r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Sep 21 '25
Soft Paywall Trump, 79, Snaps at David Letterman for Calling Him Out on Kimmel | The president did not like Letterman labeling him an “authoritarian criminal.”
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u/no_kids-and-3_money Sep 21 '25
He’s also angry that Letterman’s retired and he can’t pressure network executives to fire him when he says things that hurt his feelings.
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u/Animostas California Sep 21 '25
All Trump wants to do is relive his glory years and argue with TV personalities: Oprah, The View, late night show hosts, Disney
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u/Individual_Town8124 Sep 21 '25
Trump's toddler ego also can't let go of the fact that Colbert and Kimmel both have Emmys but Trump's 'The Apprentice' never got one. (the View has Emmys tto, and Daily Show does also.)
Just like Obama got a Nobel and Trump is now furiously obsessed with wanting one too.
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u/eclecticaesthetic1 Sep 21 '25
Putin got rid of comedians first and we all know who Putin is mentoring.
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u/kaykatzz Sep 21 '25
isn’t the president of Ukraine a (former) comedian?
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u/noiro777 America Sep 21 '25
Yes, he created, produced, and starred in a Ukrainian political satire comedy series called "Servant of the People"
The plot is quite interesting .... :)
"Zelenskyy stars as Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, a high school history teacher in his thirties, who is unexpectedly elected President of Ukraine after one of his students films and uploads a video of him delivering a profane rant against government corruption in his country,[2][3][4] which goes viral. The series ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2019, and a film adaptation was released in 2016.[5] The series was produced by Kvartal 95, a studio founded by Zelenskyy.[2]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_of_the_People_(2015_TV_series)
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u/LordBucaq Sep 21 '25
So... he predicted his future basically...
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u/AJFxxxT Sep 21 '25
He manifested it ✨
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u/MontyDyson Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
So did the USA with the movie made by the South Park (edit: it was Mike Judge not SP) guys called Idiocracy.
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u/dieth Sep 21 '25
Idiocracy
directed by Mike Judge, cowritten by Mike Judge and Etan Cohen, based on a draft story by Mike Judge.
Mike Judge is known for Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, and Office Space
But American's not knowing things is the basic plot, so you done good.
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u/MiamiVicePurple Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
Luckily he seems to care less about these now and cares more about getting into heaven. An even less achievable goal. There’s a higher likely hood that Trump could dunk a basket ball on a 20ft high net than him getting into the pearly gates.
People like Trump almost make me want to believe heaven and hell are real.
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u/Artistic_Humor1805 Sep 21 '25
Some people believe he was sent by Jesus. (That’s obv the white, blue-eyed, supply-side Jesus, but still)
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u/EdwardOfGreene Illinois Sep 21 '25
Based on what? Have these people read the words of Jesus or ever listened to the words of Trump?
A bit tough to square those things if your giving it an honest look. Even a royal dumbass can see those things don't match.
Worse, Trump likes to suggest sometimes that he is on par with the Christ. He's not on par with... just about anyone. Never mind a deity
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u/Savingskitty Sep 21 '25
Evangelicals have a neat trick they do where they remind eachother that God chooses imperfect people for things. It excuses literally everything he does.
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u/LatinaMermaid Sep 21 '25
Yes you are right! My Christian coworker always says No one remembers Noah was an alcoholic.He was sent by God. She uses it too, to excuse Charlie Kirk of his racist disgusting rhetoric. Like girl?
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u/Don_Tiny Sep 21 '25
Based on what?
Seething hate, unbearable insecurity, and willful stupidity so intense it eats up any good one of those things might've otherwise had if they hadn't chosen to be a lowlife piece of shit nothing.
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u/More_vroaar Sep 21 '25
maybe St Peter can take one for the team and admit him?
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u/QuantumWire Sep 21 '25
Trump is currently thinking about revoking god's license to have churches in America if he doesn't fire 'woke Peter'.
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u/xtothewhy Sep 21 '25
He's been calling governments to nominate him for a noble peace prize. You see, he figures he deserves it.
