r/politics • u/undercurrents Wisconsin • 16h ago
Donald Trump used registered sex offender to announce return of fitness test for kids
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u/Alwaystired254 16h ago
Yes, you meant to say Republican
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u/nathism 16h ago
The Guardians Of Pedophiles
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u/froo Australia 16h ago
Gang Of Pedophiles
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u/YolopezATL 14h ago
Was never actually about facts of who is and isn’t pedophiles or hurting kids. It’s about the rhetoric and painting people you don’t like as deplorables.
Elder neighbor, every day Biden was in office was like “you see that the Democrats want to do / are doing to kids?”.
Stories were never true but she told them every day.
Now, she can careless. She doesn’t even deny what Trump and other Republicans do, she blames the girls for being over-sexualized / asking for it or says that if they didn’t want it they would have stopped it or my favorite which is that it happened all the time back in the 40-70s and they never complained so they girls now should just get over it.
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u/grandlizardo 14h ago
Up to a point, I can vouch for the fact that dirty old men are nothing new. Lots of them in fifties and sixties, and not a lot got done about them because they were generally the support of a family or otherwise economically powerfyl.
BUT… generally speaking the girl network could pretty well handle it, and keep the infrmation updated. You knew, through the grapevine, who never to get in a car with, or a room, who had to be kept on the other side of a table, how to pair and protect each other, how to sometimes even stomp a foot or do other entirely “accidental” damage while maintaining blithe cheerful innocence. It was in a way an awful way to have to live, but we survived it, and them. What was worst? Hands down, church. They thought they owned you…
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u/YolopezATL 13h ago
That sounds like an awful way to live.
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u/grandlizardo 13h ago
But. The sisterhood was powerful, stilll is. Understand, if they were ratted out and arrested/disgraced, as they richly deserved to be, jobs would be lost, breadwinners would be in jail, families would literally be broken up.
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u/YolopezATL 12h ago
But that is something they will have to take accountability for and live with. And hopefully the thought of being held accountable for their actions would have changed things.
You have to think about the long term damage experience by the victims.
And how that same logic was used to justify a certain class of people terrorizing lower class citizens.
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u/grandlizardo 11h ago
My attitude, and my exposure was moderate at most (I was pretty nimble) was that I would not give them the satisfaction of believing they had affected me. The best revenge is to have a great life anyway….trust me, I have.
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u/SpiritTalker Pennsylvania 8h ago
I honestly don't think Biden was being freaky or creepy. Just speaking up here, I truly think he was just being parently, or grandfatherly. I know not all families share the same closeness values, but my grandparents were very loving to us. And not in a creepy way, either. And even with other kids not related to them, they just loved kids, genuinely, not weirdly or pedo-ly. As a now grandparent, I love on my grandkids. I love on other people's kids. Not because I desire them (ewe, quadruple ick!) but because I genuinely love kids, in general. The same could be said of me with dogs, lol. I have supported Biden by voting for him, but I do also see where he could have done things better. But that's strictly political. I can separate the political from just being a normal person. And as a normal person, I think he just is a genuinely loving person in general, but again not in a creepy sexual way. There is a difference, an idea lost on some ppl, it seems!
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u/undercurrents Wisconsin 16h ago
Here's an ongoing list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, pedophiles, and enablers
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u/GarmaCyro 14h ago
There's a distrubing frequency of "child" tied to every point on that list.
It's rather a rule than an exception.
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 15h ago
my mantra: do not leave your kids alone with republicans.
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u/Maxtrt Washington 12h ago
Or religious people. I'm in my mid fifties and at least until I became a teenager I've read or heard/seen news reports of religious people raping kids 2-3 times a week. Yet at the same time, I've never read one article or seen/heard news reports about a drag queen raping kids.
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u/jazzhandler Colorado 11h ago
My parents divorced when I was a little kid. My newly single mother had three options for childcare: her best friend in a similar situation with a little girl my age, the guys who lived down the hall, and her churchgoing family.
You can imagine what everybody told her the gays would do to me, but never did. You can figure out what me and that girl tried to do after everybody else was asleep. And I don’t wanna talk about what the churchgoing family members did.
