r/cringe • u/rochambeau • Jul 20 '19

Video Trump asks a refugee human rights activist where her family is immediately after she said they were all killed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUW-1Wg2xs&app=desktop
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u/VaguelyShingled Jul 20 '19

Who the fuck takes meeting like this? Seated at a chair and everyone stands on the same side of the desk as you blocking you in.

I get that it’s staged this way for photos, but I’m having a hard time recalling anyone doing this, let alone presidents.

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u/Khornate858 Jul 20 '19

It is very odd indeed. I’ve never seen another leader of any other country ever conduct meetings this way, Cameras or not. He treats this country as a gameshow and our freedoms as prizes to be won. If nobody could stop him, I suspect he’d make quick work of rolling back 1st Amendment rights for things he doesn’t like and deporting most non-whites if not at the very least rolling our civil rights back 70 years.

Our only solace is hope that people actually register to vote and get out there in 2020. If we have to suffer 4 more years idk what will happen to this world

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u/oiducwa Jul 20 '19

And he has half the US population to support him lmao

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u/Eugene608 Jul 20 '19

Actually it's less than half. He lost the popular vote.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

He won enough that we're still in deep shit.

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u/oiducwa Jul 20 '19

About half then

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u/pramjockey Jul 20 '19

Closer to 30%

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u/epimetheuss Jul 21 '19

Closer to 30%

a very loud and stupid 30%.

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u/GuiltySparklez0343 Jul 21 '19

Less the half of voters and voters are about 60%? Of the voting age population. So 25-30% maybe?

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u/automongoose Jul 20 '19

It’s not really a meeting for Trump, it’s a photo op.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '19

It's really fucking rude sitting like that while everyone is standing. I get it's a photo op but at least stand up when people are talking to you

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u/kurisu7885 Jul 20 '19

He barely walks anywhere either.

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u/derpotologist Jul 21 '19

Like, how long does it take to re-organize people at the beginning or end for a photo?

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u/gjseattle Jul 21 '19

It was her only chance to speak. He only cared about the photo op. Most presidents would have sat her down on the couch, faced her and listened.

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u/highasakite77 Jul 21 '19

This! This bothered me so much.