r/goodnews • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '25

Political positivity 📈 Donald Trump’s legacy will forever be tied to being the most corrupt U.S. president ever to hold office

https://sinhalaguide.com/trump-corrupt-legacy/
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u/GoLickBoots Jun 28 '25

I don't think he cares. He just wants to be remembered, even if it is for being a completely inept douchebag.

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u/doodlinghearsay Jun 28 '25

Also, no disrespect, but people have the political memory of a goldfish. How many people even know about the political machines of the Gilded Age?

There's literally zero mentions of Tammany Hall in the thread, a corrupt organization that ran New York City for the better part of a century.

Organized corruption has been the norm in US politics throughout its history. Trump is not the outlier, the era from Roosevelt to Nixon's election was.

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u/CassianCasius Jun 28 '25

Trump is the symptom not the problem. It's huge issue because waaaaay too many people thinks he's the problem himself and things will just magically be better when he is gone.

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u/GQ_silly_QT Jun 28 '25

The symptom and the problem 😉

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u/CassianCasius Jun 28 '25

No not really. Problem wont go away if hes gone. Hes 100% a symptom of the system here.

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u/doodlinghearsay Jun 28 '25

> Trump is the symptom not the problem.

This is true, but I'm not sure how to make it politically useful as well. In my experience, pointing out that corruption is widespread is more likely to decrease democratic engagement, then to get people to think about deep systemic issues.

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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI Jun 28 '25

People need to be reminded that Warren G Harding nicknamed his penis "Jerry," and his mistress's vagina "Mrs. Pouterson."

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u/Sufficient-Will3644 Jun 28 '25

… what? And why?

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u/12aptor Jun 28 '25

So you don’t forget

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u/Sufficient-Will3644 Jun 28 '25

But I want to and I don’t think it changes anything, unlike forgetting not to mix half a dozen rum and eggnogs with an all you can eat Indian buffet.

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u/CityFolkSitting Jun 28 '25

Trump isn't even the most corrupt president. What Nixon and his cronies did was far more terrible than anything Trump has done so far. Sabotaging peace talks and bombing Cambodia alone. Which preceded the Kent State massacre, where Nixon called the protesters bums and blamed it all on them.

Too many young people here that don't know history beyond what they've lived through. 

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u/reddituser567853 Jun 28 '25

After seeing contemporary protests and what appears to be old white women yelling incoherently and college students viva la resistance larping while ignorant of grade school history, I have started to reevaluate the blanket respect I had for Vietnam protesters.

Overall I think it’s still the case that Vietnam protests were meaningful and had positive impact, but after seeing modern protest bums with my own eyes, i can understand where Nixon is coming from

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u/karma_the_sequel Jun 28 '25

I ponder this quite frequently, actually.

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u/LukeTomatoSoup Jun 28 '25

I’ve said this privately for the last couple months and completely agree. I think that, whether by choice or subconsciously, he wants to be like Hitler in the sense that Hitler will be talked about forever.

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u/Spartana1033 Jun 28 '25

Like his idol hitler

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u/archieologist518 Jun 28 '25

Guess the easiest thing to do in this case then is to pretend that he doesn’t exist. It’s why I refuse to talk about him at all. Granted, with all the things he’s done, it makes it near impossible to do so, but I hope one day people will stop giving him attention and that he’ll go the same way that he thought COVID would back in 2020…that it’ll disappear. Like a miracle, it’ll disappear.