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Trump confuses Obama for Biden again at Virginia rally speech (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 191 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You know. I supported Trump before he ever ran for president. I could look passed the grab them by the pussy thing; the racism thing; the white supremacy thing; the rape thing; the epstein thing; the incoherent speech thing; the nepotism; the criminal activity; him sucking off putin; the dictator thing; etc. etc.

But to hear him confuse Biden for Obama, I'm out.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 months ago

could look passed

sigh

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

Sorry =[

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Props for letting it ride and not editing

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

You could always edit...

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Than the follow up comment seems weird.

[-] aninnymoose@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Than

Sigh

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh no!

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[-] corymbia@reddthat.com 27 points 3 months ago

Am assuming this is completely tongue-in-cheek.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This case is super obviously sarcastic, but I'm going to use this to push the idea people should use irony or sarcasm punctuation, but none are available in unicode yet for some reason. That needs to change. I know we can use /s, but I hate that representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

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[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It has to be. Right?

Right?

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[-] frunch@lemmy.world 101 points 3 months ago

Trump can mistake Hillary Clinton for his wife and it's not gonna change a god damn thing. He's a fuckin dope, and if people don't get it by now they're never gonna get it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIuYQ_4TcXg

[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 34 points 3 months ago

They get it alright. They like him for what he is.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

They want to shoot people.

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

They do and he empowered them to get loud and fight for their "beliefs". We're all like "Great, another folksy dope remark, from the folksy dope", but they see their own view on things confirmed by the great, successful & rich version of themselves.

At least that's what I've come to believe, after all these years of jaw dropping things said and done. The reaction to most things Trump does and says, should be a "No" in unison from every human being that can add 1 and 1.

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[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

Trump thinks about black men a lot.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He's obsessed with Obama. This event literally changed history. Trump may not have run without such humiliation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago

He’s demented. Literally.

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[-] vegeta@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Because everyone knows Obama is secretly controlling the Deep State from his hidden bunker compound in his original birthplace of Kenya. /s

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's seriously what maggots think. All of them. I watch a lot of their media and so many of the elected politicians still even say "who's actually doing that, not Biden, is it Obama?". Like they could come up with detailed conspiracy theories that would take someone just a few searches to realize its bullshit. But they don't even need to do that anymore. The population is so retarded that all they need to do is reference that last guy they hated. Biden is a senile and incompetent, right? MUST BE OBAMA. Who they still think is either African or Middle Eastern and never showed iz gurd dam berf ferticate.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I never understood the Kenya thing. Even if he was born there, his mother being an American citizen at the time of his birth makes him a natural born American citizen and eligible for the presidency. Hell, McCain was born outside the US and was running against him in the same election.

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[-] bolzolol@feddit.de 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Is this the election for US presidency or for who runs the next bingo evening at the local nursing home? Can’t make this shit up

[…]

At 77 and 81 respectively, Trump and Biden are the oldest people to run for the presidency in US history. “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word. You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today,” said Trump, on Saturday night in Richmond.

The crowd reportedly went silent as the Trump referenced Obama, who left office more than seven years ago. It’s the third time Trump has made the blunder in the past six months.

[…]

Trump’s mistake came the day after Biden, twice confused Ukraine and Gaza as he announced that the US would airdrop humanitarian supplies to Palestinians in Gaza who are dying of starvation due to the Israeli bombardment and blockades.

“In the coming days, we’re going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops of additional food and supplies into Ukraine,” Biden said on Friday. The US will “seek to open up other avenues into Ukraine, including possibly a marine corridor”, he added.

A White House official later clarified that Biden meant Gaza – not Ukraine.

[…]

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[-] theotherverion@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

What I wonder is if there will ever be a Gen X president.

So far it's been:

Name	Generation
Nixon	"Greatest"
Ford	"Greatest"
Carter	"Greatest"
Reagan	"Greatest"
HW Bush	"Greatest"
Clinton	Boomer
Dubya	Boomer
Obama	Boomer
Trump	Boomer
Biden	Silent

If it hadn't been for Biden, the Silent Generation (1925 - 1945) would have been skipped too. The clustering of birth years is interesting too. Both Nixon and Ford were born in 1913. Both Carter and HW Bush were born in 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all born in 1946.

[-] IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

It's horrifying to hear people talking about WWIII when we're still dealing with the effects of the last one.

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[-] takeda@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

He is not senile. It was a joke. It's just that Alzheimer made him forget he already used it.

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[-] psyc@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

And for some reason there’s a video of Biden on the article instead

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

That's just how it works. Trump loses 40% of the Republican vote in Michigan, And it shows his strength. Biden loses 20% of the vote in Michigan, and it shows his weakness.

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[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi 14 points 3 months ago

USA continuously confuses Trump and Biden for good candidates though, which seems like a worse mistake.

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Please stop with the false equivalence

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Obamna SODA!!!! moment

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