Poll Names Trump as Worst American in History, Republicans Say He’s Greatest
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Cmon guys, dont diminish his personal accomplishments. Hes easily one of the worst humans in history.
By character he is the worst perhaps. His lack of ability is his only redeeming quality.
The question is: top 10, top 5, or top 3?
Dunno. Was there ever any record of stalin raping and killing kids, hitler selling fake phones to the nazis or mousellini arresting an olympic athlete for allegedly cutting a 350' swath of liner from a pool? Did saddam ever get caught on tape saying 'grab em by the pussy' in arabic?
I think not!
Who was the guy who had John the Baptist decapitated because he made a promise to his own niece while she gave him a lap dance?
I'm not saying that's as bad as trump, but it kinda ranks up there
If you think trump is the greatest American then you probably belong in either prison or a psych ward.
Don't forget good old fashioned stupidity
We have a saying here in Denmark that roughly translates to: Dumber than allowed by the police.
By that logic they do indeed belong in prison for their stupidity. Except in USA the police is part of the problem too.
The police here are dumber than allowed by any other police in the world.
By design.
Have you seen police in the middle east? India? How police in African countries? North Korea? Columbia? Venezuela?
Want me to keep going? Chinese police are cool until you criticize them or the party
do any of those shoot babies just because the parent happens to be black?
Yes... Actually they do. And not because they "happen" to be black. But because they ARE black.
Imagine being Trump and seeing this.
It'd be so hard for him not to share the only poll where he's beating Obama.
Cult members believe dear leader is the best! More news at 8!
This unfortunately, truth nuke
He is america manifest. Many see him as ugly, but many also see him as their man, because he is like them. Plain speaking, insaitable greed, and bigoted
Don't forget pedophile. We all know that he and all his supporters are either pedophiles or support pedophilia. As indicated in the TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES (TM)
Edit: typo
Don’t forget blame-shifters
That living anus can barely put a sentence together.
He’s literally the opposite of Steve Rogers
Perpetual victims
Ah yes, but you see, I've recently discovered that all Republicans are most likely cunts, so we shouldn't take their opinion too seriously
Cunts are actually useful.
Yes, and I'm quite fond of them
No, they're right cunts. Right cunts are a whole nother thing.
Explain? I am not opposed to right cunts as there are no wrong cunts in my view. But you might be a Rightphobe.
Right cunts are blokes who won't budge up on the tube and think etiquette and decency is a load of codswallop. Regular cunts are just genetalia.
I love cunts. Soft. Warm. Slippery. And the best part - they make babies.
They're not cunts. They lack the depth and warmth.
24 hour cable news, and repealing the fairness doctrine, led us directly to this
Well, and the overarching Southern Strategy that took wild advantage of those two things.
Historians will likely rank him as the worst.
Assuming mankind survives the environmental murder
A lot of people won't, but that's a sacrifice he's willing to make
What the fuck is wrong with these republicans who still think hes the greatest president ever? Are they just purely racism and hatred and see him as their mascot? Are they so stupid and uninformed that they drink the koolaid and believe everything that comes out of Fox News and Trumps mouth? I have never understood what people see in that piece of shit. I have hated since back in the day when he did his stupid ass cameo in Home Alone 2. He has always been a sleazy fucking rat bastard that turns everything he touches to shit. I can't believe that so many people bought the bullshit persona they made up for him on the Apprentice...
Above all, they enjoy getting people like you angry.
They’re annoyed that people experience empathy and curiosity.
They don’t.
They just want to be ignorant bigots without challenge or second thought.
They’re tired of living with people who are genuinely BETTER HUMAN BEINGS than them.
It makes them feel weak and stupid and pathetic.
Don’t hide. Be loud. Remind them. Don’t let them get a moment of respite from the crushing weight of ideas that come from people who actually give a shit.
What a pathetic existence.
That’s pretty spot on.
