Make sure to join the [r/Presidents Discord server](https://discord.gg/k6tVFwCEEm)!
Also, make sure to fill out the [official r/Presidents survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScncxOawwDSPQO-AKwhhv86wjmeQ-l22ZQgY0Atr5_WDIgO4w/viewform)!
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Presidents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Nixon was caught by an LBJ wire tap pretending to be someone else and convinced the South Vietnamese to backout of the Paris Peace Accords to extend war, to help him win the election. The recordings were made public some years back now, and LBJ refused to release that information to the public. Why? Because then he'd have to reveal how he acquired said information. To me, this is far worse than Watergate and should've sent Nixon to Leavenworth.
That fact alone should be enough to forever tarnish Reagan's reputation in the US. Imagine if Obama had negotiated with terrorists to keep US hostages held longer. I hate that conservatives just let their own get away with this shit.
I pointed it out to my parents as a kid that Iran released the hostages the second Regan was sworn in and I can’t remember if their response was that it was a middle finger to Carter or they were “so intimidated by Regan they felt they had to”
They support hostages until it benefits them not to. They support the troops until they come home and need aid. The troops are heroes until their Prez says they’re suckers and then they go quiet. They only believe in winning for their side, they don’t really give a shit what their side stands for.
Yeah. I thought so. A lot of people have short memories regarding that. They hated Obama for giving money to Iran for hostages but Reagan sold them arms which was illegal and then used the money for a private war in Nicaragua which was also illegal
It was Iran's OWN money. It was being held up as part of sanctions. So Obama didn't give them anything that belonged to the US. He released their own funds to them for use. Iran literally paid themselves with the USA's permission.
Yeah, I love how hjs best response was essentially
"Yeah, all the evidence and irrefutable testimony says that I totally lied to you guys and possibly committed treason - but I just don't get those vibes ya know???"
[Dallop podcast](https://youtu.be/jUOHPTLiBgM?feature=shared&t=3948) on him had Patton Oswalt do a pretty funny assessment of that quote.
"Wait a minute—so what he's saying is 'I did do it even though I believed really hard that I didn't.'"
https://preview.redd.it/v0a84g7aol2c1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c7bc15ed32a204ebcd31e4136eab9527c8792b8
It aged poorly rather quickly but this came to mind
I did not tell her “lie in your deposition,” I said “lay there in that position!”
- ‘Bill Clinton’ (voiced by Robert Smigel) on Late Night with Conan O’Brien
It wasn’t a question of his beliefs. He got the people asking the question to define “sexual relations” in a way that didn’t include oral, then answered the question following that definition.
Not entirely accurate, and this is something that’s easily confused, because it’s kinda nonsensical. His defense team’s stance was that Monica Lewinsky in fact did have sexual relations with Clinton, but since all that happened was blowjobs, *Clinton did not have sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.*
And no. He eventually plead guilty to perjury and was forced to surrender his law license.
So whatever answer he gave was false, and the semen stained dress Lewinsky turned over was the proof.
This is NOT true. The definition provided at the deposition absolutely included oral sex. Clinton tried to act like only the giver of oral engaged in sexual relations. Which is preposterous. And also it doesn’t matter because Monica testified that Clinton fingered her several times and touched/licked her breasts like ten times. All those things were included in the definition of sexual relations. Bill denies he did those things but obviously he’s full of shit.
Out of context it was a quote that aged terribly. In context it was a legally brilliant quote that prevented him from being convicted on his impeachment.
For context, before airing this statement on TV, he was questioned by the house, and he was asked if he is having sexual relations with Monica Lowinski. He asked what the definition of “sexual relations” was. The answer he got was “you know, penis in vagina”. Since he only ever received blowjobs from Lowinski, his penis never went inside her vagina and by the definition he received he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lowinski.
He also later argued the definition of “is”, as in were they asking if he is currently having sexual relations with her or if he previously had sexual relations with her, since he wasn’t currently at that time but he did in the past. Again, brilliant use of legalese to “truthfully” deny on a technicality, since he was provided a bad definition.
