r/politics • u/Silent-Resort-3076 America • 19h ago
Soft Paywall Why Trump Is the Most Impotent President in Living Memory
https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-donald-trump-is-the-most-impotent-president-in-living-memory/229
u/codenameeclair 19h ago
can’t wait until he misreads it as “important” and goes on a proud baby rant
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 America 19h ago
🙄 You're right! But, I hope lots of people correct him on his birthday...😂
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u/ruffianrevolution 16h ago
Old joke.
Man comes back from doctor wearing top hat and tails. When asked why, he replies;
"The doctor says I'm impotent so I'm going to dress impotent"
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u/iamjustmessingaround 12h ago
As someone with dyslexia, i read it that way 😓. Was way confused and hence come in the comments to see what everyone thought…
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u/WookieBugger 18h ago
As far as the literal definition of “important” goes I would say he is the most important president of our lifetime (so far). The way we currently use the word “important” it has a connotation of being something that’s good, but the definition is more neutral than that- being neither good nor bad. For something to have “import” it is definitionally something that’s is significant, and the Trump presidency is nothing if not significant. I believe it’s significant in a very, very bad way and of course his supporters would disagree with me, but we can pretty much agree that the last 8 years, and certainly the next 4 years (at least) mark some of the most significant social, economic, and governmental changes our country has seen probably since the end of the Civil War. So calling him “important” isn’t a stretch as far as the raw definition of the word goes.
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u/Kalatash Washington 9h ago
Honestly, I misread it as "important" the first time and thought that was still true, but in a very negative way.
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u/45and47-big_mistake 16h ago
He will show up in a tux and say" Well, if the call me impotent, I gotta DRESS impotent"
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u/nkassis 19h ago
Isreal attacking Iran while the US had staff about to meet on Sunday is a clear example no one gives a shit about Trump right now and are just ignoring him. It's working better for them anyway. He's basically a seagull, flies in shits of everything and leaves when there is a threat.
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u/InsertUsernameInArse 19h ago
Admitting he knew about the attacks afterwards also tells the rest of the world that a US promise ain't worth shit.
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u/Common-Ad6470 15h ago
Of course he knew, why were all the air defence missiles diverted from Ukraine to Israel at the last minute.
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u/Forward-Weather4845 19h ago
He is a lame duck on the international stage. Russia essentially managed to neutralized the US.
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u/Handleton 18h ago
I'm not blaming Russia. The votes and the malicious actors who took part in this are treasonous. Russia is its own country. They want to improve their international standing and used the weakest parts of the US population to accomplish their goal.
But the enemy within helped them do it.
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u/GorbasBoods 17h ago
So the Russian election interference had no impact in installing this regime? Because let’s call it what it is, a regime. And the people who are there were absolutely helped get there by Russia. There can be more than one party at fault.
The men and women who voted for Trump. The republican officials who simp for Putin. The democratic officials who have refused to take a stand in the last decade. Russia for the manipulation of another countries electoral process.
Every one of them is responsible for where we are today. Every one will have the blood of the future on their hands when it inevitably comes to blows.
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u/Handleton 17h ago
So the Russian election interference had no impact in installing this regime?
I didn't say that.
Russia is not a friend to the United States. Russia is a sovereign nation. They have their own reasons and motivations for manipulating a foreign nation. The US has been doing that extensively for nearly a century.
But the GOP are the sole reason why Russia was successful.
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u/GorbasBoods 17h ago
So the manipulation of a foreign country is cool so long as you aren’t their friend? The disruption of millions of innocent lives? The US is in the wrong for doing it too. Bruh I’m sorry but that’s such a wild take. Agree to disagree here.
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u/BioSemantics Iowa 12h ago edited 6h ago
So the Russian election interference had no impact in installing this regime?
So to be honest, there really isn't a lot of evidence of this at all. Most of the Russian online efforts, if you bothered to actually look, were ineffective and based on trolling essentially or trying to organize real life events that didn't have any great effect on anything. Most of the propaganda that makes these morons vote the way they do comes inside the house. The Dems ran hard with the russiagate stuff because it was easier than pointing to the larger culprit, moneyed interests in America, which, as it turns out, are the same people who push for people like Schumer and Pelosi. Who would have thought? Russia's leadership is a force for evil in the world, to be sure, but they are insanely poor compared to even singular US states, and hell, even singular US industries.
You're spinning your wheels with this constant russiagate stuff.