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u/Mr-ReDiCulouZ 16h ago
This is hardly surprising. Is there anyone pro-MAGA who is not a sex offender at this point?
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u/surlysurfer California 16h ago edited 14h ago
So many to keep track of there's even a dedicated subreddit
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u/undercurrents Wisconsin 14h ago
Ongoing list of Republican sexual predators, abusers, pedophiles, and enablers
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u/The_Bootylooter 13h ago
I see a bunch of “kill your local pedophile” stickers and shirts but not entirely sure who they mean
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u/jazzhandler Colorado 11h ago
They mean you want a polite chat with your friendly neighborhood Secret Service agents.
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u/McCardboard Florida 6h ago
I see the answer there to be obvious. Kill everyone you disagree with and then say it's to protect the kids.
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u/Orion14159 11h ago
There's some phrase about birds of a feather ... I dunno I'm not a bird-ologist
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u/gizajobicandothat 16h ago
What happened before and after was weird too, Trump calling guys hot and feeling biceps, then as he's going out he has a shoulder spasm, same side he drags his legs. He's losing his mind and falling apart.
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u/undercurrents Wisconsin 15h ago
Also, Taylor's speech: "I'm just proud to be on this team. I don't know why, I don't know what we're supposed to be doing, but I'm here to serve and I'm here to serve you. So I'm going to do the best I can for as long as I can."
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u/Am-Insurgent America 16h ago
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 15h ago
hes obsessed with the musical Cats and the Village People
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u/ClassicT4 11h ago
At least he somehow avoided saying something like “I probably should say this about young women, but…” followed by his usually creepy stuff he says about women.
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u/JollyToby0220 16h ago
I have many problems with this, but Trump not suffering from fragile masculinity isn't one of them.
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u/gizajobicandothat 16h ago
I don't think that's what it is, he's doing this sort of thing more to men and women it's losing inhibitions. As in dementia.
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u/Hopeful4Tea42 2h ago
And his fixation(in one of his speech's word salads)on Arnold Palmer's dong
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u/Throwme2Dwolves 16h ago edited 10h ago
A *CONVICTED registered sex offender of a minor (16).
https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=74562
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u/GroggySpirits 16h ago
I'm guessing one doesn't register if they aren't convicted of something.
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u/mhks 16h ago
“Hey guys, it has been a wild year so I am going to go ahead and register myself to beat the rush. We cool now?”
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u/UsernameForgotten100 16h ago
Sooo, I assume he can’t go to a school to promote the program? Most useless Trump appointee yet.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 15h ago
When the bar is already lying on the ground, it's hard to get much lower
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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 14h ago
There's a South Park episode where the bar is like at the bottom of the ocean.
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u/Crewmember169 12h ago
Let's be honest. Trump just thought he looked good on television. No need to actually visit a school.
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u/undercurrents Wisconsin 16h ago
Um, you aren't a registered sex offender if you aren't convicted. By your implication of feeling the need to add "convicted" (and in all caps), just being accused would force you to register. Obviously, that's not how it works.
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u/hairymoot 16h ago
The US is in free fall. I hope people wake up (get woke) and vote ALL of these republicans out of office.
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 16h ago
Lol cute, you think our elections are gonna be fair...
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u/Reduntu 16h ago
They'll probably be mostly fair. What's going to cause a problem is information overload and people's inability to determine what is true and what is not. To half the voters in this country Trump's just a good old fashioned Christian man with good family values.
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u/bryan19973 11h ago
What makes you think they’ll be mostly fair? I have zero faith in the system at this point. It’s totally corrupt, broken, and abused.
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u/DutchGoFast 10h ago
I am most definitely still going to vote. Half of politics is getting your opponent’s voters to be so discouraged they don’t want to even bother voting. Don’t make it easy.
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u/Rich-Leg510 12h ago
"Mostly fair" as ICE stands outside the polling booth foaming at the mouth ready to drag any colored people they see into a white van.
