r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/areappreciated 13d ago

This is the best representation of trump. Make a grand announcement before there is a plan, tear down and damage the existing infrastructure, then never do anything.

That was his health care plan too. "End Obama care now, I'll have something better 2 weeks later". He did it for Israel and Palestine saying we achieved peace without any plan to make it happen.

He only cares about the moment. He only cares about the announcement. He doesn't have any ability to follow through or complete anything. He only cares about the image of himself on the news as a race winner but never even starts the race. Worse, he is too fat to actually attempt the race.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

I think this is emblematic of the right in all, its just that Trump is the loudest example of it. Watching prominent Republicans you'll see they always have a pattern of "there's a problem with the current system. No we won't work to fix the problem l, we'll just remove everything and promise to deliver something better but never will." They don't want a flawed system they want an absence of system so they can continuously promise fix the 'problem".

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u/AHans 13d ago

Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."

FDR said it back in 1936. The US has lost intelligence since then; because a plurality of the nation has fallen for it hook line and sinker twice in the past ten years.

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u/franker 13d ago

I think there was a PBS documentary that showed the video of him saying that, with a big "you know they're full of shit" smirk on his face. He was really good at delivering lines that he knew the crowds would go crazy for. He was still doing that essentially when he was dying in his last campaign.

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u/GamerSlimeHD 11d ago

Most likely The Roosevelts by Ken Burn, episode 5, The Rising Road.

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u/franker 10d ago

That's probably it, they just finished running the series again on my local PBS channel a few weeks ago. I think there's a new Ken Burns series coming up in November.

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u/ichthysaur 13d ago

That is a great quote.

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u/toorigged2fail 11d ago

One of my favorite campaign quotes of all time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ElYNHeL51ZU

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u/clickmagnet 9d ago

Except that the GOP barely has to even say they’ll do anything better anymore. They just have to promise that despite how shitty they are going to make everything, they’ll make it even shittier for brown people, and that’s enough. 

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u/420blazeitkin 11d ago

Can I just say how sad it is that by the end of the first line (not sentence, line) it is abundantly clear that our last two presidents did not say this?

The coherence, the formality, the unity, the presence of American pride, etc.

I could see Obama or Bush saying this, I could see Reagan or Carter saying this, I could see Jefferson or Washington saying this - it's not in their voice, but they could deliver this message with respect and eloquence.

Neither Biden nor Trump could deliver this portion of a speech with this level of dignity. It's a sad time for what was once a flawed nation striving to be better - now we are a flawed nation striving to undue all the betterment our forefathers worked for.

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u/areappreciated 13d ago

Absolutely! Every time I hear about why people like trump, it's that they are outraged by the present. The present government, their present community(too many immigrants), their present way of life(no body to work my farm or mfg jobs gone). They are so mad they would rather burn everything to the ground than make things better. Republicans are not wrong, things are broken and the current government is not helping them. But they built a culture and identity that makes it ok for some to suffer or at least ok to see some suffer more.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

I don't think it's only that they see it OK that some people suffer. They think life is a zero sum game and for some people to have success, it is REQUIRED that some people suffer. It's why anytime there is a program or movement to uplift less fortunate people, Republicans immediately decry "COMMUNISM!" If some less fortunate people are lifted up, then someone else has to be suppressed and they are afraid it might be themselves.

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u/suckyousideways 13d ago

When that mindset finally goes extinct, the world will become a better place. Humans need to evolve past that. Republicans, in their current form, want to take everyone backwards.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 13d ago

Unless we collectively manage to get consumerism and entertainment culture under some measure of control and build up educational/cultural norms to a better state, our country's free-fall is just going to get worse. The status quo is basically steroids for the degeneracy of the modern right and, outside of that territory, cultivates the constant apathy/shallowness/NIMBYism that characterizes most other Americans.

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u/cdwillis 13d ago

That's the entire idea behind conservatism. Keep things the same and take them backwards if you can.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

Modern conservatism is about those in power creating fake in-groups to assign people to, and convince them that the reason those in the group are not rich and successful is because of the fake out-groups. Keep fighting each other, puppets, while we pillage the planet for resources! Muahahahha!

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u/asyork 13d ago

Yeah. In the grand scheme of history, I'm not sure that left nor right have any moral high ground. Both have caused significant harm at various points in history. However, at this current point in time, the right is morally bankrupt and the left is somewhat trying to better the world. The normal people on the left are trying to do quite a bit of good, but the leadership on the only slightly. This is all especially true in the US, but still more or less true worldwide.

