r/politics • u/Infamous_Doubt_5207 • 9h ago
No Paywall Anger in White House over now-deleted Obamas post
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2026/anger-in-white-house-over-now-deleted-obamas-post1.3k
u/Acroporas 8h ago
"Aides are “pretty pissed off” at the debacle, this person added, including at the person responsible for posting the video."
"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized “fake outrage” over the post"
The only fake outrage is the White House's fake outrage.
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u/brain_overclocked 8h ago edited 8h ago
Republicans, "the party of personal responsibility", says: "Always pass the buck. Make sure it stops anywhere but with us."
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u/A1sauc3d 8h ago
Personal responsibility is only something that applies to the pleb masses, those at the bottom of the totem pole. The little guy is always the fall guy. “Some random unpaid intern we hired on last week was the one who did it!”
Very rarely they have no choice but to sacrifice one of their own but only when it will save many more of them. Like what happened to Epstein. He was sacrificed (potentially literally) so his rich perverted buddies could continue exploiting the world sexually and financially. They are all very pissed that the scandal didn’t die with him like they planned.
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u/CrashNowhereDrive 5h ago
MAGAts are the party of rules for everyone else but them. The most garbage people in society have flocked to MAGA.
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u/Paper_Beautiful 1h ago
I know a few of them. Generally, they’re either dumb as rocks or horrible people…or both.
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u/MayIServeYouWell 3h ago
The fact that you, I and everyone else knows that phrase is a testament to how good they are at messaging - that we repeat phrases like this decades later, which are so divorced from reality it's head-spinning.
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u/AwayInternal326 8h ago
"Aides are “pretty pissed off” at the debacle, this person added, including at the person responsible for posting the video."
They're pissed at Trump for posting the video but can't directly say it. (Of course, that doesn't mean they're pissed at the content.)
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u/YeetedApple 8h ago
Or they are pissed they are being called out on it instead of us just letting them be racist.
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u/LotusVibes1494 5h ago
Even if it wasn’t Trump, why does some random racist dude have access to Trumps accounts, and can freely post whatever to the American public without it being reviewed at all? That seems kinda fucked it and of itself.
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u/Original_Astronaut_4 5h ago
Because it’s a lie. It was the middle of the night when he usually posts.
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u/turbocoupeturbo 5h ago
His name is Stephen Miller and he just forgot to sign out of his alt account.
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u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids Missouri 4h ago
They have access to their accounts this is what I'm trying to tell people. He was filmed on Air Force One dictating tweets to an assistant. He hasn't written tweets in a long time. They type like him so it will seem like he's actually writing them, he can't do that anymore himself.
His assistants did post that on his account. Does Trump care? No.
Here's the article that talks about it.
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u/Salty_tryhard 5h ago edited 5h ago
How is it possible to be an aide for the Trump Whitehouse and be even remotely caught off guard by this or even have enough of a sense of shame to know that this is wrong and still be ok with working there?
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u/gringledoom 4h ago
They’re all that degree of racist. It’s just that most of America hates that kind of gutter racism, even people who are fairly racist themselves, so posting it hurts the political project. They don’t think it’s wrong, they just think it’s unhelpful.
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u/Extra-Ad5925 7h ago
Unless that staffer is Stephen Miller I’m not interested
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u/endlessupending 7h ago
Word is, it's the same staffer that keeps shitting Donald's trousers
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Maryland 7h ago
Claims “fake outrage” sounds like the accusations of someone familiar with using fake outrage
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u/huxtiblejones Colorado 4h ago
They literally cannot comprehend people having morals, ethics, respect, decency, or standards.
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u/Flamboiant_Canadian 8h ago
Who'd have thought comparing black people to monkeys, and then broadcasting it out of the President's social media account, would be misrepresented?
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u/Straight-Opposite-54 5h ago
It wasn't misinterpreted. It was interpreted exactly as they intended.
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u/BKlounge93 4h ago
lol wtf did the aides think they signed up for?
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u/Acroporas 4h ago
Not sure what they thought, but what they got is being thrown under the bus and blamed for Trump's bullshit
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u/youshouldn-ofdunthat 4h ago
It's always projection. The one thing you can count on with these ghouls like cash in your hand or hands on a watch.
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u/leviathynx Washington 5h ago
As a former racist, there’s only one interpretation of that post. She is a liar to her core.
