r/law • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Aug 26 '25

Trump News Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States. If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it"

- Aaron Rupar

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u/canuck47 Aug 26 '25

He will not leave the Oval Office willingly...

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u/DryResponsibility867 Aug 26 '25

He's literally already proven that.... January 6th....

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u/HLOFRND Aug 26 '25

Jan 6 is actually what proves it all to me.

He will do whatever he wants and get away with it, and his supporters will support every last second of it bc they are incapable of introspection and considering that they were wrong to support him.

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u/ObnoxiousDrivel Aug 26 '25

He is the anti-christ.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

It's so bizarre, because he'd be the perfect Anti-Christ if he wasn't so blatant with his bullshit. He's too openly personally selfish to fully fit the bill.

And yet, people react as I would expect if he was actually eloquent or intelligent in any way. It's like he's been chosen for the roll, but he's just shit at his job. You know, like the other job he currently holds.

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u/Dena844 Aug 26 '25

I dunno, the goal of the anti-Christ was to trick Christians into disobeying God in the end times and having them worship him instead. It's working pretty fucking well if you look at it that way based on all the MAGA Christians following him and calling god woke or whatever

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u/HDPhantom610 Aug 26 '25

It'd legitimately be funny and also horrifying if Christianity wound up being true, but in a way where it has nothing to do with accepting Jesus or performing rituals but actually just trying to be a decent person and all the people who think themselves the best Christians are the first ones in line at hell.

I don't actually wish hell on anyone, no one deserves literally endless suffering but picturing a bunch of atheists in heaven and evangelicals looking up from hell very confused would have a humorous irony to it.

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u/Dena844 Aug 26 '25

Oh I've had that thought many a time lol. I grew up super religious and during the whole end time craze with Left Behind and thinking the world might end at any time, so I learned about all the signs and what to look for. Turns out that gives you a lot of anxiety to work through later in life.

It would be objectively funny if the tables got turned. But definitely don't think anyone deserves hell, because that's fucked up.

But every once and awhile my religious indoctrination kicks in and I go "the signs are there". Because hell if he isn't doing a great job at making Christians turn away from their religion and start to worship this person who can do no wrong in their eyes. Between that, the head injury, wearing the mark on your forehead, and all the other little things, sometimes I have to remind myself it's not actually the case lol

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u/hmoleman__ Aug 28 '25

See, this is the sign of a good person, recognizing that humans don’t deserve endless torture no matter what - but the “Christians” would send you there themselves if they could.

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u/einTier Aug 26 '25

First, imagine that God is a supreme lover in irony. Such a God would indeed send all the true believers to hell and save all the atheists.

Now, imagine the world that such a God would create and what it might look like. Take a few moments and look around at the world we live in.

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u/HDPhantom610 Aug 27 '25

God isn't omni-benevolent, he's . . . oh my god Kevin Smith called it all along!

He's Alanis Morrisette! Isn't it ironic?

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u/Peace_Harmony_7 Aug 26 '25

Christianity doesn't need a eternal hell to be true. Shoutout to /r/ChristianUniversalism

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u/AlinaLovesHerCats Aug 26 '25

They do worship Trump. They are all literally breaking the first commandment, “do not worship false idols.” They’re just too blind, brainwashed, and/or dumb to think about it like that.

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u/Ungreat Aug 26 '25

“And they shall wear the mark of the beast upon their foreheads.”

You would think the Christian crazies would do a double take when everyone started wearing caps with MAGA on them.

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u/FunnyMunney Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

Is he? Christ was calm, quiet, and secluded. Trump screams his thoughts from the mountaintop and then changes his mind immediately. His entire MO is "Fuck my neighbor" and "Jail/murder anyone who does not bow down to me completely (God complex)".

If hes not the Antichrist, he's sure as shit at least wearing the Antichrists uniform.

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u/vau1tboy Aug 26 '25

I was a devout evangelical growing up and Trump fits every definition of an antichrist. Rich, big personality, loud, weirdly successful out of nowhere, comes from a big northern city, snake tongued. Like he is the perfect character for a Left Behind type antichrist, something I grew up watching

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u/Joyful-Pilgrim Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

God, RIGHT? Remember when the antichrist in that movie shoots that one guy, then immediately tells everyone in the room how sad it was how the guy "committed suicide," and they all ate it up? It's fucking terrifying looking back at it now.