I started it when Jordon Klepper starts to speak. He gives a really good idea of what he things they're thinking and why. He's a great source since he's been interviewing them since the beginning. (37:21) https://youtu.be/oLoXaZoeCoE?t=2241
The rest of it is great too, but this deals with your question directly.
Humans are social creatures. Facts don't matter. Emotions and social belonging matter. So people who are just immersed in trump-stuff are going to think it's all normal and good, and reject contrary facts from the out group.
This is part of why right wing media is so dangerous. It feeds the in-group solidarity
For sure. He was a joke long before he ever got into politics. Only now he's not funny anymore. What I can't figure out is whether they genuinely believe he's a good president, or the trolling level has gotten so good that we can't even tell. Makes no material difference, but just thinking about it goves me a headache.
I disagree. Those that voted for him are the worst Americans in history.
Voting for a paedophile says more about the voter than it does about the paedophile.
Trump cultists going to act like typical cultists
Benedick Arnold.
The Government of Putin will continue to support their pedo, felon, rapist and draft dodging sack of shit. However, the Old Guard Democrats allowed this shit to continue and they are just as responsible for the ongoing disaster.
In other news - Water is wet.
In 10 to 18 years, I bet Trump gets memory holed by the Republican Party, much like George W. Bush. They will move on, and they will try to pretend that Trump and MAGA had never existed.
The core of MAGA is Trump, and no one has been able to really duplicate it. And Trump is an old man who is already slowing down. There is no succession plan. I think the movement dies with him, maybe with his presidency. And then they pretend they never supported him.
He's bad, but I'm pretty sure Jackson's genocide murdered more people, no?
Ill be interested to know the headcount from DOGE
Have we all forgotten his handling of COVID?
Nope, not at all
Nope. Not tolerate g anything like that again.
Good point.
Historians estimate that Jackson caused the death of 10,000 to 15,000 native Americans.
It's projected that Trump's defunding of USAID will kill around 14 million by 2030. 4.5 million of those will be children under the age of 5 (See Lancet study.) Throw in his health care roll backs, social services withdrawals, suicides from tariffs, etc. and that figure goes a lot higher.
Did you forget about when willfully allowed COVID to spiral into a pandemic, which is probably still killing people? Way way more.
The respirators killed more people than the Rona. Rona isn't out there killing many people. I am amazed anyone would still be pushing that narrative.
This is goddamned bullshit and you're despicable to suggest it. The SHORTAGE of respirators definitely cost lives, particularly as hospitals became overwhelmed. And if you think that was "fake", fuck you. Fuck you straight to hell. Some of us lived it.
And some of us were in the hospital for over a month wondering if we were going to make it out.
I am only alive because my doctor said to not put me on a resp. So f you too.
Which was the course of treatment right for YOU, you stupid fuck. Saying they respirators were killing people writ large is a dumb fuck ignorant misrepresentation.
I didn't say they killed people writ large. But the success rate of people coming off of regulators is sketch. Granted there are a lot of circumstance to that. In the same vein you can't say they saved a bunch of people.
I...fucking what? Did you just claim devices that assist breathing killed people?
No I certainly did not. Taking them off of them and putting them on them at a time they didn't need to did
@SalamiDommie @RampantParanoia2365 What in the universe is your source for this?
There's little in my profile but there's less in Salami's. Looks botty to me, folks. Sounds it, too.
Interesting... I didn't think anyone thought of Albert Einstein as American. I'm aware of what his situation was, but I didn't expect to see him on this list.
repugs are every bit as rancidly nasty as their "dear leader"
Your mistake is thinking he is a president.
He’s a failed businessman, pedophile, turned traitor, turned conman, turned fascist dictator.
The US is not a democracy anymore, Americans should stop pretending it is and start thinking about their new lives
Its easier for them to say that lie than admit they made a mistake voting for him.
Similar to the quote attributed to Mark Twain.
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
If this isn't proof that modern day Republicans are part a cult, I don't know what is. I mean, at the very least, Lincoln (stopped slavery), Teddy (inspiring teddy bears), and Reagan (powering the US economy) were better presidents than Trump (killing people during COVID).
