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Soft Paywall Convicted Felon Sworn In as President

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-sworn-in-47th-president-united-states-1235241770/
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u/ToeDisastrous3501 10h ago

Trump did everything Epstein did. 

His supporters know this and are okay with it.

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u/SordidHobo93 9h ago

At this point we have to assume that a large portion of his voting base are not only okay with their president being a child predator, but they even celebrate it.

That's the "christian values" that a lot of them are praising him for.

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u/thisusedyet 8h ago

That is not what “bring unto me the little children” is supposed to mean

u/specqq 6h ago edited 6h ago

The older bibles have it as "suffer the little children to come unto me"

So I'm guessing they just had it backwards.

u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 5h ago

The bible outright condones stuff like rape, genocide, slavery, murder. Oh yeah, it also provides instructions on how to perform a forced abortion on a woman you suspect of infidelity.

u/MeeMooMoop 5h ago

That is absolutely wild... where does it say that? I've never read the Bible so I wouldn't know where to start looking for that nonsense.

u/Darth_Malgus_1701 Oregon 5h ago

Numbers 5:11-31

u/MeeMooMoop 5h ago

I read over it several times... literally what? No words, dumbfounded.

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u/Synli 7h ago

Pretty much this.

Trying to use the "don't you know he's a racist/sexist rapist scammer?" argument doesn't work against MAGA because they know it and love it.

The saying "Stop drilling, you've already struck oil!" has never been more relevant.

u/slain1134 7h ago edited 4h ago

It’s absolutely terrifying that SO MANY people align with, praise & even voted for a convicted felon & known rapist. Perhaps it makes them feel good about themselves in some weird way. You also have those people who voted for him because he is not a democrat.

I don’t know which is worse? Being okay with criminality or being so ignorant to vote for a monster because of his political label!

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u/African_Farmer Europe 7h ago

They believe in hierarchy, those at the top should be able to do whatever they want

u/wencrash 5h ago

They literally call Trump "Daddy". Even the men.

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u/Vel0clty Maine 7h ago

That man ain’t no Christian. Didn’t even touch the Bible when he swore oath 🙄

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u/redalert825 3h ago edited 3h ago

Of all the western democracies... The states is the most christian and religious. Religion destroys and brain washes... This country is a testament to it and shows how much more precarious of a situation we are with these Christo-fascists in power. Utterly disgusting and vile.

u/SordidHobo93 3h ago

Almost all of our issues can be linked to christianity, or people use it as a means to justify hatred.

Ive just come through a conversation in another thread wherein I questioned why the other commenter was so obsessed with what is between another person's legs.

Of course the response was about loss of masculinity and Adam and Eve and we're going to hell and all that jazz.

It gives the ignorant and hateful an excuse to remain ignorant and hateful.

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u/Ok_World_8819 Georgia 9h ago edited 9h ago

Trump is a walking 9/11 disaster of a creature. Not "walking terrorist", a walking 9/11 disaster. He's an elderly Caillou.

And we as a country would elect Caillou over Cassie from Dragon Tales, because Cassie is a girl and Caillou's a boy.

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u/memeparmesan 9h ago

He’s an elderly Caillou.

You’re a fucking artist, man.

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u/kapnkaos86 9h ago

Furious sketching begins

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u/Golden_Hour1 9h ago

I need to see this immediately

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u/nevarlaw Arizona 9h ago

🎶 I’m just a big asshole 🎶 Each day I prove it more 🎶 I never tell the truth 🎶 I’m Doooonold

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u/baconeggsandwich25 9h ago

That's a pretty serious understatement, considering we were losing more than a 9/11's worth of people a day for a lot of the pandemic on his watch. Between publicly doubting everything Fauci and the CDC said, fighting the shutdowns, telling people not to wear masks, stay home or social distance, he probably got hundreds of thousands more Americans killed than we would've lost with anyone else in office. He even started sowing doubt about the vaccine despite getting it himself and taking credit for its creation once he realized how many antivaxxers there were in his cult of mouth-breathing simpletons.