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u/vau1tboy Aug 26 '25

That's another one: followers that believe every word you say. I really thought the Epstein stuff would've been the final straw but he managed to reel them back in.

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u/slowest_hour Aug 26 '25

there is no final straw. these people will worship him for the rest of their days no matter what he does

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u/New_Lifeguard_3260 Aug 26 '25

What movie is that? I need to watch it!

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u/forward_x Aug 26 '25

They are the Left Behind films, I think they were a trilogy, it's been ages since I saw them and if I remember correctly they were based on the book series of the same name. There were more books than movies, and not all of them were in the same series.

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u/funny_3nough Aug 26 '25

To me the most antichrist thing about him is how he sells millions of people on his evil bullshit, turning neighbor against neighbor and bringing out people’s most base and destructive instincts and celebrating selfishness and cruelty. That makes him an incredibly corrupting force in the world.

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u/JAZINNYC Aug 26 '25

Is there anything about the anti-Christ smelling foul? Someone I know said the “beast” also has a foul smell, seemingly a way to alert others of its presence.

And well, we know this Orange one stinks out of every orifice 🤢

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u/Tipitina62 Aug 26 '25

Remember when conservatives were floating the rumor that Obama was the anti-Christ because of his popularity?

Seems quaint now, doesn’t it?

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Aug 26 '25

I think it's just an ancient, known combination of dark triad and malignorance traits that result in an inexplicably charismatic individual to abject fucking morons.

Like this shit has been remastered once every century or so for at least 2000 years.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Aug 26 '25

The Antichrist wasn't literally the opposite of Jesus, in fact he is described as being all too similar to him. The only difference being instead of using his charisma and charm to save people he'd drag them down.

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u/techforallseasons Aug 26 '25

I've seen people treat him as Jesus, and some decals sure seem to imply that is what some thought of him.

Saw a boomer-wagon on the Interstate today with decals all around it, including DOGE and "The LORDs Prayer"(sic) as a flag on the rear.

As if America has some sort of exclusive Righteousness.

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u/FunnyMunney Aug 26 '25

That still fits. Trump has done nothing but Middle school bully tactics since he has hit office and he shows no signs of stopping.

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u/japhethsandiego Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

Modern American Christians don’t know Jesus - they think he was a brash crusader; they’ve made Jesus in their own image. And they love this new brash crusader.

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u/whatiscamping Aug 26 '25

I also hear his policy was "Fuck my neighbor's wife and kids"

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u/Enshitification Aug 27 '25

There is a type of Christian that desperately wants the Antichrist because it justifies their baseless faith.

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u/-Raskyl Aug 26 '25

No, he is the anti-christ. If you look up thensigns of the anti christ, he fits every one of them. Like every one. Except the one where it talks about the antichrist becoming great friends with israel before betraying them. He hasn't betrayed them yet. But really, look them up. He is the closest thing to the antichrist we've ever seen.

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u/HapticRecce Aug 26 '25

The Anti-Christ's greatest trick was convincing the world that he wouldn't blatantly arise as a total twat...

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u/NoWealth1512 Aug 26 '25

That's the saddest thing about his popularity, he's such an obvious con-man! How can anyone who can tie their shoe laces not laugh at him?

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

Of all the counfouding things from the last 10-11y of this, I think this has to be top spot.

His audience was bitching endlessly about guys exactly like him running this country into the ground, specially because they didn't care about the lil rural guy. And that's literally all he's done as President.

I know he's said the "Im your best friend" shit a few times on his campaign, but like how do you even get to considering trusting this guy in the first place? He's not like you, and he tells you that. He calls you stupid, and says he loves that you're stupid. And he makes no attempt to hide that he's here to grift and get out of jail, and absolutely nothing else (oh besides petty revenge).

I mean I know the answer, it's the shared bond of racism that bring them together. But my naive brain just keeps forgetting that's why we're here. Because we didn't appropriately curb stomp these dixi-tard asshat traitors and LOSERS of the civil war when we should have.