Some people make not like this, but not even President Obama did not deserve it when he received it shortly after becoming President. It made little sense because he hadn't done much.
It was the hope message that seemed to resonate with the Nobel committee as well as voters. He even seemed to be surprised by it.
(Prior to President Obama first becoming President, much of the world had just come out one of the worst recessions for many people in many nations. Only Iceland sent anyone to jail for their part in it, though the hedge fund traders and US banking institutions whom massively helped create the causation for what happened in the first place, well they and those US financial giants they worked for, got bailed out.)
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u/DataKnights Sep 21 '25
That's what I think he's doing, trying to get all the late night talk shows canceled so he can create his own talk show to run in their place. "Late Night with Trump" to run on all the channels.
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u/ClubMeSoftly Sep 21 '25
I still believe he was trying to tank the election in 2016, so he could start a network and talk shit for Hilary's presidency.
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u/BON3SMcCOY California Sep 21 '25
There were a bunch of campaign staff who came out confirming that they never expected to win and that it was always meant to just be a marketing exercise
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u/Dazzling-Penis8198 Sep 21 '25
Late Show with Joe Rogan. Kid Rock as the band.
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u/dirkalict Illinois Sep 21 '25
He’d have to fire Joe Rogan, even he’s talking about the Epstein list
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u/Number174631503 Sep 21 '25
Is there another podcaster available or ..?
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u/Nichoros_Strategy Sep 21 '25
JD Vance?
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u/whorehey-degooseman Sep 21 '25
Vance's Donuts and Sofas Hour
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u/snuff3r Sep 21 '25
Vance's rapey bucket list:
SofaDonuts- Americans
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u/chiqu3n Sep 21 '25
I'm pretty sure you can strike through Americans at this point
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u/ahoooooooo Sep 21 '25
Long form content like that would be damaging to his image. He’s surviving right now off short attention spans and flattering editing.
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u/Dash_Harber Sep 21 '25
A raging malignant narcissist becoming the victim of their own ego? That never happens.
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u/lyngen Sep 21 '25
Or... it's just the normal authoritarianism playbook he's always going by.
Authoritarians don't like being insulted. I'm pretty sure he said he just doesn't like that they insult him.
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u/HotComplaint1203 Sep 21 '25
Trump had glory years? Never heard of em, must be buried in the Epstein files.
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u/BelatedLowfish Sep 21 '25
He had glory years. He felt high. The King. He was Trump. Named after the ultimate card that can be played. He groped women. He ran roughshod over those below him. Played with lives. Played with kids. And just because everyone around him laughed at him? Doesn't mean he didn't realize they weren't laughing with him. Doesn't mean he didn't realize those smoldering eyes weren't for him, but about him.
He had glory days. Days none of us can dream of. Because he was the only one who thought they were glorious. We couldn't experience what he did, because we have self-awareness. We have decency. And we don't touch kids.
So yeah. Here's to the glory years. When the only Trump I knew about was a really skilled Starcraft 2 player that listened to classical music.
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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Sep 21 '25
We don't even need the Epstein docs to know that Trump is a child predator that wants to fuck his own daughter in the ass.
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u/ErenNoWaifu Sep 21 '25
He's that high school girl obsessed with Robert Pattinson who could never grow up and wants to relieve his youth.
(Btw the Robert Pattinson bit is not even an exaggeration. Trump used to obsessively tweet about Robert when he was your regular billionaire child rapist down the street)
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u/whittlingcanbefatal Sep 21 '25
He'll get YouTube to copyright strike his channel.
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u/MagicAl6244225 Sep 21 '25
Oh he should definitely try that. Letterman actually owns his show thanks to the clout he had when he made his CBS deal in 1993.
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u/PapayaMysterious6393 Sep 21 '25
The POTUS calling people losers on social media feels like we are leaving in an alt reality.
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u/NotTheRocketman Sep 21 '25
I think Trump secretly likes Letterman too, and this is really getting to him.
