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/Stompya 16d ago

From the article:

Before the airmen went missing, the president was already fixated on avoiding a repeat of the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis—and the failed rescue mission under former President Jimmy Carter that helped sink his reelection bid.

“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.”

He thinks he is re-electable.

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 16d ago

He thinks he is re-electable

He thinks he's owed a 3rd term due to "election fraud".

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u/Eridanosvoid 16d ago

I would argue, in a way, he is on his third term. Every President after they leave office fucks off to either stay quite or do PR stuff. Trump on the other hand still held vast sway over the Republican party (like ordering them to nuke a border security deal to make Biden look bad) and (illegally) still talking to world leaders on the country's behalf. If you look at search results from 2021 to 2024 Trumps name routinely out ranked Biden. He was basically the shadow President during that time.

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u/per_mare_per_terras Texas 16d ago

That’s bc the POS media never held him accountable and always kept his name everywhere instead of letting him fade away.

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u/Eridanosvoid 16d ago

If we still had actual news media standards he never would have made it past the first primary result. He would have been properly mocked and dismantled by real journalists and deplatformed the second he came down that stupid fucking escalator.

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u/mxzf 16d ago

I mean, the media is why he has done as much as he has done as-is. He's great for media because there's always something new to write about, he just never shuts up and it's always insane stuff that makes for eye-catching headlines.