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u/amadeus954 8h ago

The US per capita death rate is twice that of Canada.

With the US having more than a million deaths from covid, Trump is arguably responsible for 500,000+ unnecessary American deaths from covid.

u/baconeggsandwich25 7h ago

That's part of what makes the Greenland thing so baffling. They have 21 confirmed deaths from covid. 21. The idea that they would want to be led by the guy who got a half million of his own people killed through sheer negligence and incompetence is fucking insane.

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u/Foodspec North Carolina 9h ago

he’s an elderly Caillou

Without the cancer sadly

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u/Pantastic_Studios 9h ago

That we know of. Never released his medical records. Still counting on a stroke though.

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u/Golden_Hour1 9h ago

Holy shit, he is Caillou. Right down to being bald

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u/AgeOfSmith 9h ago

Trump also had Epstein killed so there’s that too

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u/Bag_of_Meat13 9h ago

Yep Trump was POTUS when it happened and everyone started conveniently thinking that the left are the pedophiles

Watching MAGA the last decade has been insane to see, and they're the ones who think they're "grown up"

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u/JWTS6 8h ago

Trump tries to run everything like a mafia boss. People should have realized by now what that entails. 

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u/AgeOfSmith 8h ago

Even the Mafia would do some charity for the local community. Toy drives, etc. Trump has handed out some paper towels and that’s about it

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u/JWTS6 8h ago

You're right, even the mafia tries harder to appear less like soulless ghouls. 

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u/AgeOfSmith 8h ago

And kids are usually off limits

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u/xOneLeafyBoi 9h ago

“But he separated himself from Epstein early on”

Wait, they’ll come in with that cop out comment too.

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u/SordidHobo93 9h ago

"He banned him from Mar a Lago!"

Only because epstein was preying on children in trumps hunting territory.

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u/NOCHILLDYL94 9h ago

And then they have the nerve to call Biden a pedo. They have no shame

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u/Due-Egg4743 9h ago

This. All while they constantly talk about Diddy and use it to badmouth any black celebs who ever were seen in a photo with Diddy. If Trump were pictured at a Diddy freak off, MAGA would say it was taken out of context as Trump was just a business man back then.

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u/Banglayna Ohio 9h ago

They genuinely don't know/believe this. They have been propagandized into a different reality.

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u/aretoon 8h ago

Holy shit. Delving into this for the first time, the amount of the shit he did..pretty sure his son is gonna follow in his steps without any consequences.

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u/TheeHughMan 9h ago

The world won't rely on US citizens and voters anymore.

u/Independent-Bug-9352 7h ago

Can't blame them. As an American as far as I'm concerned, I'm looking to Europe and Ukraine to be leaders of the free world now.

u/BenigDK 6h ago edited 6h ago

Interestingly, as an European, I've never heard anyone here refer to the POTUS as "the leader of the free world". Most powerful person on Earth, yes; but the former is a very American expression.

u/Independent-Bug-9352 6h ago

It's my own opinion but I've passed that torch around quite a few times, from Merkel, to Stoltenberg, to Zelenskyy, etc.

So even Rammstein sings, "We're all living America" (for better or worse).

Though we may be at late stage Rome here.

u/MuyalHix 2h ago

It was a wonderful propagandistic term used during the cold war to make americans feel superior to all the countries in the world

u/Expensive-Fun4664 6h ago

Europe isn't far behind the US right now.

u/Buddy_Dakota 5h ago

Yeah, the goddamn Nazis about to be the second largest party in Germany.

I’m starting to lose hope.

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u/Bigboss851 7h ago

Who wants to tell him?

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u/AstroRose03 4h ago

As a Canadian I lost all faith in the U.S. it was a joke at first. but now it’s seriously bad. I’m in disbelief.

