White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’
5mon 1d ago by discuss.online/u/bytesonbike in nottheonion from www.the-independent.com
Democrats if they ever get the white house again: "Well, we better keep the plaques. We don't want to upset them."
Well. They were dei hires
/S for the idiots everywhere
Oh don't worry, a big chunk of the likely Democrat voter population will make sure they lose.
Fixing the plaques is easy and they'd do that. It's funny that people criticize Trump for using the presidency for revenge but then demand that Democrats do the same thing.
Fixing the stupid design changes = revenge?
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, “The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself.”
Lmao
That she can say that with a straight face is truly impressive.
But she only has smug bitch fascist face
Edit: changed to a more gender inclusive term
Probably not that hard with all the botox.
What can't trump do?!
It's so fucking infuriating they all treat him like he's capable of doing anything.
He once golfed 18 holes in one shot!
He beat up Chuck Norris!
His body works so perfectly he never has to shit.
And if he did, he could hold it until the potty and not need diapers. Every time.
"He took great care, and used his best crayons. Mr. Putin even put one on his refrigerator. "
I fully believe he is a "student of history" because he never finished his education and is still technically a student.
Remember his remarks on Gettysburg? Truly, a student of history.
"Gettysburg, wow—I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor—did you ever notice it? He's no longer in favor. 'Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.' They were fighting uphill, he said, 'Wow, that was a big mistake,' he lost his great general. 'Never fight uphill, me boys,' but it was too late."
-Donald J. Trump
We have people with the mentality of spoiled school children leading the country.
That’s people born into wealth for ya.
You’re letting people with the mentality of spoiled school children scare you into inaction
If you've ever spent time with an adolescent, you will understand how scary the idea of school children, with unlimited power, money, and knowledge of the world, is truly horrifying. I'm not scared of school children, but if one had a bazooka pointed at you, I bet you'd be finding cover like the rest of us.
Oh, it's not just a mentality.
This is the tiniest of tiny pp energies
Yeah, just super weak.
President: "Look at me! Look how big I am!"
Everyone: "That's nice dear, finish your juice"
The fact that FIFA made up some fake award and the doddering fool glowed like he was a toddler given a prize for doing poopy in the potty, none of this is shocking.
I hear it is a strange, tiny, mushroom-shaped thing.
It's called being PP Hearted.
What, are these people twelve?
I know plenty of 12 year olds with more class than this.
This is childish and petty.
I am so fucking embarrassed to live in the USA.
When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn't do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.
For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn't handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, "Fuck it, the money matters more than morals." Same for the demolition company.
I was a park service employee when this administration began and the back breaking speed everyone bent over and let Trump have his way was disgusting.
I'm talking entire HR departments working fucking COMP TIME (not even OT) just to make sure their colleagues are fired as quickly as possible. Like damn policy allows you to take up to 3 sick days no questions, call out and let people have a few more days of pay.
Everyone with a conscience in leadership instead of trying to resist just resigned day one. The rest fell in line.
I was disgusted and disappointed
A roofer listens to his heart, not his wallet
The eating of trumps ass by his maga moron is out of control. They named renamed the Kennedy center. Who memoralizes themselves while living? Dictators. Only Dictators do this shit. My family is lost to his nonsense. There isnt a single free thinking person in my family anymore. Dad mom, brother all lost to his bs. Wake up America, im begging you, before he takes all your rights away
I’m so fucking tired of being governed by god damned jr. high schoolers.
America collectively peaked in high school
what a petty, little bitch
And the pettyness is obvious even to maga - I love it haha
the issue with maga recognizing it is they relish it. that's what they're here for. they think this is what it means to hold the elite accountable: sending mean tweets, being a petty bitch, lashing out omnidirectionally.
where trump is losing people, and i'm starting to really see it in my community, is his claims that america has never been more affordable than it is today. you can lie about why you're going to war and the dangers posed by people racists don't talk to, but you can't lie about the price of bread. you can't hide that. everyone can tell if the cost of living is getting better or worse. they can tell because we're all living it
How, and I'm serious here, how can this thing get voted in? And how did it happen twice?
You'd have to be fucking moronic to the point of being a dribbling idiot to even think that this orange thing was not just a huge piece of unusable scum!!
I get a lot of hate on Lemmy every time I post this, but I genuinely think American voters don’t like women.
Biden won as an old white man. Harris lost as a younger non-white non-man. Policy virtually the same.
It gets a little hard to deny.
There seems to be a weird aversion to anything that can be seen as politics in America. So I think most of the general public there are not aware of the political ongoings so if and when they vote they see a male and female running they just vote in the male irregardless of who they are.