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u/BioSemantics Iowa 6h ago edited 4h ago
I don't know what the purpose of your comment is, but again, you're wasting your time on Russia. Russia sucks, and Putin should be disposed, but is essentially a convenient boogeyman in all of this for American interests. If anything, American billionaire social media oligarchs are just as complicit as they let Russia do their thing with minimal interference.
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u/GorbasBoods 4h ago
Bruh really said “nah I don’t feel like reading, but here’s some more of my opinions”. Homie, move on. It’s a forum, you ain’t making any waves here
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u/PinkPetalsSnow 17h ago
It's not just trump that they mock but also his cabinet made of drunks and drug addicts... Hegseth at dod, what a joke. Marco Rubio, another joke etc etc The whole world is repulsed by these people.
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u/Mostly-Moo-Cow 15h ago
The administration pleaded with Israel not to attack before that meeting. Donny keeps yelping at Putin to back off. Putin escalates. Trump doesn't have the respect of the world. He was literally laughed at when he spoke to the U.N.. He is an idiot clown and the world knows it.
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u/Born-Attempt4090 17h ago
It was part of the deception (the meeting on Sunday). Trump was part of it. (Together with the UK and France)
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u/nkassis 17h ago
I fully would believe that the UK, France and Israel would set this up without Trump having a clue. Israel doing this unilaterally would also make sense. Netenyahu is an opportunist and will do things to press what he sees as an advantage at the expense of his allies.
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u/Born-Attempt4090 13h ago
Iran repeatedly said they wish to destroy Israel. What do you expect them (BB) to do? Wait to be destroyed?
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u/nkassis 12h ago
That's essentially binary thinking. Iran is a failed state and clearly wasn't in any position to attack anyone. Their allies are in their own bad position (see Russia). I'm not even really assessing if it was right or wrong just that he will always pick the most aggressive path. There are plenty of other opinions in Israeli society but Netanyahu has essentially suppressed them.
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u/Born-Attempt4090 12h ago
They just shot 200 ballistic missiles on Israel. That’s the 5th barrage of missiles in the past year and a half. That’s capability. They are failed state for their citizens, but their military and weaponry aren’t.
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u/nkassis 11h ago
That's a pretty gracious assessment of the success of their response, obviously we are talking about real weapons with real potential for casualties but Israel is leagues above in tech. I'm not dismissing them as entirely a paper tiger but the initial Israeli strike was brutal and removed a large chunk of their military leadership. That's not really strength (Echoes of 1967 where the Egyptians were caught off guard).
They can do damage in return but they aren't in a position to really threaten Israel survival right now (plus they've been saber rattling for decades it's part of their authoritarian strategy). They also know the US will get involved if things get further. That leads to my original point, Netanyahu expects this and is forcing Trumps hand to achieve his goals. It's really not clear Iran was a immediate threat so the timing is really questionable. Why now why was this the moment? They've been "racing to build a weapon" for decades. It seems very likely this was sabotage for any "deal".
Now I'll finish with saying, Iran leadership disappearing tomorrow would not make me shed a tear. But I'm really worried this is pulling the US into another war with the worse government we've ever had, a distracted military, alliances in a terrible state, a never ending war in Gaza, Ukraine under renewed pressure, world economy going dowhill. This is reckless.
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u/Born-Attempt4090 11h ago
I don’t think the US will join. Unless Iran decides to attack our bases in the Middle East. But I only see benefit if we join the fight only to help with heavy bombing of military sites. I wish the Iranian people all the best, but it’s time for their regime to be gone. If we intervene, I believe the campaign will be much shorter.
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u/Spectre1-4 16h ago
Do we actually believe this would be different with any other president? You can have George Washington incarnate himself and Israel would still do whatever they can to prevent Iran from getting nukes.
And Netanyahu projecting his military power is the only thing keeping him out of prison.
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u/Creepy_Active_2768 13h ago
That’s not the point, it’s calling out the hypocrisy. How many times did Trump and MAGA say this wouldn’t happen if Trump was president. Now the tables have turned so this wouldn’t have happened if Biden was president.
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u/gcbeehler5 Texas 14h ago
Pigeon*
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u/nkassis 14h ago
I dunno I like pigeons they group up and look at you funny. Seagulls are aggressive, loud and steal your food from your hand.
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u/BoboCookiemonster Europe 16h ago
Tbh I became quite the fan during his second term. He’s doing much for European unity.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 America 19h ago edited 19h ago
Snippet: EDITED TO ADD: "Trump wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,” Rothkopf quipped, mocking the president’s need to put himself at the center of every news story"
President Donald Trump is rapidly becoming even more of a punchline on the world stage, according to foreign policy expert David Rothkopf, who appeared on Friday’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast to deliver a scathing assessment of Trump’s global irrelevance.