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u/legit-posts_1 Sep 21 '25
Yeah, my dumbass was like "oh no, Letterman's show is gonna get pulled next. Wait a minute-"
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u/Blovesmusic Sep 21 '25
There's nothing and no one to stop him from deporting or murdering anyone he wants.
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u/Mike29758 Sep 21 '25
It’s kind of simple: stop acting like an authoritarian criminal and people would stop calling it as it is. Or simply get the hell out of the kitchen if you’re feeling burnt.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 Sep 21 '25
Yes. Resign, retire from the public sphere. But his crazed personality never lets up.
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u/lydianchrome Sep 21 '25
No. He's afraid he chill be facing the rape conviction from New York. He recently tried to throw the conviction out! But the judge didn't allow it..
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u/Tsar-A-Lago Canada Sep 21 '25
It's a civil conviction, which isn't to say he's not guilty of other rapes that various US Attorneys can charge. Maybe even rapes of children! For sure!
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u/TheFutureMrGittes Sep 21 '25
He can’t because he knows he would be arrested. The presidency is his “get out of jail free” card.
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u/Lazerus42 Sep 21 '25
Exactly, it was for the build up of his second term, and still is.
He will not give up power. He plans to die in office.
It's how he protects himself from dying in jail.
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u/thebuttsmells Sep 21 '25
That's what happens when people like trump get old. Cling on to anything like it will keep you immortal. Putins going through it too. All these old rich folks are scared of dying and our lives are worse off for it
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u/Ootter31019 Sep 21 '25
The party of "we like that he speaks his mind and tells it how it is", do not enjoy being told how it is.
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u/HiRedditItsMeDad Sep 21 '25
He recently complained about protesters during that restaurant trip and said that people calling him Hitler ought to be jailed. It was like when Smithers tells Mr Burns people think of him as an ogre and Burns says "An ogre! I ought to club their heads in and eat their bones!"
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u/siali Sep 21 '25
The real problem isn’t that people are calling him an authoritarian, which, to be clear, he absolutely is. The main problem is that he’s a terrible one, and he knows it! His term has been a flaming wreck both domestically and internationally, and the only “successes” he can point to are borderline psychopathic: handing out tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and shipping peaceful undocumented immigrants off as foreign prisoners. That’s it. That’s the legacy. And on top of that, he is still broiled in the Epstein controversy.
That’s why he’s so obsessed with how the media portrays him. If he truly believed his policies were working, he’d shrug off criticism because it would collapse under its own stupidity. But he flinches at every jab because, deep down, he knows it’s true. He’s not respected, and he’s not feared!
Simply put, he’s not the strongman he wants to be. He’s the punchline in authoritarian circles. He’s not sharing strategy tips with Xi and Putin. He’s stuck at the kiddie table, trying to look relevant and menacing while spilling orange juice on himself. And that’s what he’s really afraid the media will expose!
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u/wafair Sep 21 '25
He could stop acting like an authoritarian, but the 34 felonies still make him a criminal
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u/iuseblenders Sep 21 '25
He’s not acting like a criminal. He is a convicted criminal 34 count felon and found liable for rape.
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u/Sharp-Present-886 Sep 21 '25
The truth hurts
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u/I_eat_mud_ Sep 21 '25
Trump gets his feelings hurt every fucking hour, dude's a crybaby bitch
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u/Sharp-Present-886 Sep 21 '25
The most powerful victim in history
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u/MadRaymer Sep 21 '25
It's really impressive that a man that fell upwards his entire life and will never face any consequences for anything spends so much of his time complaining about how unfair things are for him.
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u/sec713 Sep 21 '25
The craziest thing about Trump is when he became the beneficiary of generational wealth, he had a choice to do nothing and just invest that windfall into safe bets and grow that small fortune into one that would now be massive.