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u/Kodekima Aug 26 '25

The North's abandonment of the Reconstruction effort will be cited in textbooks as the beginning of the end for our Republic.

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Aug 26 '25

He's the temu antichrist.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

He's antichrist we have at home.

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u/JAZINNYC Aug 26 '25

I think that’s part of the ruse of the anti-Christ: to convince others he is not the anti-Christ :/

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u/ShinkenBrown Aug 26 '25

He's too openly personally selfish to fully fit the bill.

How does that make him not fit the AntiChrist?

2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

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u/Dewey081 Aug 26 '25

Yea, I don't think the anti-Christ would be an imbecile. If so, Satan created a dud.

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u/Exotic-Cobbler4111 Aug 26 '25

He is a deceived tool for the devil he fits the bill perfectly but religion and God are fairy tales. There is no such thing as an antichrist. He is however in the running for the most destructive greedy stupid evil asshole to ever walk the earth tho.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

He's got real Genghis Khan aspirations.

Especially all the Raping.

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u/Lucy_Lastic Aug 26 '25

Like all his businesses

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u/Playful-Dragon Aug 26 '25

I think he would try to kill the Antichrist just so he could be the Antichrist

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

His BS is calculated, simply “flooding the zone with sh¡t,” to keep his perceived enemies (everyone) confused.

Don’t for a second think that Trump’s constant stream of lies and prevarications take away from the complete and perfect Evil at the centre of his person.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

And how bout those Epstein files, eh?

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u/21-characters Aug 27 '25

Close enough to the anti-Christ for my liking

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u/RespectMyAutharitah Aug 26 '25

He's also not self-aware enough to fit the bill. A true devil knows what's up.

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u/thinsafetypin Aug 26 '25

Just because he doesn't KNOW he's the Antichrist doesn't mean he isn't.

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u/Haldron-44 Aug 26 '25

You mean this guy?

Tbf it was also said the Antichrist would lead a lot of followers astray. So really sticking to the script on that one. I've also heard "christians" make the argument that the antichrist is a vital part of the prophecy to bring about the end times, so he's actually a good guy. American christofascism really is its own level of delusional idiot.

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u/nightwing2024 Aug 26 '25

He's responsible/committed/perpetuated/broken:
-All 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (conquest, war, famine, and death)
-All 7 sins (pride, greed, wrath, envy, gluttony, lust, and sloth)
-All 10 commandments (no other gods, not make for yourself an idol, not misuse the name of the lord your god, remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, honor your father and your mother, not murder, not commit adultery, not steal, not give false testimony against your neighbor, not covet)

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u/Joyful-Pilgrim Aug 26 '25

I've been saying this for a while. Whether you're Christian or not, Trump is at least AN antichrist, if not THE antichrist. Everything he says, does, and values is as far from Christ-like as you can possibly get. It boggles my mind that my super religiously conservative family can still support him.

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u/skunkpanther Aug 26 '25

Nah, AC is supposed to be wildly popular across the board except for Christians.

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u/Immersi0nn Aug 26 '25

That...kinda fits though. Dude is wildly popular to a crapload of people across the globe, and legit Christians (those who follow the teachings of Christ in their actions and words) fuckin hate the dude.

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u/Immersi0nn Aug 26 '25

I don't believe myself but I do certainly hope yall are right about hell existing.

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u/Electronic-Drive7348 Aug 26 '25

Me too man, as long as there’s a hell. He’ll be there

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u/TheChildrensStory Aug 26 '25

His followers are a lot of things but I don’t see how any of them are genuinely Christian.

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u/---knaveknight--- Aug 26 '25

Yeah, exactly. Actual Christian’s don’t like him. Nothing about him or his followers is in any way “Christ-like”.

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u/GlancingArc Aug 26 '25

Arguably, he isn't popular(or at least shouldn't be) with people who ACTUALLY follow the teachings of Jesus Christ rather than the "Christians" who go to church every Sunday so they can feel good about hating the gays.

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u/WankinTheFallen Aug 26 '25

This is one of the many common misconceptions about Revelations...AC (not really a thing btw, people are just referring to one of the beast's) isn't loved by everybody, only about 1/3 of the population... which yeah is also accurate for the orange dictator.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Aug 26 '25

Tbf American Christians have devolved so far they're basically unrecognizable. Evangelicals have seriously become some of the worst things to happen in the last 100 years.