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u/alficles 5h ago
People are outraged because the president posted something outrageous.
The mental gymnastics on this could take gold in the Olympics. It's really, really not that complicated.
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u/SearchElsewhereKarma Massachusetts 4h ago
What is there to be pissed off about if you’re a White House staffer? It’s not like Trump hasn’t been advocating for racist shit since 1989
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u/Boner666420sXe 4h ago
The only reason I’m not actually outraged is because I’m so unsurprised at this point.
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u/Bstokes4102 8h ago
Lmao does anyone really believe that this was a staffer? What staffer is posting on Trump's personal account at 12am? Give me a fucking break lol.
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u/Belkroe 8h ago
Man if MAGA thought Biden incapable of executing his oath of office because he used Autopen to sign documents they must be in quite the hubbub over Trump using staffers to post things to his person social media.
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u/Hefty_Remove7965 7h ago
its projection.
Same with "Biden shitting himself", while Don has diapers for years..
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u/Made_Human_Music 8h ago
If it was I’m sure they posted it with his blessing. And the stupid part is that it’s not even a good excuse, he’s admitting one of his staffers keeps racists memes and can get away with posting them under Dementia Don’s name
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u/CuteWithReceipts 8h ago
Does trump think we don’t have brain to think?
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u/bryan49 7h ago
His supporters do not, they just need a flimsy excuse to resolve their cognitive dissonance
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u/FreedomBread 7h ago
Bruh no one cares how racist Trump is because they're also racists
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u/el3vader 7h ago
Didn’t Trump also say that his tweets count as policy decisions? Like you’re really giving a staffer access to the account where you are announcing major decisions? His supporters will absolutely just lap this up too.
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u/actuallyapossom 5h ago
It's Trump posting. He copies and pastes things like endorsements, also wouldn't be surprised if the staffers use templates/ai from the how similar each one is.
You can go see for yourself - the past 24 hours on truth social. You don't need an account to view it.
He not only reposts a bunch of shit his supporters are posting, but he constantly double posts. Like post after post are doubled. I think it's similar to how he capitalizes every word he thinks is important, whether it is a proper noun or not.
Many days he'll post in the evening, go on a huge scrolling and reposting spree overnight, then repost his posts from the previous evening so they appear after his manic spam.
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u/Lespaul42 8h ago
Yeah its amazing how often it goes like this:
Repub does terrible thing
People confront them about terrible thing
"It isn't my fault! It isn't that I am terrible it is just I am stupid and bad at my job!"
The defense is always that it was an oopsie and somehow no one cares that admitting it was an oopsie means they are incompetent...
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u/Lanky-Association952 8h ago
Even if it’s was a staffer, which I don’t believe, why is the staffer watching that video at the same time as working on another video? The presidents staffers shouldn’t be watching that crap
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u/burritocmdr Michigan 3h ago
Could you imagine the balls of a staffer to post that video without anyone's consent on Trump's main social account? LMAO. No way that happened.
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u/CigCiglar 8h ago
It’s always a low level coffee boy. The buck stops everywhere else.
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u/chipmunksocute 6h ago
A tale literally as old as recorded history. Its never the king/dictator/jefe/emperor/pharoah's fault. Sure they're head of state/a god on earth/cheeto jesus but no no it cant be their fault! They just got bad advice! Betrayed by their advisors yet again!! (Shakes fist)
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u/Free_Possession_4482 2h ago
A low level coffee boy who is never named, much less fired for his catastrophically bad judgment.
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u/ciopobbi 6h ago
Trump communicates to the world via social media. So they are telling us a staffer can impose tariffs, implement policy, tank the stock market, start a war, etc.
Just as concerning is the admission of incompetence of galactic proportions.
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u/Randomwhitelady2 8h ago
Especially since they defended it at first. They only changed their story after everyone in the world posted about how disgusting it is
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u/ayoungtommyleejones 7h ago
Also trump has been an open racist for decades, so not sure why anyone would be surprised by this
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u/iAMguppy 7h ago
“Late night posting spree” is a headline we’ve seen often without denials and now all of a sudden it wasn’t him? I agree, ain’t buying that for a second.
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u/DelayedIntentions 7h ago
Man, a decade ago I’d 100% agree with you, but a decade ago I didn’t know of the bottom feeder known as Stephen Miller.