Being "into" politics is seen as dorky because we have a bit of anti-intellectual problem.
NEEEERRRRDDD!!!!!
Touche
I’m American and I would vote for someone like AOC!
Happily, enthusiastically. I don't think she'll be the one to take it in 2028, though, and I'd rather not see her burn her political viability this early in her career.
I'd love to see her unseat Schmuck Schumer, and help Bernie cement the Progressive foundation in the Senate, the way she did in the House. She inspired many others to run for Congress, and now she can help them get a strong foothold on the Senate, too. That's as important a job to the future of America as being president for a few years.
After she's spent a decade or so in the Senate, perhaps as Senate Majority leader or some other leadership role, she should have the support of the voters to be President, and I think she'll make a truly great one. Just give her time.
The problem, is that few others approach her in terms of credibility, and we can't have another weak Democratic placeholder, just filling in long enough for voters to be convinced by a relentless flood of propaganda that they are really better off living in economic and social instability for their entire lives, so that the wealthy can be even more comfortable than they already are. That's been the role of literally EVERY Democratic president since Carter. Not one of them did anything substantial to protect American citizens from a takeover by the nastiest organized criminals the world has to offer.
Same but you and I aren’t the problem!
I would too. Also someone like Newsome. I'd vote for a fucking garbage can over Trump.
Part of the problem is a lack of information. It's out there if you go digging for it but only if you go digging for it.
You need to introduce some media laws that restrict people from using the word "News" is any case but actual journalism. Also anyone who uses the phrase "alternative facts" should be executed, there are no such things as alternative facts, they're called "lies".
Also anyone who uses the phrase “alternative facts” should be executed
No we're not going to throw away the Constitution over reactionary nonsense like this.
I'm sure that it's quite common worldwide. We're probably missing out on a lot of competent people because of that.
Because America has decided that prideful ignorance and belligerence are the highest virtues, and nobody embodies these virtues more than Donald Trump.
1.) He runs a personality cult - his cult supports him no matter what.
2.) His opposition stupidly cannibalizes itself when it matters most.
I think you summed it up in your second paragraph there.
One thing is that America hasn't given a new presidency to the same party that held the office since the 1980s, at there's already a tendency to waffle back and forth.
Trump got through the GOP primaries by virtue of energizing the racist hateful folks that people like McCain famously tried to talk down.
With the general election, people were miffed about Bernie, polling told them they could safely sit it out and Trump would still lose, and frankly people didn't think Trump would be that terrible, even if they didn't like him.
His first term made us a laughing stock and inflicted injustice at the border, but was mostly milquetoast otherwise until the pandemic, which tanked any chance at the election
Then various things contributed to a terrible economy with Biden, so people voted for "different", and hey, Trump was not great but, pandemic aside, domestic situation wasn't so bad..
So now here we are, an administration totally off the leash...
He manipulated the first election, and he literally stole the second one.
Shut up. Yes he did, and you ALL know it.
No, he didn't steal the second one. You fucking idiots make us look just as stupid as they are.
Trump has cheated at everything he's ever done in life. He is astonishingly ignorant because he bullied other kids into doing every homework assignment he ever had. We know he called on Putin to manipulate the 2016 election. He tried to take back the 2020 election by force.
By 2024, he was facing almost certain conviction for his Insurrection AND stealing hundreds of classified documents, and was facing a life sentence in prison.
So you are telling me that after a lifetime of cheating in everything he does, even when he doesn't have to, just because he figures it will give some sort of an advantage, the ONE election that he DIDN'T cheat in, is the one election that would keep him out of prison for the rest of his life. You actually believe that?
And I'M a "fucking idiot?"
Epstein deadline is tomorrow, right?
Gotta throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.
Misdirect, misdirect, misdirect
Only on paper. In reality, the authors of the bill wrote that Trump and Bondi get to decide what to release and can withhold as much of the documents as they want under the guise of "national security." It was just more kayfabe.
The trove has been leaking like a sieve over the last few months. I'm not sure what else people are expecting to see at this point.
There's this bizarre insistence that one more big scandal will be the final straw. And we've been playing this game since Hillary released "Grab'em by the pussy".
i think mike johnson dismissed the house to prevent that currently.
Oh damn I missed that. Just saw it in the news! What a gross man.
It will be heavily guarded or hidden. It will literally be defaced in the first hour. I will dance on the day of his death. The entire world will celebrate his Demise.
Please shit on it.
The que will disappear several times behind the horizon.