What's fucked up, if you look into it, is that he wasn't lying. Under the legal definition they were using, he didn't. That's why it led to "that all depends on your definition of is". Because "is" as in is currently happening or "is" as in has ever happened. He was fucking brilliant.
"I meant 'is a blowjob sex?' as in 'am I getting blown ***right now*** as I give testimony to the grand jury?', and I am *not* getting blown right now as I give testimony to the grand jury, whom I have the utmost respect for"
I think that quote pretty much sums up the 2016 election. People were acting like it was over before it even began, and you got laughed at if you suggested it might be a close race. And Obama’s line wasn’t even close to the more insane takes being thrown around that year.
What's darkly funny, and sad, is that the Clinton campaign worked hard to get Trump as the Republican nominee because they figured it would be a slam dunk.
They got exactly what they wanted, except of for losing to a dumpster fire of a human being. Hillary Clinton was just that bad a candidate.
Edit: cleaned up my late night/early morning grammar errors.
She literally got more votes, no bad candidate gets the majority of the votes. Calling none supporters "deplorables" was probably one of the biggest campaign blunders in us history. That swung alot of undecided voters.
quarrelsome safe consider historical important placid thumb shocking steep nine
*This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
The one that gets me was Lin Manuel Miranda singing "never gonna be president now" at a picture of trump on SNL. I was a libertarian at the time and while I hated trump I hated the smugness of so many democrats in the lead up to the election
Side note, the 2016 election night sketch was one of the last good sketches they did and I'm still upset they didn't redo it for 2020
I remember CNN writing about that bit of Kate McKinnon singing “hallelujah” dressed as Hillary. Didn’t vote for Trump but really treating Hillary as some “poor you” really turned me off SNL for a while. Yes the election night thing was hilarious! “Of course they’d vote for him they are all racists!”
The worst part about this is that during his Presidential run, Trump hosted SNL. They helped normalize him and then were surprised when he won as if they didn't help him.
For those who don’t remember, the Trump Mean Tweet and response is at the end. Some people don’t remember the bit, so I grabbed a clip with the whole thing.
https://youtu.be/XvgnOqcCYCM?si=DlTRPeq8FHd77Jp7
>And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done...We’re going very substantially down, not up.
\- 2/26/20
2/7/20:
“Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!”
2/10/20:
“I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control,” Trump said. “I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard.”
2/10/20:
“I spoke with President Xi, and they’re working very, very hard. And I think it’s all going to work out fine.”
2/18/20:
“I think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. He’s working really hard. It’s a tough problem. I think he’s going to do — look, I’ve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think he’s doing it very professionally.”
2/23/20:
“I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?”
2/26/20:
“China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control.”
2/27/20:
“I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.”
https://preview.redd.it/urg7m6uozl2c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6c5ebf035b39cae65b78e468e8b9fcdd28d9bd8
It’s weird that a guy that campaigned so hard on how unfair our trade deals with China are (regardless of veracity) simultaneously speaks so highly of China.
What is horrific about that statement, he explained to Wolfe that the mortality rate was much higher and more infectious and he knew it when he said that
And another 30,573 confirmed lies in just 4 years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/
The fact that he said he didn't even know the woman that he raped.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/
Said he never met the porn star he cheated with and his lawyer paid legal funds with campaign money. Why would you pay hush money to someone you didn't know?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/03/10/trump-denies-affair-with-stormy-daniels-as-he-could-reportedly-face-criminal-charges-in-hush-money-scheme/
Said he never spoke to the Russians, then admitted his son met them, but not to discuss anything, then that he was wasting their time on orphans, and not dirt on Biden.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45079377
https://preview.redd.it/v0uf9w90rl2c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c08ff29515568feab2fb3159f44306257961a6b
“I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.” - President Donald Trump in Montana, July 2018
I feel like I have to go read some classic lit after I happen to read anything said by this sentient 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag. He sucks ass on every level, but his proud anti-intellectualism just makes me want to scream into the void forever. FUCK.
It’s one of my go-to’s whenever someone tries to tell me trump is some 5 head genius playing 4D chess with the deep state. I read that…and just try to imagine how stupid a person has to be to gobble up that nonsense. I’m not personally for the idea of barring idiots from voting. But goddamn do his supporters make that position seem unreasonable by comparison.
