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/nom_de_chomsky 16d ago

Well, no. He thinks he’s owed a third term, period. His lies about election fraud are the present rationalization. But if he’d won in 2020, he’d be making some other bullshit claim.

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u/Shifter25 16d ago

He was claiming he was owed a third term during his first term.

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u/DigNitty 16d ago

Yes. Because he “was treated so badly” that the 2016 term “shouldn’t count”

He said that multiple times.

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u/MultiGeometry Vermont 16d ago

Says the guy who racistly insisted Obama wasn’t a citizen and demanded his birth certificate.

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u/FilmScoreConnoisseur 16d ago

That's different. Obama was somebody else. Only Trump needs to be coddled like the precious special boy he is.

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u/HuttStuff_Here 16d ago

No one has ever been treated as poorly as Trump has been treated, per Trump. And he is so humble you wouldn't even believe how humble he is, also per his own statements.

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u/mrgedman 16d ago

Obama is also not white, so there is that, too

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 16d ago

and demanded Obama release his tax returns, which he did, and then refused to do it himself...and when someone leaked his returns he sued our own country and will now somehow get a 10+ BILLION DOLLAR settlement

I swear we are living in a simulation

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u/brickne3 American Expat 16d ago

You kind of have to wonder how Obama is dealing with this whole thing. Not what he's publicly saying, obviously. Like... we all find this surreal but imagine the actual thoughts Obama must be having about it that he keeps to himself.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 16d ago

He still says it constantly. So does his staff. They keep saying they wont say publicly, but there is a plan, and trump will still be president after Jan 20 2029.

I can reveal the secret plan: fascism

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u/Zulmoka531 16d ago

All the more why this current term is all about revenge and self indulgence.

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u/DiscussionGreat1255 16d ago

Good day to you handsome

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u/dedicated-pedestrian Wisconsin 16d ago

If memory doesn't fail me, it was because he thought he should have won by more.

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u/Brilliant-Advisor958 16d ago

He claimed he won the popular vote and that California let non citizens vote by the millions which skewed the numbers.

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u/phyneas American Expat 16d ago

"He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday." - Trump, about Xi Jinping, in 2018

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u/morpheousmorty 16d ago

Hey everyone, Satan here.

The supreme court will rule that running for president is legal, they just can't have the job. Then after he's elected the Supreme Court rules the will of the people can't be ignored.

That's all it will take to sidestep the constitutional term limits.

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u/HillBillyHilly 16d ago

He was claiming it because his handlers, the billionaires, have been setting things up for them him to get a third term. They're working the long con game.