Dude’s a frail and frightened little failure of a man. Everthing he does is a result of pure cowardice.
Basic dictator.
What kind of fucking fanfiction is this whole thing. Satire truly is dead.
Also
California Governor Gavin Newsom, no stranger to mocking Trump online, slammed the stunt.
Stop "slamming" and similar terms because they fucking mean nothing
I think we need to get more graphic not less.
"Newsome DOUBLE SUPLEXES president and VP in latest witty tweet. World leaders RIOT NAKED in response."
Well either go full on into it and plummet 20ft through the announcers table or use no language like that.
Nothing seems to mean anything anymore.
Like it's batshit crazy and the right and left and people eat it up and it makes them feel like they are a part of something because they haven't cultivated their own worth as a human being beyond their consumerism and materialism. Their values are based on their owners ideologies that they are born into and not universal human understanding.
All I can do is watch all of it and want to kill myself when I realize everything truly is and has been bullshit and so many lives are wasted in participating is the bullshit culture they manipulate people with.
Must be an onion ...
Not the onion ...
What?
This has to be one of the most petty and insignificant acts of trumps this year...
When the orange turd dies or otherwise is out of office, we should just remove his plaque entirely and pretend like he never even existed.
the democrats would never run anyone who had the balls to do that. it would be too 'mean'.
but if such a candidate did get to run, they'd probably be incredibly popular.
Damnatio Memoriae as the Romans called, the removal of a person not just from life but also memory. Though I say we keep his actions and consequences recorded, just remove his personhood and likeness. Every picture and video of him should just be mess of static and fucked but understandable audio. Things not related to his presidency should be destroyed in their entirety.
That sounds pretty difficult to do in the modern world.
In contrast, I like the idea that before he croaks he could know that his name will be cursed and his grave pissed upon for generations.
Donald Trump is already Vilified by most of the country anyway, so why not?
The argument I could see is that a person's personhood is relevant to their actions, but Trump doesnt really fall into that category in my opinion. Hes more a void of a person existing on base impulse and desire further amplified by his narcissism. Seriously is there anything Trump actually like? And not in a way that could be explained by scratching his base impulses at any given time?
I've always been disturbed by the descriptions of his inability to enjoy humor and music. Those are like core to humanity, in my estimation.
I've known at least one legitimate dangerous psychopath, knew him quite well. He had a rich (if dark) sense of humor and legitimately interesting, opinionated taste in music. And he was the kind of person it was unsafe to be near if he was merely bored (to say nothing of angry/frustrated or worse), and you were sufficiently weaker and isolated (I never was, to be clear). He also was barely literate and mischaracterized by lots of people as profoundly unintelligent.
I've known other interesting individuals damaged in different unrecoverable ways, and everyone I've known (that remains able to interact even somewhat smoothly with others at least) has those core human pieces intact.
Trump is truly a bizarre human being, and not in one single way I can call positive. I wonder if there are others in history who were notably "deaf" to the emotional meanings of music and humor (minds structurally incapable of empathy, I'm guessing) yet still adept at social interactions and even possessing a strange almost bewitching quality among the general populace.
Even cult leaders, known for that latter quality and also lack of empathy, they tend to understand music and humor and even use them for effect in their abuses. Trump alllllmost gets there with humor, but not quite, to him it seems like just a way of attacking people that is somehow more publicly tolerated, he doesn't ever seem to find it funny himself - just another weapon/tool to use. Weird fuckin brain on this guy (very weirdly damaged/malformed, I suspect).
Honestly I don't think Trump ever moved past being 3 or 4 on an internal level, his actions make sense if you consider that he never developed internalized functions for morality, intellectualism, or even an internal code. He may very well still be at the point where the only reason he knows not to touch a hot stove is because he got physically hurt by it because he can't internally run the calculations that fire hot. Or at least that's what makes sense to me, he's basically a lot like a small child only reacting to the world.
We need to learn from this, otherwise people will believe it could not happen.
No, we should keep as much documentation about what he did as we can. For future citizens to ignore when we tell them "we told you so"
We don't talk about Bruno Trump
Only a few centimeters and we could've been spared all of this 🥲
That's 0.0001 football fields.
Can you convert that to AR-15s? I only understand distances measured in 'Second Amendment'.
I'd say about 0.03 AR15's, assuming typical mid-length barrel.
Thanks. I wasn't sure if that was close or not.
It was a setup, he didn't even have a scar, no bullet was even close to him.
Not gonna deny that this could be totally possible. Trump seems exactly like the guy capable of doing something this disgusting...
Last night, Jack quit the band.