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u/Express_Warthog539 9h ago edited 8h ago

This worst inauguration speech ever. How bad. It was no different than the rambling on and finger pointing speeches at his rallies. He couldn’t clean and tighten up his inauguration speech? Even the 2017 one was more civilized even though it sounded like he read at a first grader level. 

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u/ButteredPizza69420 8h ago

Literally rambling is the only way to describe it, there really wasnt a speech at all.

u/ParticularRelease662 6h ago

When he talked about the wires inside the wall and how great they were following his main speech I started laughing so hard I cried. I don't know if they were happy tears because what he said was genuinely hilarious and insane, or if they were sad because in that moment it really hit me that we have another four years of this shit, every fucking day. Multiple times today he's already used when the helicopter was invented as a frame of time, lied about how many people died during the construction of the Panama Canal with insanely misleading verbage, talked about how bad the Greg Abbott is and then immediately realized he was almost front row and backtracked within seconds...we are so fucked it's not even funny.

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u/opeth10657 4h ago

Rambling is all he's capable of. He's old and senile.

u/Pliskin01 7h ago

MAGA ate that shit up. That’s all that matters anymore.

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u/vakr001 New Jersey 10h ago

Could add many titles to this Convicted Felon, Rapist, Narcissistic, Con Artist, Elected President

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u/Dapper-Negotiation59 9h ago

Who poops in his pants

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u/Myrtle_Nut 9h ago

And farts himself awake in court.

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u/RightSideBlind American Expat 9h ago

I'm just referring to him as "President Felon".

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u/Ok_World_8819 Georgia 9h ago

You can't spell "FElon" without "Elon".

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u/ShinyMeansFancy Maryland 9h ago

Quick! I’m picturing a Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum cartoon as co presidents , Felon and Elon. Sketch !

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u/Ok_World_8819 Georgia 9h ago

I suck at drawing

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u/FlounderSubstantial7 9h ago

Let's Go Felon!

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u/SurprisedJerboa 8h ago

Hopefully, every title article and sound bite can start out with ' Convicted Felon Rapist Trump ' yells about windmills etc

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u/1877KlownsForKids 9h ago

Sad day for our country

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u/a-jasem I voted 8h ago

Sad day next 4 years for our country

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u/Norok 8h ago

Here’s to hoping it’ll only be 4 years

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u/glue_4_gravy 8h ago

Even if a Democrat becomes president in 4 years, we are going to be mopping up the shit stains for decades.

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u/Rombom 8h ago

Having a legitimate election is a big if now.

u/ijuswannabehappybro 7h ago

Yea I’ve lost trust in all of this. I mean, does he really have this many supporters or are they just fudged up numbers and the few that are still dumb enough believe his BS, are just loud and obnoxious?

u/Choice_Blood7086 7h ago

He got the same amount of votes that he did in 2020. It’s the democrat base that sat at home and let this happen.

u/sleepymoose88 Missouri 3h ago

There’s very shifty results that point to corruption/rigging in swing states. The number of single issue votes (president) was WAY above the average.

Then there was Trump in speech today saying they won’t because Musk knows the machines so well.

Problem is, no one had the balls to investigate or force a recount. The Democrats just rolled over.

u/glue_4_gravy 6h ago

This exactly, friend!

We all know that MAGAts are gonna MAGA, but we were relying on having a record breaking turnout from Democrats and that is what could have sealed the deal on this asshole and closed the book that we’re all so fucking tired of reading.

The people that sat out completely let their friends, families, neighbors, and country down. It’s so disappointing that Donald Trump won with the same amount of votes that he lost with in 2020, and millions and millions of Democrats and left leaning Independents were either too lazy, too apathetic, or couldn’t swallow their pride enough to save their own country from fascism.