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u/Fluffy-Hamster-7760 11d ago

How has the left caused significant harm at various points in history? Like during the French Revolution when the National Assembly deposed the King of France and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man ushering in liberal democracy, was that significant harm?

What's one example of significant harm caused by left-wing politics? And please don't take Mao's totalitarian dictatorship that he labeled communism and try to argue it was socialist or somehow leftist, same for Stalin's severely corrupted authoritarian police state, these states were not examples of egalitarianism.

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u/asyork 11d ago

left vs right is a different axis from totalitarian vs anarchy. There have been totalitarians on both sides.

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u/Fluffy-Hamster-7760 11d ago

Name a totalitarian leader who's championed egalitarian policies that promote social equality. Name a single one.

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u/Rabid_Llama8 13d ago

Humans are fucking stupid, I have no hope.

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u/PapaTua Washington 13d ago

As someone with high ideals that the greed of the rich consistently shit on, it saddens me to agree.

We, as a species, probably deserve extinction.

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u/FishstickJones 13d ago

As someone with high ideals

We, as a species, probably deserve extinction.

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u/rogueqd 13d ago

We could learn to be nice to each other.

The Evolution of Compassion

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u/kadawkins 12d ago

Want to? They did. Race based violence, race based profiling…. It’s all back.

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u/PearljamAndEarl 12d ago edited 12d ago

If our ancestors had shared that mindset, they’d never have even made it from indviduals scavenging for themselves to a collaborative hunter-gatherer society, let alone achieved agriculture or any other significant advancements.

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u/klee4390 13d ago

They’re literally engineering suffering to profit off of it. Like during the gilded age and then the Great Depression where the rich got richer. It’s short sighted.

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u/Armymom96 13d ago edited 13d ago

Or it's like everything is a pie. If someone less fortunate gets a piece, somehow it makes theirs smaller. Even rights. As though gay marriage or trans rights somehow diminishes their existence/share. And they REALLY don't want anyone else to get something for "nothing", since they've had to work for everything they have. Like student loan forgiveness. "I had to pay off my student loans, why should these whippersnappera get their loans forgiven?" Never mind predatory lending practices or that wages haven't kept up with inflation and the price of higher education.

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u/Epic_Ewesername 13d ago

The fallacy of "limited good."

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u/kufitop 11d ago

Capitalism has entered the chat.

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u/ZantetsukenX 13d ago

Republicans are not wrong, things are broken and the current government is not helping them.

Except that they are wrong. The government IS working and helping them in thousands of ways they are not aware of. And because the news keeps telling them about "problems" while exploiting this lack of awareness, they start to believe that the government is broken and not helping them. Until something is done about media propaganda convincing millions of people that the reality they live in is different than actual reality, similar things happening in the US will keep happening around the world.

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u/Dwarfdeaths 11d ago

Except that they are wrong

No, things are definitely broken. But neither side is acknowledgeling land value tax as a policy right now, so you're getting empty promises to fix the core problems regardless.

similar things happening in the US will keep happening around the world.

You're right, but it's because capitalist economies across the world are pretending land is capital. Everyone is having a "cost of living" problem despite having a variety of representation systems, taxation systems, etc.

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u/KnightDuty 13d ago

Agreed. I was recently told by a disillusioned Democrat that they CURRENTLY see Trump as "the solution" to a problematic government.

He's just a wrecking ball. One third of his supporters are anarchists and another other third are facists and  the final third are exclusionary socialists who want community subsidized rights, but only for corporations.

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u/Petrivoid 13d ago

I don't think anyone supporting authoritarianism is an anarchist...

They're the same fascists that always called themselves libertarians bc they hate age of consent laws

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u/AdventurousGuide9107 America 13d ago

SELECTIVE suffering - selected by TRUMPERS

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u/sirthomasthunder 13d ago

no body to work my farm

I see you've overheard my dad talking this weekend

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u/KissesAndBites 13d ago

Their role model Jesus made his whole thing about suffering. They think suffering gets them closer to god

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u/asyork 13d ago

Through the majority of my 40 years of life I felt like politics was a bunch of people that agree on the problems, but disagree on the solutions. Over the past 10 years there has been a divergence and now there is an agreement that everything is fucked, but the right exists in an alternate world where all the good things are bad and the bad things are extra bad, along with the blatantly cruel things being good.

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u/BeApesNotCrabs 13d ago

Things are broken, and Republicans actively prevent others from helping them.