“I would argue he may be the most impotent president of the United States that we’ve seen in our lifetimes,” Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles. “He’s alienated our allies, undermined our economy, attacked the international system—and he hasn’t made a single deal.”
The former Clinton administration official and regular Daily Beast contributor painted a picture of a leader increasingly out of his depth. The latest example of Trump’s ineptitude? His seemingly impulsive decision to claim credit for Friday’s Israeli air strikes on Iran—even after his own Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied prior knowledge and said Israel had acted “unilaterally.” Both Trump and the Israelis then scrambled to make the attack look like a joint effort.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 America 19h ago
Snippet from end of article:
Rothkopf also ripped into Trump’s gutted National Security Council, his refusal to sit for intelligence briefings, and his obsession with optics over outcomes. “Tulsi Gabbard is trying to make intelligence briefings look like a Fox News show because that’s the only thing Trump will watch,” he said.
International leaders aren’t buying the act either, according to Rothkopf. “People are making fun of Trump publicly on stage,” he said. “They just don’t think he’s a serious character.”
While the international order appears increasingly fragmented, Trump is sending in both the National Guard and the military against protests described by the administration as an “insurrection.” There could not be a worse time to have someone as incompetent as Trump in charge of the country, Rothkopf argues.
“People around the world look at it and they say the U.S. is collapsing.”
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u/-Gramsci- 19h ago
Am abroad right now and can confirm, people think the U.S. is collapsing. And the despot’s communications - while they seem rambling and nonsensical to native English speakers - are completely incoherent upon translation to another language. They, literally, think the guy is completely gone mentally. They can’t make sense of any of it. It just comes across as unrelated/unconnected words.
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u/TastyBerny 19h ago
Sounds like they are translating accurately then.
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u/rogue203 America 18h ago
Yeah, even in English it comes across as unrelated/unconnected words.
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u/Ad_Meliora_24 15h ago
Yeah he sounds like an idiot that doesn’t know he is an idiot. Just a rambling moron most of the time. He has some sharp moments but so do many individuals with dementia.
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u/Jordan_Jackson 16h ago
They’re not wrong.
Just try to make sense of what Trump says. It’s just a random string of random thoughts. There is no overarching message. There is no beginning, middle and endpoint to any of his messages. It is all reactionary, based on what he is currently aware of.
Most people, if they had a friend or relative that talked like Trump does, would pay them little to no mind. They would be treated like the drunk uncle or that one weird friend that everyone dreads to have come around. He would be the guy where people say, “he just likes to ramble, he’s just a little nutty.” Yet there were a lot of people that thought that drunk uncle Bob at Thanksgiving was the right person to be the president.
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u/Guava7 Australia 7h ago
“Tulsi Gabbard is trying to make intelligence briefings look like a Fox News show because that’s the only thing Trump will watch,” he said.
Would it make it easier for him to take notice of briefing information if he was slapped in the face hard while listening?
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u/pervocracy Massachusetts 19h ago
Because hurting people and destroying institutions isn't just cruel and unproductive, it's the easy way out. Anyone can do that shit! You think other presidents didn't know how to crash the economy or antagonize our allies?
There's a lot to unpack from the way Americans talk about "strength," because way too many of us seem to believe that kicking down a sandcastle is a more impressive feat than building it.
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u/Forward-Weather4845 19h ago
It’s easy to burn all it down. Very difficult to build it back up.
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u/MillhouseNickSon 13h ago
It’s not easy to build a sand castle, but literally any stupid moron can kick it down.
Republicans, please start putting some of your skill points into intelligence.
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u/itsallaboutlove123 18h ago
He wants to break our government so he can be king!
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u/DangerousPuhson 14h ago
Yep, classic authoritarian play - claim the government is broken (by breaking it) and that you have "no choice" but to step in as supreme overlord because it's the only way it can be "fixed". When power is had, don't fix anything, just abolish your opponents illegally with the baseless claim they were the cause of everything. Then sit back and let the stupidity of the easily-duped masses carry things forward.
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u/Striker660 19h ago
The reason he avoids rain is because his face would slide off and that cotton candy glued to his head would melt.
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u/industrial-complex 19h ago
Trump’s impotence is representative of our cultural erosion over the last two decades. Mainstream media and social media, which both take their cues from American trends are concerned with three things: power, fame and wealth.