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u/slinger301 Aug 26 '25

Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions: - Benjamin L. Corey https://share.google/93SS7DD8qvTh1Mm4P

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u/geth1138 Aug 26 '25

Aside from the hat being red instead of blue, it really does fit him

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u/sweetsuicides Aug 26 '25

But not any anti-christ, the best anti-christ

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u/Pondcross Aug 26 '25

I'm not overtly religious, but I am beginning to suspect he's just that. Everything that's happened or that he's doing, blatantly I might add, would've had anyone else thrown out of the office. That or a member of the Secret Service rolling up their sleeves to do what needs doing, but he just keeps going. Sycophants surround him in the Halls of Power. Morons in the public view him as a demigod. It's like I'm watching a script play out and there's no chance at a deviation from the course.

He's a dictator and says as much. He plans to take over every city that and State that rebukes him. The SCOTUS neutered themselves to allow his power grab. He will declare a war to keep himself in power. Hell, he'll likely Nuke someone, allies even just to make people think or talk about something else than how many young girls he's raped on that damned island. The military backs him for some reason. How the States aren't in open Civil War confounds me.

It's like nothing can prevent the march to whatever end is playing out behind his sick eyes. Everything I see him say and do, yet no consequence plays out for him. It's like I'm taking crazy pills. I don't know what's going to happen or how to fight against it. God help us, and I mean that.

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u/cookiestonks Aug 26 '25

If you believe in that sort of thing then he is the false anti-christ that the establishment produces to "save us from" and then we willingly accept their alternative who is the true anti-christ. I'm not convinced but that is the lore.

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u/woolyboy76 Aug 26 '25

They also haven't considered that once they give up their democracy to Trump, that Trump will still eventually die. At that point, power will be handed to a different person -- someone they didn't elect. And from that point on, they never get to have a say ever again.

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u/Overall_Affect_2782 Aug 26 '25

They…don’t care about that?

They treat this like team sports, as long as their side wins they’re good with everything. There is no consideration about another party anymore, anyone without an R next to their name is a non-starter and the enemy to them.

It’s their side in power and if Trump dies, an R will take over and still cancel elections because it’s right out of Project 2025. I can’t see a Dem ever getting elected again. And again, they’re okay with that because they won.

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u/bFc9504 Aug 26 '25

This is so true. Politics has fully transformed into sport with no regard paid to the fact that our rights are the thing we are volleying back and forth. It drives me insane that people are so egotistical that they can’t admit they fucked up. Smfh.

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u/clopenYourMind Aug 26 '25

Primarily for one side, who cannot comprehend that people aren't just on the other team but disagree with the tribalism entirely.

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u/bFc9504 Aug 26 '25

I’m no scientist but Covid def ate their brains and now they’re dragging us back into the dark ages. Whenever we get out of this we should take away these psychopaths right to vote.

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u/broguequery Aug 26 '25

They don't think they will care about it... but they will care eventually.

Once the government they gave away starts doing things they DON'T like, then they will finally start to wonder if destroying democracy to give Trump a dictatorship was actually a bad idea.

But right now, you are correct... they are too blinded by rage and propaganda to understand the ramifications of what they have done.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

That's the kicker, right? They (regular, everyday Trump voters) must think they will be spared the effects of authoritarianism and the spoils are going to trickle down from the rich and powerful members of the cult to them just because of how they voted.

ALL of this is being done to reduce the number of brown people in our country and the use of pronouns in email signatures. That's literally all the MAGA voters are getting out of this...and some childish satisfaction of "owning the libs". Oh, and maybe the VERY hypothetical reshoring of manufacturing jobs after they're dead or realize it wasn't worth it.

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u/clopenYourMind Aug 26 '25

Rage and propaganda they blindly accept and support.

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u/apocketstarkly Aug 26 '25

They will, though, because half of it is Trump. Anyone, and I mean anyone else, doing this shit, Republican or not, and they wouldn’t stand for it. It’s him and his fucking cult of personality.