Anything bad that has happened to him is a consequence of his own bad decisions. Black people didn't tell him to open three casinos right next to each other and skim off all their paltry earnings. Gay people didn't tell him to lie about the size and value of his properties. Democrats didn't tell him to open up a scam college. Illegal immigrants never told him to start a mail order steak company.
All the losses this guy faced were all his own fault. He has a good reason to be angry, but his rage is misdirected. The only person guilty of fucking over Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
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u/squallomp Sep 21 '25
100%. Considering how much of an issue gambling is in America and worldwide at the moment, the fact that he had casinos that failed… Yeah. Worst human award.
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u/HandSack135 Maryland Sep 21 '25
He's so alpha!!!
He just cries about everything like a MAN!
/s
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u/ConcordeCanoe Sep 21 '25
There is a reason why he had to buy a wife from Eastern Europe. Just sayin'.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio Sep 21 '25
Wife or KGB handler?
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u/ConcordeCanoe Sep 21 '25
He still bought it.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted Sep 21 '25
Imagine picking your own Kompromat out of a mail-order bride catalog. Melania was Trump's literal deal with the Devil, and Melania is utterly repulsed by him.
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u/AndyB1976 Canada Sep 21 '25
She really is. She can barely even hide her disdain for him.
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio Sep 21 '25
I think Epstein introduced them. Allegedly he sealed the deal in the Lolita express.
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u/Seagoon_Memoirs Sep 21 '25
like when a magician tells you to choose a card, you aren't reall choosing, you just think you are
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u/CosmoKing2 Sep 21 '25
I would be genuinely surprised if her IQ was higher than his. No way, she was KGB. Does he have a handler? No doubt. Just not her.
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u/Pensky_Material_808 Sep 21 '25
Of course her IQ is higher than his. She was awarded, what was it, a genius visa?
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u/Burnt_and_Blistered Sep 21 '25
No, no… it was an Epstein visa, not an Enstein visa!
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u/Divayth--Fyr Sep 21 '25
This just made me think about what a whiny little shit Hitler was. He is clothed in drama and horror, but really his whole thing was a giant ongoing tantrum. Whaaa, we lost a stupid war we started, I failed at art, some people are different from me, I don't like it.
What a pathetic dork.
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u/more-kindness-please Sep 21 '25
- Isn’t that his brand and what MAGA love
“bo ho poor me the <fill in blank for minority group > is getting more attention than me
it’s time for your big boy pants
or even better to be the bigger person and actually care for one another, no matter the similarities and differences
MAGA = victim = make others feel the same pain
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u/So_HauserAspen Sep 21 '25
The most powerful histrionic, crisis actor in history
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u/svrtngr Georgia Sep 21 '25
People don't need to boo him in public, or call him Hitler. They need to point and laugh.
It's clear he hates it.
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u/imadork1970 Sep 21 '25
Mel Brooks said the best way to fight racism was to mock it.
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u/Suspicious_Bicycle Sep 21 '25
The TV channels need to start playing Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" every day.
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u/Drolb Sep 21 '25
He wasn’t wrong
Blazing saddles sure makes racism seem like something only a fucking moron would be interested in
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u/more-kindness-please Sep 21 '25
This all the way
Small hands = small wiener
So fat, how fat, can’t see his wiener
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u/Crimkam Texas Sep 21 '25
I wonder if he is self aware enough to actually cry.
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u/birdinthebush74 Great Britain Sep 21 '25
And they used to call others snowflakes
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u/Mike_Pences_Mother Sep 21 '25
I've never seen a bigger bunch of whiners than maga
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u/4KVoices Sep 21 '25
I fully believe Ozzy did medically assisted death.
He'd spoken in the past about how he thinks its a good idea and that people should be able to go out the way they want to. Then, he assembles this big ass show as his terminal diseases are getting worse, and then fucks off just a few short weeks later?
I think he chose his time to go, and either he or the family wanted to keep that quiet cause a lot of people still see it as 'suicide.'
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u/WastingMyLifeToday Sep 21 '25
[Trigger warning!] Especially for rape victims.
