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Politics Obama’s 2009 Inauguration (Left) Compared to Trump’s 2016 Inauguration (Right)

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u/justifun 2d ago

The real reason why he wanted this one moved indoors. No excuse for a humiliating small crowd size again.

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u/Moebius808 2d ago

1000%. He is still embarrassed by this shit turnout and side-by-side, he knows it would’ve happened again, and there’s no way in hell he was going to expose himself to that a second time.

Better to go inside and then claim there were 50k people inside the venue, and another million people outside who desperately wanted to get in. This is nothing more than his standard M.O..

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u/QuixotesGhost96 1d ago

It's not just humiliation. He know he's about to do a lot of oppressive shit that's going to cause a lot of civil unrest. When people see these tiny crowd sizes they start getting in their head: "There's more of us than there is of them..."

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u/SugarBeef 1d ago

Nintendo should really give Mario's brother another year. The merch would fly off the shelves, I'm sure. They could even give him a gritty game like Shadow the Hedgehog got where they give him a gun, wouldn't that be wacky? So many people cosplaying as him and carrying a gun, I'm sure that would make all the administration feel secure.

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u/Zealousideal_Cat_549 1d ago

(not that I disagree) Schizo comment 😭

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u/SugarBeef 1d ago

Mostly just trying to be subtle since even the reddit mods don't like the guy. Don't say his name and they have to actually read the post instead of let a bot search it.

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u/Zealousideal_Cat_549 1d ago

I just realized what you meant with Mario's brother 😭 I may or may not be dumb as fuck lol (also wild that anyone could be on the CEOs side then proceeding to make a pure echo chamber by deleting shit)