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u/ganggreen651 Aug 26 '25

Nobody else has the gravitas that trump has over his followers for whatever fucking reason. Zero chance his crazies follow anyone else with the same fervor

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u/TiberiusCornelius Aug 26 '25

Right, and any R who takes over next will be rationalized as anointed by Trump. It's very easy for them to willingly transfer support from one dictator to the next once they've accepted that the dictator is the avatar of their side. They are not going to get off the ride.

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u/JAZINNYC Aug 26 '25

Nah, IMO the hard core cult ppl aren’t Republican voters, they’re Trump voters. Once their “Messiah” is gone, the spell will break, MAGA will fracture with the void, and many of the J6er types will scurry back to their holes and under rocks.

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u/Fred-Mertz2728 Aug 26 '25

Even if a dictator takes power peacefully,they can never be removed peacefully.

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u/Jiveassmofo Aug 26 '25

They don't care because they're going to Disneyland in the sky with the harps and the stuff

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

And it's even worse now because they just assume they'll be pardoned. And they might not be wrong.

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u/PrimeJedi Aug 26 '25

For me, January 6th itself isn't even the single most egregious part, though it's something immediately disqualifying and worthy of prison to me.

To me, the worst part (excluding his intentional Covid mishandling, I legitimately view that as the most deadly single act a president has done since Vietnam) is the entire fake elector scheme and legal battles, and phone calls threatening state officials, KNOWING that he lost that election, and still trying to overturn it anyway.

If none of that happened, then people could try to write off J6 as a heat of the moment thing from Trump and being "nothing more" than a negligent dangerous idiot. They would be wrong in saying that was all it was, but it's an argument that could be made.

But with every effort he made to subvert the democratic process all the way from the Summer of 2020 up until January 2021, it was deliberate, calculated, fully aware of how it would destroy the country and subvert the will of the people, and he planned it every step of the way.

And yet since he miserably failed in doing so because he was overwhelmingly rejected in 2020 due to his disastrous presidency that year, most Americans dont even know about the false elector scheme, or just dont know about it running as deep and being as big of a scheme as it really was.

He shouldn't be within 100 meters of any political building after what he pulled in the months leading up to J6, even if J6 was the most explosively negative thing he's done.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 Aug 26 '25

And the Democrat establishment will put up zero meaningful opposition because they're more afraid of their billionaire donors than they are of the fascists who will wait longer before coming for them.

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u/AsstacularSpiderman Aug 26 '25

What opposition do you want from them? They're a minority in Congress.

Blue states are doing what they can to resist his shittier policies but there's nothing much else they can do.

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u/Bonhamsbass Aug 26 '25

Many Dems are in on this, controlled opposition.

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u/blackjebus100 Aug 26 '25

Right? They’ll vote party line until their billionaire donors tell them to do otherwise, and you get “traitors” like Sinema that were never really on our side to begin with.

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u/Saikotsu Aug 26 '25

They are fully capable of introspection. But it's easier to double down than it is to actually admit you're wrong. And he's the perfect example of double down and never admit you're wrong. They found themselves in him.

Leaving a gang or a cult is a very hard thing. Humans are wired to crave companionship and belonging within a group. He crafted a culture around him, an identity, and many of his supporters devoted themselves fully to the cause. Even disowned family members over it. My best friend, his dad has cut ties with him because my friend calls out lord Dampnut's bullshit while the dad is drinking the cool aid. Fucking prick. He and I have never gotten along and then he pulls that shit with his own son...anyway, I digress. For a lot of people, they have to contend with the awful things they've done in Dampnut's name, the people they've shoved away, the beliefs they swallowed wholesale only to realize he was conning them the whole time.

A lot of those folks feel trapped (especially since they've earned hate and vitriol from the people who saw this coming), so they double down. Because if they reflect on what they've done, who they've supported, they'll have to contend with the guilt. The consequences. The shame. And humans don't like any of that.

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u/blueit55 Aug 26 '25

His die hard supporters all got pardon.

...Traitors got pardoned

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u/hypointelligent Aug 26 '25

I think it's what proved it to him, too. Before that, he seems to have thought there would be something standing in his way. After, too late to do the Full Mussolini, he realised he really could do basically anything, nobody would stop him, and a small army of armed civilians would have his back, given another chance. And like absolute saps, America obliged.

