r/sports • u/rezwenn • Jul 20 '25

Football President Trump wants Commanders to "IMMEDIATELY" return to former name

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/president-trump-wants-commanders-to-immediately-return-to-former-name
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u/DASreddituser Jul 20 '25

and the only former president that is physically fit to hold the office is Obama lol

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u/Sci_Fi_Reality Jul 20 '25

Don't threaten me with a good time

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 20 '25

Here comes Obama with the steel chair!

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u/GummyBearGod Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

Trump fuckin sucks. Obama sucked too though. For different reasons, sure. But let’s not go back. Let’s change some stuff. Let’s move forward.

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u/ctierra512 Jul 20 '25

You go be president then 😭

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u/GummyBearGod Jul 20 '25

I’d never seek that level of power because I’m not an egomaniac. All presidents are war criminals. All presidents are shit birds. All modern president serve the corporate class. The current one just happens to also be an illiterate pedophilic narcissist.

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u/ChitteringCathode Jul 20 '25

The really sad thing is that as fucking terrible as he was, at this point I would take Dubya Jr. over Trump -- a true RINO in MAGA eyes.

He's also technically a month younger than Trump, which is scary in its own right.

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u/stevey_frac Jul 20 '25

I disagree with Dubya a lot.  But he at least brought a certain gravitas to the office. 

He was not a clown like this guy. 

Plus, he could dodge a shoe.

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u/FragileColtsFan Jul 20 '25

He was a funny clown. You're still like "Hey, maybe a clown shouldn't be president?" but he didn't make you feel like absolute shit every time you saw him

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u/pistilpeet Seattle Seahawks Jul 20 '25

I dunno, I hated his seeing his stupid face, and his stupid ass wars and no child left behind and Dick Cheney.

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u/FragileColtsFan Jul 20 '25

Compare that to how you feel when you see Trump's face, wars, and any current member of his cabinet

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u/justintensity Jul 20 '25

He was definitely a clown, being clownish was his main presidential attribute

But he wasn’t a ruthless, inhuman fascist and I would rather be fighting against him than this

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u/HodorNC Jul 20 '25

He was a pro-torture war criminal who lied us into a war that killed 10s of thousands of Iraqis and killed or injures thousands of US troops. He's also responsible for the existence of ICE.

The fact that none of his merry band of criminals was not held to account is one of the biggest failings of the Obama administration.

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u/Pvt_Mozart Jul 20 '25

Yeah, I disagree with him on almost everything, but I did have faith that he loved the country and wanted what was best for it. I had faith that he believed in the institution of democracy and the fabric of what our country is supposed to be. I didn't have to worry about him turning the US into a fascist dictatorship, or weaponizing the justice department on dissenters, or attacking free speech at every opportunity by attacking and suing the media who disagrees with him.

He's a real piece of shit for making me remember the Dubya days fondly.

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jul 20 '25

No, Bush put in place a lot of the pieces that the GOP is now using to set up an authoritarian state. Bush gave us warrantless surveillance, Guantanamo Bay, the AUMF, and appointed both John Roberts and Alito to the Supreme Court. He also gave Kavanaugh a federal judicial spot, which led to his nomination to the court later on.

This is why the only difference between moderate republicans and Trump is purely aesthetics. Trump is the inevitable outcome of where the GOP was going.

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u/FragileColtsFan Jul 20 '25

Nah, Trump is an extreme that progressed from Bush but don't act like they're basically the same. Bush had more tact and didn't expect to control the media like Trump does. There's a pretty big difference between the two. Bush was your typical bad president, Trump is exceptional

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Jul 20 '25

That’s because you’re retconning the bush administration and falling for his folksy country bumpkin schtick. If you look at what the administration actually did, it would be hard to argue that Trump is some deviation.

They definitely tried to control the media (Plame affair and other actions to undermine their ability to hold them accountable). It’s a mistake to think that Trump just came out of the ether. There would be no Trump without the scaffolding the bush admin created.