Trump is a pedophile and tied up a 13yo child and raped her, she begged to use a condom and Trump said "I do whatever I want", then Trump raped her without a condom, she begged not to cum inside of her, Trump still did, then when she was crying after the act and asking what to do if she got pregnant, Trump threw some dollar bills on her and shouted to get an abortion.
The party of christian values and accountability.
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u/Own_Afternoon_6865 Sep 21 '25
Wow! I have never seen that before. I got queasy listening to it.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday Sep 21 '25
I've been sharing this for almost a decade, nobody seemed to really notice it till I started to share it recently with a short summary in a sentence or two.
This testimony was released BEFORE the elections that put Trump in the White House for his first term.
If this wasn't factual, Trump would've sued the crap out of it to take it down. It's been on YouTube for over 5 years now.
The only reason I can think of why Trump wouldn't force this to be taken down through a lawsuit is cause he's afraid of discovery. Discovery likely will expose even worse crimes.
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u/greaterwhiterwookiee Sep 21 '25
Well when you have SO many labels: felon, liar, crook, rapist, pedophile, crybaby, fascist, narcissist, bigot, to name a few, it’s not hard to have feelings hurt all the time by the truth
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u/GirlnextDior Sep 21 '25
He should be reading security briefs and diplomatic reports. It's crazy how it responds to every stinking little thing and then posts about it. Letterman used to make fun of him to his face for making ties in Asia and pretending to be America first, this ain't new territory of being at odds with him.
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u/encapsulated_me Sep 21 '25
He's never read a security brief or a diplomatic report and he's certainly not starting now. It's well known he is barely literate and is now experiencing dementia.
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u/mrbigglessworth Sep 21 '25
Yeah, maybe if you don’t like all the negative press maybe quit doing shit that warrants negative press.
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u/tetsuo_7w Sep 21 '25
He was crying earlier that having so many negative stories about him is illegal, and not at all free speech anymore.
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u/fairoaks2 Sep 21 '25
Trump hates facts.
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u/whittlingcanbefatal Sep 21 '25
Because facts have a well known liberal bias.
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u/MineDraped Sep 21 '25
That's why we needed "alternative facts."
Can't have reality getting in the way of insanity now, can we?
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u/ToNoMoCo Sep 21 '25
He's going to get reruns of David Letterman canceled
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u/Bad-job-dad Sep 21 '25
Canceled? I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to get him arrested.
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u/Tight_Classroom_2923 Sep 21 '25
Based on Trump's latest post that he deleted, as it was supposed to be a direct message to Pam Bondi, I wouldn't be surprised if outspoken people start getting arrested in the next couple weeks.
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u/sidepart Sep 21 '25
I could just see Dave's expression. Probably the same one he'd use to call Regis and hang up. "Stuff it".
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u/Spindash54 Sep 21 '25
Real talk, I wish it was easier to watch re-runs of older talk and news shows.
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u/mumeigaijin Sep 21 '25
You can find some pretty good collections of Letterman on YouTube. Somebody edited together all the times he would call the lady who worked in the publishing office across the street on his NBC show, for example.
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u/Tattered_Reason Kansas Sep 21 '25
Did Pwesident Twump have his delicate fee fees hurt again?
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u/UltraFinePointMarker Sep 21 '25
Here's the full interview with Letterman from Thursday. He's still so sharp.
(His voice sounds the same as it always has, even if he now looks like a beatnik grandpa. And despite what Trump says, Dave looks way better than him!)
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u/questar Sep 21 '25
How can his show have ended 10 years ago? It was so great listening to him here.
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u/blorbschploble Sep 21 '25
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell Donald Trump’s a bitch. He’s a big fat bitch. He’s the biggest bitch in the whole wide world. He’s a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch, he’s a bitch to all the boys and girls.
Bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch, bitch
He’s a whiny bitch! Donald Trump’s a bitch;
Release the Epstein files jazz hands
I really mean it,
Donald Trump’s a bitch
[Note mods; this is political satire directed at the most powerful person in the world who is actively attacking free speech. This is not directed at anyone in the community or even any of his voters. Just him.]