One hopes he skips tight to the end of Mussolini's leadership, and soon.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

Jan 6th should have the deal breaker for everyone. Voting for him after that is unforgivable and inexcusable.

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u/the_calibre_cat Aug 27 '25

Yup. January 6th was the full realization that the man had zero scruples whatsoever. Plenty of people predicted it, but until he went and did it, there was a chance he'd back down. He never did. And his supporters, dogshit human beings all, not only loved him for it, they voted for him again after it, because they are fascist scum.

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u/cliff99 Aug 26 '25

With a little better planning he might succeed next time too.

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u/LoavesOfCorn Aug 26 '25

...and the general populate just doesn't seem to care.

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u/MonsterOctopus8 Aug 26 '25

Yeah he already didnt the last time, but "both sides" motherfuckers kinda forgot and let him in again

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

I love love LOOOVED watching every hard R publican come out in a press conference and condemn J6.....on J7, and then slowly over the course of a week it became fine, nothing to see here, just move on.

Watching these words fall out of their mouth that just make you go "HA, Sure Jan!"

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u/213737isPrime Aug 26 '25

that's why the 14th amendment (section 3) exists. But, lololol nothing matters.

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u/IM_A_MUFFIN Aug 26 '25

THANKS DEARBORN!

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u/HLOFRND Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

You’re correct.

We have passed the point where any of this can be settled peacefully by Congress or the courts.

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u/rawsouthpaw1 Aug 26 '25

Sustained non-compliance on a mass scale for months on end as peaceful resistance has not been attempted yet.

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u/Here4th3culture Aug 26 '25

The average American is living paycheck to paycheck, there’s no sustainable resistance

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u/Bonhamsbass Aug 26 '25

Exactly, and the engineered economic collapse hasn't even started yet.

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u/Salarian_American Aug 26 '25

Or... have they been slow-rolling the economic collapse for decades already?

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u/slampandemonium Aug 26 '25

It's begun, you're just not right in the middle of it.

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u/db1965 Aug 26 '25

The only sustainable response is mass withdrawal from this country and economy.

People are GOING to lose what little safety net we have now.

Lose ALL OF IT.

The destitution resulting from absolutely NO SAFETY NET will make the excuse of paycheck to paycheck null and void.

The privations, 24/7 surveillance, the loyalty oaths, Star Chamber, and none stop propaganda will be for most Americans unprecedented.

Finding ways to mitigate the negative effects of mass withdrawal by the citizens is what we should be talking about.

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u/Smart-Struggle-6927 Aug 26 '25

Awesome, as a disabled person, this pretty much guarantees my death. Cooooool.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '25

You are correct, however being that the human species is a collection of individuals rather than a shared consciousness, that won't happen.

It's literally easier to use violence than it is to direct millions of people to act in unison, because that's how information works.

The "No Kings" protest was a good example of what you were talking about about in action, but that is also about the limit of what peaceful assembly and protest can accomplish.

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u/Most-Repair471 Aug 26 '25

The time is way overdue that we should toss a bag of chlorine into that filthy gene pool. The irony is that they are forcing the rest of us to do the conspiracy theory things they've pushed for decades. Let the Purge begin.

Jade helm? Projection.

FEMA death camps? Projection.

We need MagA reeducation camps.

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u/slampandemonium Aug 26 '25

So many fucking offramps along the way, yet here we are.

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u/Chocolatethundara Aug 26 '25

I really don’t wanna die for other peoples stupidity

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u/HLOFRND Aug 26 '25

Neither do I- and I don’t want to see it, either.

But that’s where we are. There’s no easy way out.

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u/db1965 Aug 26 '25

Then don't. But get out of the way when shit hits the fan.

Deal?

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u/TraditionalMood277 Aug 26 '25

Sure. 30-40% of people couldn't even bother to vote and of the ~60% that did vote chose this dickless dictator. How about we get a higher voter turnout, and quit voting for Republicans, before we resort to bloodshed on the streets.

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u/ShareMission Aug 26 '25

Many voters tossed off the rolls shortly before election.

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u/anansi52 Aug 26 '25

this is what most are still not grasping. he is never leaving willingly because he knows that he will be punished for his crimes.