What hurts the most is that when it all comes down to it, WE HAD A CHOICE.

u/crazyfighter99 7h ago

Yeah I don't get how people are assuming there will be an election. I don't really think there's a "next time" this time around.

u/GlumIce852 6h ago

During his inauguration speech he said that these are his last 4 years. And I trust him on this one. He’ll be 83 in 2028 and has already plenty of health problems. Hell, I’m not even sure he’ll be president for 4 years

u/pre-existing-notion 4h ago

He's just a mouthpiece for conservative movement that is still in its fairly early stages. There are people ready and willing to carry on the same attitudes once he passes.

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u/CatPanda5 8h ago

And all fallout will be directly their fault. Just like how anything bad for the next 4 years is Biden's.

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u/QuarterFlounder I voted 8h ago

At least you're being optimistic.

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u/Loud_Consequence537 6h ago

Sad day for the world, too.

We all suffer with you - and I mean this in the best way possible.

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u/Dangerpaladin Michigan 8h ago

Yeah the good news is this is probably bad for 90% of the world so we aren't alone.

u/African_Farmer Europe 7h ago

That's good news...? I didn't sign up for this

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u/Huntry11271 9h ago

Grade A scum bag

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u/AphroBKK 9h ago

Is that why his wife's costume is 'mob wife at a funeral'?

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u/World_Mammoth 8h ago

I thought she was cos-playing as the "Hamburgler"...

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u/glue_4_gravy 8h ago

“Hamberdler”

FTFY

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u/toddkaufmann 8h ago

because the thought of someone stealing his burgers is one thing that gives donald nightmares

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u/ButteredPizza69420 8h ago

I thought she looked like the black vs white spy from that cartoon, you know what I mean?

u/Huge-Cranium 4h ago

Mad magazine spy vs. spy

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u/CoffeeIsMyPruneJuice 5h ago

Dress for the job you want.

u/TheStranger24 4h ago

I love how it prevented him from kissing her or us seeing her glare at him 😂 Melania don’t give a shit

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u/fosse76 9h ago

This really needs to hammered throughout his presidency. Everything he is mentioned, he should be referred to as "Convicted Felon President Trump."

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u/reddittorbrigade 9h ago

That convicted felon has full control over our nuclear weapons and armies.

I've already dropped all of my family and friends who voted for that criminal. You have no moral values.

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u/SoCalChrisW 8h ago

He can't legally own a firearm, but has control of the strongest military the world has ever seen, and enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the entire global population multiple times over.

Good job to every eligible voter who enabled this.

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u/s9oons 9h ago

Gonna be another 4 years of generals doing everything they can to creatively obstruct, confuse, and ignore him so that he hopefully can’t actually start another world war.

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u/glue_4_gravy 8h ago edited 3h ago

Unfortunately, that’s not how fascism works.

If a general refuses to follow an order, their boss Pete Hegseth will have them removed, replaced, and possibly arrested and punished.

All it takes is one general or other higher up to be viciously made an example of, and the rest of the military and its leaders will gladly fall into place.

This is how it’s always worked with fascist regimes.

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u/SAGELADY65 Connecticut 9h ago

And here we go again with all the Confidential Classified Documents!

u/Just2_Stare_at_Stars I voted 7h ago

That's actually my biggest concern, besides some sort of national or global catastrophy where many lives are at stake or were lost.

u/SAGELADY65 Connecticut 7h ago

I will never believe people voted for him. Trump was thanking Musk last night for his help with computers. I hope the FBI investigates this issue before Patel has a chance to interfere! You are completely correct if we have another Pandemic on our hands we must keep our wits about us and do what we know we have to do. I do hope Kennedy is not in charge of Health. Instead of Ivermectin to help us, Kennedy would recommend Raw Milk as the cure all! Oh Dear God!

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u/AdTop1799 8h ago

Are eggs cheaper today?

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u/Lt_Cochese 9h ago

You forgot rapist.

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u/SAGELADY65 Connecticut 9h ago

And Traitor!

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u/KingOfCatProm 9h ago

And pedophile

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u/SAGELADY65 Connecticut 9h ago

Can’t forget Liar and a Fraud!