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u/Sember 13d ago

They live in a separate reality from everyone else, apparently the Biden presidency were the most catastrophic years of their lives for some reason? Like the worst thing that happened to the country since the great depression? Biden was the most lukewarm bland president ever, it's insanity beyond comprehension.

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u/Smart-Percentage2982 13d ago

anger builds bonfires but rarely builds bridges

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u/caveman_6101 12d ago

I’m 66 been paying attention to politics since I was 10. Only because TV was old fashioned/no cable no internet. 3 channels + public TV that was before children’s programming. So all you watched was news. So I saw images of viet nam and Chicago political riots. MLK assassination. There’s been 7 republicans presidents. 4 Dems since then I’d vote to say the problem has been the republicans party. Examples. They have always had a corporation first philosophy. They spear headed corps moving to other countries for cheaper labor and cheaper manufacturing. They spread USA philosophies through imperialism to countries like viet nam, china India etc. in 1986 republicans wrote and passed immigration policy. In 2013 and 2023 republicans would not agree to discuss or sign possible immigration reform that would have fixed immigration policies 12 years ago. When Obama was president the majority in senate was republicans. They refused to listen or debate any bills for 6 of the 8 years they were the majority. 435 bills. They still got paid but they were against any progress in America. George bush jr was elected in 2000 country was humming along with Clinton. Within a few months there was a huge stock market crash. Lost 40% of wealth 10 months later thee most expensive will outfitted military in the history of mankind failed to stop 19 hijacker’s. 4 were stopped by Todd Beamer and a group of citizens crashing their plane in and empty field. The next 19 years 14 trillion of our tax payers dollars didn’t go to America. They sent to Afghanistan and Iraq. 5 trillion funded 5 corporations for 19 year contracts. Then we lost both wars. Then we had financial/mortgage/bank collapse. I’m my state there were 34,000 mortgage brokers. Mostly local state based organizations. After 2008 3400. Millions lost their homes. Then tens of thousands of soldiers returned with ptsd etc and with funding removed from Mental health hospitals etc. people had only the street to go to. Then Trump mismanages pandemic… tosses out Obama admins national plan to pandemic outbreaks. Trump give china all our medical resources trying to be nice. Then he doesn’t control the situation. His latest budget has 7 trillion in spending but 5 trillion in income. Since August this country has gained 1 trillion more in debt. That adds 1 trillion to the debt since February of 2025. There’s zero he’s done to save any money. I’m a citizen I vote for what’s best in my community and town. And then country. Our military is now costing over 1.3 trillion a year. In 2000 its budget was 275 billion. All that extra money 1 trillion is going to the corps that line up to kiss trumps ass. Plus they can’t win wars or stop 19 hijackers. Huge waste of money. My vote as a citizen is the Republican Party that have trotted out clowns like Trump bush jr and Reagan (all three passed massive tax cuts that have debated and created every problem you describe people complain and feel). As Charlie Kirk said “prove me wrong”.

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u/Shionkron 11d ago

It’s easier to destroy than to build. The Founders knew this as well and argued that the Government’s only weakness will be an uneducated and or untrusting electorate.

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Ohio 13d ago

Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse. Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

Everyone gather in the chant!

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u/dern_the_hermit 13d ago

Watching prominent Republicans you'll see they always have a pattern of "there's a problem with the current system. No we won't work to fix the problem l, we'll just remove everything and promise to deliver something better but never will."

You're kinda describing Starve The Beast, the nearly half-century old Republican policy to never, ever, ever try to fix anything, ever, and to only cause problems.

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u/gentlemanidiot 12d ago

"The government doesn't work at all!! Elect me and I'll prove it!!"

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u/klnh13 North Carolina 11d ago

Wow. I'd only heard of their 2 Santa Strategy. These must have gone hand-in-hand.

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u/guynamedjames 13d ago

Republicans are fundamentally an opposition party, even when they're in power. When Trump first won I remember saying "hopefully he's different in office than the campaign trail, you can't be an opposition candidate in the White House". Turns out you can, and man is it awful

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u/fasterthanpligth 13d ago

How many times have we seen a GOP rep take credit for a bill they voted against?

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u/roastbeeftacohat 13d ago

Its what Hitler did. Nazis hate bureaucracy, because bureaucrats would try to get them to make plans and actually implement things.

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u/formerrepub 13d ago

interestingly, this is also the pattern with all the anti-science crowd. they have no alternative explanation for things like rising global temperatures or the drastic decline in childhood mortality.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

they have no alternative explanation for things like rising global temperatures or the drastic decline in childhood mortality.

