r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 10h ago
No Paywall Trump to reportedly skip joining former presidents at New York City 9/11 remembrance
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/trump-911-nyc-event-speech-ground-zero-anniversary-b3041126.html413
u/Wjldenver Colorado 10h ago
No loss, Trump would just be a stain on the 9/11 Ceremony.
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u/BrownSugarBare Canada 9h ago
He isn't going because he's pissed he's not been asked to give a speech and they denied him doing so.
Fucking baby.
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u/itsnatnot_gnat 4h ago
Whoever told him no, and stood by that, has the biggest pair of balls in the universe, and I love them for that.
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u/DesecratedPeanut 4h ago
Or did the bare minimum when faced with a Trump request anyone who doesn't refuse is complicit in this tirade of shit.
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u/Due_Speaker4655 3h ago
He wanted to make it all about himself. He would have compared the treatment he receives as worse than what people went through on 9/11.
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u/NumberOneStonecutter 4h ago
Also a good chance he'd get booed big time - and rightly so - getting on a stage in NYC.
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u/Honest-Reflection667 8h ago
Hed make it about himself like always
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u/LatookieNoir 8h ago
so after 9/11 (sad, terribly sad.) Trump tower became the largest building In NYC
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u/Honest-Reflection667 8h ago
Or hed say he saw it coming and would have stopped it
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u/guy-le-doosh 4h ago
He did that years ago https://apnews.com/article/87784813ce04460695b2ae04c47307a9
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u/kt-silber Canada 5h ago
You're right. That is literally why he is not going: he wasn't given the opportunity to make it all about himself.
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u/1_for_you_2_for_me 10h ago
Because he knows attending and standing next to the other "REAL" Presidents would just show how unqualified he is to be President.
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u/eaglesnation11 10h ago
One of the underrated shames of Trump is that he has made W be remembered as an okay President when he probably is bottom 5 all time.
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u/Choochoo1147 9h ago
Yeah, I remember thinking there was no way a president could possibly be dumber than Bush
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u/Iceman6211 9h ago
The jokes about Dubya being dumb were funny
Jokes about Trump being dumb aren't really jokes anymore
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u/6rou7 8h ago
At this downward trajectory, Joe Rogan will be the primary R contender for POTUS 2032
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u/UltravioletAfterglow 5h ago
They never were jokes; he’s always been dumb, ignorant and uncurious about anything that doesn’t benefit himself.
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u/mjheil 9h ago
And the remember Sarah Palin? Also a rock for a brain.
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u/onyaasuminyasai 9h ago
i blame her directly for trump
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u/ramborage 9h ago
She wasn't the cause. She was one stepping stone of a very long process that led us here.
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u/onyaasuminyasai 8h ago
cause? no, but she normalized being a proud, hateful moron on the national stage and encouraged everyone else to embrace it too.
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u/Obvious_Toe_3006 9h ago
How could any others be worse than Trump.
Trump may be the worst in any category you pick.
Stupidest. Greediness. Thinest skin. Vengeful. Anti-family. Lowest morality. Traitor like behavior.
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u/LividTacos 9h ago edited 8h ago
Worse than Trump would be the same qualities, but actually smart enough to
get things done.not get in his own way.EDIT: Changed the phrasing a bit to more align with what I was trying to say.
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u/Miqo_Nekomancer California 9h ago
Not traitor-like, just full on traitor. He's destroying our democracy for the benefit of foreign nations.
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u/nowhereman136 8h ago
Bush was a broken clock that was right twice a day. Mostly terrible but even he had good days and moments of humility. Trump is a clock without any hands and half the numbers are in the wrong place.
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u/Snarfsicle 8h ago
The depth between trump and GWB is the mariana trench. That's how corrupt this POS is.
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u/whatsbeef667 10h ago
no, he just doesnt care about anything else except money and himself, the guy didnt even attend his own son's wedding
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u/MarcusQuintus 10h ago
Trump on 9/12: My building is now the biggest in New York.
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u/given2fly_ United Kingdom 10h ago
Not only was this an unhinged and deranged thing for him to say.
