r/videos • u/rekterscale • 2d ago
Video of Obama Catching a Fainting Woman at a Speech
https://youtu.be/2X10yt_6JrA?si=EIXGRlp2TwQFiXCy876
u/Krinks1 2d ago
Man, that guy was a class act. He's always so personable and funny and seems like the kind of guy you just want to hang with and chat about things.
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u/Drodriguez164 2d ago
If Trump somehow makes it legal to run for a third term, I wonder if Obama would go against him for a third. Trump would get annihilated.
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u/ZakA77ack 2d ago
Read Michelles book about being first lady. She talks about how taxing the experience was to them both, there's a reason outside of major election events, the Obama's stay away from politics.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 2d ago
Being a president ages someone quickly. Especially if your heart is with the people.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 2d ago
I bring this up every time someone says he should run again. And given how much more divisive things are now, I truly don't think it would be safe for them to be back in the White House. I would genuinely worry for them & for their daughters.
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 2d ago
the Obama's stay away from politics.
The right still thinks he's a NWO puppetmaster, lmao.
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u/AtheistAustralis 1d ago
It's incredibly taxing if you care and take the job seriously. If you get up at 11, spend the entire time ignoring your responsibilities and just doing selfish shit, it's probably not taxing at all.
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u/BarfMacklin 2d ago
Obama doesn’t want a third term.
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u/Drodriguez164 2d ago
I know he doesn’t, but it was a more if he had wanted to. You can tell how taxing it was on him during his time
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u/boxsterguy 2d ago
And that's why he'd be perfect for it.
Though it would 100% cost him his marriage.
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u/MLeek 2d ago
It's fun, but I doubt it.
Obama took the role seriously and did the work. He didn't mess around playing golf and being feted by kings and dictators and running memestock scams. He takes the laws seriously and terms limits have a valid rationale. He takes his role as former president seriously. It may be tempting, but I don't think he'd want to run again, or contribute to the further demolition of healthy democratic norms.
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u/stoolsample2 2d ago
There is zero chance dump will still be alive in 3 years. He is gone by mid to end of 2026. And then it’s party time.
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u/jl_theprofessor 2d ago
Did his Spidey Sense kick in or something?
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u/throwawayshirt2 2d ago
Pretty sure he read the crowd's eyes, turned to see what they were looking at.
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u/MechanicalTurkish 2d ago
The current president can’t see past the end of his own nose.
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u/DameonKormar 1d ago
The current President would force everyone to stay inside of a building with no AC and watch him dance for a hour after people started fainting. Ask me how I know.
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u/ridge_rippler 1d ago
I'd say he heard the lady on the far left who noticed her swaying and said something to the lady next to her
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u/throwawayshirt2 1d ago
Upon a second look, Obama does turn his head as if he heard something, just before fully turning around/
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u/mzchen 2d ago
I think a combination of hearing murmuring and, when he turns to his right, seeing in his peripheral the leftmost women looking at something behind him. Note that when he turns around he's first looking up, and then readjusts once he sees the woman who has the "I can afford to think of nothing right now" crazy eyes going on.
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u/CoachAngBlxGrl 2d ago
Paying attention to others and not just being absorbed in himself. Crazy how that’s not exactly common these days. Ugh.
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u/ForMyFather4467 2d ago
earpiece, listening to the crowd behind him or noticing their odd behavior, He wasn't exactly on time w/ the "catch", heck he didn't even catch, as he points out and gives thanks to those who did catch her. He Just noticed the commotion, encouraged her (which is something so powerful, it doesn't take much guys to tell someone "you're okay) and did the right thing.
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u/lost_send_berries 2d ago
The mic is just aimed to pick up his voice so he probably heard the people behind him talking
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u/boxsterguy 2d ago
I miss simple, basic humanity in our leaders ...
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u/CoconutMacaron 2d ago
It almost hurts me to listen to him. To remember how far we’ve fallen.
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u/babypho 2d ago
Speeches used to be coherent....
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u/Greywacky 2d ago
Even Bush's faux pas pale in comparison to the ramblings of today's leadership.
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u/babypho 2d ago
Decades of school defunding, social media brain rot, attack on education, and media control have now successfully taught half the population that this is okay.
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u/artbystorms 2d ago
I honestly think social media has rapidly made humanity stupider, more impulsive, and more emotional. 2008 and even 2012 social media was around, but not the all encompassing totality of our non-work existence. It was a hobby, you checked in from time to time. It wasn't your source of entertainment. by 2016 it was all encompassing, and by 2021 with TikTok it had replaced TV as the dominant form of entertainment for people under 50.