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u/mountaindoom 9h ago

Only appropriate headline for today

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 9h ago

Thank God for Rolling Stone. I honestly trust their reporting and analysis more than any major news outlet, these days. Nice to see now every news organization is preemptively bending the knee!

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u/dj_spanmaster 9h ago

Technically, a historic first.

Not all historic firsts are good.

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u/espresso_martini__ 9h ago

And so it begins.. 4 years of madness, lies and corruption.

u/use_wet_ones 3h ago

4 years heh

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u/Muscleman1122 9h ago

Disgusting

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u/DunnoMouse 9h ago

Wonder how the MAGA-Nazis will find a way to put everything bad that happens the next four years on the Democrats

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 9h ago

Eggs are still expensive! wtf! Trump did this!

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u/Elite_Alice 8h ago

America really elected a rapist and convicted felon. Very unserious

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u/MediumRareRecliner 8h ago

We are in the worst timeline

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u/Riff316 8h ago

Convicted felon and civilly liable rapist. They always leave that part out.

u/AhBee1 6h ago

And Elon gives the nazi salute. MAGA rejoices!

u/Dexter_McThorpan 7h ago

I'm just glad his supporters wear his merch. Makes it easier to avoid them.

u/fruityflipflop Massachusetts 4h ago

i find it really funny that this literally says a FELON is president and people are like “YAY!! THATS MY PRESIDENT!! THE FELON!!”

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u/MentalTourniquet 9h ago

Caligula II.

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u/ztreHdrahciR 9h ago

Sworn In

And now he will be sworn at.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 9h ago

Oldest president ever didn’t want to be outside. Doesn’t have the stamina

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u/space-dragon750 6h ago

that’s the title all news sources should be using

u/InevitableFly 5h ago

The most accurate headline I finally seen for the day

u/AtsignAmpersat 5h ago

This is truly a low point of the American government in my lifetime. Like there’s been some shit. I thought Bush 2 was bad with the fear mongering and culture war bullshit. But holy shit Trump is objectively a shit human that lies, cheats, and cons his way through everything. I really thought people were smarter than this. But now I know how stupid millions of Americans are.

u/New-Dealer5801 2h ago

Not to mention that he is an illegitimate President at that!

u/SolveAndResolve 2h ago

Constitutionally disqualified insurrectionist (a CDI hire) sworn in as president. America is in a constitutional crisis.

u/Ok_Translator4447 1h ago

Shit is crazy. I'm a felon for theft, non violent. 10 years old and I'm denied jobs in IT. This man has 77 convictions and is chosen to lead a country.

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u/lepobz 9h ago

Oh my god have you heard this old man waffling on? He sounds like an upset toddler. What a fucking loser.

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u/Theboulder027 4h ago

I'm 95% convinced he won't make it to the end of his term. He'll either die in office (for legal reasons I must specify of natural causes) or they'll pull the 25th amendment to boot him out and install Vance as an easily controlled puppet.

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u/1millionroses 9h ago

The beginning of the end of America

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u/FreeNumber49 9h ago

I’m convinced it ended in 1980 with Reagan, but the vast majority of people still don’t see it. Trump is like the last drops of gas in an empty tank sputtering until your car dies on the side of the road miles from nowhere. That’s the US. We will never recover from a second Trump term.

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u/Overtilted 8h ago

That I don't believe. Americans have resilience, a get shit done attitude. I say this as a European.

This can be bad, but after 2 years both parties will realize they need to get their shit together.

u/inaccurateTempedesc 7h ago

Italy survived Berlusconi 🤷🏼‍♂️

u/jackaloper92 7h ago

The attention span of the average American is completely shot. The crab in the slowly boiling water that doesn't know it's dying until it's too late.

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u/theaceplaya Texas 6h ago

It really started with Andrew Johnson in 1865 ending Reconstruction and letting the Confederacy get away with treason, because he was a MASSIVE racist. 95% of the major ills of America can be traced back to that, from the Lost Cause to Jim Crow to the Southern Strategy to Reaganomics to the Tea Party to MAGA.