This has the potential to be very very funny.
I think it should be taken as a precedent, and every successive administration should start writing bitchy little propaganda plaques. Instead of a photo of Trump, we could have like an old moldy orange. Or we could have photos of sad war orphans for other presidents, some scathing political commentary, it could be great. Not at all disrespectful to hang on the wall, this seems fine. Let’s goooo!
No when he's done burn his fucking memory and don't ever mention him again.
Something about condemned to repeat it
If we're condemned to repeat this stupidity.... Then we didn't fucking finish the job hard enough.
Yep, erase his legacy, like Pharoahs used to do.
chop his nose off
Petty, childish, juvenile, mean, pathetic.
The equivalent of drawing a mustache on someone whom you dislike on their yearbook photo and expecting everyone to laugh at your work, too.
Actual fucking toddler
Remember that for Republicans: Every accusation is a confession.
There are no Republicans anymore. That was their larval stage, before they metamorphosed into their final form - MAGA. They are all MAGA now.
What a lil bitch
This is what professionalism is these days. The good thing is that they are open about their views and it's easier to identity what type of person they are.
Oh that's good that means that when Trump is dead they can move one of them and then they have a spare.
There's a lot of talk about whether or not there should be some age limit on a president and they're probably should be, but I think that also needs to be a maturity test. Trump has a level of pettiness normally reserved for teenage girls in badly written YA novels. Imagine being the person that had to make those plaques and then put them up, you'd feel like a prat.
Not only that he is clearly fucking demented. Anyone with any experience with dementia patients can tell you that.
I think it's unfortunately a good sign of just how many dumb Americans there are, and that the stereotype unfortunately exists for a reason. They voted for this. This is their president, who they want representing them and leading them. SAD.
I love that you didn't feel the confidence in keeping this comment.
I still know what it said though, so I'm going to respond to it anyway.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. One of the advantages not been in American it is I get to view everything from the outside. All your politicians lately have been absolute trash, but at least biden probably wouldn't have plunged the world into uncertainty over Russian interference.
And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?
Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.
Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates! Remember when the Bush presidency was the worst ever?
He did get roasted, and it didn't help, but don't kid yourself that it was the catalyst, he flipped a couple years before that happened. I read that same story, and it was just an fluff piece for the media.
He's changed affiliations 5 times now
Before he ran, his investments were petering out. He owed a substantial amount of money to multiple places. (notably a couple of billion to Deutsche Bank) His contributions to whatever party he was sucking up to were in the couple of thousand-dollar range.
He registered Republican near the end of Reagan's run. He flipped to Independent in the middle of Clinton's presidency. He switched to the Democrats when Bush took office. He flipped to republican the year Obama got in, even though the roast switch* was two years before the roast in question.
The Republicans knew that once Obama got in, they could weaponize race and he turned out to be the face they were looking for to empower the right extremists and moderates.
Trump knew he needed an enemy if he wanted his populism to take hold, Obama was the obvious choice, it wasn't really anything Obama did. That he's black is just icing on the cake, let him spin populism and racism together into one tapestry of bullshit.
trump has been a known racist against blacks, like FATHER LIKE SON, he got it from fred trump. and he also dint like black people in his reality show too.
That's bollocks though, Trump was washing money for Russian billionaires through most of the 90s. Putin put him where he is.
Him and every other CIA asset at the time.
Putin put him where he is.
If anything, Trump put Putin where he is. But, more realistically, it was the Clinton CIA / State Department that elevated Putin, with Trump simply operating as a bag man.
And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?
Well, we had it because Hillary positioned Trump as a cat's paw within the Republican Primary, hoping he'd be able to soften up Jeb and Cruz in the primary, while she finished them off at the general election.
Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.
Can't forget how many Democrats showed up in the Epstein emails, texts, and flight logs. Dude was giving Larry Summers "how to cheat on your wife" advice.
Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates!
Projecting his own insecurities on plaques under photos of past presidents.
I'm waiting for him to start gold-plating and framing his own tweets.
These will one day be hung in a museum as a warning, lest we forget. Unfortunately, humanity is just an endless cycle of repeating the same mistakes, so nothing will be learned.
I have to imagine that Trump will probably insist that he's interred in a glass case or something rather like Stalin. We won't even have to do any embalming either because I imagine the bronzer will probably prevent decomposition.
Grind him into a paste, turn the paste into hot dogs, and feed them to his imprisoned henchmen.
Nothing will be learned because those in power don't want the masses educated and the masses are undereducated enough to not care.
Those currently in power, they love the uneducated.