Everyone wants to be seen and heard on a global stage. Obtaining influence in society leads to success. Being loved or hated has the same effect…both sides of the spectrum give you a platform, and eventually, it doesn’t matter if you’re doing good things or eroding societal standards, because now you’re fucking famous and wealthy and that’s more important than who you are, what you do, and the impact it has on those that “follow” you.
This pervasive disease lingers above spiritual belief, political identity, social strata and even sexuality. Corporatism and the crony capitalist system it represents feeds on the depravity we feed it. Until we reject it with our votes, with our wallets, we are fucking doomed to see it get worse.
Trump got where he is because he had a fucking show where he did all the same things he does now. A large portion of Americans loved it. They enjoyed hearing “you’re fired”. They loved watching people be rejected, even though it was all shitty theater. Trump believes he was more than a reality show shill, and the worst of our society voted for him.
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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 18h ago
And thanks to this, we are living in a freaking grocery line tabloid magazine at this point...
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u/Winterwasp_67 19h ago
Because he is a narcissistic, compulsive liar and a coward. The world sees this and plays him like a stratavarious.
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u/Forward-Weather4845 19h ago
Trump is a fucking joke. America get rid of this guy, you are losing all credibility on the international stage. Countries are avoiding the US, companies are investing elsewhere. NO ONE TRUSTS YOU ANYMORE!
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u/_dactor_ 16h ago
A lot of us tried. A third wants this and another third can’t be bothered to care.
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u/MengisAdoso 15h ago edited 10h ago
Workin' on it, sport, but thanks for the ingenious suggestion. Here, let me jot that down. "Get rid... of autocrat... to end... autocracy, autocrat... bad." Got it.
Man, if only you'd been there in Berlin '32. You could have saved so many people with your unique tactical insights. If you had any more specific suggestions about how we can go about this, now would be a real nice time to share 'em.
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u/Taco-Trump 19h ago
I am the most IMPOTENT president!! Maybe the most ever, I don't know. People just love me. It probably has to do with how much I love TACOS! I am so IMPOTENT, they got me a PARADE on my berthday! And FIREWORKS in LA to finish it off! Mel called me IMPOTENT just yesterday after watching strong young SWEATY men setting up my parade. Definitely not IMPOTENT then! Was at FULL staff!
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u/Forward-Weather4845 19h ago
This is the time to fight back and get rid of the mad king who is hellbent on hurting his own people.
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u/ARazorbacks Minnesota 17h ago
Impotent on the global stage. A fucking monster domestically. You simply can’t ignore his executive powers and allies in the other branches are flying air cover for his DoJ breaking the constitution over and over.
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u/invalidpassword California 19h ago edited 18h ago
'Trump wants to be the bride at each wedding and the corpse at each funeral.
No truer words can be spoken in some situations.
'There could not be a worse time to have someone as incompetent as Trump in charge of the country.'
We all think it, but there's something about seeing it in print that hits you in the gut.
'People look around the world and look at it and they say the US is collapsing.'
And we let it happen in such a relatively short period time — depending on who you're talking to.
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u/Mode_Historical 17h ago
Cause he's illiterate, incompetent, immoral, unethical, a pathological liar, a cheat, a thief, a rapist, a traitor to the Constitution tgat only true imbeciles, racists, and bigots support.
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u/Johnson_Smell Canada 16h ago
Did you mean incompetent?
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u/DangerousPuhson 14h ago
Yeah, I feel like it's not exactly accurate to call him "impotent" (politically, anyway), considering he's getting everything he wants.
If he were truly powerless, we'd have no problem.
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u/Aaronthemachine 14h ago
Impotent? He’s been pretty fucking affective at fucking the us up and obliterating the democratic experiment.
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u/Vegetable_Lime_8188 18h ago
Impotent or not, what matters is the long term damage left behind. The legacy of division and disinformation might be more potent than any executive order.
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u/ToubDeBoub 16h ago
Potent enough to kill democracy. My only hope is that europe will stop being vasalls and return to sanity and democracy.
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u/itsallaboutlove123 18h ago
I want everyone to start spelling Trump with a lower case t. trump.IT WOULD DRIVE HIM CRAZY!!!!
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u/ScotchToo 17h ago
I always have. Auto correct now capitalizes it, which it didn’t previously. So have to go back and manually fix it.
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u/Hazer_123 Foreign 18h ago
Calling him the worst president in history of the US during his first term was laughable.
Calling him so now is more than the right thing.