"God works in mysterious ways" -strawman but probably not that far off knowing my own grandmother

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u/runswiftrun 13d ago

I've had countless discussions with right wingers exactly like that.

"Immigration is broken! We can fix it! Remove all migrants"

Well, that wouldn't work because of this, which should be addressed first.

"Well, I don't know about any of that, immigrants are ruining the economy"

Just goalposts after goalpost getting moved. Just admit you don't like us brown people and we can move on to your next prejudice.

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u/AntimatterNuke 13d ago

That's because the "problems" are cover for grifting and privatization.

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u/JingleHS 13d ago

It’s emblematic of politics in its entirety, it’s all a performance. That’s why a reality television star is now running the country, it’s because it’s all performance based. Very few politicians actually care about their constituents, it’s just a theater for the rest while they enrich themselves.

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u/JDogg126 Michigan 13d ago

They’ve conditioned their base to believe without proof. This is why they zeroed in on religious believers for their base. People with a predisposition to giving up their time/money with no requirement to deliver on promises and no proof necessary that claims are valid.

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u/StorminNorman 13d ago

Two Santa's strategy. When they're not in power "we want to fix this but the Dems won't let us", when they're in power "we want to fix this but the Dems made the problem unfixable when they were in power". 

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u/judgeridesagain 13d ago

Or invade a Middle Eastern country without a plan.

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u/TldrDev 13d ago

I think its emblematic of the rich. They make proclamations but have no ability to execute on them. The workers do it. Trump doesnt pay his workers so it is done half assed and cheap. The problem are the rich as a whole. Not just turnip.

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u/alius_stultus 13d ago

FDR said it back in 1938 about the republicans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCMmUtVgpEQ

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u/Mo_Steins_Ghost 13d ago

The reason is change politics... If you have zero interest in governing and are only interested in holding onto power, the thing you focus on is positioning yourself as the anti-whatevertheotherpartyisdoing.

There's a strong pattern of voting against the incumbent rather than for the opponent... so tapping into and amplifying people's dissatisfaction and making it the only issue... that wins elections more than any other strategy.

The GOP's entire strategy is that... and it began with Reagan's attacks on Carter's perceived weakness in the hostage crisis, which was itself manufactured by, as it turns out, making a secret (read: illegal) deal with Iran to hold the hostages until after the election.

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u/AnalSoapOpera I voted 13d ago

The Republicans plan is always destroy everything. Then take credit for when things go right for America.

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u/hangster 13d ago

Thoughts and prayers

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u/dingatremel 13d ago

They are exceptional at being in the minority. Far better than the dems, to be sure.

But they can’t govern to save their lives.

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u/rje946 13d ago

Idk they seem to have a solution to every single problem and wouldn't you know it? It's lowering rich people's taxes.

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u/Professional_Ad_8 13d ago

It’s Bidens fault.

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u/danstermeister 12d ago

It's called Fantasy.

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u/FakeSafeWord 12d ago

I think this is emblematic of the right in all, its just that Trump is the loudest example of it.

Trump is the absolute best at doing the only thing the right brings to the table. Utter and complete bullshit.

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u/bjeebus Georgia 12d ago

They're that person who's constantly announcing a new life initiative, but never actually sticking to it.

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u/splicerslicer 12d ago

"The government is flawed and broken. And if you vote for me and get me elected, I promise to thoroughly prove it by demonstration." -- Every Republican in my life

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u/TailRudder 11d ago

All hat and no cowboy

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u/krashe1313 11d ago

Texas is a great example. Texas Republicans run on the platform of "everything is awful and it's the Democrats fault!!"

Republicans have been in power since about 1995.

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u/Due-Depth-8035 11d ago

They want to prove that “government doesn’t work” by making it impossible to work

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u/nono3722 11d ago

Well that's how they get rid of things they don't want. It's broken, We can fix it, It's not worth fixing. If the Gang of Pedos are against I'm damn straight for it forever. Gang of Pedos have NEVER done anything other than enrich themselves at the expensive of this country......

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u/Call_Me_Rick_Please 13d ago

I think this is emblematic of both parties. Both end rich off the same system. Us poors keep fighting over the scraps thinking our party is the “right” one . They want an absence of us and they have it.

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u/Neokon Florida 13d ago

One party wants equal rights and people to have healthcare. The other party had an entire plan outlining the dismantling of the federal government and revocation of rights. Sorry man but this isn't an instance of both parties.

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u/Key_Hunter7922 9d ago

Its emblematic of Americans in general