The Singularity of Ignorance: When you make the population too dumb to care about being so dumb.
We used to punish kids that did petty shit like that.
I hope the next Democratic President strolls through the White House with a staff trailing behind taking notes, as they point to various things and say: "Take that down, destroy that, replace that, all THIS shit has to go, tear that down, arrest him, him, her, and him, burn that..."
They're gonna have to fumigate the white house and remove all the child pornography first
Anyone trying that hard absolutely knows that they are the problem, and are desperately, desperately trying to deflect.
Social media and media aggregation has promoted trolls into places where they're stuck sucking their own dicks to shock people, while also being incompetent leaders and managers.
Trump is clearly suffering from BDS and ODS.
On the one hand, this is absokutely juvenile. On the other hand, why are Americans so obsessed with displaying and counting past presidents?
Most countries have a record or a area of photos of past leaders and this is a purely Trump thing, Trump made the walk of fame, it never existed before Trump.
What do mean "obsessed"? It's just a plaque. There are a billion plaques out there for things less important than the presidency.
This is Ethan Klein levels of petty
Bullshit bullshit everyday, lalalala
This is year one btw and it's not over yet
Don't worry, if I ever become president, I'll have any pictures of Trump edited to show his true colours by replacing him with a Russian flag since he's Putin's lap dog.
Trump's plaque should contain the aepstein files
However he dies, it won’t be painful enough.
Or soon enough
Always disappointed, never surprised.
This President is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met! Do not trust hi! He is a fugly slut!!
nastiest skank bitch
We'll put that under his portrait in the White House
It's so hilarious. Everyone knows who is actually the most divisive president splitting up the people and turning them against each other. Incredible.
There is plenty of worthless shit to remove for the next president.
It's so much, I can only imagine. Was in DC recently and you can see his name just boldly prepended to stuff that looks way older lol, sticks out like exactly the absurdist, garish, self-evidently temporary sore thumb that it is.
I haven't gotten the sense any of his kids have anything like the weird Trump charisma the fucker does have, so even if the country doesn't magically get better when he's gone, it's just hard to see anyone taking seriously the idea that any of the renamings and such will last even 10 years.
Exception for if he gets (foolishly) martyred and they can turn his name into some weird gross symbol for a longer term hatefest.
Sure, because the next President will be better?
Rent free...
Lol the orange turd calls Biden the worst president in history, while Biden is the best president we've had since Obama.
Is this real or AI fake?
Good question. It's real. Crazy times, eh?
What the fuck?
Man what a thin-skinned little bitch
And when the orange turd dies or otherwise is out of office, those plagues should be removed and one of them re-added below the Trump portrait calling him 'the worst President in American history' and 'divisive'
The fact he can just shows how far gone the us is, yet each insane thing that happens gets only a mild bitching online as the loss involved in righting the ship grows exponentially.
It's cute that you think that Trump won't still be president in 2028
like, sure, he'll be dead from being in such incredibly poor health, but don't worry he'll still rule as an AI chatbot
And then the conservatives wouldn't shut up about it for about 12 years. I got so sick of hearing them go on about that note.
Or Hillary's email. Or Hunter's laptop. Or how the 2020 election was corrupt. A bunch of people who peaked midway through high school and haven't matured a day since.
Worse than Jackson?!?
Jackson tied with Wilson for worst.
I couldn't agree more
Horrendous.
You a word there. And I agree 100% with your position.
Congrats on choosing a worse result yet again then, by utterly misunderstanding their incentive structures and government function.
This mentality only makes you feel good; it doesn't do good.
I hate Republicans so I will ensure they stay in office because I'm incredibly petty and stupid.
FTFY
He truly is the embodiment of America
obama and biden are NOT even the worst presidents, and they're NOT even divisive either. oh the projection...
Both Obama and Biden administrations ended in the election of Donald Trump. That's pretty bad.
i really wish trump would be hit with a scandal so bad that he'd become a recluse in 2015
I'm pretty sure that on any given week of his administration president dumbshit has done something so scandalous that it would have completely ended anyone else's career. He only survives because his cult doesn't care at all about what he does, only that he makes "the Libs" angry and hurts the "right people."
I re-listened to We didn't start the fire (the bad fall out boys version). Still don't like it, but it has the line 'trump gets impeached twice'. Would be funny if the song became popular again
we need to form an alternative socialist government of the united states as a micronation. seriously!
Wonder what he’ll add to this exhibit next
You people still "America"?
Shit... I'm just floating existing as a human with no flag.
If America wants to kill me I'll walk into the bullets and escape this fraudulent excuse of human life.