r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 2d ago

‘Exhausted’ Americans are tuning out politics, according to TV ratings and new poll

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ap-poll-americans-exhausted-politics-b2670238.html

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u/Cormetz 2d ago

Also the daily "TRUMP WANTS TO _______" when he isn't even president yet is just exhausting. He's just trolling everyone with the dumbest things possible and everyone is reacting to it (all this crap about Canada and Greenland).

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u/thrawtes 2d ago

It would be easier to just go with "yeah the POTUS is a silly head, don't listen to anything he says" if the dude hadn't already literally been in charge once and actually done a bunch of crazy shit.

A monkey got ahold of a knife and stabbed a bunch of people. We got it away from him but now he has it back and he's dancing around with it.

Is he trolling us? Absolutely. Can we afford not to pay attention? Nope.

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u/ImpossibleQuail5695 2d ago

It’s not “don’t listen,” it’s more putting it into context. “Today, more nonsense from dotard, this time trying to bring back imperial America. Our panel is here, not to discuss what he said, but to suss out what he’s trying to gain from saying it.”

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u/like_a_wet_dog 2d ago

[discussion leader gets an alert on their phone]

"I'm sorry, team, I must take this. Hello? [pause to listen] Ok. No, we were... of course, I'm sorry. Thank you."

[turns to camera]

"We, and all moral and thinking people, are outraged he used those words. That's what's really at play here, he knows what he wants to do is good for America, but Americans keep getting caught up in his tone. Carl, what do you think of Trump's confidence in the face of his shortsighted critics?"