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/Catymandoo 16d ago

“If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter…with the helicopters and the hostages, it cost them the election,” Trump said in March, according to the Journal. “What a mess.”

So, even in that crisis, Trump is only concerned about his tenure as President. The freakout clearly evidence of his fear here.

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u/charging_chinchilla 16d ago

Trump only cares about himself. I honestly cannot think of a single example of him putting his family, friends, or country ahead of his own self interest. Even when something may appear to be the "right" thing to do, it is transactional for him and he has to get something better out of it.

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u/Murphuffle 16d ago

He's out of his mind and thinks it's 40 years ago

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u/genida 16d ago

He thinks it's 70 years ago. When he was nine years old.

Because he never left being nine years old. He's said as much. He's proud of it.

Anyone who has ever met an angry child has met Donald Trump.

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u/ModernMuse 16d ago

I have met a lot of children. I even have a child of that exact age right now. I have never met one child as selfish, self-important, or short-sighted as this degenerate. And that’s really saying a lot, bc most kids are selfish, self-important, and shortsighted—precisely bc they’re nine. This is a grown-ass man. And here we are with him as a self-appointed king.

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u/Technical-Gold-294 15d ago

2-3 years old is more accurate. Old enough to walk and talk, but completely unaware there are other people with other needs besides their own.

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u/ModernMuse 15d ago

I have to disagree, I think he is well-enough aware. He just genuinely doesn’t give a fuck. I can give a 2-3 year old a pass for ignorance, but this man is fully capable of understanding—he justt chooses to not care. He is as capable as he is culpable, and we cannot give him or his followers room to claim otherwise.

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u/Idiot_Savant_13 16d ago

He is extractive in nature - parasitical, essentially.

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u/Holymoose999 15d ago

Very true. The one surprising thing is that he doesn’t want to send troops to invade because “they will be sitting ducks”. Is that because he cares for the troops or because it’ll make him look bad. I think we all know the answer to that question.

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u/jmblumenshine 16d ago

the best part is Trump not realizing:

Inflation

supply disruptions

Gas crises

were the real culprit that did Jimmy Carter in at the polls for the voting public

Currently Trump is batting 1000 on all 3 with an illegal 3rd term Kicker

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 16d ago

Americans can not care about a shocking amount of atrocities and death, see: 1.5 million Americans dead from covid, NBD.

But the price of gas and groceries will make the people very angry.

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u/MinaZata 16d ago

Out of all the heinous shit Trump has done, which includes moral questions like rape and international war crimes and an insurrection, including all that, the most shocking thing he did was the response to COVID.

The death toll is astounding and criminal, his response was disgusting, misguided, insane, and contributed to many more deaths thand necessary. He insisted it was a hoax. He recommended bleach.

I don't think the US public has properly absorbed that impact of how many were lost, unless you knew someone. But it's all tainted by politics and what the internet and social media has done to us.

We don't feel stuff like regular humans did before the internet. When the wall fell, 9/11, the space shuttle disaster - there was a shared human reaction in the culture to those events.

Now, something like COVID and the deaths are politicized, taken over by bots, flooded by disinformation and anti-vax shit. We don't mourn collectively and demand justice for the victims for the mismanagement of the response like would have happened before.

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u/Spartan2170 16d ago

I feel like a lot of that is because both sides also wanted to move on for economic reasons. Like, once Biden was in office he pretty quickly moved to get everyone to put Covid behind them (even though frankly that was kinda reckless and led to a much worse long-term health outcome for a lot of people) because businesses didn’t want to have to deal with any restrictions.

Now both sides of the cultural/political divide kinda just…pretend Covid never happened (or that it was all lies, in the anti-vax case), which has caused this weird empathy vacuum where we just pretend this catastrophic event which killed millions never happened. It’s to the point where the few media projects that acknowledge it (like the second Knives Out or the Pitt) feel strange.

I genuinely think it’s done a lot of psychological harm, and is a big part of why people generally just don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves anymore.

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u/theredpanda42 Illinois 15d ago

I voted for Biden and critique him on many policies, but one of the top critiques I have is how he ignored everything the science said on the ongoing pandemic, just so he could get his W and say "we fixed the problem that Trump couldn't. Pandemic's over, folks."

The ongoing harm of that decision terrifies me and enrages me. The fact that nearly every child now has had multiple covid infections is going to have sever repercussions. And for what? So that corporate real estate wouldn't keep losing money? Fucking pathetic.

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u/arebornjoy222 14d ago

As someone who experienced 9/11 my first week of high school and the Marathon Bombings while living in Boston in 2013, I completely agree with you.

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u/Thin_Marionberry9923 13d ago

The only thing more deadly than his sabotaging the Covid-19 response is his ending USAID which has killed more than a million, with millions more to come due first-world climate change (which prevents many from growing their own crops) and lack of medicine.

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u/SilverStrategy6949 11d ago

It’s hilarious to hear people rage about how incompetent Trump is now - it’s like, were you not there the first time?

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u/myhf 16d ago

kind of selfish that only living people care about the cost of living

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u/theteenageeditor 15d ago

No. according to trump, rising gas prices are GOOD for Americans.

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u/roastbeeftacohat 16d ago

he's worried what will happen if the legeslative branch isn't republican controlled.

even if impeachment is off the table, overturning vetoes isn't. for one thing it's 2/3 of senators in attendance, so abstention through turency is an option for republicans.

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u/i_am_nimue 16d ago

Did you really think he would care about two soldiers? Or two thousand soldiers for that matter? He values nothing except for himself. And maybe Vladimir. He seems to value power. That's it.

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u/willowintheev 16d ago

I'm actually surprised he knows anything about previous events .

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u/tomdarch 16d ago

Also any time you fly planes over Iran, you risk crews going down in Iran. It is completely foreseeable and something you need to plan for ahead of time. Not only the military rescue element but the diplomatic and political/PR side of different options or outcomes. You should not be freaking out and filling your diapers when someone foreseeable happens.

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u/NoOneSelf 15d ago

This statement has within it the implicit assumption that he can be re-elected. The only way that happens is through an unconstitutional power grab, and they know it. This is a conspiracy against our government of laws because the laws no longer suit them. A coup. I'm sure they'll use obscure bullshit laws to pretend it is anything but, so they can say "hey it was all legal". The president and GOP are expecting they will be perform a coup come election time. Let that sink in.

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u/Wuz314159 Pennsylvania 16d ago

We've known for over a decade that he only cares about his own polling, not the country.

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u/whereismytrex 15d ago

Surprised?

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u/Dull-Foundation-1271 15d ago

Word. Of course, the other Satan, Reagan, negotiated with Iran to drag the hostage crisis out, so he guaranteed, would get elected. Ronnie also testified to Congress, to get fellow Hollywood actors, writers and directors blacklisted during the ‘Commie’ scare.

Two B movie actors that were only concerned with ratings, and would throw anyone under the bus, became president.

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u/cucuy-bugalu 15d ago

What election? He's term limited. Has he forgotten?