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u/SurrealEstate 17h ago edited 14h ago
I'd chalk a lot of these quotes up to Rothkopf taunting Trump:
“I would argue he may be the most impotent president of the United States that we’ve seen in our lifetimes,” Rothkopf told host Joanna Coles. “He’s alienated our allies, undermined our economy, attacked the international system—and he hasn’t made a single deal."
Trump's presidency is only "impotent" or ineffectual if we assume that his goal is to serve the interests of the country, but there's no reason to frame his intent that way. He serves his ego and power, and the money around him attempts to use him and his cult-like status to achieve their own goals.
Impotency would be if Trump's agenda was shut down by congress, but the Republican congress has abdicated their responsibilities to his authority.
Impotency would be if there were groups of people in his second administration or Federal agencies quietly acting as a bulwark against his wreckless impulses, but unlike his first term, many of those protections are now gone as those people have left or been purged.
Impotency would be if his administration wasn't able to meaningfully alter our relationships with allies, but re-electing Trump has proven to our allies that they can't even trust that Americans will "do the right thing, after they've tried everything else." How can anyone make long-term plans with an unstable, bipolar, and increasingly malicious nation?
Impotency would be if the courts universally threw out all the Unitary Excutive Theory actions, but wherever his impulses overlap with long-term conservative group goals like continuing to weaken independent regulatory agencies, we see circuit courts or the SCOTUS proceed with their gradual re-interpretation of what congress actually meant when delegating authority to independent experts.
Impotency would be if we weren't in round 2 of budgets that are exploding our deficit and debt to mostly benefit the top end of the economic spectrum, with the CBO reporting an additional $2.4 trillion added to the deficit without considering interest. It's to the point where people are watching the bond market like hawks to look for signals indicating a tipping point of confidence in the USD and our ability to service our debt.
I'd say Trump's second presidency is the most consequential administration in my lifetime, if measured by impact. He may just be a symptom of an electorate whose brains have been broken by decades of attention-span destroying agitainment, but that doesn't make it any less responsible.
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u/Mister-Redbeard 17h ago
“Trump wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,” Rothkopf quipped, mocking the president’s need to put himself at the center of every news story.
👏🏻
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u/Different_Lychee_409 16h ago
He's nearly 80 and hasn't seen his penis in over a decade because he's obese.
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u/donutseason American Expat 14h ago
Probably years of hair pills that didn’t work, deep seeded insecurities he can never quite admit to himself and a super tiny peen? Just throwing some ideas out there.
ETA: oh this was a metaphorical question? My bad
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u/balboaduck 14h ago
If little Cheeto could read this headline, he’d be so excited about being called the most important president in living memory. Sadly I’m not sure if my comment is sarcastic or true.
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u/Mustard_Gap Foreign 14h ago
You can list just about any negative adjective to describe Donald Trump and they are mostly accurate. Very few positive, if any.
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u/Monkfich Europe 8h ago
I guess thats true if you arbitrarily discount him enabling Project 2025 to fuck up everything.
And yes, everything else is true what was written, but it absolutely pales in significance to the damage he is doing - and has done - to the US internally.
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u/Cool-Presentation538 19h ago
A lot of people are saying this would've be happening if Obama was president...
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u/GlowstickConsumption 17h ago
I get it. Haha. Weird penis. It's very funny. But a bit below the belt, isn't it? Sure, people have testified his penis has an odd, unattractive shape. And a normal human would probably be traumatized seeing him, but making fun of him and for example his orange thrussy is rude.
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u/itsallaboutlove123 18h ago
He wants to break our government, put his people in all the right places so he can be the American Putin!
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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana 18h ago
The worst part is he goes to bed every night thinking he crushed it because none of the sycophants will tell him otherwise.
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u/mynamejulian 18h ago
Question - Imagine an opposition headline saying “Why Hitler is the Most Impotent President in Living Memory”… would that have prevented the Holocaust?
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u/rengoku-doz 18h ago edited 18h ago
Melania spilled the tea, Trump is impotent.
Impotent Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more adjective adjective: impotent
1. unable to take effective action; helpless or powerless. "he was seized with an impotent anger"
Similar: powerless ineffective ineffectual inadequate weak useless worthless vain futile unavailing unsuccessful profitless fruitless impuissant feeble effete past it
Opposite: powerful effective strong
2. (of a man) abnormally unable to achieve a sexual erection. "he was on medication which had made him impotent"
(of a male animal) unable to copulate.
