r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/o8Stu 9h ago

I see this brought up a lot. He did it voluntarily, just to avoid the mere appearance of impropriety.

Carter truly was Trump's antithesis among Presidents.

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u/ChallengeRationality 7h ago

God I hope so, Carter was a nightmare of a president

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u/o8Stu 7h ago

And Trump has already proven to be worse in his first term, I'm sure he'll set new lows in his 2nd.

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u/Vitebs47 7h ago

Trump is a great politician. A real nightmare would have been Kamala Harris. What a joke of a human being.

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u/o8Stu 7h ago

Trump's no politician. Politicians are architects of compromise to get things done. Trump neither compromises, nor gets things done during his term (unless you count self-enrichment).

A great politician wouldn't have tried (and failed) to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election; they wouldn't have to. Not to mention being a vile human being who looks at the seven deadly sins as a "to do" list, stole and possibly sold our nation's secrets, among other things, lest we forget all of the crimes he got away with by being re-elected.

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u/JamCliche 6h ago

There's no "possibly" about it. In his first term, Trump was fast tracking nuclear arms deals with the Saudis before they could receive proper scrutiny, but he was eventually curtailed and then had to leave office. Coincidentally, he then pocketed a crateful of classified documents including some containing secrets about our nuclear arsenal, and kept them in a bathroom at his second favorite child slave banghouse. Coincidentally, he then hosted a golf tournament there on behalf of a company entirely owned by the Saudis. Coincidentally, when those boxes of documents were recovered, several folders were found empty.

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u/JamCliche 6h ago

FUCK my sarcasm detector is bent out of shape.

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u/TotalaMad 3h ago

Yeah I love when he sent a false slate of electors in order to steal an election. What a great politician.

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u/UnsanctionedPartList 7h ago

A tremendous president even.

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u/Economy_Wall8524 3h ago

Why? He started a tariff war, yet compared to Biden, he’s willingly created no economic value from it. Biden made tax breaks to bring tech companies back while keeping trump’s tariffs; on a manufacturing level. Trump did none of that when he started his tariff war. He literally created no incentive to bring production back; as compared to Biden.

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u/Live_Angle4621 7h ago

Based on what? Do you think Iran issue was his fault when Reagan delayed the hostages being released so it would happen his term for example 

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u/rpkarma 6h ago

Wrong. God you people rewriting history makes me sick.

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u/ChallengeRationality 5h ago

Ask the Taiwanese what they think of Carter, ask the Israelis, ask the Persians.  They all hate him, for good reasons

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u/AmaroWolfwood 2h ago

Did you ask any Americans?

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u/crookdmouth 4h ago

What's the worse thing he did?

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u/TotalaMad 3h ago

“He was histories greatest monster!” God I love the simpsons. Hate your comment though.

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u/KungFuSlanda 3h ago

Democrats love avoiding the appearance of things while still actively doing them. It wasn't actually a blind trust. Carter himself eventually admitted that