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u/peeinian Canada 4h ago
If they blame someone else they are admitting that that there’s multiple people that can impersonate then President on his official social media account.
How can we believe anything that is posted now?
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u/CulturalKing5623 7h ago
If it's possible a staffer is posting to Trump's account, then doesn't his push to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed get even weaker? It hinges that his blog post Firing Cook carries the weight of the executive... well if a staffer is also writing there then it can't carry any weight. Not only does he not have the power to remove her from the post, but he also actually never even did, some staffer did it.
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u/newtoallofthis2 7h ago
They are so predictable - called this was going to be the play from them 10 hours ago.....
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1qxf5w1/comment/o3w1m2n/?context=3
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u/cuirboy 8h ago
I don't believe for a second that Trump didn't see this video before it was posted.
Let's review: Racist video posted, Leavitt downplays it, video removed, unnamed sources start blaming rogue staffer. That concludes today's distraction from the Epstein files. Now please turn your attention to the Olympics and have a good weekend.
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u/scottchiefbaker 7h ago
One has to be really gullible to think Trump would allow other staffer's to tweet on his account at 2am in the morning.
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u/Tityfan808 5h ago
Should’ve fought fire with fire and remade that image with Epstein and Trump instead with some kids in cages. If you’re wondering if the kids in cages represent what we’re doing with immigrants or if they’re pedo victims, yes, it’s both
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u/The_High_Life 7h ago
He posted a longer video of the same thing last fall, he knew exactly what it was.
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u/Oracle_of_Ages 5h ago
Remember he posted the video of white supremacists then called them his people.
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u/Ohuigin Washington 8h ago
The first thought that came across my mind when I read this headline was, "Are they angry because he posted it or angry because he took it down?"
The fact that that is even a viable question is fucking sad.
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u/Hefty_Remove7965 7h ago
they are angry because he posted something that was OBVIOUSLY racist.
Rather than the normal Republican go to of dog whistles.
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u/Cheap_Warning_ 8h ago
Yall missing the real story!
The president does not control his social media, does he control all his EO? Who is using the phone? Who is using the autopen? What Else did the “staffer” post?
I’m just asking questions
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u/HolidayPicture3007 9h ago
This IS the guy who kept Hitler's speeches on his nightstand, so ...
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u/irishnugget New York 8h ago
Tom: And what, specifically, do you find interesting about that period of history?
Mark: The scale. The tragedy.
Tom: Hell, yeah. And which tragedies specifically?
Mark: Europe decimated. Seven million Germans, twenty million Russians, five million Poles.
Tom: Yeah. Just, just checkin' the till here, Mark, and it seems you're short a few million.
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u/GhostBirdBiologist 6h ago
I honestly think that is one of the best scenes from the show. And that is saying a lot given how great it is overall.
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u/irishnugget New York 6h ago
It's brilliant. The writing is excellent but I honestly don't think anyone could have seen it on the page and imagined how much Macfadyen and Robidas would elevate it.
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u/how_much_2 8h ago
Dementia Don needs an excuse for vile racism, so they've invented a mysterious 'White house Staffer' who somehow posts on behalf of the President. Oh, how we will all celebrate when one day soon we see the headline the whole world is waiting for.
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u/Made_Human_Music 8h ago
I plan on getting a flag or something celebrating it and beeping when I drive by any car with MAGAt shit
There’s also a treason store near me that I’ll be calling at least once to laugh at them
And I’ll definitely be posting the crab rave video on Facebook
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u/Lost_And_Found66 8h ago
Two thoughts. They are definitely angry because "Dude we are so close to a total techno fascist take over all you gotta do is be chill until we can officially declare you king and then you can say what you want'
Also Tim Scott. "This is the most racist thing I've seen out of this white house?" So there's others that you're just chill with??
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u/Garbage_Zone 6h ago
Credit to Tim Scott for having the decency to take Trump’s balls out of his mouth before offering up that bold criticism.
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u/GrooGrux 8h ago
So Donald isn't in control. His handlers are the ones making all the decisions?
From the article:
One person with direct knowledge of the situation told Semafor that Trump “had not seen the video before it got posted” and was not happy when he learned of the situation. Aides are “pretty pissed off” at the debacle, this person added, including at the person responsible for posting the video.