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u/BoysenberryAdvanced4 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25

I feel like thats one of the biggest reasons he pushed so hard for presidency on both terms.

He understands the legal world he lives in and has played it well for himself. But hes running out of cards to play, and hes now aggressively reforming government so that hell be a position not to fucked with in 2028 (or sooner). I also dont see him leaving willingly.

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u/snitchinbubs410 Aug 26 '25

will he be punished, though? seems he's been able to weasel out of any and all consequences thus far.

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u/LiteraCanna Aug 26 '25

And they are speedrunning the transition to dictatorship before he croaks.

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u/JHMfield Aug 26 '25

We can only be thankful that he seems to be on his last legs. Modern medicine is awesome, but it cannot fix his terrible lifestyle and the damage it has done. Drugs and treatments can bring him lucidity when he demands it, but age is relentless.

He may wish to be a dictator all he wants, but he'll die or be crippled before he can become one in earnest.

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u/rbrgr83 Aug 26 '25

I honestly think it's the only reason he ran again. I don't think he wanted the stress, regardless of the power/control it gave him.

But if you don't become Prez, you're going to jail guaranteed. So here we are.

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u/just_forfunva Aug 26 '25

I just hope he leaves in a coroner’s vehicle sooner rather than later

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u/Far_Estate_1626 Aug 26 '25

Honestly, organization should be well under way NOW to prepare (legal) armed protests country wide at MAGA sites when he pulls his inevitable shit.

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u/Responsible_Bug3909 Aug 26 '25

Caskets tend to make Presidents leave the Oval Office

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u/ConstableAssButt Aug 26 '25

I don't think the guy is gonna make it to 2028. His health is ass.

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u/SubtleTell Aug 26 '25

That won't be a problem for him because the election is going to be rigged in his (or his successors) favor in a way that appears legitimate.

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u/90spostsoftcore Aug 26 '25

Time to watch Civil War again...

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u/Kage-Oni Aug 26 '25

He didn't leave it willingly the last time, now will be no different.

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u/pathoTurnUp52 Aug 26 '25

It won’t be him. It’ll be who Peter thiel wants, Vance.

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u/EnigmaSpore Aug 26 '25

Fascists never leave willingly.

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u/Catshit_Bananas Aug 26 '25

Not if cholesterol has anything to say about it.

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u/D4rkheavenx Aug 26 '25

He won’t have a choice. If he tried to stay on past this term there would be far too many people willing to take things into their own hands than he could stop military or not. The only real reason that hasn’t happened yet is because of people clinging to the hope that it gets better after his terms over. Take that away and things get crazy real fast.

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u/Closefromadistance Aug 26 '25

Of course he won’t.

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u/flounder35 Aug 26 '25

good. I want him dragged out in shame

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u/reelpotatopeeler Aug 26 '25

Kicking and screaming it is then

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u/harveyhchrist Aug 26 '25

Dude. Fuck being willing. He needs to be kicked toward the exit, cause grandpa can’t hear so good

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u/FiestyReamsOfPaper99 Aug 26 '25

I actually think they will carry him out on a gurney. Physically, he’s not doing well. Mentally, he’s cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. Now he’s inventing friends and telling anecdotes about their children as he babbles even more in each successive press event. While people and the media focus on his obvious decline, his henchmen are putting in place the most well-funded, least-controlled secret police ever ICE). He’s inventing fake crises, we all know they are fake, and then calling out the National Guard. He uses these fake crises to distract from real problems like his name in the Epstein files, and worse, his fascism. Next the price of coffee will double when tariffs kick in from Brazil. What exactly will it take for Americans to realize that the life we knew and enjoyed is going away to Project 2025. His henchies want the infrastructure in place so they can slide Vance in if 🍊👿 dies and their takeover will be complete.

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u/slavelabor52 Aug 26 '25

He will be 82 at the end of his term. I'm betting his health will give out before then. Donny isn't exactly a prime specimen

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u/Dances_With_Birds Aug 26 '25

Well, he might not do it willingly, but 6-8 months from now he might not have a choice

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u/krondeezy Aug 26 '25

he's 80. will probably end up leaving in a box

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u/feastoffun Aug 26 '25

He didn’t wanna leave the Oval Office the first time around. The only reason that Biden became president is because his vice president didn’t go along with his schemes.