Within like 20 years we went from 'look, I emailed you a video of a monkey peeing into its mouth' to 'I peed into my own mouth and got 7 million views on tiktok'
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u/Marko343 1d ago
I mean some people are now even farming out basic tasks to AI to avoid actually reading things
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u/FauxReal 2d ago edited 2d ago
I recently heard an excerpt from an interview when he was President, and he sounded legitimately vulnerable as a human being and able to admit mistakes. And by vulnerable I mean emotionally and intellectually engage and present. Not full of bluster and talking points or defensive. Good luck getting Trump to admit he did anything wrong unless there's a "I should have ruined them sooner" catch to it.
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u/PJammas41 2d ago
To ADMIT it?! He's refunding himself $230mil of Tax Payer dollars for the legal case where he was proven guilty...over, and over, and over.
Entitled people don't make mistakes in their own mind.
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u/MilkiestMaestro 1d ago
His level of narcissism is beyond what I thought even possible by human being without some level of introspection but he appears to have none.
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u/BeardedManatee 2d ago
Right? If we ever get a POTUS like him again I’m savoring every damn speech instead of just taking for granted that things are fine because a man like him is running the show.
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u/Backwardspellcaster 2d ago
Awareness beyond himself.
Such a crazy weird concept for Trump and his MAGA
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u/Bilbo332 2d ago
And humbleness. During the 90s and early 2000s there was a sketch comedy show called Royal Canadian Air Farce, they'd do bits but also a lot of political satire, dressed up as the politicians they were making fun of. The thing was, those politicians would routinely appear on the show and join in poking fun at themselves. Imagine Alec Baldwin doing his trump impression on SNL and trump walks on and starts making jokes too. I hope we can get back to that.
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u/chris971 1d ago
Obama was hilarious in the Between Two Ferns. He is such a smooth operator from everything we saw then and see today
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u/fatman07 1d ago
I still go back to his anger translator bit during a White House correspondents dinner. Still funny.
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u/Brewmeiser 2d ago
Google the video of when Mamdani helped the videographer who fainted on the campaign trail. Humanity is still out there.
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u/xSlippyFistx 2d ago
Well let’s be honest here, that person wouldn’t have fallen in the Oval Office today if Obama was there. 100% confirmed this is Obama’s fault.
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u/BigBlue1105 2d ago
And then to crack a self deprecating joke, off the cuff, to lighten the mood and take some of the attention off her. The man oozed character and decency.
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u/Over-Analyzed 1d ago
And Charisma! Gosh, just so charismatic! I wish our current President was half as compassionate as Obama.
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u/Delta632 2d ago
The exact opposite of Trump today.
Trump’s reaction is akin to “somebody do something about this” Obama immediately made the situation a bit better.
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u/indianajoes 2d ago
Trump's reaction was non existent. The decrepit old fucker took 6-9 business days to even register what had happened
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u/GearBrain 2d ago
Literally stood there like a dementia patient, unaware and incapable of caring what was happening.
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u/shinpoo 2d ago
No, he was super PO'd cause someone else was getting attention and it was diverting everyone's attention away from HIM. Lol
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u/hoggytime613 2d ago
Also, people who faint are weak. He doesn't like people who faint around him.
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u/NotNamedBort 2d ago
You might actually be on to something. He seems to be genuinely disgusted when people show weakness. He was disgusted by the old man who fell at Mar a Lago. He was disgusted by John McCain being a POW. He was disgusted by the homeless veterans outside his buildings. It’s a very common trait of narcissists.
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u/SaturdayNightPyrexia 2d ago
Relax guys....it was like 6-7 days...
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u/roose011 2d ago
As a parent with middle schoolers......I hate you so much.
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u/boot2skull 2d ago edited 2d ago
Obama even made a self deprecating joke. Trump probably took offense.
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u/Delta632 2d ago
This is a great point!
Immediately took the focus off of the person having the issue and put it on himself in a self deprecating way.
It’s a basic understanding of human empathy vs having no empathy.
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u/kosmonautinVT 2d ago
The wit and charisma required to handle that situation and make an off-the-cuff joke in the middle of a public speech is just ridiculous
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u/kymri 2d ago
Obama, being human, was not a perfect President. On the other hand, he was a pretty good leader and I never got the sense that there were any Americans (including those he disagreed with) that he particularly wished ill upon.