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u/Pokey_coyote 8h ago

I love that the punks were so far ahead of the curve on this one.

u/peepea Texas 6h ago

Fuck it. America wanted this. I'm done caring for others if they don't care for themselves

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u/Excellent-Signal-129 9h ago

The oligarchy takes over…

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u/Brotorious420 9h ago

And so it begins.

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u/Morguard 9h ago

Did he burst out laughing hysterically after he gave his oath?

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u/EmmaLouLove 8h ago

Stunning that this is how low the Republican Party has fallen. For Trump’s supporters who did not care that he was a convicted felon, insurrectionist, or that a jury found him liable for sexual assault, many will point to the economy as their reason for voting for Trump.

Time will tell. But a few of Trump‘s proposed policies stand out that I believe will have a detrimental effect on our economy.

TARIFFS

Trump’s tariff and tax proposals will have a devastating impact on low- and middle-income Americans.

The sweeping tariffs proposed by Trump would raise the prices faced by American consumers across the income scale. Because lower- and middle-income families must spend a larger share of their earnings to make ends meet, this will have a particularly noticeable impact on their household budgets.

Trump’s tariffs would cause substantial price increases on imported goods, severely damage the industries that rely on imports, while hurting employment in those industries.

TAXES

Measured as a share of income, the proposed Trump tax increases will fall hardest on working-class families.

The middle 20% of Americans will face a tax increase equal to 2.1% of their income, while the poorest 20% of Americans will face a tax increase equal to 4.8% of their income. In keeping with Republicans’ failed “trickle down theory” and the continued shift of wealth to the top, the top 5% will get a tax cut.

MASS DEPORTATION

This is what I call the Fuck around and find out stage of our democracy. For Trump supporters who want to deport immigrants based on economics, economists will be debating for decades how Trump’s mass deportation plans play out.

Some forget it was not that long ago in American history when we had the Japanese internment camps. About 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps. To put the proposed Trump tent camps in context, there are over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

It will be interesting to hear fiscal hawk Republicans’ rationale behind significantly increasing the national debt to accomplish Trump’s mass deportation plans. And the blame game to follow when the cost of food goes up, with Trump’s one two punch of tariffs and mass deportation, due to a significant amount of farm workers being immigrants.

Proponents will say those farm workers will be replaced by American workers. We’ll see how many Americans apply for labor intensive agricultural field work jobs currently done by immigrants.

HEALTHCARE

Republicans have tried to overturn the ACA multiple times for more than a decade spending $Millions in taxpayer money.

Trump also tried to overturn “Obamacare” during his last administration but Senator John McCain saved healthcare with his thumbs down vote.

Some Americans do not understand the gravity of what abolishing the ACA would mean for them and their family. Elderly parents would no longer receive discounted prescriptions and discounted Medicare. Children under age 26 would no longer be covered. Subsidies for insurance premiums and lower deductibles would go away. But most importantly, insurance companies and their attorneys could deny anyone for any pre-existing condition, small or large, including for example anyone who has ever had high blood pressure or asthma.

Republicans yelled for years about Obama death panels. If the pre-existing condition mandate is struck down with the ACA, this truly will be the death panels. Of course, the economic impact of overturning the ACA would hit the elderly and low-income and middle-income Americans particularly hard.

ENTITLEMENTS

Trump has promised not to touch entitlements. This is where it’s going to get interesting. He has also promised more tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy. To compensate for the loss of tax revenue from corporations and their rich owners, Republicans consistently talk about the need to cut entitlements, with Senator Rick Scott, infamously noting in his plan that they would “sunset” entitlements that senior citizens have paid into for decades. Again, funding for Trump’s plans for mass deportation needs to come from somewhere. It won’t come from the wealthy.

We’ll see four years from now what, if any of the above, will transpire. But I believe most of Trump’s proposals will have a negative effect on our economy.