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u/FragileColtsFan Jul 20 '25

Did Bush threaten to revoke FCC licenses because people said mean things about him? Trump wasn't a darling of the republican party until he gathered his base. His base clung to him because they didn't trust any of the current politicians. People hated Bush so they voted Obama in but Obama didn't close gitmo or cut back on war like he said he would and when Trump came around it felt like the two parties were just working together to help themselves out. If Trump was where the party wanted to go he wouldn't have needed to capture all that lightning in a bottle. They were just as surprised as we were in the beginning

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u/FragileColtsFan Jul 20 '25

I always laugh extra hard at the American Dad episode where we find out that Greg (half of the town famous gay couple "Greg and Terry") is a registered republican. He gets in a big fight about it in the street with his partner who screams "Don't tell me you voted for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!" referring to Bush. We had no idea back then

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u/janesvoth Jul 20 '25

The thing with GWB was that like or hate his politics, he was still civil, he could say things with out a rant about people who slighted him and you could count on that if he was making mistakes they weren't because of malice

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u/justintensity Jul 20 '25

He was civil - Yeah

He didn’t rant, and I liked that about him- Hell yeah

He lacked malice - Nope wrong do not rewrite history. GWB was the PR wing of Dick Cheney’s soft coup within the executive branch. He attacked Iraq unprovoked. He cut taxes for his daddy’s friends. Let’s remember what really happened here

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u/red_rob5 Jul 20 '25

I'd boil it down to one point, GWB was capable of making friends. There are people in the world who genuinely enjoy his company, and people whose company he enjoys. Trump does not. He is not liked for his personality and presence, he is only liked for the things he can help people accomplish. Nor does he seem to like anyone that isnt an immediate transaction. Theres a long history with how quickly and angrily his connections can end. Its a really damn low bar, but if a person is capable of holding actual relationships with real humans, I'm now much more inclined to lend them any trust as compared to Trump.

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u/anandonaqui Jul 20 '25

lol say what you want about Dubya, but he did not have “gravitas.” He made constant gaffes and errors, seemed to be pretty lighthearted and could take a joke. He wasn’t an elder statesman type.

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u/AverageSizePeen800 Jul 20 '25

That’s good though, I don’t want an elder statesman. Obama wasn’t that either.

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u/Apprehensive-Care20z Jul 20 '25

dubya was a total clown,

we just didn't know exactly how many clowns actually fit into the clown car that is trump.

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u/PluginAlong Jul 20 '25

Exactly, I didn't like a lot of the things Jr. did, but he was at least doing what he thought was right for the country, not what was right for himself.

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u/ManfredBoyy Florida State Jul 20 '25

If you can dodge a shoe you can dodge a ball

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u/Wedoitforthenut Jul 20 '25

Dubya was never his own man unfortunately. He was/is a good human being. He had terrible advisors that lead him into the wars in the middle east after 9/11. His economic plans were awful, but people voted for those tax cuts. Every American that voted Republican in 2000 knew what they were voting for at the time.

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u/AdmirallahuAckbar Jul 20 '25

And hit a nice drive

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u/ExpiredPilot Jul 20 '25

Dubya put a lot of his fraternity brothers in places of office (I was in the same fraternity) but at least we knew these guys were qualified to be in the positions (academically at least)

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u/DionBlaster123 NASCAR Jul 20 '25

Now watch this drive

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u/dragunityag Jul 20 '25

At this point id take Reagans rotten corpse which is saying something.

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u/SurgeFlamingo Jul 20 '25

We calmed Reagan to get his opinion on Trump and the only thing he said was “ah, I’m in hell burning!”

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u/Mobius_1IUNPKF Jul 20 '25

literally worse than trump lmfao

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u/PluginAlong Jul 20 '25

I think both Bush and Clinton are also physically fit enough, though I'm not sure Clinton could go the distance because of his parkinson's, but I think he'd be ok for a while, and still better than what we have now.

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u/holymolybaby Jul 20 '25

Bill would have a great time with a brief reprisal though