The Trump Presidency | Biden Inaugurated

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Well he has to come out and deny it. Then we get Trumpcock pics and tapes of his grunting.

I really hope he calls his dick Trump Tower.
 
So he signed the bill and saw the backlash from it, even Fox were slamming him for signing it and going back on his word. Then he tries to appease people (but again angering and worrying his base) with the bump stocks ban and now.........



I dont think he's ever been in distraction and damage control mode like this before. Feck me, what next? This is definitely to try to win back the Evangelical support he's leaking with his Baby Killer bill signing.


The White House must be a fun place to be :lol: apocalyptic Trump going full moron.
 
Banning anything related to guns and not funding kicking or keeping immigrants out will be more damaging than adultery with pornstars and Playboy bunnies, I imagine.

The latter two aren’t going to put a dent in his base.
 
Javi said:
Do we have some historic evidence for the approval rating - rats jumping theory? Carter was toxic in the end, right? What happened then?
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George W Bush left office with a rating of 22% according to one poll.

As for Carter - The Iran hostage crisis finished him. He was a Cold War President so looking weak was a killer. He did get all the hostages free without firing a shot but it was after the election. There were problems domestically with gas lines, economy which preceded him but he did have solutions. However he made the mistake of telling the public the hard truths...

Compare with Reagan who invaded Grenada, attacked Libya, was condemned by the UN, increased the debt, was negligent of HIV epidemic but has been immortalized because his image is that of a tough talking, tough acting commander in chief.
 
Boycott said:
George W Bush left office with a rating of 22% according to one poll.

As for Carter - The Iran hostage crisis finished him. He was a Cold War President so looking weak was a killer. He did get all the hostages free without firing a shot but it was after the election. There were problems domestically with gas lines, economy which preceded him but he did have solutions. However he made the mistake of telling the public the hard truths...

Compare with Reagan who invaded Grenada, attacked Libya, was condemned by the UN, increased the debt, was negligent of HIV epidemic but has been immortalized because his image is that of a tough talking, tough acting commander in chief.
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So did lawmakers abandon Bush in the end? How'd it go with Carter, did the dems abandon him?
 
When Anne Coulter is saying Trump will be impeached. You know you are losing the hard right
 
Javi said:
So did lawmakers abandon Bush in the end? How'd it go with Carter, did the dems abandon him?
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Carter was really unpopular with DC democrats all through his Presidency. his holier than thou demeanour and folksy, homespun image rubbed many the wrong way. He didn't work well with the party leadership.
 
Grinner said:
Carter was really unpopular with DC democrats all through his Presidency. his holier than thou demeanour and folksy, homespun image rubbed many the wrong way. He didn't work well with the party leadership.
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He always struck me as an actual good guy... and a good guy just can’t be a good president.
 
Drifter said:
When Anne Coulter is saying Trump will be impeached. You know you are losing the hard right
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To be fair it's not exactly the first time she's criticised him, will no doubt soon come crawling back.
 
Carolina Red said:
He always struck me as an actual good guy... and a good guy just can’t be a good president.
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Eh...while you've got to be dispassionate and pragmatic/stern, you could argue there have been some alright ones on a personal level - Obama always came across reasonably well on a personal level, and didn't really have any major personal controversies.

Carter's work post-Presidency has been excellent though, even seems to work hard now in spite of his age.
 
Grinner said:
But he was a good President. He really fecked up by allowing the Shah to get treatment in LA though. That was a massive miscalculation of the mood in Iran.
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He also terribly miscalculated the mood of his own people during the economic down turn, and ended up looking impotent when the Iranians revolted.
 
Cheesy said:
Obama always came across reasonably well on a personal level, and didn't really have any major personal controversies.
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He could be ruthless though... eg. drone strikes

Carter doesn’t strike me as the guy who could be. He still teaches his Sunday school class every week.
 
Carolina Red said:
He also terribly miscalculated the mood of his own people during the economic down turn, and ended up looking impotent when the Iranians revolted.
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He told them what they needed to hear but they didn't want to hear it. Read his Malaise speech and see what you think.

He had the balls to go for the hostage rescue and then accept the failure. Reagan meanwhile was making a deal with the Iranians in secret to ensure his election.
 
Javi said:
So did lawmakers abandon Bush in the end? How'd it go with Carter, did the dems abandon him?
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Bush got 8 years so it was meaningless to abandon him at the end. The destruction happened. Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, Financial crisis - he should have been abandoned in 2004.

Ted Kennedy (brother of JFK and RFK) challenged Carter in a primary in the 1980 election. Kennedy was a heavyweight, if not the heavyweight of the party in the years of 1969-76 when two Republicans Nixon and Ford were President. Kennedy would have probably run before had it not been for a scandal where he drove off a bridge causing the death of a woman passenger who he did not pull out nor report to the police for several hours. Jimmy Carter on the other hand was barely heard of at the time the democrats were looking for their nominee for 1976. So for him to come from nowhere to win stung with the established dems.

Anyway Carter saw him off but a fair amount of Kennedy's supporters flocked to Reagan in the general election. As I said, Carter by that point was seen as a weak commander in chief and people in his party were frustrated that he got bogged down into details. For example Both Carter and Kennedy supported universal health care way back then but Kennedy's vision was to roll it out in one package and he fought for it all his political life, while Carter felt it was best to implement it in stages, similar to the eventual Obamacare.
 
Grinner said:
He told them what they needed to hear but they didn't want to hear it. Read his Malaise speech and see what you think.

He had the balls to go for the hostage rescue and then accept the failure. Reagan meanwhile was making a deal with the Iranians in secret to ensure his election.
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I have read his Malaise Speech.

I’d rank him somewhere around 20-25th.
 
I love that speech. It's quite prophetic listening to it in today's climate.

I love that he still teaches Sunday School. I remember reading on reddit someone's story of meeting him at a lesson. At the beginning he asked everyone what state or country they are from and one guy said Washington DC to which he replied "I used to live there'"
 
Carolina Red said:
Banning people willing to do what he was too coward to do himself.
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Yup. He's done this to distract from the marches tomorrow and the Stormy interview on Sunday, also to regain support he lost from signing the bill. Also rumours are rife he is also doing this to piss Mattis off as he wants him gone too.

This shit is as scary as it is insane.
 
I can't imagine Trump gives a flying feck who or what gender is killing brown people in the middle east. Whether it's females, males or tyrannosaurus rex, he just wants people to like him and get off his case.
 
Trump doesn't care. At this point he's just throwing random policies at the wall in the hopes that one will stick.
 
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