• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    For most of my life I blissfully had no idea who Trump was, as I grew up in the Middle East and not North America. While I did hear his name a few times I had no idea who he was or what he did or anything about him.

    But the first time I heard him was back in 2010 when I saw YouTube interviews with Trump I wasn’t initially sure of what to make of his proposed tariffs with China (and he was talking about them back then), but after just some thinking (I had just graduated with a Bachelors in business at the time) and more reading I concluded that his idea was bonkers.

    Then cracked.com made an entire series of articles that were wildly successful that documented just what a horrific businessman and human being he was. You know on how comments sections anywhere are often highly toxic and conflict ridden? The comments on the Trump articles were actually quite unanimous on how much everyone hated Trump!

    I still can’t believe that he won and I cannot believe that his presidency was real.

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      1 hour ago

      You do realize he didn’t win, right?

      Its a well-documented historical fact that Clinton for more votes than Trump, but the US isn’t a democracy. Trump declared himself the winner and nobody did anything to stop him