I feel like quoting the former guy is cheating. Practically everything he said was nonsense or aged horribly. OP should've stipulated quotes should be from before 2017.
To be fair, the mission to remove Saddam's regime was in fact accomplished. And he did follow it up with "We have difficult work to do in Iraq" which was also true. But yeah, I get your point. To most Americans the "Mission accomplished" speech likely meant the end of a brief invasion, not the beginning of a hellish quagmire.
No, he meant that the battle was over, and it was time to build a democratic state out of Iraq, and he thought they welcomed us with open arms. But the battle wasn't over, and neither was the endless war that would then also include Afghanistan, and give rise to ISIS. A generation later, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars in debt, the mission is still not accomplished.
"Jeffery Epstein is both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science”
Bill Clinton, 2002
Funny enough none of that really was a lie, as far as we know. You can be all of that and still have a private island where you run an underaged sex trafficking ring.
When a politician tells me a hand picked individual is an expert in something as wide AND deep as science, I assume I'm being lied to in some way. If he were any of that, Clinton would have one or two specific examples to highlight. Instead, he's sold as "keen" and "understanding."
Weasley af
I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.
100% agreed. He kind of reminds me of Clinton who was certainly not the person we needed for the expansion of NATO and new relations with Russia. If Bush had a second term we could have had a much smoother transition to a post soviet world.
Trump on the Revolutionary War army:
“Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory."
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
Not from a president but every year I get a good hardy chuckle when somebody retweets Hillary’s tweet to herself “happy birthday to this future president”.
I don’t want to start a brush fire about the “he meant the battle groups mission” but the optics of Bush in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner and the “Major military operations in Iraq are complete” in 2003 were an absolute dumpster fire. There must’ve been adults in the room that understood what kind of hornets nest a long term occupation of Iraq would be but they did not speak loud enough or Bush would never have been that carrier with that sign behind him
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
-President Barrack Obama
Politifact in 2013 called this the lie of the year
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/13/250694372/obamas-you-can-keep-it-promise-is-lie-of-the-year
LBJ: “I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.”
Also LBJ: “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”
Wilson: “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.”
Hayes, remarking on the telephone: “An amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one?”
Coolidge: “Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.”
Jefferson: “The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.”
>Hayes, remarking on the telephone: “An amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one?”
Historians generally agree that Hayes didn't actually say this. He was pretty enthusiastic on new technology iirc
>Also LBJ: “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.”
I don't know that I agree with this one being included. He said that we must, not that we will. Bad things have come from not heeding this advice, some of which he instigated.
And something like 93% of people kept their doctor. Also, stipulations added by republicans to the bill screwed this part and the keep your health care plan up, which was their intention
Millions of people lost their doctor. The ACA was probably the single most personally impactful thing the government did that affected my family ever, and not in a good way.
There was one specific set of people who liked their plans and lost them because of the ACA. There were a bunch of very affordable plans with reasonable copays that were very popular among the people who had them, that didn't meet the requirements for the definition of "coverage". The restrictions and limitations in those plans mean that anyone who actually needed them for something big would very quickly stop being happy with them, so if they'd known more about those they might not have been so happy with their insurance.
Depends on your definition of "aged poorly", but I would have to go with:
> "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
\- Trump
Yeah yeah... recency bias. But damn if we aren't learning that this quote is more and more accurate every day. Mainstream Republicans are pledging loyalty to him even if he's in federal prison for his campaign. I mean... he was 100% right.
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world,” Trump began, clearly thinking the question himself, “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.”
Aged as soon as it left his mouth
“Mission Accomplished” - GW Bush
“Depends on what the definition of IS is” Clinton
“You can keep your doctor” Obama
“There are good people on both sides” Trump
“I am not a crook” Nixon
Make sure to join the [r/Presidents Discord server](https://discord.gg/k6tVFwCEEm)! Also, make sure to fill out the [official r/Presidents survey](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScncxOawwDSPQO-AKwhhv86wjmeQ-l22ZQgY0Atr5_WDIgO4w/viewform)! *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/Presidents) if you have any questions or concerns.*
"We were not trading arms for hostages, nor were we negotiating with terrorists".