He's competing with Buchanan for worst president ever. That even being a conversation should be embarrassing.
Buchanan barely makes the top 10 worst list. Jackson and Wilson did far more damage to the country directly. Heck most of Buchanan's presidency was just cleaning up the infighting of Jackson's cabinet. Top 5 worst? Three way tie between Jackson, Wilson, and Trump for first. Polk and either Nixon or Reagan round out the top 5.
Trump has killed far more than Jackson. Don't forget COVID is literally his fault for removing early prevention people, trashing protocol, and then ignoring it for as long as possible.
True, but Jackson also paid off the national debt, causing the longest and deepest (by percentage of the economy, not by sheer dollar value) depression in the entire history of the country. I'm not limiting damage to just fatalities/casualties.
Ronnie Raygun has to rank in the top 5 for sure. Most criminal administration in history (objectively) up until that point.
Nixon and Raygun are tied for me. Nixon was pretty damn criminal as well.
Shouldn't he be like "average american" considering he represents americans internationally?
Republicans also don't properly wash their asses cause touching themselves there is gay.
Either way, he is the most american American in history. He is the essence of your wretched country. You may strive to be something better, but this is who you are.
Not really any different than so many other countries taken over by bullies. Humans suck everywhere - it's just a matter of when in history (or future history) you chose to look that you catch some being worse than others at that moment. Jump to another time, and the game of musical chairs will have the bullies sitting somewhere else, but still doing the same shit.
Thanks for the pointless generalized hatred. Really helps us get better, being hated by assholes on the Internet.
Please note this is not directed at you personally as I'm sure you are a good person on an individual level.
Speaking as a Canadian I, and many of us, are absolutely fed up of your bullshit because regardless of if you personally voted for that shithead and every other shithead around him like Lutnick or Hoefstra this is who the country wants representing them.
This is also not new behaviour. We have known for decades we are attached to a big brother we love dearly but also happens to run a meth lab in their house and beats their wife.
You need help. Honest to God you need help. Yet all your country can do is punch down and wail about the rest of the world not bending over when you tell it to.
We tried helping you get better. We continue to try because we love you. But Jesus Christ get your shit together.
Thank you for still caring
How could we not care? You're our brother after all. But it hurts a lot so much that yes we are making distance now. Not because we stopped caring, but it hurts us as well.
Regardless of what people think about Carney or Pollievre the numbers show average Canadians are not going to America anymore and average Canadians want to distance ourselves from America.
Americans writ large are not aware of the generational damage being wrecked on their nation. This will take decades if not centuries to heal at best and may never return to what it once was.
You cannot both generalize all of this and also not direct it at members of the group. America is fucked, and telling the people most aware and most upset by it that they're fucked isn't helping. Oh you didn't direct it at me? Do you want me to force magats to read this comment? I'll never understand the point in this kind of conversation. The effect is literally nothing but rubbing it in while being self righteous.
Where isn't fucked?
I used to see value in Canadian Moralism. Now I just see it self righteous high horsing. Their claim to political fame, Pierre Trudeau, has had every remaining thread of dignity shredded by his son.
Canadians have decided it is sufficient to make their single standpoint "well at least we're not Americans". And submitted themselves to being easily manipulated media puppets who no longer know their "big brother" because they believe everything their manipulative parents tell about him.
It really sucks because there are some core ideas that are really nice, completely overshadowed by the country’s terrible behavior. The things we were led to believe about ourselves in school would make for a genuinely good society. The secularism, multiculturalism, access to opportunity, many freedoms beyond reproach, etc. Our leaders have for centuries now talked about these and still mostly failed to deliver.
Well that’s on all of us, but given the outsized influence of the rich, I’m happy to shirk much of our responsibility onto them.
I don't think you had a choice in the matter of oligarchs already having a million times more power than we could ever dream of having.
That is how they become oligarchs.
We just all need to stop thinking money has value or something.
I mean... In the theory of currency and exchange we understand that it doesn't.