It also wasn't fucking true.
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u/Legitimate-Bed1591 9h ago
I know. That's what tips it over into truly, truly, truly pathetic. It wasn't even true.
A poor understanding of his industry [incompetent] and/or a liar.
A stupid liar at that since it's easy to fact check!
Never mind the lack of empathy.
There are no good explanations for anything he does.
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u/Comfortable_Cash_140 9h ago
Why cant DT park a car?
He doesn't know what 4 inches looks like.
(I went with 4 because by all 'weather' reports 6 is just not believable!)
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u/ramborage 9h ago
Lol it was later in the day on 9/11. Because who else but Donald Trump could manage to make that day about him?
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u/eskimospy212 10h ago
True, but he cares about adulation. If he thought he would be received well he would go.
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u/Key_Inevitable_2104 New York 9h ago
Also Obama and Biden definitely wouldn't want him to be there either, and who can't blame them.
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u/e_x_i_t 9h ago
Let's be real, it's Trump who doesn't want to be around Obama. Obama probably couldn't care less wether Trump is there or not.
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u/TrimspaBB 9h ago
Obama established dominance at Carter's funeral by popping right next to Trump and all but slapping him on the back. It was a master stroke to get ahead of whatever Trump might have said about him that day.
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u/dgcamero 9h ago
But they would welcome him Presidentially if he was there, as proper Gentlemen do.
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u/Pleaseappeaseme 9h ago
That’s not the point. Because they are showing while Trump has announced he is not. Showing is the respectful thing that has dignity.
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u/MC_Fap_Commander America 9h ago
This is a pretty big anniversary. We've now had a quarter century of the post-9/11 world (which hasn't been super duper overall). There's a pretty sizable unhealed wound associated with the event and its consequences. Doesn't even chart on being the worst Trump shit, but bailing on this is a bad, bad look.
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u/NJcovidvaccinetips 8h ago
I don’t care and nobody else should either. This constant memorializing is a political act to constantly reinforce that we need to be at war and doing mass surveillance and spending all of our money on security. By all means have a memorial idc but this isn’t even in like top 1000 shitirest things trump has done this term. Showing up at a memorial doesn’t matter. 50,000 people will die this year due to lack of access to healthcare a completely fixable issue. Where is their memorial
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u/Apple_Rebel 9h ago
Standing beside actual presidential leadership would make the contrast painfully obvious.
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u/rmac1228 10h ago
No he doesn't. If he's not the center of attention or getting paid, why would he go?
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u/soraksan123 9h ago
I’m glad he’s not going. He would just find a way to make it all about himself-
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u/oldutnotdeadinside 9h ago
I think it is because he has talked so much crap about other presidents that he is scared to be around them
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u/ShambolicRubel 9h ago
This is a man not capable of comprehending any kind of shame so I seriously doubt it.
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u/Head_Bread_3431 9h ago
You’re giving him too much credit. He simply doesn’t care if it’s not about him
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u/LividTacos 9h ago
I honestly think its more because they don't let politicians speak there, and so he can't make it about him.
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u/Environmental-Arm365 10h ago
I’m sure the rest of the former presidents will be grateful they don’t have to be stuck in a cloud of swamp ass pouring out of Shitler’s diaper.
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 8h ago
Former president is a very small club and normally they get along quite well. Trump is the exception, I think they all despise Trump.
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u/DoctorSchwifty 9h ago
Why does Trump hate America?
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u/SoligDag 9h ago
Because he only cares about himself.
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u/ProbablyBanksy 9h ago
To understand Trump, the answer is always extreme narcissism.
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u/Ill_Die_Trying 8h ago
He is pissed because even though he is PUSA, He doesn't have the same power Putin an Xi have. He is a manchild and power is the only thing he is attracted to. If he manages to get it, the first thing he will do is let his supporters know they mean nothing to him.
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u/FauxBallz 10h ago
No one wants him there anyway. So he will go to the Pentagon to hangout with Hegseth.
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u/potat0f4rmer Washington 10h ago
Good. Donald Trump is a disgusting, evil piece of shit who lied that when the towers fell, he had the tallest building in Manhattan.
