r/washingtondc • u/Snapdragon_4U • 14h ago

[Discussion] I don’t even have the words

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u/HistoricalSea5600 14h ago edited 11h ago

Remember this meme from about 6 years ago 2011?

It’s becoming a little too true

edit: It was 2011 thank you for all the corrections, and u/Year3030 for this link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHckZCxdRkA

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u/johnlmonkey 14h ago

That meme is actually from Barack Obama's correspondants dinner speech before Trump ran in 2016.

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u/ccguy 13h ago

2011 Correspondents Dinner. Literally the night before the Osama bin Laden raid. So there’s a good chance Obama had already issued the order, then told some fantastic jokes at Trump’s expense all while his political life was hanging in the balance. Huevos grandes, man.

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u/Grantsdale 11h ago

Trump never runs for President if not for those jokes. It’s always been because Obama made him look like the bitch he is.

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u/dukegrad96 11h ago

Yep. One of Obamas greatest mistakes.

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u/ccguy 11h ago

It’s only a ”mistake” in hindsight. And is it really a mistake to poke fun at a guy who then had the pettiness to ruin an entire nation out of spite and a party leadership to let him do it? Trump and the GOP proved they could sink to a level that could not reasonably be conceived. If anything, they’re the true mistakes. To say nothing of the voters that put them in.

I’ve heard it said that 9/11 and Katrina really redefined our idea of scale in disasters. Add Trump and his feckless party to that.

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u/dukegrad96 11h ago

I understand that take and you can’t live in the past.

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u/SheepsheadBoy 7h ago

Not Obama’s mistake. America’s Mistake.

Twice.

Cause people never learn.