r/AskReddit 29d ago

If we could set up a Truman Show scenario where Trump thinks he’s President again and the public send in scenarios for him to deal with, what would you suggest?

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u/Mumblerumble 28d ago

That's because nothing sums up the Trump ideology more than a big Mac presented on fine China, particularly if you defrauded the person who sold you the China.

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u/Shambhala87 28d ago

My terminology for such occasions is, “It’s like wrapping a turd in gold leaf”

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u/frankie0694 28d ago

My favourite is 'You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.'

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u/andre821 28d ago

I mean gold is more applicable cause id unwrap the gold leaf from the turd but i wouldnt bother for the glitter, its just cosmetic. The fun of it is the gold leaf. The shittynes the turd obv.

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u/chillin1066 28d ago

I described the first Suicide Squad movie as “They took diamond bricks and used them to build an outhouse.”

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u/HyperboleJoe 28d ago

That summarizes Donald Trump’s persona and style perfectly.

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u/heinzbumbeans 28d ago

"fur coat with no knickers" is the phrase i grew up with.

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u/Edmond_DantestMe 28d ago

Sounds hot

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u/heinzbumbeans 28d ago

Yeah, i know fur is a no go these days but it really does keep you very warm in the cold weather.

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u/powerlesshero111 28d ago

It's extra weird when you consider that the white house literally has a dozen cooks employed to cater these events.

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u/Mumblerumble 28d ago

They were laid off that week because of yet another government shutdown (with a GOP controlled house, senate, and presidency) and you know he wasn't going to pay for a nice event out of his own pocket. I'd love to know how many people tried to talk him out of this absolutely trashy idea.

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u/thirdactjack 28d ago

Whenever I'm speaking with people who egregiously ask "WhAt DiD TruMp eVeN doOo thAt Was thAT bAD?" rather than go for the obvious ones they'll have stupid rebuttals for (covid mismanagement or factual reasons he was impeached), I like to point out that our government was shut down for 35 days - the longest stretch ever - while republicans had complete majority.

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u/LowkeyLoki44 28d ago

I kind of find some of your comment misleading. Do you know the full meaning of impeached? Many think that impeached mean he was thrown out of office, but impeached means put on trial. He was impeached twice, and both times found not guilty

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u/poobicus 28d ago

I mean he was impeached

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u/nick22tamu 28d ago

TWICE...

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u/LowkeyLoki44 28d ago

that means nothing then, he was put on trial. and found innocent. TWICE

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u/poobicus 28d ago

lmao he was impeached. so was Clinton. deal with it dude

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u/inagadda 28d ago

Found not guilty by a jury of his personal brown-nosers...

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u/Uffda01 28d ago

I would upvote - but you're currently sitting at 45 upvotes with this comment and well - that seems fitting.

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u/LowkeyLoki44 28d ago

and put on trial by a group on people who are bias against him

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u/thirdactjack 28d ago

The House of Reps impeached twice, the Senate voted to acquit despite the impeachments.

What part of my above comment makes you think I didn't understand what impeachment was? Of course I know that he wasn't thrown out of office. It's a valid critique nonetheless.

Trump called foreign nations as sitting president attempting to illicit support for his reelection (which is illegal), and instigated an act of terror on the capital to overturn his election loss (he spoke with others who winked and nodded their way through violent rhetoric to suggestible people, then refused to attempt to stop it until far too late).

The evidence was there. The senate's choice to acquit was political theatre and closer resembles a fucking kangaroo court than an impartial jury.

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u/sry_im_baitin 28d ago

What about joe Biden on camera withholding aid until a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating his son was fired ? That ok tho?

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u/swapode 28d ago

No, that is simply a lie.

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u/ampsmith3 28d ago edited 28d ago

You got a link to that one?

Edit: I just want to say that whataboutism doesn't work normally in a logical argument and fails comically when the what about part doesn't even exist. If this video exists why have none of us been able to find it? We can still find the picture of Beyonce that was supposedly scrubbed from everywhere on the internet...

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u/emptysoul365 28d ago

That only happened in the fevered imaginations of the MAGA indoctrinated. Not in reality.

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u/Jungleman6 28d ago

That’s not what happened. Stop telling lies.

Biden represented one of several countries who was involved in that incident.

Ukraine had a specific agreement with several nations that required Ukraine to appoint a special investigator to uncover, investigate and prosecute corruption. In return for that that investigator doing his job, those other nations would provide Ukraine with foreign aid.

That prosecutor was refusing to do his job and was trying to hinder an investigation into the company that Hunter worked for.

That’s right, Biden put pressure on the Ukrainian government because the investigator was NOT investigating the company that Hunter worked for.

