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> I figured that was obvious after Trump and Obama were all buddy-buddy at Carter's funeral. Please tell me this isn't the only data point you're basing your c
by toomanyrichies 1y ago
> I figured that was obvious after Trump and Obama were all buddy-buddy at Carter's funeral.
Please tell me this isn't the only data point you're basing your conclusion on.
It's social protocol that funeral attendees treat each other in a civil manner, even if they intensely dislike each other. I'm autistic, but even I know that social rule.
- refurb 1y agoHave you not see the video? It wasn't civil, it looked like a couple of long-lost best friends catching up. Obama had made his comments about "wannabe dictator" only a week or so earlier. Actions speak louder than words.
- toomanyrichies 1y agoI don't care if they're slapping each other's backs and high-fiving! Trump is currently the most powerful person in the world, and has a long and storied history of using that power to harm those who slight him or bruise his fragile ego in any way. Obama knows this; he's been on the receiving of Trump's petty vindictiveness too many times to count. And he could just as easily be placating Trump so that he doesn't issue an executive order to, say, require every publicly-funded university in the US to offer a "men's rights studies" major, simply out of spite.
- refurb 1y agoOr, Obama knows it’s all politics and mudslinging, where the truth is irrelevant? And in reality he’s happy to have Trump as a friend and isn’t really worried about a dictatorship?