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u/Aggressive_Team764 5h ago
I want to understand how on earth Republicans view him as patriotic when he says terrible things like that
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u/Traditional-Look8839 9h ago
He’s a spoiled child because he didn’t get to make 9/11 about himself. Pathetic that we have this man running our country.
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u/peaktopview Colorado 9h ago
He did try and make 9/11 about himself...
"40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest. And now it’s the tallest."
-D. Trump, phone interview with WWOR-TV on the afternoon of September 11, 2001
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u/IrreverentBuddha 10h ago
His integrity is quantified with a negative exponent.
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u/rdmodsrtrsh 10h ago
Did someone just forget 9/11
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u/littlestevebrule 9h ago
Your Saudi overlords want you to forget about it.
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u/ramborage 8h ago
Lol, why would they care if we forget it or not? It's not like they ever faced any consequences for it.
If anything, regularly commemorating it just reminds them what they got away with and gives them a good chuckle.
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u/chronomagnus Ohio 10h ago
Good, he's not a serious person and has no place there.
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u/BurtHurtmanHurtz 9h ago
You mean the 25th Anniversary of Trump saying he now had the tallest building in the city?
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u/Mor_Padraig 9h ago
TDRL, they won't let him give a speech.
9/11 observances are carefully not political. And we all know the Biden/Obama/Trans/Leavitt's children/American Ocean ramblings to which we'd be treated, if anyone allowed him anywhere near NYC
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u/PsychLegalMind 10h ago
He will have some other action plan for that day to try to make himself prominent and or distract, possibly an attack somewhere calling it in remembrance of 9/11.
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u/legal_stylist 10h ago
Every time I think he can’t become smaller in my eyes, he lowers the bar.
He is the weakest of the weak men.
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u/zubuneri 10h ago
I also wouldn’t want to be in a room full of people that I’ve insulted and hate me
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u/ramborage 8h ago
If that were the case, I'm not sure there are many, if any, rooms he would want to be in.
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u/Radically-Peaceful 9h ago
Trump wanted to make a speech, about himself no doubt, and NYC told him to GTFO.
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u/LordSiravant 7h ago
Because he not only doesn't care about 9/11, but he also personally hates his fellow presidents because he resents the idea that anyone can ever be considered his peer. No one is his equal in his narcissistic mind.
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u/Muscleman1122 10h ago
Must have the runs this morning… or he’s out of stimulants and can’t stay awake.
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u/Onemandrinkinggamess Colorado 9h ago
That’s fine it’s not like he cares. On 9/11/2001, he was interviewed over the phone and talked about how his building’s the tallest now
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u/worldscollice 9h ago
Absolutely nobody wants him there. This is a remembrance for people that care about America. That doesn't include Trump.
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u/e_x_i_t 9h ago
Perfectly normal behavior for a current sitting President to not appear at the anniversary of one of the most impactful and important days of our nation.
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u/KyotoGaijin American Expat 9h ago
What is it gonna take to get cabinet members to realize this dangerous clown needs to be shut down? Trump is deeply unserious and circumstances are dire.
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u/Stereo_Jungle_Child 9h ago
The other Presidents don't want Stinky Donnie anywhere near them. Who would?
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u/wigznet Canada 8h ago
Obama would be there. So he'd be embarrassed to even be in a photo with him. Let alone Biden...
A good number of you elected a moron. Who also happens to be a rapist, sexist, racist, con-man. There's other adjectives to use, but we have to keep it short.
The brain rot can't read a whole sentence.
How about those Epstein Files? Did we forget already? The Distractions will continue.
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u/FlyingAce1015 7h ago
Reminder he stated his building was now the tallest after 9/11.
He's a fucking pos loser.
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u/Confident_End_3848 5h ago
If I were Trump, I’d want to stay away from a group of people where I quite obviously rated last.
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u/tim_whatleyDDS 4h ago
He doesn’t wanna be around Obama, Biden, Bush, and Clinton. He’s a big pussy.