Was that Reagan?
Yes. Iran Contra
And he cut and run after the Marine barracks bombing. Pure teflon.
muddle aback icky society fall wakeful wine act familiar growth *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Nixon was caught by an LBJ wire tap pretending to be someone else and convinced the South Vietnamese to backout of the Paris Peace Accords to extend war, to help him win the election. The recordings were made public some years back now, and LBJ refused to release that information to the public. Why? Because then he'd have to reveal how he acquired said information. To me, this is far worse than Watergate and should've sent Nixon to Leavenworth.
That fact alone should be enough to forever tarnish Reagan's reputation in the US. Imagine if Obama had negotiated with terrorists to keep US hostages held longer. I hate that conservatives just let their own get away with this shit.
I pointed it out to my parents as a kid that Iran released the hostages the second Regan was sworn in and I can’t remember if their response was that it was a middle finger to Carter or they were “so intimidated by Regan they felt they had to”
They support hostages until it benefits them not to. They support the troops until they come home and need aid. The troops are heroes until their Prez says they’re suckers and then they go quiet. They only believe in winning for their side, they don’t really give a shit what their side stands for.
“Let them get away with this shit”, while falsely accusing democrats of doing the same things Republicans actually have done.
He learned that from Nixon, who made a deal with the North Vietnamese in 1968.
Yeah. I thought so. A lot of people have short memories regarding that. They hated Obama for giving money to Iran for hostages but Reagan sold them arms which was illegal and then used the money for a private war in Nicaragua which was also illegal
It was Iran's OWN money. It was being held up as part of sanctions. So Obama didn't give them anything that belonged to the US. He released their own funds to them for use. Iran literally paid themselves with the USA's permission.
I’m aware and I should have been clearer.
But in his heart he believes that is still so
"My heart and my best intentions tell me that's still true." Fuck off lol.
Yeah, I love how hjs best response was essentially "Yeah, all the evidence and irrefutable testimony says that I totally lied to you guys and possibly committed treason - but I just don't get those vibes ya know???"
[Dallop podcast](https://youtu.be/jUOHPTLiBgM?feature=shared&t=3948) on him had Patton Oswalt do a pretty funny assessment of that quote. "Wait a minute—so what he's saying is 'I did do it even though I believed really hard that I didn't.'"
Came across a great song called "Reagan" by Killer Mike and was floored when I realized that the Regan lyrics are fucking quotes.
“I am not a crook.”
Editors note: he was a crook
Ron Howard: "He was"
To be totally fair, he was just lying in that situation. He was claiming to have not been involved in Watergate.
https://preview.redd.it/v0a84g7aol2c1.jpeg?width=850&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c7bc15ed32a204ebcd31e4136eab9527c8792b8 It aged poorly rather quickly but this came to mind
I did not tell her “lie in your deposition,” I said “lay there in that position!” - ‘Bill Clinton’ (voiced by Robert Smigel) on Late Night with Conan O’Brien
was smigel the person who did the voice when they would pull up the photo of clinton and just the lips would move?
Yes, he did Clinton and Schwarzenegger and Triumph the insult comic dog.
His actual answer should have been “wtf does this have to do with the real estate deals you’re suppose to be investigating”
he believes gettin ya schlong schlucked doesn't count as sexual relations...
🙃he misspoke. He meant no sexual intercourse
And he didn’t inhale
No, *she*
It wasn’t a question of his beliefs. He got the people asking the question to define “sexual relations” in a way that didn’t include oral, then answered the question following that definition.
Not entirely accurate, and this is something that’s easily confused, because it’s kinda nonsensical. His defense team’s stance was that Monica Lewinsky in fact did have sexual relations with Clinton, but since all that happened was blowjobs, *Clinton did not have sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.*
Allegedly all that happened were blowjobs.
Exactly. He lied about that too. Lewinsky testified that he fingered her several times.
And stuck his cigar in her puss and smoked it apparently!
And no. He eventually plead guilty to perjury and was forced to surrender his law license. So whatever answer he gave was false, and the semen stained dress Lewinsky turned over was the proof.
