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Justine White's avatar

You are correct that this behavior has become normalized. I rolled my eyes when I read it, but immediately thought, “nothing new from this asshole.” It turns my stomach that this grade-school playground bully behavior is acceptable for a sitting president.

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Marlene Laping's avatar

Thank you for bringing this to the fore. I think his contempt is under reported. It has been bleeding through the culture and the dehumanizing by others is a direct line from his continuous contempt of others

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JIM LEACH's avatar

I would suggest that this kind of abject meanness (and I use "meanness" rather than "cruelty" because meanness is so much more juvenile, where these guys reside) isn't so much normalized as prioritized. Among all the other outrageous things that are said and done this is pretty tame. Mean, but tame. And so very far beneath what we used to know as the dignity of the presidency.

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Sheri Smith's avatar

On top of that, Trump’s own General Caine said they won’t know the effects of the bombing until they’ve completed an analysis. Trump tries to dehumanize those who won’t conform to his lies.

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Alex Khalifa's avatar

Another protest in normally staid Brea last night, as if I needed to see any more canaries in the coal mine.

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Raven Wren Palmer's avatar

It goes right along with hillbilly Vance calling Senator Alex Padilla “Jose”. And did anyone notice that drumpf said fuck on national tv?

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Rina Jacobson's avatar

YES! I actually commented to family that it was the only time I’d heard that from a sitting “president” on live tv EVER! WTAF?

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Tasia Surch's avatar

This POS DEMON has the mental capacity of a 2 year old who hasn’t had his nap & lost his binky. No offense to 2 year olds. What kind of REAL man demeans others for his own pleasure? What kind of REAL man speaks like this much less puts these crybaby rants into print? I like my presidents to be REAL men not some failed-crybaby-daddy-didn’t love me enough-so I’m gonna shit on the world-diaper wearing rapist in chief.

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janeybird's avatar

I noticed. Still waiting for the outrage. From both sides.

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Josh Abner's avatar

Living in Florida with MAGA Redneck family members - classmates ect … this is how they talk 24/7…even gay friends / making a point - or using culture to communicate a point - talk this way

For Trump 35% of population = 50% of engaged politicians who vote - donate $$$ to political operations to obtain power

Trump is speaking to his people who give him power - unfortunately doing a good job of that

You can get pissed / but you are not a donor - someone who gives him a bribe ect …

He triggering his people for money, power and dictatorship

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Kenneth Cooper's avatar

It is remarkable how rapidly the U.S. news cycle careens from one major story to another (at least, while Donald Trump is in the White House). Who is talking about the deployment of the National Guard to California anymore? Or, before that, the Elon Musk-Trump screaming match? Or, before that, the trade war? Or, before that, the bombing of Yemen and the Signal chat security breach? All of those stories are less than 100 days old, and yet many of them seem like they were several lifetimes ago. I guess that's what you get when you elect a reality-TV president—every week needs to have new drama, so as to keep people watching.

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Vern Nelson's avatar

I know this world is killing you...

Your aim is true!

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Laura Fedora's avatar

He’s so predictably juvenile, such an egregious liar, such a semen slinging hyperbole hog, such a dirty little smack talking stink stain of a schoolyard bully with a micromushroom penis, that I refuse to read or listen to anything out of that foul mouthed vulgar pie hole. HE AIN’T RIGHT. THE PUDGY ILLITERATE DOUCHELORD AIN’T RIGHT. It’s beyond repulsive the things he says. He deserves to be tortured in an Assad prison, left to rot in a Khmer Rouge killing field, stripped and electrocuted in a CIA black site. THAT’S what he would really get, if he got what he deserved. He deserves to be humiliated, punished, exploited, trafficked, and sodomized. We all know you don’t talk the way he talks. We are living in a hellscape of repugnant filth and feces. Of course he calls Anderson Allison. That’s who he is. He is a little B****

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Stacey Grosvenor's avatar

I wonder what Scott Bessent thinks when he sees that kind of stuff from Trump. Surprised that Bessent can even work for that man.

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