How will you remember Donald Trump's legacy from his Presidency?

Every time I remember his presidency, I will drink until I don't anymore.

 

Trump will always be the 45th President.

It's just that we now have a 46th President.

 

His presidency will fade from my memory eventually.

But his supporters and others who did not vote for Hillary?



I can't afford to forget them.

 

Four years ago, I started saving the best of the incredibly bizarre, stupid and bad vibes photos being rapidly produced by the Trump administration to cathartically post today. Here is my Surreal Trump Photo Dump pic.twitter.com/cne2J92pGB

— Chris Wade (@saywhatagain) January 20, 2021

 

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Can they? I suspect they do not have a whole pile of money (other than Ivanka, she may be able to use her and Jared's dough).

That being said, it is whatever the protocol should be.
If the Obama and Bush girls maintained Secret Service protection, so be it.
If not, cut the Trump spawn off today.

 

They "claim" a lot of crap.
Not sure if you noticed, but they are not exactly completely 100% truthful and honest.

Thanks. I was in a meeting and could not look it up myself.

 

I think his twitter feed. How it was used to enforce his will, how early in his presidency people close to him got gigs as corporate consultants on how to avoid a negative mention, how as his presidency went down the toilet, he'd go searching for positive mentions from randos.

And Sharpiegate was pretty incredible.

 

400,000 deaths.

When he took office, I was terrified he'd drag us into war. But then, he's a bully, and bullies are inherently cowardly. So, good for us.

And then covid hit and we fought it like The Donald would have fought a war. Like shit. So it turns out my wildest fears about us getting into a war hadn't been wild enough.

But, in the end, I'm going to stick with 400,000 dead.

 

I'm going to try hard to remember that he threw rolls of paper towels to Puerto Rican flood victims. Future generations won't believe me when I tell the story.

 

If America is a rock then Trump flipped it over to reveal the ugly underside of it for all to see and did it quite easily. That is what I will remember, Trump showed a part of America a lot of American's knew was there but didn't want to admit it how large and dangerous it is.

 

Quoting @argentine soccer fan there. I used this exact same line in my Christmas letter this year.

 

Like the hangover & toilet-full of puke after the most fcked up I ever got which specifically was my cousin's wedding up in Mass where I tried every type of alcohol available. That's what he made nonTrump America feel like.

 

In a general sense, I will remember it as a shit show. A guy who for some reason was taken seriously by most of New York media and then US media in the 70s and 80s, was a joke in the 90s, and somehow got a TV show and had people take him seriously again. A man who in serious circles, is always looked at as a joke. A man who if anything, embodies why the 1980s needs to go away.

In a specific way? I told this story before on here. In what I think was 2018, I was in a break room at work, just taking a minute from stuff. One other person was in there with me. The news was on during a press conference, at one point, Trump started talked in that voice where it gets somewhat nasally and sniffy where he's defensive or when he's on a tangent (See the bags of soup clip*), he proceeded to yell at a reporter and said in that sniffy voice, "You are really rude right now" and just rambled. Colleague and I are looking at each other in complete disbelief that this was happening.

There were a lot of things I disliked about Bush. Bush would mispronounce stuff and be clueless but my god, Bush was capable of intellectual growth (The man decided to plan for a pandemic after he read a book FFS). The fact that he wanted to plan for a pandemic even though it most likely wouldn't happen during his term, that's just, good lord, a long term plan.

I think about that Fran Liebowitz line about not knowing anyone as stupid as Donald Trump and she's right. And being in media for as long as I have, I've met plenty of stupid people. But Trump, Jesus it's at times surprising he never ended up homeless.

*: I really hate that I had to write that out.

 

Just wondering. Anyone know how much % wise Trump made off the sale of each hat, tshirt & flag? Half of WhiteMerica owned a bunch of that shit.

 

I don't know this man.

 

Overall, the Trump era feels to me like a weird social science experiment, or maybe a dark "fish out of water" comedy. What would happen if a dimwitted, amoral oligarch from some backwater kleptocracy somehow became President of the United States? How would things go?

The answer is: pretty bad. Could have been worse, though.

 

On the plus side, Donald Trump proved that literally anyone could grow up to be the president. Even the dumbest, laziest, greediest, rapey-est, most vile piece of walrus diarrhea could, we now understand, pull off the trick.

On the other hand, Donald Trump was the worst president in the long history of this nation as of January 2020. That's before he personally turned 400,000 Americans into corpses. I can't really conceive how anybody could ever be worse. I hope he dies painfully.

 

I hope to try to quickly forget his fat, orange, racist, criminal ass.