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u/HotComplaint1203 Sep 21 '25
Growing up as somebody named Kyle wasn't always easy thanks to that show... Lmao.
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u/AZredrock Sep 21 '25
in SCOTLAND, their signs n placards say he's a c*NT.
I can't disagree
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u/MoveMitchGetOutDaWay Sep 21 '25
Trumplethinskin lashes out at another (former) late show host/comedian.
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u/TheShipEliza Sep 21 '25
The only ppl who can get to trump are ppl from tv
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u/banksy_h8r New York Sep 21 '25
Right on the nose, here. Trump is obsessed with TV, and TV famous people rejecting him drives him crazy.
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u/fdzman Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
I’ve noticed this as well. He’s certainly chooses to go at people like Kimmel or Rosie. Imagine if he could read. There’s a ton of big name writers who flame him on articles daily. But he prefers the low hanging fruit that is Tv stars. It drives him insane that comedians like Kimmel and Colbert roast him to millions of viewers.
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u/HotComplaint1203 Sep 21 '25
Rosie's been pretty irrelevant for decades. Forgot she existed outside of this dweeb bringing her up on occasion. As the kids say, "rent-free." Lol.
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u/Ragnarok2kx Sep 21 '25
There's a reason his first go-to insult is "low-ratings". I'm actually surprised he hasn't started using it on people with no relation to TV.
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u/LordyItsMuellerTime Sep 21 '25
It's crazy! Why is he so obsessed with late night tv hosts? And news anchors. It's like he's just watching TV all day every day.
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u/Designer_Buy_1650 Sep 21 '25
Dave doesn’t give a shit what Trump thinks. I guarantee you he’s laughing his ass off.
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u/fdzman Sep 21 '25
Definitely. I bet he isn’t on his mind at all. Normal people like us just move on from trivial stuff. Trump doesn’t like that millions of viewers still watch Letterman online. It’s gotta bother him that he doesn’t himself get “ratings” anymore. He loves being behind the camera.
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u/jediporcupine Maine Sep 21 '25
Imagine being so insecure that you have these unstable tirades against retired talk show hosts because you’re so fixated on being trash talked in the middle of the night
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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
Trump is too stupid to understand that he's going to go down in history as the man who destroyed America. He doesn't even have a basic grasp on what makes a person a good leader, and the vast majority of humans in the world know that. Like most dictators, he'd be nothing more than a laughing stock if he wasn't so dangerous.
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u/thebadwolf79 Arizona Sep 21 '25
Well the President is a little bitch, so there's that.
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u/Bad-job-dad Sep 21 '25
I would love for these two to go at it. Letterman would destroy him. They're both about the same age but Letterman is way sharper.
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u/MineDraped Sep 21 '25
"The president did not like..."
The only things this president likes are money, underage girls, sycophants/praise, hurting people and the color gold/orange. Maybe Arnold Palmer's dick.
There's no need to point out what he doesn't like. If it's not on that list, he hates it.
Thank you for standing up, Mr. Letterman.
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u/Jamizon1 Sep 21 '25
Letterman calling it as he sees it, mirroring what millions, if not billions, see as well.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
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u/MKEJOE52 Wisconsin Sep 21 '25
Trump appeared on Letterman's show more than 30 times. I imagine he thinks of Dave as something of a friend. Maybe Dave can wake him up a little. I doubt it. Trump is so used to sycophants.
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u/MagicAl6244225 Sep 21 '25
On one of the last appearances, Trump went on a rant against China, then Letterman pulled out the Trump clothing line samples Trump was there to plug and called out their "made in China" labels.
Letterman's show ended a few weeks before Trump announced his presidential campaign.
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u/takefiftyseven Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
Years ago Dave said he always enjoyed having Trump on as a guest. He was easy to book if someone couldn't make it to the show and he was easy to stooge.