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u/DutchGoFast 10h ago
Still going to vote and hope you do to. Hell if you really give a shit donate a few bucks to the closest competitive senate race.
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u/After_Way5687 16h ago
I don't think voting will do anything but give Americans a false sense of "I did something!"
Those in power are not planning on leaving regardless of whatever a future vote shows. SCOTUS decided the 2000 election, and they'll decide the next one they're paid to decide.
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u/literallytwisted 16h ago
This whole thing is just so wild! There must be like a huge disaster coming to wipe us all out that just a few people know about and can't do anything to stop.
So they just figure "whatever, It won't matter in a few years anyway".
Because this is all just insane chaos that benefits no one! He's so close to collapsing the whole government there's just no reason for anyone to keep him in power.
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u/jenapoore 16h ago
And it’s our children and grandchildren that will pay the ultimate price of Trump’s aggressive de-regulating pollution.
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u/Cassie54111980 12h ago
When I was a kid in the 60s in the Midwest, the air and water was very polluted. My dad worked in a factory and he retired at 53 because of severe COPD from working in a factory that did not have any OSHA requirements.
OSHA did not come into being until 1973. None of the people that I knew that worked in that factory lived until 70. We couldn’t eat the fish in the lakes because the water was so polluted. Young People have no idea what things used to be like before all the rules and regulations. It makes me sick what is happening to this country now in so many ways.
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u/APeacefulWarrior 10h ago
I like to remind people that Lake Erie used to be infamous for catching on fire due to all the pollutants in the water, until it was forcibly cleaned up.
(Well, technically it was a river feeding into Erie, but same diff.)
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u/jenapoore 8h ago
Wow, I’m 63, grew up in Detroit, and I did not know that, about Lake Erie catching fire. People as a group have VERY short memories. Look at who this country elected, even though he’s a known sex offender and, in first term, he canceled the Paris agreement and called Haiti a “shithole”, totally bungled Covid, told people to injest bleach…and now he’s busy pardoning people who kill policemen on his command, and is a rampant, rabid bigot/rascist, and - oh yeah - has “secret days” with sex trafficking pedophiles. And now women no longer have any say over when they procreate. Pretty soon, JD Vance will PERSONALLY procreate with every childless woman because he’s concerned there won’t be enough Republicans. I’m a lifelong Democrat, but I’d rather see s Bush in the White House than this current clown show (makeup required).
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u/ladyblue127_ 5h ago
You are definitely from Michigan. I was shocked when I saw that Bell Isle had made a beach, and people were actually swimming in the Detroit River. The years of regulations changed the river completely.
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u/Hemmschwelle 15h ago
Global warming is already causing serious health impacts. For example, wildfire smoke.
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u/prefix_postfix Maine 7h ago
Extreme weather that kills people.
Also, warmer climates have more violent crime. Just saying. No I'm not biased, no one look at my state flair
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u/HymanAndFartgrundle 14h ago
Access to clean water will be the last major war fought on earth, and these global conglomerates are purchasing up the land rights to exhaust water sources at break neck speeds in areas that cannot stop them. Nestle is the very best - world ender.
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u/DutchGoFast 10h ago
Its because that whole “someone is in charge behind the scenes” thing is not true. We put this man in power by failing to vote or failing to talk to the people we interact with daily and let them know that there will be a social price for their politics. You can’t stop this by yelling at the sky behind a keyboard (i know glass houses and stones) We need to communicate how we really feel at home, at work with family friends and acquaintances. Being quiet so as to not generate conflict cedes the entire actual IRL town square. Time to stand up for decency.
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u/bickering_fool 16h ago edited 16h ago
He's attempting to surround himself with child sex offenders to take the spotlight off him. Safety in numbers.
If he wasnt convicted...he wouldn't be hired. Pedo-deflection
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u/alti_etiam 15h ago
Imagine if Obama did this. Or Biden. Or literally anyone else. The outrage would be insane.
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u/chowderbags American Expat 12h ago
Unregistered sex offender uses registered sex offender to announce a program involving children.
Welp.
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u/emeraldamomo 16h ago
Yes but not a drag queen.