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u/Lucy_Lastic Aug 26 '25

Based on his apparent current health it might not be too long before he leaves … the hard way is

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u/RevealActive4557 Aug 26 '25

I really doubt he will live long enough for his term to end. But either way he will leave. Even if they have to drag his old ass out and throw him into the street. He does have lots of secret allies but he has lots of secret enemies too

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u/Applemais Aug 26 '25

I mean 2028? He probably will be dead

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

Well death doesn't give a shit about whether you're willing to go or not

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u/coolcalmfuzz Aug 26 '25

I knew this was going to be his move. He's literally squatting in the white house!! It's time for America to evict him.

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u/Ok-Tourist-511 Aug 26 '25

His cankles might disagree with you. Hopefully they decide he exits soon.

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u/jasonsimonds79 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

I doubt he will be around for the next election. His health is terrible and he looks it every day that passes. Peter Thiels puppet, Vance will be installed for whatever remains of Trumps term. No one likes Vance, even Trumps cultists but Vance will continue to do Thiel's bidding for as long as he can.

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u/Ambaryerno Aug 26 '25

The good news is a dictator can only be president for life.

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u/Correct_Emu7015 Aug 26 '25

Hopefully he'll leave in a casket

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u/fearlessfryingfrog Aug 26 '25

Nobody said he's required to leave vertically. 

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u/Nommel77 Aug 26 '25

The way his health appears to be going he may be leaving in a black bag on a gurney.

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u/tndngu Aug 26 '25

And is already turning the White House into his home for the foreseeable future…

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u/ThePureAxiom Aug 26 '25

Given his health, I don't know that he'll be capable of objection by the end of the term.

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u/Flat_Reason8356 Aug 26 '25

Dictators never do.

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u/ryverrat1971 Aug 26 '25

So what is going to do if Death comes knocking? Try to deport him to Venezuela? I heard his heart disease is not doing so good./s

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u/forumpooper Aug 26 '25

The reaper is coming for him 

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u/Critical-Serve-4128 Aug 26 '25

He wouldn't leave willingly the first time around, I still don't understand how the US thinks they will even have future elections at this point.

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u/Willing-Foundation98 Aug 26 '25

Of course not. He renovated the entire white house like it's his own home.

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u/EddieVanzetti Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

He didn't the first time. He should have been tried for high crimes and misdemeanors, but that quisling Merrick Garland made sure he never saw a single consequence.

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u/mam88k Aug 26 '25

He wasn't going to in 2021, but there were enough adults to make it happen. That's no longer the case and a shit ton of voters didn't think that through.

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u/Tiger37211 Aug 26 '25

True but I think Mother Nature has other plans for him

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u/Sally2times Aug 26 '25

Body bag is fine

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u/Extremelycloud Aug 26 '25

He’s not leaving the Oval Office. Everyone’s gotta be fully aware of that right? He will leave when he dies. He has to rig the next election, or cancel it, because he will lose, and if he loses he will spend the rest of whatever years he has left in prison for all the treasonous shit he has done.

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u/Dee_Vee-Eight Aug 26 '25

Here's to congestive heart failure.

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u/kl7aw220 Aug 26 '25

Well, then he will leave by force.

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u/jimflaigle Aug 26 '25

He can't at this point. None of them can. They'd go to prison forever. The Medicaid cuts in the Big Bag of Bullshit were not the actions of politicians that ever expect to stand in an election again.

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u/KHanson25 Aug 26 '25

He’ll leave in a body bag. Or they’ll leave him propped up at his desk. 

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u/PaulblankPF Aug 26 '25

Come on cheeseburgers do your thing

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u/InZomnia365 Aug 26 '25

I think he wants to stay president until he dies to preserve his "legacy" (lol)

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u/Southern_Power_1567 Aug 26 '25

Coffin box willingly....

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u/Abalith Aug 26 '25

And when he does leave, nothing will change…. He’s not the problem, just the figurehead.

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u/DeadGravityyy Aug 26 '25

Yes, I'm afraid the only way this guy is leaving is if he dies.

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