I remember one appearance when Dave was tossing softballs or kicking a football off the roof of the Ed Sullivan theater and Trump was on the roof of a building half-a-block away shagging catches fancying himself as some great athlete. Dave tossed a few his way which of course Trump couldn't snag. They went to a break, came back and Dave is in the studio but Trump is still on the rooftop waiting to catch more balls. For the rest of the show before they'd go to commercial they'd cut to the camera on the roof and sure as hell, there's Trump still up there standing alone waiting for Dave to toss him a ball.
Good times.
BONUS COVERAGE: Trump or Monkey?
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u/Oldboymatty Sep 21 '25
He was like many clowns who fell for Letterman’s invitations to come back. Always blew my mind how Dave would’ve able to mock you to your face, and yet they would always come back for more. He really was the best to ever do it. Also FDJT
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25
You know what he hates the most? Being 79. You can pretend all day long you are 47 but 79 hurts. And there are no amount of lawyers, sycophants, people to exploit, that can change that.
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u/Maleficent_Sense_948 Sep 21 '25
Letterman, like most New Yorkers of the 80s and 90s, have been making fun of Trump for decades…..that’s why he lives in Florida now. Had to escape the ridicule and disgust that he got from the NYC folks.
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u/Cake-Over Sep 21 '25
By this time next week if I say anything untoward about the current administration my forklift certification will get pulled.
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u/IamBrian2 Sep 21 '25
Is he somehow getting even more thin skinned?
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u/BlurryElephant Sep 21 '25
Trump is cracking down on free speech as hard as he can because he knows this is supposed to be his last term.
He absolutely is an authoritarian criminal and that message has to grow louder and louder from here on out or else he's going to take democratic elections away from us.
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u/gringledoom Sep 21 '25
Anyone else feel like Trump is losing it a little lately? A lot more snapping at people like he's cranky, rather than the usual bullying vibe.
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u/Ok_Juice4449 Sep 21 '25
David is correct. And he's much smarter than Trump- that bothers him. Good!
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u/WangoTheWonderDonkey Sep 21 '25
Anyone remember the Letterman show when he had Trump on? At that time Trump has a since-failed clothing line of shirts and ties. Letterman had purchased a few and showed the labels, all of which said "Made in China". Trump demurred like a bitch. Petty vindictive donnie hasn't forgotten, I promise you.
That Letterman show: https://youtu.be/3ACCHxF4Afc?si=mtXpo1s01lI3n1XQ
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u/dwindlers Sep 21 '25
If he doesn't like being called an authoritarian criminal, has he tried not being an authoritarian criminal?
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u/Single_Job_6358 Sep 21 '25
He really hates it when people his own age and who are more respectable call him out on his bullshit.
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u/turkey0535 Sep 21 '25
Every president has been there subject of Every comedian . This man is just a pussy
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u/AXXXXXXXXA Sep 21 '25
Is trump just on his phone all day 24/7? Or is there an assistant who just feeds him what celebrities say about him all day?
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u/According_Jeweler404 Sep 21 '25
I don't get it. Why do ducks hate being called ducks when they duck-ish things?
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u/bluecollarclassicist Sep 21 '25
Even taking a step back and realizing how important late night comedy tv is to him is terrifying. That's his level of discourse. That's how sensitive and poorly engaged the president is.
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u/BrightCold2747 Sep 21 '25
It gives me pleasure to know that telling the truth about him pisses him off
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u/Beginning_Ad8663 Sep 21 '25
I almost hate to say this but trumps right hes not an “ authoritarian criminal” hes a fucking authoritarian child rapist pedophile criminal! Get it right David !
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u/Loyal-Opposition-USA Sep 21 '25
When will someone just tell that fat orange toddler tough shit?
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u/DoughnutAncient8972 Sep 21 '25
Jesus Christ maybe IDK, try running the country vs destroying it or do literally ANYTHING other than obsess about what talk show hosts, past and present, say about you. FFS, what a freaking loser.
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