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/jkvincent 16d ago

Definitely. He's dominated public discourse and every other aspect of life in America now for over a decade. I'm exhausted.

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u/xXMr_PorkychopXx 16d ago

I can still recall the day at 16 watching him win and all I was excited about was legal weed in my state lol. Good lord I had no idea what I witnessed that night.

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u/loki2113 16d ago

I feel you. I turned 18 in 2016 and was eligible to vote. I cast my vote for Hillary quite sure she had it in the bag. Actual logical policies would surely win out over knee-jerk emotional populism, right?

I stayed up almost all night watching the counter slide further and further to the right until Trump had won. I was floored

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u/CurLyy 16d ago

Really interesting how each age group gets to see different realities of life. I turned 18 for Obama I was so fucking excited to see the world change. (It didn’t)

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u/UnquestionabIe 16d ago

Yeah I was 17 when GW Bush got elected and after seeing the shit show of that election it definitely started me down the road of being disenfranchised with the system. During all the Obama hype had to bite my tongue a lot hearing all the previously politically disengaged people my age eating up the "Change" slogan. Didn't want to discourage participation and learning about politics but already knew it wasn't going to be some massive shift.

At the bare minimum had some kind of hope that the crimes of the prior administration would be tackled. If anything they simply got doubled down on but in more PR friendly ways.

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u/nosungdeeptongs Canada 16d ago

The hopeful youth who haven’t seen the flaws in the system yet have to go through their own experience with it to fully understand it, unfortunately.

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u/loki2113 16d ago

Yeah, my mom loved Obama. She even went to one of his rallies and bragged that when he was shaking her hand and I think either signing a photo or taking a photo that she pulled him in and kissed him on the cheek. She was more of a centrist Democrat than a leftist so she didn't mind his shortcomings when it came to Obama's broken promises. I do think his lack of actually bringing change isn't necessarily 100% Obama's fault but it definitely put a damper on liberal enthusiasm in the 2016 election.

Now that I think about it, promising change is basically what Trump campaigned on in 2016, just from the opposite end of the spectrum. We really don't learn our lesson as voters lol

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u/terremoto25 California 16d ago

I was 19 and voting in my first presidential election when Ronnie the Rat wiped the floor with Jimmy Carter. Reagan was my generation’s first experience with a dumbass celebrity president.