Failed to deliver? As opposed to whom else?
Ha, you are going to fall too. You aren't special, this is a worldwide fascist coup.
Never said differently. Like you said, we aren't any more special than anybody else.
There is a chance we'll make it through this better than we were, however. Progressives have been on a roll since Mamdani won NYC mayor late last year. Hopefully that continues until there are enough in place to displace the establishment politicians and make REAL changes that work for everybody.
I like your enthusiasm. But without white populists we are doomed to fail.
Progressive white populists like Graham Platner are emerging.
That is true, there is that guy.
Good to see a great president like Trump in USA!
Good to see have a good president in USA like Trump. Thank you president ! 👌😅
I voted for the slob 3 times. He officially crossed the line this time. About 40 times. Fuck this guy, man. So much for "no more wars"... and quite literally every single other thing he promised. I'm used to that with presidents, but dang, man. He REALLY fumbled every ball, and he's having them launched at him.
How were you this stupid? Have you only recently learned to read?
Well, I think it's normally worth welcoming someone who has changed their view, not calling them stupid.
Why has he changed his view? Is it because he doesn't like the policy or character of the man, or is it because fuel prices went up?
And he's also making ridiculous assumptions. The fact I already stated one reason why my opinion changed and he didn't even read it is telling. You're a dick, dude. How is your personality any better than Trump's? Lmao
They're downvoting you now, too. See, this is the problem. You just can't win with 'em.
You voted for Trump. Three times.
We're not looking for apologies. It's way too late for that. We're all in this shit stain world because of you.
You've helped cause untold harm and even death to millions of people by voting, three times you admit, for a clearly fascist conman pedophile. You now say, well whoops I guess, and expect "them" to welcome you with open arms? Nah, fuck every single last one of you fascist fucks, going to take some serious accountability measures before any of you are welcomed back into the what little remains of the civil society you helped torch.
Because I wanted serious change. And to a point, I got it. Unfortunately, we became Israel's warmongering lapdog and either got promises 25% fulfilled, or forgotten about entirely. Why are you insulting me?
I just don't understand how any person could vote for him more than once. It wasn't a secret that he is totally incompetent, spiteful and extremely stupid after just a couple days of him being in charge the first time. His first term was a clown show where he continuously fired his staff. If you somehow think he's going too far only now, then frankly it says a lot about you and your lack of sense, empathy and political literacy.
His values have constantly shown that he is sexist, racist, greedy, slovenly and generally hateful. If you have voted for him three times, frankly, you probably are those things as well.
I kind of wish I would have voted for him once. I've had 3 chances...
Why?
I'm kinda curious as to what it must have felt like. I suppose the phrase would be "morbid curiosity".
Also I kind of wish I would have voted the second time and that he would have won the first second time. So we would have only had 8 years of Trump instead of the +12 we are going to get.
It would feel like approving white nationalism.
Because I am not a Democrat, nor a leftist in any way. I do not stand for their ridiculous shit the same way I do not stand for what Trump is now doing. Believe it or not, people can have different views from you. The fact you don't understand that says a lot more about your intelligence than my own. Relax, bud.
Genuinely curious what the ridiculous shit is in your eyes. I generally see most people want the same end goals (better lives for all/most) and the nuances are just in the execution.
And it is this sentiment that will keep you voting for shysters and con-men and voting against your own best interest.
The shit he started was stupid, racist, and generally abhorrent
That says a lot about you
Took a while, but we finally found why they voted for trump 3 times. Racism.
Yeah - shit libs make everything shitty.
Their "everything is a nail because I have a hammer" approach to everything stops all conversation.
Remember everyone. He doesn't believe in everyone having affordable access to healthcare. He doesn't believe in free or subsidized education. He doesn't believe in fair wages. He doesn't believe in affordable housing for all. He doesn't believe in human rights.
That's all "ridiculous shit". You're a loser dude.