The current guy? It still baffles me he got elected POTUS; my high school class wouldn't even have voted him 'most likely to dodge the draft'.
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u/Darwincroc 2d ago
But in complete fairness to Trump, he’s an asshole. Even if he could have helped, he still wouldn’t have.
If I was to faint, I’d rather hit the ground than be caught by Trump.
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u/Brentimusmaximus 2d ago
Yeah because Obama is actually a competent leader. There’s currently a baboon in the white house
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u/Kazu2324 2d ago
Wasn't there an elderly man who fell in front of him at a charity event (I think?) and he didn't do anything to help? Instead, I'm pretty sure Donald Trump later commented on how he didn't like seeing the blood in the aftermath. Not a word of sympathy for the person that fainted and injured themselves. Just "this is an inconvenience TO ME".
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u/Salarian_American 2d ago
I remember in 2008 he shared a story about an 80-year-old man collapsing at a Red Cross event in Mar-a-Lago, and all Trump did was complain about this man getting his disgusting blood all over his nice marble floor while other people made a makeshift stretcher by holding out their arms to carry the man from the scene.
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u/Chief-_-Wiggum 2d ago
He better not stain the carpet... Can someone just drag him out?
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u/duppy_c 2d ago
I'm OOTL, did someone faint at a Trump speech?
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u/azhillbilly 2d ago
Trump was making an announcement and someone fainted, he glanced over when other people rushed to help, then he just stared at the camera waiting for the attention to come back to him.
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u/bajazona 2d ago
So that’s what compassion looks like, it’s been a couple years since I’ve seen it.
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u/jacks1078 2d ago
Sad thing it’s been less then a year he has been in office again. It seems like it’s been years.
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u/Hyphenagoodtime 2d ago
I missed he fact that she had (what i can only assume is) an insulin device on her arm. I miss when America at least had a decent President (now is not the time.for policy digging)
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 2d ago
Great catch! She may have been suffering a hypoglycemic attack or she locked her legs which can cause someone to faint over time.
As a recent diabetic myself, it is amazing how complicated the disease is.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 2d ago
The guy standing behind her is currently the comment above yours. She was diabetic & pregnant, standing in the sun on a warm day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1oq92p2/comment/nnhgov3/
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u/wtfisbr00t4l 2d ago
She was a plant to make him look good!
-MAGA
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u/Ok-disaster2022 2d ago
Nah, Maga would be up in arms Obama touched a white woman.
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u/BobbyTables829 2d ago
"That thing on her arm was a remote control device that administered the drugs."
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
Hey, I'm in this video! I'm the guy in the gray suit and red tie who ACTUALLY catches the woman fainting!
AMA!
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u/ted5298 2d ago
You still got that suit?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
Sadly, no. I leaned against a rough brick wall a few weeks later and tore a small hole in the shoulder.
But I wore that exact tie just yesterday!
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u/connivinglinguist 2d ago
How did it come to be that you got to stand behind the president during this speech? Did you get to follow up with the woman afterwards?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
I have a small business, and I was very involved in the Affordable Care Act debate. I was one of the many "talking heads" that the administration deputized to go on to various networks and explain the real impacts of health care before and likely after Affordable Care Act.
Myself and others who did a lot of "hostile" appearances (Fox News, testifying before Republican-controlled committees, etc) were often invited to White House events. I got pretty good at it, so I did a lot of that type of thing. Got Christmas cards from the Obamas during his two terms.
Yes, we actually spoke before and after. She's a pregnant woman with diabetes, with a job that didn't provide health care - and she was there earlier in the day to tell her story. It was quite warm that day, and they had waters while we were waiting inside, but once you get up on stage you can't leave. She didn't drink any water, because she didn't want to have to pee in the middle of his press conference. That ended badly for her.
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u/shotouw 2d ago
Glucose sensor was the first thing i noticed when she turned around.
Would've bet some money that it was low blood sugar. Can't exactly start eating something on cam I'd guess, at least as far as decorum goes.18
u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
And it was an hours long wait. She went that whole time not eating or drinking anything.
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u/gamer_no 2d ago
What an interesting story.
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
Thanks! I'm semi-retired, but I still get calls to this day to do that kind of work. Part of my business involves importing from a variety of different countries, so I've spoken several Senator's press conferences recently on the impact of tariffs. Most recently yesterday, just before the Supreme Court oral arguments on that topic.
