I just don't get how someone can be this selfish and this empty.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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He's just the accurate reflection of the Republican party's values and morals.
He is THE DISTRACTION. It's working. All eyes on this idiot while the billionaires drain the world dry.
I get it. What I don't get is all the people who can't see it.
He is modern American culture in its purest, distilled form.
Its so true.
Trump is America’s shadow
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An important life lesson is that psychopaths and narcissists do not have the same inner life as you do. Trying to predict them using yourself as model will lead you astray.
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“I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor,” he said, adding that he asked his “people” if he was allowed to do so. “Someday I’m gonna try. I’m gonna test the law.”
He made similar comments during his State of the Union address later that month.
“I’ve always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I’m not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn’t know why I’d be taking it,” Trump said. “But if they ever open up that law, I will be there with you someday.”
This is not how a sane person speaks.
Those famous “checks and balances” the US often references, don’t seem to be very checky or balancy.
This is by design. May not have been in the original blueprint, but it was modified to be that way in one of the recent remodels.
Because he saw that Obama did it.
Drop him in the middle of Teheran, if he can walk all the way back to the Gulf, he can get it.
Of Mexico, right? I'd donate to that Livestream
Of America that only exists in his narcissistic, dementia addled brain.
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I quietly approve of this. In 50 years I want that young generation to look back and realize just how corrupt and insane he was. Denials and excuses will abound. The more insanity he commits the better without costing money, global stability, and lives.
The recent video of Trump talking about the Iran War, while the anthropomorphic Easter bunny was standing besides him, was wild. I can only assume that parts of Trump's staff knows this is unsustainable, and are deliberately not stopping Trump from making such demonstrations of his mental decline.
Perfectly normal presidential behavior.
Hey, dictators have piles of medals all the time! Why can't this one?
Pathetic. Utterly, utterly pathetic.
Much rather see him with a few purple hearts
Look, he'd probably give them to himself for the bone spurs he suffered during Vietnam if his little war he started goes on any longer.
I’d much rather him have a noose around his neck, rather than any kind of medal.
Or, failing that, perhaps a millstone.
"But whoso shall cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to fall, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." - Matthew 18:6.
He got his ear grazed, so he will probably want one of those as well
I think more than one veteran actually gave him their purple heart after that.
Ofc he does. He is a fucking loser too stupid and untalented to be able to earn any award on his own. He is jealous of those who EARNED that medal, so ofc the snowflake wants one.
distinguish themselves conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity, risking loss of life above and beyond the call of duty
Trump definitely distinguished himself conspicuously by intrepidly attacking other countries ,risking loss of soldiers' lives above and beyond the call of a president's duty.
They say the empty can rattles the most.
We, the American people, elected the empty can. How can we look ourselves in the mirror ever again, unless we make ourselves just as empty?
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I'm open to this idea as long as it's done posthumously.
And they give it to him for killing himself
Just like his idol did in that bunker many years ago. He's copied damn near everything else, so why not that part too?
Unfortunately for all of us, his ego would never allow it
Who cares? Give the big, shitty diaper baby his bottle.
The Epstein Medal of ...
Of....commerce, education and the EPA!
He's dieing and trying to make himself a hero before he's gone. We'll remember him as the orange pedophile.
That would make such an honor completely meaningless.
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