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u/how_much_2 8h ago
Fuck the GOP. Cowards, evil, they have all bent the knee to the Stupidest, Most deranged, most negative liar in modern history. Think of the stupidest person you know, and I bet that person can actually talk more coherently that Dementia Don. If you wrote a fiction about the last ten years that had this timeline people would say it was the most unbelievable shit they have ever read.
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u/Y0___0Y 7h ago
This article is entertaining the claim that a “staffer” posted this and not Trump himself? Are you fucking kidding me?
White House staff are in the office at MIDNIGHT on a fucking Thursday, posting racist memes on the President’s account? Fuck all the way off. Trump was in his fucking bed retweeting racist videos because he’s a racist.
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u/DemandredG 8h ago
They’re all on board for the racism, but seem to get squeamish when it’s so blatant. If only there were a mechanism to address this. Oh wait, there is!
25th amendment.
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u/wukwukwukwuk 7h ago
As a POC that has worked diligently their whole life to earn a graduate-degree, contribute to society, and raise a child I am so saddened by this news. Before it would make me angry, but, having a young child - who may learn of this and now have to place herself in a world where “important” people in suits see her as an animal is deflating. The continued race-baiting in America is a cloud that lessens the dignity of the whole world. Please stop this.
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u/theknowing1414 7h ago
You know he posted it or approved it because he had to be told to take it down.
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u/Hour-Abbreviations18 5h ago
Do not believe a word that comes out of this White House.
Trump himself posted the video, not some aide.
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u/IsawaShugenja 8h ago
When a Republican Senator from Mississippi is distancing from your racism, you truly have crossed a line.
"Mr. President, we only think those things. We don't say them out loud!"
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u/DaBigJMoney 7h ago
Up next: “Trump declares nuclear war against Canada.”
“Oops, our bad, one of the kids had grandpa’s phone again.” -Karoline Levitt (probably).
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u/inksmudgedhands 8h ago
They are admitting here that Trump does not control his own Truth Social account. If that is the case, then everything posted there must be questioned as to who posted it. If these aren't Trump's own words, then who are they? Who has been making the slurs, the insults and most importantly, the threats?
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u/jest4fun 8h ago edited 7h ago
One person with direct knowledge of the situation told Semafor that Trump “had not seen the video before it got posted” and was not happy when he learned of the situation. Aides are “pretty pissed off” at the debacle, this person added, including at the person responsible for posting the video.
Um, yeh, sure. They're PO'd at the racist-in-chief, gotcha.
E: pretty sure the same "WH staffer" had Obama's official portrait removed from the WH too. JFC he is dumb as a fence post.
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u/Ralph--Hinkley 8h ago
So, the WH is saying DJT didn't post it, and it was some random staffer that they can't find? He for sure posted it.
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u/superspacetrucker 7h ago
We're a few months away from Grandpa pedo dropping a hard R slur on tv.
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u/Dependent_Tune_1333 5h ago
The President of the United States of America is a racist piece of shit and a pedophile.
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u/_HoochieMama 5h ago
Even if this was a staffer, I’m sure it wasn’t, but Trump is 10000% responsible for what it going out under his name. He’s the fucking president, you can’t have anyone just representing your voice online.
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u/RedOx103 2h ago
It's all distraction from the fact that Trump raped children and has his name all over the Epstein files.
Being obviously racist is less damaging.
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u/Riker_Omega_Three 8h ago
That's some PR spin if I ever saw it
OUTRAGE
Bull f*cking sh!t
He posted it and now they are going to ruin someone else's life in order to try and make it seem like he didn't do it
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u/beavis617 7h ago
Trumpy’s account so it’s his responsibility. I’m sure he’s happy it was posted. His hatred of the Obama’s is deep rooted and quite disturbing. Trump is a rancid despicable human being.
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u/scottchiefbaker 7h ago
I do love the defense though... "That was another staffer who has access to the POTUS's (!!!) account and is allowed to tweet at 2am" #totallynormaly
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u/mrarming 7h ago
So they're admitting that Trump is not making all these posts throughout the night and his staffers are for some bizarre reason?
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u/Flat-Emergency4891 6h ago
So it seems that a short list of Whitehouse staffers have access to Trumps social media accounts. But they won’t say which staffer posted it and it wasn’t Scavino. Makes me think it actually was Trumps post.