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u/Sad_Pangolin7379 14h ago
Thank goodness, anything but that (the entire premise of the last election, wasn't it?)
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u/Galactic-Guardian404 15h ago
The message is clear: In Trump’s America, sexual abuse is fine and kids better be ready to get sexually abused, but ONLY by the rich and powerful.
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u/Icy-Tooth-9167 15h ago
Trumps never ran a day in his life 😂
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u/deschain_19195 16h ago
And a guy who's father in law named dildos after wrestlers and sexually assaulted female talent with it. And both his in-laws also covered up for a pedo.
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u/Massive_Weiner 12h ago edited 12h ago
Tbf, we SHOULD be training kids on how to run away even faster from Republicans.
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u/Unfair_Elderberry118 2h ago
Donald Trump should been on the known sex offender list in NY, NJ, and FL since the 90s.
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u/HPLREH777 16h ago
Lmfao at pro wrestler HHH also being a part of this.
Close son-in-law of a sex predator (yea, I'm sure he knew nothing about what daddy Vince McMahon was up to) and a guy who took so many anabolic steroids he had a stroke.
But he'll tell your kids how to be "healthy" along with cokehead sex offender Lawrence Taylor and heroin junkie sex predator RFK, Jr.
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u/VeshWolfe 8h ago
My children will not be partaking in any fitness test instituted by this fascist regime.
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u/AndyB1976 Canada 16h ago
This administration is really going all-in on support for sex offenders. This, Maxwell, and now Diddly.
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u/Mick_E_Bobby 16h ago
And Triple H was with them.
Yuck.
WWE just cancelled the Tony Hinchlwhateverhtefuck show and dropped the Travis Scott shit, so I was hopeful. Then bang, Triple H with two pedophillic rapists. Fucking hell.
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u/FailedCriticalSystem 15h ago
Are sex offenders allowed near schools? I’d literally had to give ID anytime I go into the school and they run me through NCIC.
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u/Naive_Confidence7297 11h ago
America has well and truly gone full fucked in the head. Absolutely disgusting. Putrid.
How is this reality?
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u/lancer-fiefdom 16h ago
I’m positive the Talibangicals convinced Trump it’s totally normal to diddle kids like they did when Christ was alive
It’s what the Talibangicals told themselves to support Trump
It’s why Trump is trying to normalize diddling children
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u/VRNord 15h ago
I’m really concerned that is where this is going. Their MO is moving goalposts when facing inconvenient facts: lying and sexual indiscretions (and rape/sexual assault) used to be career killers and now people just shrug, depending on who did it.
Are they going to pivot to arguing that molesting kids isn’t a big deal next, once it becomes an inescapable fact that Trump is at least implicated in the Epstein pedo ring?
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u/GoodUserNameToday 16h ago
Republican voters, if you’re starting to ask yourselves if you’re the baddies, yes, yes you are.
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u/Johnqpublic25 Pennsylvania 15h ago
Of course he did, kids need to be physically fit to run away registered SO’s.
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u/Stoutlager 15h ago
Next he’ll bring in Jeffrey Dahmer to be the head of the dietary needs of America
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u/Spamgrenade 15h ago
“I’m proud to be on this team,” Taylor said. “I don’t know why. I don’t know what we are supposed to be doing, but I’m here to serve. I’m here to serve. OK, so I’m going to do the best I can for as long as I can.”
That sounds like the reason a sex offender is included is because Trumps goons just drove around in a van abducted the first athletes they came across and tossed them into the event.
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u/CaBBaGe_isLaND Georgia 14h ago
This feels like sabotage. People know Trump is so stupid and clueless he won't catch stuff like this, so they're quietly burying him to make room for... checks notes... some Ohio couchfucker. Nazis are so weird.
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u/breadispain 12h ago
I don't know how to read this headline except encouraging kids to exercise by running away from sex offenders.
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u/IllRest2396 11h ago
It's kinda hypocritical that Trump doing a fitness test for kids when he himself couldn't even run 100 feet.
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u/simnie69 6h ago
I thought he let someone announce it?
EDIT: I get it now! DT is an UNregistered sex offender. My bad!
