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I do things right," Trump told Fox News. "I'm a legitimate person."

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[–] ohmyiv 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, because losing lawsuits, two impeachments, and the current indictments really indicate he doesn't do anything wrong. Bigly legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are witch hunts, duh /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not like Trump would ever lie.

[–] Dick_Justice 38 points 1 year ago

I'm a real boy!

[–] Hypersapien 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like I'm going to trust Donald Trump to have any understanding of right and wrong.

He believes that the things he does are always right solely by virtue of him being the one doing them, even if they would be wrong if someone else did them.

[–] arensb 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He believes that the things he does are always right

I'm not sure he believes that. Although it's clear that he says he believes them, and it's probably true that he believes he can get away with anything that he's not physically restrained from doing.

[–] axtualdave 7 points 1 year ago

It's never okay to seriously diagnose someone over the internet, or by the way the behave in front of a camera. That said, if you do that, and take Trump's behavior at face value, the man is a classic narcissist, and almost certainly suffering from dementia and sundowning earlier and earlier in the day.

I legitimately wonder if that will be a defense at his inevitable trials.

[–] SheeEttin 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically he's correct he is a legitimate person, compared to Real Human Being T'ed Cruz.

But he's still broken a bunch of laws.

[–] gornar 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He is one being and not several

[–] Cruxifux 6 points 1 year ago

I’m unconvinced that MAGA people aren’t a hive mind at this point.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Big difference between " I don't do things wrong" and " I don't do wrong things"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"I'm a legitimate person." WHY would you need to specify that?

[–] nrezcm 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe he (or one of his aides) stumbled upon Tedcruzforhumanpresident.com and thought that's what they're doing now.

[–] alejandro 7 points 1 year ago

That sounds like something Mark Zuckerberg would say.

[–] Coach 17 points 1 year ago

Captain petulant-man-baby-who-has-never-been-told-no seems confused.

[–] utopianfiat 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could have been titled "Trump made a long, wet fart sound" and it would have had exactly as much value.

[–] KeefChief13 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

His son is taller than him.

[–] onionbaggage 5 points 1 year ago

Probably not his honestly.

[–] BrianTheFirst 4 points 1 year ago

Already has bigger hands, too

[–] bigshrekeggplant 2 points 1 year ago

they're both pretty tall

[–] sebinspace 15 points 1 year ago

c/okbuddyretard

[–] FlyingSquid 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do I even want to know who he thinks is an illegitimate person?

[–] Xaphanos 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Black. Brown. Poor.

You. Me.

[–] Hypersapien 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone who doesn't worship him.

[–] Chalky_Pockets 5 points 1 year ago

No that's not it. He hates his worshippers. One could almost argue they are his primary victims, if it weren't for the fact that the rest of us are their collective primary victims.

[–] SweetSitty 8 points 1 year ago

Person, woman, man, camera, tv.

[–] eramseth 12 points 1 year ago

So, in case you didn't know, this is literally like textbook fascist argument.

Rather than people being good or bad based on their actions, you're good or bad based on who you are.

This is why during the "grab 'em by the pussy" stuff Trump was painted as a good guy who did a few bad things, like saying some off-color stuff on tape.

This is also why you'll hear certain people say something like "That Bill Cosby, what a shame. Sure thought he was one of the good ones..."

...so you can come to your own conclusions about what type of person you have to be to be considered good or bad in the fascist world view...

...or actually I'll just say it. If you're a white Christian male you're predetermined to be good in the fascist world view. Everyone else is predetermined to be bad... or perhaps has to earn being good until even the slightest of mis-steps proves they were exactly who the fascists thought they were... (not that what Bill Cosby did was a slight mis-step, mind you).

Same reason laws are enforced more harshly on minorities.

[–] corroded 12 points 1 year ago

It's easy to be unconcerned about doing something wrong when you're too narcissistic to believe you can make a mistake and too much of an idiot to understand why the laws exist in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the whole "I am an infallible god" schtick is getting pret-ty old at this point. As are you. I'd sooner let one of your kill-billy creeps cut my throat than to worship your dumb, dumpy, decrepit ass.

[–] Tired8281 11 points 1 year ago

So, he doesn't do things wrong? So, he intended to keep all those documents?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extremely rich man who is surrounded by yes-men and a society believing wealth equals success believes he doesn't do things wrong.

At least he genuinely believes that and it isn't a lie I guess.

[–] dhork 3 points 1 year ago

I've always believed that his problem was that nobody has ever said "no" to him since his father died. That is, until he became President, and found out that although he was the head of the entire Executive branch, there were limits to even what he could do.

I am convinced that the reason he showed off this document in particular was that some general he didn't like told him how sensitive it was and that he couldn't disclose it, and he immediately shared it just to spite the one guy who told him "no".

[–] Gingerlegs 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, okay 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"I'm a legitimate person."

Wait, did someone cast [[Witness Protection]]?

[–] Petter1 6 points 1 year ago

I'd expect at least something like, "I'm the most legitimate person on earth!" from him.

[–] giacomo 6 points 1 year ago

Solid logic, let's see how that plays out.

[–] fne8w2ah 6 points 1 year ago

Trumpty Dumpty sat on a wall...

[–] solstice 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop, what tapes and what did he say?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

basically a tape leaked of him committing the crimes, narrating himself committing the crime, committing new crimes and laughing with others about all the crimes they just committed.

[–] onionbaggage 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fake news. It's all super legal and super cool.

[–] SmokumJoe 5 points 1 year ago

Do we need a new version /s?

[–] ki77erb 6 points 1 year ago

Yep! The one where he basically says "this document is highly classified....here look at it."

[–] takeda 11 points 1 year ago

I believe it is about the tape from the indictment that CNN obtain.

The one where he shows top secret document of how Iran would be attacked if a war would start. You can even hear the paper how he passes it around to interviewers. The text from indictment made it sound less damning.

[–] sirtwinklebottom 5 points 1 year ago

Lock him up.

[–] paddirn 2 points 1 year ago

"I don't do no wrong things, y'hear me? I'm Implecable."