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kleinbl00  ·  1624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump to hold G7 summit at his struggling Miami resort

    Given the potential consequences the president is facing for abusing the presidency for his own gain, we would have thought he would steer clear of blatant corruption at least temporarily;

Three years ago that's a quote from an Onion article.





ghostoffuffle  ·  1624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like to play a game sometimes where I imagine going back in time ten or twenty years and just reading current headlines to people to see how they'd react. Here's an excerpt from today's NYT:

    Mr. Mulvaney’s performance headlined another extraordinary day in Mr. Trump’s presidency. Mr. Mulvaney made his remarks after he stepped before the cameras to announce that the leaders of the Group of 7 nations would meet in June at Mr. Trump’s golf resort in South Florida, even as he acknowledged the choice could be seen as self-enrichment. In Texas, Mr. Trump hailed a Middle East cease-fire that would cement Turkey’s goal of pushing Kurds from Northern Syria as “a great day for civilization.”

    And on Capitol Hill, Gordon D. Sondland, the president’s ambassador to the European Union and a wealthy donor to Mr. Trump’s campaign, was implicating the president in the Ukraine scandal by telling lawmakers that Mr. Trump had delegated Ukraine policy to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani.

What would somebody from, say, 2002 make of this?

kleinbl00  ·  1624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude it legit sounds like something Bob Gale left out of Back to the Future Part II as "too implausible".

And Biff Tannen was modeled on Trump.