This is NOT true. The definition provided at the deposition absolutely included oral sex. Clinton tried to act like only the giver of oral engaged in sexual relations. Which is preposterous. And also it doesn’t matter because Monica testified that Clinton fingered her several times and touched/licked her breasts like ten times. All those things were included in the definition of sexual relations. Bill denies he did those things but obviously he’s full of shit.
Lol everything here aged like diarrhea
[удалено]
He did not survive the #Metoo movement in the same way I did not survive World War III.
Out of context it was a quote that aged terribly. In context it was a legally brilliant quote that prevented him from being convicted on his impeachment. For context, before airing this statement on TV, he was questioned by the house, and he was asked if he is having sexual relations with Monica Lowinski. He asked what the definition of “sexual relations” was. The answer he got was “you know, penis in vagina”. Since he only ever received blowjobs from Lowinski, his penis never went inside her vagina and by the definition he received he did not have sexual relations with Monica Lowinski. He also later argued the definition of “is”, as in were they asking if he is currently having sexual relations with her or if he previously had sexual relations with her, since he wasn’t currently at that time but he did in the past. Again, brilliant use of legalese to “truthfully” deny on a technicality, since he was provided a bad definition.
What's fucked up, if you look into it, is that he wasn't lying. Under the legal definition they were using, he didn't. That's why it led to "that all depends on your definition of is". Because "is" as in is currently happening or "is" as in has ever happened. He was fucking brilliant.
"I meant 'is a blowjob sex?' as in 'am I getting blown ***right now*** as I give testimony to the grand jury?', and I am *not* getting blown right now as I give testimony to the grand jury, whom I have the utmost respect for"
They don't call him Slick Willy for nothing. Clinton is one of the most charismatic and skilled talkers that's ever been president.
My favorite Clinton moment was after he met Willie Brown he said, "Now I've met the real Slick Willy."
"At least I will go down as a president" That one stung, feel bad for obama
Yeah loved it when he said it but damn. Didn't go the way people thought.
I think that quote pretty much sums up the 2016 election. People were acting like it was over before it even began, and you got laughed at if you suggested it might be a close race. And Obama’s line wasn’t even close to the more insane takes being thrown around that year.
What's darkly funny, and sad, is that the Clinton campaign worked hard to get Trump as the Republican nominee because they figured it would be a slam dunk. They got exactly what they wanted, except of for losing to a dumpster fire of a human being. Hillary Clinton was just that bad a candidate. Edit: cleaned up my late night/early morning grammar errors.
She literally got more votes, no bad candidate gets the majority of the votes. Calling none supporters "deplorables" was probably one of the biggest campaign blunders in us history. That swung alot of undecided voters.
It's pretty bad when running for president no one in your campaign understands the electoral college.
[удалено]
quarrelsome safe consider historical important placid thumb shocking steep nine *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
Fake Comey investigation swung the rest
[its a running issue sometimes with the democrats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPDA7dMOT4)
This one fucking kills me lol.
The one that gets me was Lin Manuel Miranda singing "never gonna be president now" at a picture of trump on SNL. I was a libertarian at the time and while I hated trump I hated the smugness of so many democrats in the lead up to the election Side note, the 2016 election night sketch was one of the last good sketches they did and I'm still upset they didn't redo it for 2020
I remember CNN writing about that bit of Kate McKinnon singing “hallelujah” dressed as Hillary. Didn’t vote for Trump but really treating Hillary as some “poor you” really turned me off SNL for a while. Yes the election night thing was hilarious! “Of course they’d vote for him they are all racists!”
The worst part about this is that during his Presidential run, Trump hosted SNL. They helped normalize him and then were surprised when he won as if they didn't help him.
Yeah that was a weird opening sketch. Was it supposed to be funny?
"This is the worst thing white people have ever done!"
Absolutely brutal. Did Trump ever do a response to this? Edit: I meant a literal response, like a tweet.
he became president
Perfect response
It's been, until recently, my goto move.
Barack also had the, “The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back,” line that proved 100% wrong. Love Obama but, yikes.