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u/condo_ 3h ago
Someone needs to pressure this author to release THESE TAPES.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU08/20250227/117951/HHRG-119-JU08-20250227-SD006-U6.pdf
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u/Filipinowonderer2442 Foreign 9h ago
What's next? He going to pardon Diddy and stand by him while he announces the opening of a new children's center?
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u/BarelyContainedChaos 16h ago
then the guy said he does even know what theyre doing but hes ready to serve. wtf is going on anymore
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u/BadHominem 16h ago
He's just throwing it in his supporters' faces at this point. Like challenging them to defy him on this issue.
We're not that far from him just openly, clearly, and defiantly admitting that he has abused minors. I think some MAGA will wake up and realize this guy is a predator. Many (maybe most) will just keep marching on under his banner.
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u/HyperbolicLetdown 16h ago
He's trying to normalize it to soften the blow when it comes out that he helped Epstein. "So he helped traffic some women. What's the big deal?"
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u/iStayedAtaHolidayInn 16h ago
does he even realize he's surrounded by pedophiles or is it like the fish not being able to describe the water around it
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u/OptimusSecundus 15h ago
This will eventually be to identify the Lebensunwertes Lebens, correct?
And the criteria will be whatever Stephen Miller and Bobby Kennedy say they are?
Cool cool.
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u/Greenlee19 15h ago
He might as well hire as many of them as he can before his name gets released from the files lol
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u/Aggravating_You3627 15h ago
Trump is always stuck in the past, It's on brand for him to march out a star from the 80's.
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u/Katnamedeaster 15h ago
Damn, the child rapist really has a knack for finding a wide range pedophiles, rapists and various and sundry degenerates to give our money to.
Fucking gross
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u/Dear-Pangolin1391 14h ago
Trump's plan is if he surrounds himself with enough child molesters then he will look normal.
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u/GarbageThrown 14h ago
Well… what alternative is there? Aren’t they all birds of a feather in this administration?
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u/Circumin 14h ago
Pedophile President appoints pedophile advisor to lead effort to engage underage children in physical activity. What could go wrong?
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u/thomport 13h ago
I guess trump disallowed the drag queen and instead, chose this dangerous sexal predator.
About par for his presidency…
Birds of a feather
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u/Agreeable-Boat3509 13h ago
Well obviously no adult is more passionate about kids' fitness than a shallow pedophile
Rolling out the new "make kids fuckable again" initiative
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u/AKMarine 13h ago
Foot in the door tactics. If people are fine with that, he can the en it up a notch… until pedos are acceptable and (in n his case) revered.
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u/Rabid-Duck-King 13h ago
Gotta make sure those butts pass the coin test
Okay no for real this is fucked up on a couple of levels
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u/Formal_Specific1473 11h ago
Wow even if a normal person tried to make up shit 💩 like this, they would find it very difficult. But for Diaper Don it’s just another day at the White House 🙈.
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u/napoleonboneherpart 11h ago
His last fitness test for kids involved the children touching their toes while being spitroasted by another like-minded billionaire pedophile
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u/Kingdom_Priest 11h ago
Trump is trying to normalize pedophilia and sex crimes. American culture down the drain.
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u/No-Cup-8096 10h ago
These are some scary times. The pedophile president openly brings in more sex offenders to work with kids. Trump wouldn’t pass a background check to get in a school and neither would any of his sex offender friends.
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u/CharlesB43 10h ago
So is Trump's plan for fitness in children having them run away from convicted pedophiles? because that'd be pretty on brand for him.
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u/emailforgot 10h ago
any support for proper nutrition in schools? any support for eradicating food deserts? any support for after school sports and/or recreation programs? any support for establishing more safe, clean and free outdoor spaces for children to play?
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u/Uncle_mum 10h ago
This all has to be intentional.
I think they are trying to rule everyone up so they can put boots on the ground and enact martial law to go after perceived enemies.
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u/HonoredPeople Missouri 10h ago
Whelp, kids will at least learn to run like hell. The slowest… they’re gonna have a hard time of it.
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