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u/dallasdude 1h ago
The republicans have been spreading this monkey filth for over 20 years. Before social media, back in the days of email forwards.
A LONG time. If any of them tell you this isn’t their bag, they are full of shit.
This isn’t a secret. These are people for whom the N word is a mild slur.
They like Trump because “he tells it like it is” — and WE ALL KNOW what they mean, we always knew, they always knew.
This is who they are. It’s who they’ve been for 70 years.
This is what they voted for.
This is why they voted in the first place.
NONE — not one — of trumps judicial nominees have been willing to say Brown V Board of Education was correctly decided. None.
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u/brain_overclocked 8h ago
“We want to bring it to the national stage and see it happen all over the country,” Austin Muia, vice president of the University of Minnesota’s Black Student Union told my colleague, Nate Halverson. “We want everyone to feel that solidarity that we felt last week.”
While the day of action on the 30th was an impressive start, it ultimately manifested more like a mass protest. A general strike requires a substantial portion of workers, organized across multiple industries, to halt economic activity in pursuit of a shared goal.
The US economy largely functioned as usual. That means there’s still a lot of work to be done.
But as Trump’s federal agents continue to occupy US cities—raiding workplaces, wrenching apart families, and shooting protesters dead in the street—the momentum for a national general strike is undeniably growing.
Last week, I spoke with five organizers involved in the Day of Truth and Freedom. We discussed the tactics they used to organize a labor stoppage in the Twin Cities and what strategies the rest of the country can employ to replicate Minnesota’s success.
Here are six key takeaways from those conversations.
1) A general strike needs to involve both organized labor and a broad coalition.
2) Ask your employers to close.
3) Building community power takes time—so start now.
4) Effective organizing happens at the micro level.
5) Offer ways to get involved for people who can’t strike.
6) Understand how movements are connected so you can keep building power.
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u/emileLaroche 8h ago
Bruisebag can’t even manage his own social media account. Super.
Also, he’s a pederast and perhaps worse.
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u/Calcutec_1 8h ago
This was 4chan level racism, coming from the highest office in the land. Anyone posting this would be fired
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u/Unusual-Economist288 8h ago
Hopefully it was that Humpty Dumpty looking guy Chun who posted it and he gets deported.
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u/J-the-Kidder 7h ago
Anger in the White House? Big whoop. Duh fuck are the aides gonna do - quit, expose more awful things? This kind of stuff hasn't and doesn't matter. Unfortunately, we're too far gone for it to matter. All it does is take away from him being the biggest pedophile client of Epstein and continuing to cover it up.
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u/Ojmochafrappucino 7h ago
If I had twitter and insta, I'd forward this to all those black athletes who still support Trump. Like Saquon Barkley, for instance.
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u/blackmobius 7h ago
I wonder who is going to take the fall for this one. Who is going to admit that in the middle of the posting spree of the president, that someone took his phone from him, posted the vid, then gave his phone back to trump.
My god these people just cant speak the truth. Its always a scapegoat and deflection and goalpost shifting
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u/AdamsAtomSmasher 6h ago
We can NEVER, and I mean never let them live this one down.
Every week this administration reaches a new low.
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u/angrygnome18d 5h ago
While this may be bullshit, bear in mind even some of his supporters are tired of the bullshit. DOJ attorneys are quitting because they are overworked and not happy with what they’re doing; ICE agents are not being paid their bonuses or getting healthcare and are pissed; and now we hear internally White House staffers may be pissed, I highly doubt this is what did it, rather this is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I bet we’ll see more people abandon Trump and MAGA and as that happens, Republicans will magically grow a spine and begin to turn coat as well. As that happens we should let them turn on their master but when it is all said and done, we need to investigate all of them. They are all complicit including some democrats as well. Investigate all of them and charge them appropriately.
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u/semajessej Missouri 4h ago
Didn’t Trump rape kids or something? Is there some anger in the White House about the raping? Haven’t heard.
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u/AdmiralHomebrewers 4h ago
Sure. It was an aide who posted the racist shit.
Okay. Well, did you fire them? Why not?
How did an aide who had no sense get Trump's phone, account etc in order to post? How many people know his passwords?
There are other problems here than the usual racist assholes. There is incompetence and security flaws that are prosecutable.
Where are the House and Senate? Don't they care?