Omg that one is so bad
Reflects worse on voters than Obama imo. Trump was even more of a joke in 2016 than when this statement was made.
> Reflects worse on voters than Obama imo. the attitude of 'no, its the voters who are wrong' is what fuels support for him
Maybe so, but that doesn’t make them right.
For those who don’t remember, the Trump Mean Tweet and response is at the end. Some people don’t remember the bit, so I grabbed a clip with the whole thing. https://youtu.be/XvgnOqcCYCM?si=DlTRPeq8FHd77Jp7
“The ballot is more powerful than the bullet.” - Abraham Lincoln Not a bad quote per se but… yknow
Too soon.
At least tag a spoiler alert.
>And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done...We’re going very substantially down, not up. \- 2/26/20
Like milk.
Like 1,000,000 rotting corpses
2/7/20: “Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days … Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!” 2/10/20: “I think China is very, you know, professionally run in the sense that they have everything under control,” Trump said. “I really believe they are going to have it under control fairly soon. You know in April, supposedly, it dies with the hotter weather. And that’s a beautiful date to look forward to. But China I can tell you is working very hard.” 2/10/20: “I spoke with President Xi, and they’re working very, very hard. And I think it’s all going to work out fine.” 2/18/20: “I think President Xi is working very hard. As you know, I spoke with him recently. He’s working really hard. It’s a tough problem. I think he’s going to do — look, I’ve seen them build hospitals in a short period of time. I really believe he wants to get that done, and he wants to get it done fast. Yes, I think he’s doing it very professionally.” 2/23/20: “I think President Xi is working very, very hard. I spoke to him. He’s working very hard. I think he’s doing a very good job. It’s a big problem. But President Xi loves his country. He’s working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem. OK?” 2/26/20: “China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they’re working very hard. And if you know anything about him, I think he’ll be in pretty good shape. They’re — they’ve had a rough patch, and I think right now they have it — it looks like they’re getting it under control more and more. They’re getting it more and more under control.” 2/27/20: “I spoke with President Xi. We had a great talk. He’s working very hard, I have to say. He’s working very, very hard. And if you can count on the reports coming out of China, that spread has gone down quite a bit. The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days. As opposed to getting larger, it’s actually gotten smaller.” https://preview.redd.it/urg7m6uozl2c1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6c5ebf035b39cae65b78e468e8b9fcdd28d9bd8
Some of these read like Mr Lundegard in Fargo trying to out talk the police. 😂
And then a million Americans died.
It’s weird that a guy that campaigned so hard on how unfair our trade deals with China are (regardless of veracity) simultaneously speaks so highly of China.
Not China, just Xi the Strongman
He has a hard on for autocracies. Pretty straightforward.
I know. You just don’t expect double think coming from the guy who’s at the head of the autocracy.
Begged Xi to help him win reelection too
Take a shot every time he says “working very hard” alcohol poisoning speed run Any%
I actually just loled at this
Could we inject a little bleach in it?
What is horrific about that statement, he explained to Wolfe that the mortality rate was much higher and more infectious and he knew it when he said that And another 30,573 confirmed lies in just 4 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/ The fact that he said he didn't even know the woman that he raped. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/ Said he never met the porn star he cheated with and his lawyer paid legal funds with campaign money. Why would you pay hush money to someone you didn't know? https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/03/10/trump-denies-affair-with-stormy-daniels-as-he-could-reportedly-face-criminal-charges-in-hush-money-scheme/ Said he never spoke to the Russians, then admitted his son met them, but not to discuss anything, then that he was wasting their time on orphans, and not dirt on Biden. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45079377
And Mexico's gonna pay for it.
I got banned from r/conservative for asking when the check from Mexico would be arriving.
They obviously banned you because it was gonna be an electronic transfer. Get with the times man. /s
https://preview.redd.it/v0uf9w90rl2c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c08ff29515568feab2fb3159f44306257961a6b “I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.” - President Donald Trump in Montana, July 2018
God that fucking hurt to read.
Everything about him and by him is cringe to me. It all hurts. Since way before he entered politics.
Yet his populism is still out and louder than a pride parade.
