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[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading through this reminded me how draining it was to have a huge asshole as a president.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it, it was a constant embarrassment living under Trump.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

if only there was something they could do about him attacking prosecutors. oh well. theyve tried nothing and theyre all out of ideas.

[–] ATQ@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Both the GOPs history and Trumps personal history of being an irredeemable shitbag.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The rhetoric is a reminder of Trump’s tendency to use coded racial messaging as a signal to supporters, an approach he has deployed over several decades as he evolved from a New York City real estate tycoon to a reality television star and, eventually, the president.

“He’s taking that historical racialized language that was offensive and insulting, and the subordinating of Black persons, applying it in a contemporary space and really bubbling up that history,” said Bev-Freda Jackson, a professor in the school of public affairs at American University.

On a personal level, a bond agreement signed on Monday by Trump’s lawyers and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis imposes restrictions on his communications, including those issued through social media.

Even before Trump was charged in Georgia last week with multiple criminal counts related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he spent days assailing the prosecutor in the case with unfounded accusations and race-related attacks.

Earlier this month, a Texas woman was arrested and charged with threatening to kill U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal criminal case against Trump in Washington.

The close resemblance of “riggers” to a racial slur garnered attention from internet users on a pro-Trump online forum, who used the term in dozens of racist messages calling for people to be killed or hanged after seeing Trump’s post .


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