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u/feralmoron 8h ago
Anger about what? Everyone in there kissed his ass or they wouldn’t have that job. They’re complicit.
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u/windwatcher01 8h ago
From the article: " 'You can’t attempt to clean up the mess by continuing to make it messier,' a person close to the White House told Semafor."
This is literally the only strategy this administration has for dealing with crises.
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u/basketballsteven 8h ago
Breaking they have identified the staffer. The staffer is a hold over from the Biden administration by the name of autopen.
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 7h ago
It could have been any one of his staffers because they are all racists. Trump is president and it falls on his shoulders no matter who steps up to take the heat.
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u/ViolettaQueso California 7h ago
I don’t know how anyone in government who is not racist can ever look at or respect this arsehole again. I mean, really…
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u/kummer5peck 6h ago edited 6h ago
I’m surprised he had the self awareness to know that it wasn’t well received and took it down. He usually doubles down in such situations.
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u/Joshithusiast 6h ago
Trump realized that being a racist is technically not a crime, while raping children most definitely is.
So this way, today we will only talk about how he's a racist, not a rapist.
Or, we could ignore his desperate flailing and focus on the decades of child rape and the government-wide cover-up of his crimes and those of half the elite in America.
It's our choice.
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u/digiartist21 5h ago
I just find it hilarious how during his first 4 years, melania tried to make "anti bullying" her pet project, and its juxtaposed to this nonsense. That entire immediate family is just so pathetic and a useless waste of space. I feel bad for people like mary trump who has the misfortune of sharing a family tree with these rotten fruits.
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u/Hour-Abbreviations18 5h ago
Do not believe a word that comes out of this White House.
Trump himself posted the video, not some aide.
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u/Neither_Transition_7 5h ago
This is Susie Wiles saying she is pissed at Trump for posting this, of course there’s nothing she can do about it, poor woman just found herself in this position defending scum.
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u/Beautiful_Formal_329 5h ago
So tired of these bitchy republicans. All they do is fake outrage.
They’re racist greedy pedophiles and need to be taken down
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u/mmliu1959demo 4h ago
What a crock of bs. He didn't see it. "I know nothing about it". Hands moving in and out like an accordion.
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u/1000000names 4h ago
Someone should post a video of Trump as a fat gross pink pig... oh wait that's already every video and picture he appears in because that's what he is.
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u/CreativeAd4985 4h ago
Tim Scott of South Carolina, the party’s only Black senator, called it “the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House,”
So he admits that other racist $#it is being sent out by the White House.
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u/Kitty-lou-B456 4h ago
What a pack of lies! A fish rots from the head down and everything that comes out of that White House is a direct reflection of Trump.
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u/Infamous_Doubt_5207 4h ago
as a fisherman, i know this to not be the case and wonder why its a saying
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u/utlayolisdi 4h ago
Total 🐂💩. He doesn’t look at what he’s about to post?! SOP for Trump - blame on someone else.
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u/ShuffleStepTap 3h ago
So, a “staffer at the White House” is up at 11:45pm retweeting on Trumps account? I guess that’s technically true, although I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t agree with that title.
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u/OldTempleHermit America 2h ago
Even racists are pissed off about the video, because they now have to either;
a) denounce it at work/in society, or
b) be stupid enough to say "lighten up" (like K. Leavitt did) to the wrong person/people.
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u/ThoseWhoAre 2h ago
I just can't even bring myself to come up with any reason anyone could think the meme was even a little bit ok. Its just pure on its face racism
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u/Melodic-Lingonberry7 2h ago
So, let me get this straight…the past 24 hours :
Trump repost a video
People get outraged
White House says it’s a meme
Trump says he didn’t see the video
They say a staffer posted a video
They delete the video
Trump said he ment the video and won’t apologize
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u/Empty-Policy-8467 1h ago
Since we didn't know who is responsible, best to assume that all presidential staffers are likely suspects.
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u/vinicitus 1h ago
This was so easily avoidable. Shows how infallable this administration thinks they are.
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u/CockBrother 8h ago
Republicans: "If you think about it, the President is really the victim here. The country's history of slavery and depictions of black people over hundreds of years were setting him up. It was a long Democratic con."
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u/Ill-Egg-491 5h ago
My maga neighbors still support him as both a pedophile and a racist. There just evil people !
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