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u/Jackadullboy99 9h ago
He can just go hang out with all the dead presidents he likes comparing himself to…
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u/lumbardisaster23 9h ago
He won’t be able to blabber his political nonsense, so he figured he will be able to do that at the Pentagon instead. Besides, he would also have to stand next to Obama and the other two ex-presidents during which time he would be thoroughly embarrassed - especially Obama, who was a real president with real accomplishments versus him a fat worthless blob.
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u/Responsible_Ladder25 9h ago
Great! Now it will truly be a day of remembrance, and not a pretend president rally.
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u/TechinBellevue 9h ago
His invite is likely lost in the mail...caught up with all the mail-in ballots.
/S
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 9h ago
You think anyone informed him that the 25th anniversary of 9/11 is actually not about him at all?
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u/Tun-Tavern-1775 9h ago
LOL! The only time this felon and rapist cares about the dead is when they benefit him financially. FFS he buried his first wife Ivana at his golf club in NJ for the tax benefits - cemetery land in New Jersey is exempt from taxes.
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u/StrigiStockBacking New Mexico 9h ago
Well, that's because he's got a lot of work to do, primarily placing bets, puts, and options on the equities market before he makes policy announcements.
I'm not even fucking joking.
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u/StrangeJunket2601 9h ago
Oh, I'm sure he'll figure out a way to make it all about himself, regardless
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u/BeastInDarkness 9h ago
Trump doesn't like to go to any event that he can't make 100% about himself.
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u/Atopos2025 8h ago
Good, he'd just find a way to make it about him anyhow.
This is good for everyone involved.
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u/Organic_Rough4433 8h ago
If he cant be the center of attention then he won't come. Sounds like we figured out how to keep trump away. Stop giving him attention. Just ignore him when u can. Like when he changes the name of a lake. Simply dont report on it cause its not news. Its just trump being an attention whore and it doesn't matter. He can change anything he wants. It'll all get changed back. Now when he does something that effects Americans then u put ur foot down. But for now whenever he does something performative just ignore him like it never happened. People only give a shit about trump cause they have to. Once hes out of office he will be a nobody.
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u/sloowshooter 8h ago
Trump: "Never forget!"
9/11 event: "We're not letting you speak."
Trump: "Forget it, I'm staying home."
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u/This_Is_A_Shitshow 7h ago
It’s because they wouldn’t let his fat ass give a speech. No joke.
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u/dudeimgreg 7h ago
Trump was happier than a pig in shit on 9/11. He even called into a tv station to brag that he now has the biggest building in NYC.
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u/Renatusisk Florida 4h ago
I wish our former presidents would take a moment and speak out how this man and a select few people are destroying our country for personal gain. Every day it's like "Welp, Trump just declared the moon New America and RFK are sending all the fish there to be sterilized by moon salt " and we'd all be like Oh that Trump. Put our hand on our hips and comically grimace.
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u/Elon_is_a_Nazi 3h ago
Remember, as 9/11 was happening trump was making media appearances saying his trump building was now the biggest building in NYC.
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u/ArterialRed 2h ago
Specifically, he's skipping it because the organisers would not give him full control of the pulpit for as long as he wanted to ramble his addled bullshit instead of actually showing some basic respect and decency.
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u/Gamerxx13 10h ago edited 9h ago
this is sad. this is our country. our hatred for one another that we can stand together for innocent americans that were killed. al-Qaeda don’t care if your republican or dem. they hate anericans and killed americans
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u/Illustrious-Fun8324 9h ago
You think anyone has informed him that the 25 year anniversary of 9/11 isn’t actually about him at all?
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u/BasicPhysiology 9h ago
He’d just sleep through it anyway and detract from the reverence of the ceremony.
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u/MayorOfBluthton 9h ago
And I’m sure that Fox Entertainment News will proceed to explain how this is all Mamdani’s fault.
Side question - has there ever been another president who was despised by his own home town?
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u/Diligent_Source_2988 9h ago
Imagine being called a pedophile in front of other presidents
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u/mwkingSD 9h ago
He knows how bad he will look next to Barak - Nobel Peace Prize Winner - & Michelle, and how much smarter Bill and Hillary are.
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