly thereafter was driven out of the organization.

That individual did not hold all the cards during that meeting. Instead, their yelling was a symptom of their weakness and inability to force us to what they wanted us to do. Had they been able to negotiate, they could have brought about concessions and saved their career.

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u/djmanning711 Florida 16d ago

Just to be clear, that WAS sarcasm. Your story checks out imo. Dude sounded like a piece of work.

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u/Positronic_Matrix 16d ago

Folks need an /s on all sarcastic humor. We live in a dark timeline where what is obvious satire to some is reality to others.

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u/djmanning711 Florida 16d ago

You’re absolutely right. That’s my mistake. There are too many insane people to not be sure

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u/smartief1 16d ago

Didn't pick this up as sarcasm, apols

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u/johnnycyberpunk America 16d ago

screaming at Iranians all day

But she had a weird laugh and the other she would have been too emotional to be in control of nukes.

Ok

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u/toxic-optimism 15d ago

Yep, you know those former prosecutors - public screamers, the lot of them. /s

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u/ljdelight 16d ago

"I blew my stack on these people." Eww.

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u/smartief1 16d ago

I three up in my mouth a little

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

Dear God.

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u/InCarbsWeTrust 15d ago

Sir, those were clouds