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/TomTheWaterChamp 29d ago

Just let him completely run with it to really expose the crazy to its maximum potential. Tell him he's in charge of every branch of the government and just see how absolutely wild shit gets in fantasy land.

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u/sybrwookie 28d ago

I'm pretty sure it would be boring and exactly what you'd expect. He'd just keep funnelling more and more money to himself and his family and punish anyone who says anything bad about him in any petty way he can find.

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u/CiderDrinker 28d ago

This was the thing about Trump - he wasn't even an interesting baddie, he didn't have some mastermind plan, there was no wicked ideology. He just came across like a crooked bully on the make.

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u/YourphobiaMyfetish 28d ago

He wanted to nuke hurricanes and hired Nazis. It's kinda interesting and there was a wicked ideology.

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u/CiderDrinker 28d ago

The wicked ideologues were the people behind him (both the alt-right race-baiters and the libertarian regulation-slashers). I'm not sure he ever believed in anything except his own ego, wealth, power and debauchery.

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u/collector_of_hobbies 28d ago

The racism was real. Looong history of that.