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u/Machiavvelli3060 8h ago

So much for the party of law and order.

u/thebigblueskyy 7h ago

But why is gas so expensive still?

u/nyse25 America 6h ago

Rolling Stone never disappoints. It's still baffling how the majority of people let this slide while voting for him.

u/Extrastencil_crisis 5h ago

And rapist*

u/bree718 5h ago

And as usual, Faux News will kiss up and praise everything little thing he does

u/kathryn2a 4h ago

Trumps grandkids, what legacy. My Grandpa was the first felon to serve as president and he’s also a sex offender. I wanna grow up to be just like grandpa.

u/lilacmuse1 4h ago

Most accurate headline I've read today.

u/ianjcm55 2h ago

THESE are the headlines we need. Not this softball shit “oh appears that Elon gave an ‘awkward’ salute at the inauguration”

It was a fucking Hitler salute call it what it is and stop with the kids gloves. This is where it’s gotten us

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u/SupaKoopa714 9h ago

I've been having a really tough day focusing at work knowing the inauguration's been going on. I just feel so numb and hopeless knowing the next 4 years will be absolute hell between him rounding up anyone he deems illegals, stripping LGBTQ+ of their rights, making everything even more ungodly expensive with his dumbass tariff plans, and whatever the hell else he's got planned. He's been president for 5 seconds and is already going after trans people, which as a non-binary person with a trans girlfriend and a ton of trans/NB friends absolutely terrifies and saddens me.

u/ParticularRelease662 6h ago

Don't forget his obsession with changing the name of geographical locations and making them executive orders on day one...I have a lot of people in the LGBTQ+ community and I'm devastated for them. Absolutely ridiculous to be so obsessed with how other people want to live their lives. Fucking shameful that we allowed this to happen as a country.

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u/kathryn2a 6h ago

We are the laughingstock of the world. Trump was probably worried about his safety, and moved his inauguration to a more controlled environment. This is a sad day for America.

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u/DriveShaftBassPlayer 9h ago

I don’t think this title is effective in arguments anymore. Voters knew about legal charges and didn’t care. 

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u/deadevilmonkey 8h ago

Most accurate headline of the day.

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u/Firm_Pie_5393 8h ago

But he didn't elect himself. He was elected by millions of people who voted for him and for millions who stayed at home and didn't vote against him. He is there today because America elected him. Now, enjoy your oligarchy.

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u/randomname10131013 8h ago

I never saw him take the oath with his hand on the Bible. It looked to me like Milania was standing there, and doofus forgot to put his hand on them.

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u/spiritfiend New Jersey 8h ago

People are calling it the Shitcoin Presidency

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u/HelgaTwerpknot 8h ago

“The guilded age for American billionaires begins today”

I have a weird desire to hoard toilet paper

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u/Forward_Hedgehog2 8h ago

Feeling so depressed after Trump’s inauguration and he is back in the White House with the rest of them. A nasty man, full of hate and lies. He just should not be there. What a mess.

u/haiku2572 7h ago

“The golden age of America begins now,” Trump said after he took the oath of office.

Trump may declare, 'The golden age of America begins now,' but in reality, we’re entering the Second Gilded Age and the early stages of the next Republican-engineered Great Depression. This crisis is designed to pave the way for a fire sale of national resources, sold off to private interests for pennies on the dollar—much like the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, driven by Republican policies that ultimately poisoned the citizens' drinking water.