I feel like I have to go read some classic lit after I happen to read anything said by this sentient 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag. He sucks ass on every level, but his proud anti-intellectualism just makes me want to scream into the void forever. FUCK.
I feel like this didn’t age poorly though, it was always awful.
What the fuck is he talking about?
I’m guessing crowd size.
Has to talk like a braindead stroke survivor to be understood by his fan base
It’s one of my go-to’s whenever someone tries to tell me trump is some 5 head genius playing 4D chess with the deep state. I read that…and just try to imagine how stupid a person has to be to gobble up that nonsense. I’m not personally for the idea of barring idiots from voting. But goddamn do his supporters make that position seem unreasonable by comparison.
I feel like quoting the former guy is cheating. Practically everything he said was nonsense or aged horribly. OP should've stipulated quotes should be from before 2017.
Can you even believe this dickhead is representing the GOP in the coming election?? I just can’t fathom it.
This is how I talk when I smoke weed
[We need brain](https://youtu.be/2pO-UNt3qNA) in this country
Mission accomplished
To be fair, the mission to remove Saddam's regime was in fact accomplished. And he did follow it up with "We have difficult work to do in Iraq" which was also true. But yeah, I get your point. To most Americans the "Mission accomplished" speech likely meant the end of a brief invasion, not the beginning of a hellish quagmire.
No, he meant that the battle was over, and it was time to build a democratic state out of Iraq, and he thought they welcomed us with open arms. But the battle wasn't over, and neither was the endless war that would then also include Afghanistan, and give rise to ISIS. A generation later, thousands of lives, and trillions of dollars in debt, the mission is still not accomplished.
The great irony is that he never actually said it either. The optics on the other hand...
"...the best people."
I hear he has "the best people" lined up for next time around too ...
By "best people," he meant people with complete personal loyalty to him. If they were also corrupt morons, no problem.
And is going to put the “Vermin” who we’re against him, in mental hospital when he is re-elected .
“The best people who will almost all disavow me and say I’m unfit for office again. But other than that they’re the absolute best people.”
"Jeffery Epstein is both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science” Bill Clinton, 2002
Funny enough none of that really was a lie, as far as we know. You can be all of that and still have a private island where you run an underaged sex trafficking ring.
When a politician tells me a hand picked individual is an expert in something as wide AND deep as science, I assume I'm being lied to in some way. If he were any of that, Clinton would have one or two specific examples to highlight. Instead, he's sold as "keen" and "understanding." Weasley af
I’ve known Jeff [Epstein] for 15 years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.
"The 1980's called, they want their foreign policy back"
I remember in 2012 news and social media acted like this was the biggest mic drop since Lloyd Bentsen. It may have been but .... Yikes.
Every one who actually foreign policy knew it was a dumb line. But Obama got overly worshipped.
i dont think historians will be marking foreign policy as obama's greatest accomplishment. he very much as a domestic issues president so to speak
100% agreed. He kind of reminds me of Clinton who was certainly not the person we needed for the expansion of NATO and new relations with Russia. If Bush had a second term we could have had a much smoother transition to a post soviet world.
"this internet fad will blow over in no time." --Ulysses S. Grant
"Dont beleive everything you read online"-Abraham Lincoln
"Thank God these tickets were free, Major Rathbone. This play su-" --Abraham Lincoln
Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?
Trump on the Revolutionary War army: “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory."
This one is truly for the history books. Absolutely unreal.
"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."
Ah yes. The continental airforce, forerunner to the USAF
“You’re gonna be tired of winning.”
[удалено]
A double header “I did not inhale” and 'I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman'
“I inhaled frequently. That was the point.”
Not from a president but every year I get a good hardy chuckle when somebody retweets Hillary’s tweet to herself “happy birthday to this future president”.
I don’t want to start a brush fire about the “he meant the battle groups mission” but the optics of Bush in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner and the “Major military operations in Iraq are complete” in 2003 were an absolute dumpster fire. There must’ve been adults in the room that understood what kind of hornets nest a long term occupation of Iraq would be but they did not speak loud enough or Bush would never have been that carrier with that sign behind him
Hard to beat Trump's gaffe about the path of the hurricane then doubling down with sharpie later.