He wasn’t doing his job, so the nations stopped sending Ukraine aid until the Ukrainian government fired him and replaced him with a new investigator who WOULD actually do his job.

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u/FungalowJoe 28d ago

Link the video big boy

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u/danjo3197 28d ago

Many think that impeached mean he was thrown out of office

This isn't too relevant to the discussion but is it just me or do a lot of people say that a lot of people think this but few people actually think this? Especially after trump's impeachment

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u/AdiosAdipose 28d ago

You find his comment misleading because "many people" may not know the meaning of the word impeached?

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u/TankGunner42069 28d ago

So what? Those dumbfucks also think vaccines cause autism and Dr. Fauci invented Covid19 to increase the value of his stock portfolio.

Stop catering to these pieces of shit. They will never get it.

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u/Sasparillafizz 28d ago

And? He was acquitted by the senate, the topic was 'what did he do that was so bad?' I still think it's pretty bad that you manage to get the fucking house to successfully impeach TWICE. Like, any other president if you got someone to bring articles of impeachment you'd probably get an overwhelming 'no' by the house bipartisan because impeachment is such a rare and extreme occurrence. The fact he wasn't removed from office doesn't mean that it going so far to doing so twice isn't a bad sign.

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u/CobynKwame 28d ago

So was OJ. Dumb ass.

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u/LowkeyLoki44 28d ago

OJ was also found guilty on 2 charges a trial later.

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u/CobynKwame 28d ago

On civil charges. Lesser degree of evidence needed. You and ass clown want to run it back in a real trial? Dumb ass.

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u/Harddaysnight1990 28d ago

Serious question for you then: what do you think of Clinton's impeachment? Impeached for purgery, and found not guilty by the Democratic controlled Senate at the time.

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u/LowkeyLoki44 28d ago

I honestly don’t know enough about the clinton presidency, so i don’t know.

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u/s_matthew 28d ago

Amusingly, he boasted about paying for the whole thing out of pocket. I think it was around $10k? As a (supposed) billionaire, $10k is literally like pocket change.

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u/gandalf_el_brown 28d ago

10k for all that cheap McDonalds? Looks like someone got ripped off

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u/s_matthew 28d ago

He probably had to pay for staffing, too.

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u/iDislocateVaginas 28d ago

The president always pays for the food at the White House, including the salaries of the cooks. Government shutdown wouldn’t have been a factor.

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u/Mumblerumble 28d ago

That's half true. The president pays for groceries and household goods, clothes, etc. and may elect to hire a personal chef to work there. The rest of the kitchen staff are federal employees, their furlough was the justification for sending out for fast food for the banquet.

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u/iDislocateVaginas 28d ago

Gotchya. Thanks for the correction.

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u/thisubmad 28d ago

I hate that person and i know its not a trashy but a glorious idea, the kind of stuff that would otherwise be a hit on Reddit.

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u/Stevey854 28d ago

Thats why it happened. Government shutdown = no cooks

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u/TheSweatshopMan 28d ago

The footballs players he invited it loved it by all accounts I’ve heard so fair play

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u/0xD153A53 28d ago

"If I talk shit about this, will that affect my draft prospect? Yes, almost certainly."

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u/thisubmad 28d ago

When the whole country, culture, internet and media was talking shit about it?

X Doubt

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u/Datnero362 28d ago

The majority of people that watch the NFL are ardent Trump supporters

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u/0xD153A53 28d ago

The majority of the country aren't on the line to be drafted to the Big Show, so no one is paying attention to their opinions.

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u/TheSweatshopMan 28d ago

Like the President has any hold on the NFL

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u/IamJacksDenouement 28d ago

Or maybe they just have more class than to talk shit on the party they were thrown by the president.

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u/TheSweatshopMan 28d ago

I’d think they would just say nothing if they really disliked it that much.

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u/ericl666 28d ago

And you know those burgers are cold too. Gross.

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u/Reutermo 28d ago

It was literally a scene in Kingsman where it symbolized rich Americans.

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u/johnnybiggles 28d ago

A cold Big Mac.

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u/HyperboleJoe 28d ago

“What’s our budget?…$100,000? If we just gave em some fast food can we keep the rest?”

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u/2xRnCZ 28d ago

CHY-na

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u/snikle 28d ago

It's the candelabras that make this image for me. It's Liberace meets Ronald McDonald.

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u/Briguy24 28d ago

A cold Big Mac...

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u/Soothsayer512 28d ago

Who gives ..Fuck anything China .

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u/Moneia 28d ago

Bet he forgot the '45 Lafeyette as well. No class

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u/FunkyPete 28d ago

particularly if you defrauded the person who sold you the China.

and skipped out on paying for the food from McDonalds.