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Trump tells 10-year-old rescued by teen lifeguard: ‘I don’t know if I’d do it’
(www.theguardian.com)
We all know that he wouldn't.
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Also couldn't. To state the glaringly obvious I guess hahaha.
Sure, bit even in his prime, as a fit and able young man, Trump would not have lifted a finger to assist someone else in need.
Perhaps you have forgotten about his debilitating case of bone spurs.
He likes people who don't get captured by outgoing tides, undercurrents or exhaustion
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But, should the kid have died, he would take the time to generate about ten images of him saving the kid, while saying the died because of Biden/Democrats/whatever is on his dark, decrepit mind.
Yes, but the president was kind enough to invite this young man over to the white house to tell him to his face, in front of his father.
Well, if Trump could swim and he thought there was a chance to rape the kid, there's a remote chance he might try.
Couldn't
To give some modicum of credit: I think this was his attempt at talking the lifeguard up. Like: "Wow, you're such a hero!"
But the problem is that the exclamation (regardless of truth) is supposed to be like: "Wow, I don't know if I would've been brave enough to do that! You're a real hero." Not that you just "might not have" as though saving a human life would be too inconvenient.
Then the 16-year-old kid gets to feel really brave because even the president thinks they are. (Also doesn't help that this current POTUS is an abject, selfish coward.)
I agree. This is how he meant it and how anyone who likes him takes it. It makes him likeable to those people. It's so childish to pretend it isn't.
These types of "news" articles I think are actually quite dangerous. It shifts the battleground into weaker territory. If you're a prosecutor trying to prove a guy needs a life sentence, and you have thirty testimonies of him beating puppies with hammers, why would you pull up to court saying shit like "your honor, the defendant's cologne is too sharp and clearly in poor taste"? Meanwhile everyone who justifiably hates the puppy-flattener is excited to jump on ANY bandwagon to hate the guy, no matter how flimsy it is. Next thing you know the court is all talking about his cologne. Then the defendant comes in with some actually good explanation for that like "they didn't have my regular cologne in prison" and now it looks like maybe the prosecution was wrong about him. The flimsy bandwagon falls apart.
I've said it before on here:
We MUST resist the urge to criticize bad people for weak reasons when they already provide us with stronger arguments against themselves.
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Strangly honest
Literally the only time he's honest is when he's talking about doing something terrible
This isn't news
It was tagged as US news in the guardian. It's certainly not an op-ed.
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"That's very scary.", said the orange child rapist, "You must've shit yourself... I know I just did...again."
He'd never admit it. "Antifa has shat in my Depends again!!!"
Yeah, Trump would be too busy raping the 16 year old life guard, so the 10 year old kid would drown.
I know: He would not. Trump has no interest, and honestly no ability, to do so.
"I don't know if I'd do it"
Because the 16 year old is too old for him
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I hope I can do something heroic one day, so I can be invited to the White House, and I can hold a press conference to tell the entire world: "'Fuck NO! I'm not interested in letting that corrupt, treasonous, pedophile, rapist loser bask in the glow of my glory. I don't want to be anywhere near him, where I have to breathe his stench."
“I don’t know if I would have done it. Unless nobody was around, then I’d give you a yacht ride to my friends island.”
Then left you in the same situation afterwards.
But only worse.
If a kid was drowning at Trump's feet he would instruct his bodyguards to stand by.
To borrow a joke from The Amazing World of Gumball:
"If you were drowning at the bottom of the ocean and you saw this coming to your rescue, you would swim downwards!"
“Hold him down. We’ll tell them Biden did it.”
You expect him to do something altruistic for someone else? I mean, come on, what would be in it for him?
Of course he wouldn't. It'd involve him giving a shit about someone other than himself, for a start. Then he'd have to shift his ponderous arse out of his own way to actually get off it and move.
Trump doesn't know if it would, but everyone else does.
Also, rethorically perfectly fine. His language does tend to follow common phrases but only is tangentially similar anyway.
Could have said something along the lines: don't know if I could have done it. Probably couldn't. Probably wouldn't. I don't know.
His inner monologue is spoken out loud and his social filter barely exists. This isn't news.
He can make anything sound respect less, that being said.
Logical. But remember, Trump believes he's the best at anything and everything.
"I know all about xyz. Nobody knows more about xyz than me".
In his mind, he could do it if there was something in it for him, but he wouldn't, because there isn't.
Quite possibly, this is one of the only times in his life he's actually told the truth about anything.
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We all know that if trump ever actually steps so much as a toll into the sea he would dissolve. The bronzer is all that's holding him together.
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I won't save Trump if I was that lifeguard. Oh dear what a shame, this fat fuck can't swim, oh well...
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Captain Bonespurs rides again!
Must have been an ugly kid, cause Trump for sure does kids.
Like with mutilated vets, he'd call kid a loser.
Trump would jump in and his diaper would soak up all the water and save them.
to be perfectly honest i have some doubts on the matter too
we know you wouldn't, no need for the rhetorical question
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