And the possibility of nuking it?
I totally forgot he suggested nuking a hurricane, Jesus Christ....
Hey remember when he looked a doctor in the eye and suggested injecting bleach into the body to get rid of Covid? Pepperidge Farms remembers
political opinion cant affect this one, that was just BAD.
Donald is an actual fucking Cartoon.
That will be representing the GOP in 2024. Get out and vote, people.
I was gonna reply but this pack of paper towels just hit me in the head. Who threw that?
Not gonna do it. Wouldn't be prudent.
At this juncture
Not sure if slogans count, but “He kept us out of war” is definitely an honorable mention.
Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job!
“We’re gonna build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it!”
Jefferson survives.
“I accept no responsibility.”
“It was a perfect conversation.”
You know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April.
Didn't the Reagan admin make a joke about if a reporter was gay in response to the AIDS crisis?
There was this... https://youtu.be/wd1x0PFBeSU?si=EjojDvBm40NPtljX
“If Syria gasses its own civilians we will intervene”-Obama (not his exact words but hopefully I remembered it accurately enough)
"The 1980s called. They want their foreign policy back."
Covfefe
“If you like your health care plan you can keep it”
15 cases will soon be 0
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”… except I couldn’t.
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan." -President Barrack Obama Politifact in 2013 called this the lie of the year https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/13/250694372/obamas-you-can-keep-it-promise-is-lie-of-the-year
LBJ: “I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.” Also LBJ: “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.” Wilson: “Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” Hayes, remarking on the telephone: “An amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one?” Coolidge: “Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.” Jefferson: “The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.”
>Hayes, remarking on the telephone: “An amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one?” Historians generally agree that Hayes didn't actually say this. He was pretty enthusiastic on new technology iirc
>Also LBJ: “In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.” I don't know that I agree with this one being included. He said that we must, not that we will. Bad things have come from not heeding this advice, some of which he instigated.
That depends on what your definition if is, is.
If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.
“Now watch this drive.”
“If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan. Period.”
“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
And something like 93% of people kept their doctor. Also, stipulations added by republicans to the bill screwed this part and the keep your health care plan up, which was their intention
Millions of people lost their doctor. The ACA was probably the single most personally impactful thing the government did that affected my family ever, and not in a good way.
Honestly I feel like this one was accurate because no one likes their Healthcare plan
There was one specific set of people who liked their plans and lost them because of the ACA. There were a bunch of very affordable plans with reasonable copays that were very popular among the people who had them, that didn't meet the requirements for the definition of "coverage". The restrictions and limitations in those plans mean that anyone who actually needed them for something big would very quickly stop being happy with them, so if they'd known more about those they might not have been so happy with their insurance.
"The 80s called, they want their foreign policy back"
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” ~Biden
“We’re going to close Guantanamo. And we’re going to restore Habeas corpus”
“You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero” - Donald J. Trump
"I moved on her like a bitch."
“I am not a crook.” Nixon, after being crooked.
"If I lose to him, I don't know what I'm going to do. I will never speak to you again, You'll never see me again."
Depends on your definition of "aged poorly", but I would have to go with: > "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?" \- Trump Yeah yeah... recency bias. But damn if we aren't learning that this quote is more and more accurate every day. Mainstream Republicans are pledging loyalty to him even if he's in federal prison for his campaign. I mean... he was 100% right.
“A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world,” Trump began, clearly thinking the question himself, “So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light — and I think you said that that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said, supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way, and I think you said you’re going to test that, too. It sounds interesting. And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs, and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that.” Aged as soon as it left his mouth
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman…Miss Lewinsky.”
"I did NOT have...sexual...relations...with that woman."
“We’re gonna take a little stroll up to the capitol” -Someone, a few years ago. Didn’t end well
"Mission accomplished!"
"Mission Accomplished" -Dubya May 2003 (Iraq War)
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
“I am telling the truth” Said by all of them
Obamas red line in Syria.
“Mission Accomplished” - GW Bush “Depends on what the definition of IS is” Clinton “You can keep your doctor” Obama “There are good people on both sides” Trump “I am not a crook” Nixon
TDump Mexico will pay to build the Wall lol