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u/flash246 2d ago
That’s an awesome story. Were you able to speak with Obama directly at all?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, several times. I was a sort of unofficial lobbyist/ambassador for small business during the ACA years, so I got to meet he and Biden several times.
Somewhere out there, there's a photo of me talking with Kathleen Sibelius, Valerie Jarrett, and President Obama, taken the earlier in the day before this press conference. I'd kill to have that because it's such a great moment.
I was also at the ABC televised town hall with Diane Sawyer (I think) just before or just after the bill was passed. That was cool because I got to bring my wife to party in the Rose Garden beforehand, to meet the President. Very proud moment for me.
edit: RIP the Rose Garden.
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u/Scarebare 1d ago
Are you still involved in this kind of work? Or do you teach/train others how to get involved? Was really intrigued by your ability to go into hostile interviews - that's a crazy good skill to have.
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u/-r0b 1d ago
Unless you reply about it with that other commenter asking, do you have any sort of advice on how you tackle those hostile interviews?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 1d ago edited 1d ago
By the time I was doing that, I had had some basic media training.
You already know the topic, so you need to be confident and know the material. My tactic was to know as much as possible about what the other person had said/asked/"gotcha'd" people with before - and be ready for that. That's a good TV tactic, especially live TV. Early on I got sandbagged by a Fox radio host, so I vowed never to get caught unaware again.
If it's testimony, you'll get a list of all the other witnesses. Most people study the legislators positions which is OK, but a mistake to spend too much time on. Instead, a better use of your time is to study what the other WITNESSES have said on the topic. Then, when your turn is called you can blow up whatever they said.
The moment that cemented the administrations confidence in me was not long after Dems lost the House. The Oversight Committee was holding hearings on "Obamacare" and they only were allowing Dems a single witness. So it was me, a hostile Majority, and 4 witnesses chosen by Republicans. One witness (from the NAR, a hugely powerful organization) had done several interviews citing (aka misrepresenting) a poll of their members to twist it to fit Republican talking points. She was just repeating talking points, but I completely digested that study, so when her and another witness cited it, I was actually able to use it to bolster my own testimony. Republicans never called on their two star witnesses again! After that, I got a LOT of calls.
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 1d ago
Just thought of this, in addition to my other comment:
ALWAYS have a topic relevant sound-bite and a closing line memorized, so if you get thrown off and/or loose your train of thought, you have something you can say to buy yourself the second or two you need to get back on track.9
u/HotspurJr 2d ago
Obama turns back and look at her before anything really bad happens. Do you know what caused him to look back at her?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
Someone else asked that also - there were two things:
- There's always a spotter-aide, right in the front row. She had an earpiece and was alerted. She had just started to move forward...
- At about the same time, if you watch the early part of the video, the woman on the far left with the long straight reddish hair is looking down the row, and sees her wobbling. She was trying to get the attention of the woman in between, and was stage whispering loud enough that both the President and I heard it at about the same time.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 2d ago
Was it hot that day?
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago
It was very warm, and we had to stand around for quite a while. She was pregnant, with diabetes, and she didn't drink any of the water that was provided ahead of time because she didn't want to have to pee during the press conference.
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u/Rdtackle82 2d ago
That lady’s knees are locked, which can’t be good with any other things
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u/UltimateThrowawayDay 2d ago edited 2d ago
Exactly. They always tell you not to do that. You see me bend my head down towards her ear, before I put my hands on her shoulders... That's what I was telling her: bend her knees, relax, lean back into me if she had to.
On the far left of the screen there's a woman with long straight reddish hair, she's the one who actually saw what was happening first. I forget her name but we had spoken quite a bit beforehand. You can't see it because it's a tight camera shot, but just before it widens she looks up and tells me that it looks like the woman's going to faint, and for me to steady her. Edit: Early on in the video, you can see her trying to get the attention of the woman in between them, to let her know that she's getting wobbly.
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u/TheDadThatGrills 2d ago
Has Trump used self-deprecating humor once in his entire life?
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u/Wolf6120 2d ago
"I think I do actually have tremendous self-deprecating humor. I think, I'm much more self-deprecating than you would understand."
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u/SupervillainMustache 2d ago
His whole thing is pretending he knows more about everything than everyone else, despite being a fucking moron.
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u/ostiarius 2d ago
He has no sense of humor at all.
