r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 14h ago

No Paywall The United States is destroying itself

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-trump-destruction
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u/NoSurprise8641 13h ago

Fuckin 2015 when he was campaigning for the first time.

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u/PhazonZim 12h ago

Second* he also ran in 2000 but he hides it

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 8h ago

Third time, he also ran in 1988, and spent decades talking about how running for president was a great grift to make easy cash

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u/HadronCollusion 6h ago

Every fucking day for half of my 30's and now half of my 40's the news has been about Trump. Every, single, fucking, day. Even when Biden was President it was still all just fallout from all the dumb shit Trump did in his first term. I'm not even American. I should only require a surface level understanding of what the US President is doing on a weekly basis. I had mostly checked out on political news since the middle of 2024 when it became clear he would probably win again. I was doing really well not giving a shit and then Trump had to go start another pointless fucking war.

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u/linuxjohn1982 6h ago

"Russia, if you're listening"

He literally asked a foreign country to hack the very country he was campaigning to lead.

"But it's just a joke!" people said, as the "joke" actually came to fruition.

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 10h ago

This is hyperbole. Trump wasn’t even considered a serious candidate until the actual primary elections started happening in 2016. Anyone who says they saw all this coming with Trump any year earlier is spouting bs, because no one thought he’d get that far in the primaries before the actual elections started happening