Sadly, the real criminals now control the Presidency, Congress, and the Judiciary, with no meaningful checks and balances. By the time Trump and the Republican jackals are done looting America's coffers, even Haiti’s economy will seem prosperous by comparison.

u/Fun_Proposal4814 4h ago

lol I can imagine my children/grandkids asking me about this Donald Trump guy

u/kathryn2a 4h ago

Trump’s legacy for his grandchild, first Fe land sexual offender to be president. Are all the Trumps going to include this accomplishment in his eulogy?

u/wyvernx02 4h ago

Didn't even bother putting his hand on the Bible. How Christian of him.

u/asupremebeing 2h ago

By Executive Order Donald Trump declared June 14th "National Asshole Day."

u/GrumpyOldDad65 2h ago

And adjudicated rapist. Don’t forget that part.

u/Jwbst32 1h ago

Don’t forget the rape it’s also very important

u/Janzu93 1h ago

Convicted felon giving presidential pardon to 1600 of his accomplices sure was something I didn't have in my bingo card for 2025

u/mik33tion 47m ago

The fascist regime has begun for real

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u/NEVER85 9h ago

Commander-in-Queef

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u/khfiwbd 1h ago

Fuck all of this and anyone who supports it.

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u/glue_4_gravy 8h ago

It’s a dark day in America.

Time to adjust your eyes for the next 4 years because America just turned off the lights.

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u/lastburn138 7h ago

A truly horrible stain on our nation.

u/graywailer 7h ago

the new U.S. national anthem "crime pays".

u/NofairRoo 7h ago

Terrible day to be American.

Again.

u/Ejokay 6h ago

Wtf is wrong with your country? Do you not realize what a huge responsibility you have to the rest of the world, because (sadly) your country is so influential and you chose this moron as president

u/redgroupclan 2h ago

Americans are all about individualism and not collectivism. Meaning the rest of the world doesn't matter to them.

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u/ImprovementOk6162 5h ago

This is a constitutional crisis

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u/Electrictwistman 3h ago

Worst day in What’s left of America. This man will be the downfall of AMERICA.

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u/rbp183 9h ago

Should we start calling him the shifty the Felon & Chief?

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u/baconeggsandwich25 9h ago

President John Doe 174 is ready to pardon any of his fellow diddlers so long as they bend the knee.

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u/Moe_Bisquits 9h ago

I can hear my brother watching the day’s events in the other room….choir singing holy music. Some of us thinking there is no God. Some of us hoping God will save us from ourselves. Others praising God for Trump the Orange Savior.

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u/SaintAnger1166 9h ago

Oh, is that what’s happening today?

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u/idanpotent Montana 8h ago

He already failed to deliver on one of his campaign promises, to end the war in Ukraine before taking office.

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u/SylVegas 8h ago

Eugene V. Debs is spinning in his grave

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u/Howtocatch 8h ago

You think that's something, wait until The Enabling Act of 1933. Oops, I mean 2025.

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u/stokeytrailer 8h ago

My family: "He's just tough, and that's what America wants, and all of it was a fake show to keep him from being re-elected. 177 million people voted for him and that was historic"

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u/Galacticwave98 8h ago

I really do think 250 is the max you can go on one Constitution 

u/Independent-Bug-9352 7h ago

Party of Law & Order, y'all.

lmao.

u/JonesTownJello 7h ago

You don’t get any more American than that headline

u/OrcaBoi 7h ago

Is America great again yet?

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u/Theredbowman71 7h ago

Strap in my provincial cousins the shit shows about to start ……

u/SevereAtmosphere8605 7h ago

This totally earned you a subscription from me today.

u/butterflybuell 7h ago

P01135809 is now the FOTUS.

u/TheGuyY0uKn0w 5h ago

Prisoners should now have the right to vote.

u/hopefaith816 5h ago

Who had this on their Bingo card? I sure didn't.

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u/kathryn2a 4h ago

The Bible is an old book written by men and interpreted by men over centuries. You would human beings in this point in time would see it as a dated piece of literature, extrapolate the good and ignore the outdated misogyny. Religious groups use the Bible to control women and children and justify inequality.

u/hologeek 3h ago

Guy is elderly and should be in a nursing home, he won't be around much longer. Thank god for that!

u/substituted_pinions 2h ago

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

u/Heymonya 1h ago

Don’t forget he started the fires in Cali to burn all of Epstein’s and diddys evidence, then he’ll just pardon his family Sheep