At no point did I say he was the first president to look to repeal the 22nd, nor would he be the first president to serve 3 terms. I said he was the first to look at obtaining an additional term by illegal means prior to the current plans.
Really? Point me to previous presidents who repeatedly fired FBI directors, threatened to fire the head of the federal reserve, stole thousands of classified documents, engaged in school yard level insults, started a global trade war, refused to recognise the results of the elections, had 4 different chiefs of staff, had various members of their administration berate them and say they were unfit for office etc. All presidents have done things wrong but the scope and scale of what Trump is doing surpasses
Seriously?
Only 2 FBI directors have been dismissed, Sessions by Clinton and Comey by Trump. So this is in line with Clinton No?
Trump has repeatedly said he had 'no intention' of firing the head of reserve.
In a statement from national archives, Trump was one of a long line of every president since Reagan who has misnhandled and misused classified documents, this has been common practice until Biden and Trump were vilified for it.
School yard insults ill give you, he's petty and crass. But I mean Biden threatened to fight a few people, and all presidents have engaged in name calling, Trump is just next level ridiculous.
Trade wars are super common, going back over 100 years, this current China US trade war was started by Biden in 2018, there were huge Canadian trade wars in the 80s, the chicken wars etc... the only difference here is Trump has escalated the issues to everyone. I'll acknowledge this is a new escalation unprecedented, but this really highlights how super reliant the world is on US attitudes, and I think long term he may be doing us all a favour.
Come on, refusing to acknowledge defeat at elections is practically an American Tradition, in fact Trump's gameplane was basically Abrams gameplan of 2018. Hillary Clinton still calls her defeat a steal, there have been literally hundreds of refusals to concede in US history, running back from the guy who lost to Wilson (can't remember his name but took nearly a month to concede).
Did Trump have 4 chiefs of staff? Obama had 5 didn't he? I'll go check. Yup...
- Rahm Emanuel: 2009–2010
- Pete Rouse: 2010–2011
- Bill Daley: 2011–2012
- Jack Lew: 2012–2013
- Denis McDonough: 2013–2017
Isn't Trump's chief record 3 over 2 years?
So you see, all of these behaviours are incredibly common, your just being told this is the new Hitler, despite a huge amount of these behaviours being common place.
Had social media been around in the 90s, I guarantee you both Clinton and Bush would have been called the new Hitlers, Obama got it a little bit, with the ridiculous birther stupidity, but Trump is the first real president of the social media era to live by the sword and get it down by the sword.
All this catastrophising isn't helping, your scaring each other on things that just aren't happening, reciting bad faith information you know is bad faith but want to be true so badly.
I asked a colleague why he was so emotionally charged about Trump recently, and he was so frustrated I thought he was going to cry, this isnt normal behaviour.
it's so much easier for some of these posters to label me a troll, than to counter the points made, because that's much easier, and less scary to their Huffpost reading perceived view...
I've been very consistent, when Trump does something stupid I criticise it, when a poster here publishes Russian stripper urinating style stupidity I call it out. Why does it seem like I'm calling out more than agreeing with?
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