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The Trump Presidency | |||||||||
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Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | |||||||||
Why do people hate Donald Trump? Are they just jumping on the bandwagon or do they have a reason for disliking him?
Lee Thé
Lee Thé, works at Retired/working on a Novel
Answered Aug 1
By this logic, we libruls hated Bush II the same as we loathe Trumpolini. Only we didn’t. We thought he was a lousy Prez, but we didn’t loathe him. Because even though he was a lousy President, he isn’t a despicable human being—unlike Trump.
Your implicit indictment of us libruls overlooks the fact that Trumpolini is unique among the 45 American presidents for entering office with a conviction for being a scam artist (for which he had to pay a $25M fine).
He’s the first American president to take office with 26 women accusing him of having sexually assaulted them.
He’s first American president to take office with literally thousands of lawsuits pending against him by contractors, employees, investors, students and other accusing him of having bilked them out of serious money.
He’s the first American president who couldn’t get a loan from any American bank, due to his having bilked a bunch of them such that he’s on all their blacklists.
He’s the first American president in a century to be the darling of every white supremacist in the country. Not all of Trump’s Chumps are white supremacists, but all white supremacists support Trumpolini. He’s their Great White Hope, and their way to express their unending outrage over having had a black President for eight years and almost having had a woman—a woman!—succeed him.
And he’s the first American president to have openly accepted the aid of an enemy country in winning and who refuses to let our intelligence agencies and military do anything to protect us from the ongoing attacks on our electoral system by that same enemy country.
Did you not know these things? Or are these things fine with you?
What happened to the Republican Party of Eisenhower that I knew as a kid? I don’t get it.
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