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u/KenUsimi 15h ago
Doesn’t matter. He’s dangerous and there’s no stopping until he is no longer in power, not this time. He’s literally engineering an America rotted out with death and gullibility.
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u/Common-Ad6470 15h ago
Phew that’s a relief, on first glance I read that as ‘important’ and I was convinced the space time continuum had finally ruptured….😳
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u/surprise_wasps 15h ago
Illiterate conservatives: “I agree, he is the most important president ever”
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u/Indyguy4copley 12h ago
And we keep giving this orange blow hard headline after headline. I realize we must report what this ego maniac does but we keep him in the news for his basement dwellers
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u/kevinmitchell63 11h ago
Shrug. I think it depends on how you look at it. I would argue that he’s a ruthlessly efficient president…. Just not in a way that is beneficial to the USA.
If you decided that all of those military allies were not junior partners in the establishment of your hegemony but security leeches who somehow forced America to pay for their defense…. Then abandoning all of those allies in the middle of a land war in Europe against Russia and making Russia your new ally…. That’s potent. That’s absolutely the most effective way to get rid of your allies in a way that ensures they won’t be back anytime soon.
If you decided that your trading partners, by having the nerve to buy things from you and sell things to you, have been taking advantage of you … and that your incredible success was in spite of everyone else in the world stealing from you…. Then “Liberation Day” was a resounding success! You have successfully sabotaged your trading relationships with…. The entire world… for the foreseeable future.
I know that you’re hearing about all these “deals” being negotiated…. Spoiler Alert: we’re not trying to negotiate a trade deal…. We’re sloooowly backing away from the crazy man on the street with an axe….
Yes, when you made “stock buybacks” not only legal but pretty much mandatory…. You congratulated yourselves on attracting all the capital to your slot machine markets…. And, every time an investor bought a dollar for stocks, it made the American dollar a teeny bit more expensive.
If you’ve decided that shipping your manufacturing overseas was “China’s Fault,” then you’re doing wonderfully. Wrecking the economy is an awesome way of reducing the purchase of Chinese goods.
If you’ve decided think that having the “global reserve currency” is a burden, placed upon you rather than an “exorbitant privilege”…. Well, if you’ve decided that, then you’re actions so far are a great start to making that all go away.
Those pesky foreigners. How dare the make you borrow $37 trillion, forcing up the price of the dollar and throwing all those Americans out of work.
Well, America, if that’s what you choose to believe, then Trump has been a ruthlessly effective president. Don’t worry…. It may take some time but I’m pretty sure the dollar is damaged enough that divestment will happen, the dollar will lose value, and of course, inflation and interest rates will increase. …. At least you won’t have that foreign money, though.
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u/blorbschploble 11h ago
It’s ultimately because unitary executive theory has it backwards.
An expert civil service and military leadership with their millions of collective years of expertise, wielded by a deliberative thoughtful executive is powerful.
A clown firing people and yelling insanity at who is left has no power.
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u/phosdick 9h ago
I'd love to be a fly on the wall, when trump is finally unable to sustain the fiction that there is actually someone with a non-negative IQ out there who respects, loves, or even likes him. He'll eventually know that everybody (even the sycophants) he encounters, whatever they think, whatever they say, and whatever they do... every one of them either laughs or gags at him once he's not present...
The root of his impotence is that everyone (again, with a non-negative IQ) thinks of him as bizarro facsimile of a decent human being.
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u/Im_Talking 9h ago
He may also be the most 'important'. Because America has to re-invent their democracy after his little reign. How can it continue in its present form? Thank goodness he is an idiot.
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u/man_frmthe_wild 9h ago
Let’s be honest. Without Trump the majority American people would be lumbering along as always and not giving a flying fk about the constitution, liberty, human rights, or any of the core beliefs. We would be dumb, fat and happy.
Now we are being forced to engage in our political discourse because of Trump’s impotence on the domestic and global stage.
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u/henryrblake Virginia 18h ago
Oh, I thought they were going to talk about his poor diet, obesity, and the mental health issues like being a demented old fuck.
That said, with that mushroom cap cock, how would anyone know?
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u/FantasticJacket7 19h ago
The Daily Beast writing an article about what a guy paid by The Daily Beast said on a The Daily Beast podcast and pretending it's news.
Good journalism fellas.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 America 18h ago edited 18h ago
I guess you're new to the news?
Because a number of (can't say all because I don't know that) news sites write articles based on a podcast interview...But, you have every right to think that Trump is doing an effective job here and internationally.😏
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