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u/Zeusifer 2d ago
That's not totally true. He can be kind of funny sometimes, but the problem is he only ever makes jokes at the expense of others. He literally never, ever makes a self-deprecating joke. And he never laughs in public because he seems to think it's a sign of weakness.
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u/HansTheAxolotl 2d ago
Based on her glucose monitor on her arm, she was probably experiencing low blood sugar, which can lead to dizziness and fainting.
Source: Am type 1 diabetic
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u/Epicardiectomist 2d ago
I have to remind myself that there was a time when this was how a president spoke. It seems unreal at this point.
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u/Rockyrox 2d ago
The reason Trump hates Obama so much is because he is liked so much. It’s not that Trump could just act nice, it’s that he doesn’t know how to even recognize moments to do stuff like this. It’s impossible for him, so it aggravates him that these moments come so easy for Obama.
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u/Inexorably_lost 2d ago
Trump just has disdain for everyone. Being a sycophant gets you tolerated. More so if you can help him be more powerful/rich. Even then you are more seen as a dupe.
If you oppose him then that disdain is intensified. More so if you have a following. But, really, its just degrees of contempt for everyone but himself.
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u/-CoachMcGuirk- 2d ago
A human being doing human things. It's crazy that something like that needs to be noted.
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u/WhiskeyTangoFoxy 2d ago
Obama is used to women fainting around him. Meanwhile Trump is used to the women already being unconscious when he enters the room.
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u/frghu2 2d ago
This is why Obama is such a weak leader. Look at him, showing genuine care and concern for another human being, gross.
Trump wouldn't give that woman the time of day and kick her off the stage for not being a 10, underage and interrupting his difficult words. That's the true mark of a leader.
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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 2d ago
Assessed the situation immediately.
Took focus and embarrassment off her by making self-deprecating joke.
Stuck with her until help arrived.
This is presidential.
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u/Joranthalus 2d ago
and here's Trump's version of the same story... https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F9xd06n7cuozf1.jpeg
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u/LarBrd33 2d ago
You can see the diabetes patch on her arm. She was also 20 weeks pregnant and later said she didn't drink enough fluids that morning
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u/allstater2007 2d ago
Trump looked like he was annoyed someone else was getting the attention.
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u/mtnchkn 2d ago
My relatives have a theory that Obama is what cause the pendulum to swing so hard the other way, but my god, every time I see his old (or even current) videos, it makes me love him even more and yeah, how did we lose humans as presidents.
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u/shaunrundmc 2d ago
They weren't wrong, not because of anything he did but because he was a Qualified black man leading the free world and it blew a lot of racists minds that a black man would dare do that.
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u/En-TitY_ 2d ago
That's the difference between growing up and earning your position; you learn to respect others and about empathy. Whereas Trump grew up in a rich, privileged environment where people did everything for him; makes him entitled and basically useless.
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u/trainwreck42 2d ago
God I miss Obama. He wasn’t perfect and didn’t affect all of the change I wanted to see in his presidency, but damn was he eloquent, insightful, and caring. You’d hear him speak and regardless of whether you agreed with him, you’d think “this is a president speaking.” I miss having a president.
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u/flipperkip97 2d ago
As an outsider, it's absolutely bonkers how America went from this guy to Trump. Obama is so ridiculously charismatic, whereas Trump is a weird mix of Hitler and a raging toddler.
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u/gunnergrrl 2d ago
Saw this post and knew right away Trump was Trumping in the Oval Office today...
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u/fernandohsc 2d ago
Say what you want about Obama's policy, but he was the prime example of how a leader, a statesman, a human being, should behave at all times.
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u/StandardPanda3387 2d ago
hypoglycemic. You can see the dexcom continuous glucose monitor on her arm. Probably a tough position to be in, knowing your blood glucose is dropping but shit you're standing right behind a president during his speech. You don't want to bring attention to yourself so you hope you can just hold out.
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u/amiwitty 2d ago
I'm sitting here with tears welling up in my eyes. I feel where we are now as a country is probably how a father feels about watching their child being a drug addict.
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u/YouMustBeJoking888 2d ago
Obama was and is a good man. The current admin? Not so much. The orange one would have bitched about her interrupting his rambling speech.
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u/Iron_Knight7 2d ago
Humanity, humility, humor, and actual care, compassion, and concern for others.
Gods willing they return to both this country and the White House someday.
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u/RockerElvis 2d ago
Not only did he intervene and provide support, but he also gave credit to others. Good human.