I honestly wonder in what way you think the Democrats are worse than the Republicans. Even before Trump turned the Republicans into a clown show, it was the party of greed, selfishness and corruption. Bush lied to start a war with Iraq. Reagan destroyed the middle-class because rich people needed to get richer. They've supported wars for oil, lies about the environment, sinking people deeper into debt.
I completely agree that the Democrats are not always great, but at their worst, they're almost as bad as the Republicans. Never worse. Everything bad they've done, the Republicans have done worse.
Fuck your feelings. You remember that? You've thrown in with a cult that has been singly focused on being as destructive and as obnoxious as humanly possible for over a decade, and now you're getting your feelings hurt? Did you actually believe that Donald "losers and suckers, I prefer people who didnt get captured" Trump was anti-war? Then you are, or at least were, a moron.
Well thankfully we have you here to be the moral one amongst us. With a little bit of luck we might be so fortunate to grow up and be just like you.
Thank you for gracing us with your presence.
I'm sure glad I'm not rabid and angry like you guys are. Jesus Christ. Maybe this site was a mistake.
Did you expect a cookie? I mean good job, you finally realized you made a mistake three times in a row after it's too late to do anything about it.
I have good money that says that if he bothers to vote again, it'll be for a Republican cunt.
Oh he'll 100% vote for Trump again as he runs for an illegal third term.
I wouldn't mind voting for a Republican woman. But Pelosi was a little too crazy for me. Seemed like a nice lady though, just not suited for politics. Despite wearing a suit.
Also don't call women cunt's. They don't like that.
The mistake was that every Trump voter didn't dribble down their mother's thigh
Now this is an awesome comment. Also I love your name.
I would also enjoy the real shame is that they weren't shot into their mother's ass. Because their entire life has been shit. Also a lot of 6th graders on badwomensanatomy might believe that is how babies are born.
Another fun one might be "shot onto their mother's glasses". Because facials are fun.
You do realize you voted for a rabid angry man 3 times? So the response to there being a rabid angry hateful man is anger. I think that is more than justified
Ignore them. They're pathetic people.
The irony is palpable
Name checks out
Trump's political platform being that of a racist, rapist, homophobic uncle from the 1950s was fine, though
His political platform is more that of a late 80s early 90s Dem. Far less the ist-phobe German National Socialist you claim.
The thing is... you really suck both at politics and at being a troll. It's an impressive display of inadequacies.
We haven't known each other long enough for you to make such a valuation. Give it some time and I am willing to let you say such things.
What in the ever-loving fuck are you even talking about, holy shit.
Do forget his Muslim bans?
And that did what?
Dog whistles for his base, the potus, and his supporters being ok with white nationalism. Hence the jan6 insurrection
Do you mean the 1880s? Nothing about his platform has ever been anything like the postwar Dems.
Fuck you for being a part of this shitty problem
Don't breed.
Fuck you. The world is a worse place because of fucking morons like you.
Zero sympathy, you voted for the massive shitshow.
He's been fumbling balls since before he was elected in 2016, what made you think he would be a good potus? Why was his string of failures in 2016 not enough for you to not vote for him 2 more times?
Man admits he voted for Trump three times on a platform filled with left-leaning views and then is surpised he gets taken for task.
If this isnt a troll, boy you walked into this one. Then again, you fell for a conman three times in a row.
Can you explain what made you vote for him 3 times? Because that's something I honestly don't understand.
The first time I can understand. It was already known how corrupt he was, but most of the media ignored it and I can understand how you didn't know. But surely after his first term, it must have been pretty clear what a terrible person he was? How corrupt he was?
Many members of his own cabinet, people who believed and supported him, spoke out against him. Mattis, McMaster, Tillerson, Pence, Bolton, Kelly and tons of others pointed out his incompetence, his corruption and his extremism.
I can forgive voting for him once, because you didn't know. But 3 times!? How does that happen?
Geest that you have seen the light.
I have had this thought the last few years. I have had 3 chances to vote for Trump. What would it have been like to vote for him once? I mean,once would have had to have felt good right?
But I've missed my chances. Wonder who we will get to vote for next