President Donald Trump was once again fact-checked following an embarrassing tantrum over a Canadian advertisement.
The ad quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs – a policy tool Trump frequently employs. The commercial includes audio clips from an April 25, 1987 radio address where Reagan stated: "Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.‘’
Trump humiliated by fact-check
This has never happened ever.
No he was not “humiliated” and we should be writing these rags hateful, scathing letters holding them accountable for contributing to this atomized worldview that is literally wrecking our whole society. There is no content in this article, it’s 90% ads all over the page, it’s just the same material reported in other news sites, but with a more sensational headline.
I don’t care that clickbait gets better views, I don’t care that they make more money. We are letting them get away with fabricating entire universes for select segments of populations.
People read shit like this and get all sweaty and satisfied and pump their fists and say “YEsss! Another victory! These clowns are going to crumble ANY DAY NOW!”
As they continue to celebrate living like royalty and bandits, taking food from children, blowing up innocent humans, shitting on the country and facing zero consequences. Articles like this are part of the downfall of democracy.
Yes, Trump doesn’t give a shit – and people get all hot and bothered thinking they can assassinate him with words
No he’s not humiliated, the guy can’t be humiliated, he’s a giant narcissist. He’ll simply day the facts are wrong and he’s right and that’ll be the end of it.
Having said that, can we PLEASE start pushing journalists to stop using this clickbait language like slamming, blasting, humiliating, etc? It is so tiring.
News doesn’t need to be 100% constant in your face exciting. Give me boring news, and lots of it
I wrote a similar reply to this post before I saw yours.
I DESPISE this kind of perspective-isolating, emotion-validating, reinforced fantasy world that media has created. The article has zero content, it just repeats the taglines content of more reputable news sites but throws it in among about 3 million ads and slaps a fantasy-world headline on it to make people think we’re winning some points against the literal most powerful people on Earth who are celebrating their victories every day.
Fuck this kind of clickbait, fuck people who post it. Sorry OP.
You lost that battle in about 2004 unfortunately
Wait, does he hate AI now? Or did he really fly a plane and dump shit on the no kings protesters?
No, and this article is bullshit invented to pander to people who want to see Trump humiliated. It’s fantasy, it’s lying. It’s lying to viewers for money and ads and clicks.
He managed to do the impossible. I found myself aligned with Reagan on something.
He also liked jelly beans. So that’s two things in common I guess.
Reagan*
I appreciate that you tried to sound it out but unfortunately his name is in English so sounding it out doesn’t work :(
He has no capacity to feel humiliated. He doesn’t care about the truth or facts. And most of his followers are the same way.
Except he does feel humiliation and I think he feels it more intense than most. I’m not a psychologist but it appears to me as one of his main motivations to do something. Because deep down he’s a deeply insecure little shit and all this strong man stuff is just a facade he puts up.
I would argue humiliation is what he fears above all else and that makes him lash out even stronger.
I get what you’re saying but this is a definition “Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.”
That does not sound like what Trump feels or does. He may change what he says or actions but I don’t think it’s out of humiliation. But rather a narcissistic need to be liked. He still thinks others are wrong and he doesn’t care to change to help anyone but himself. No self reflection or thought that he could be wrong.
It’s still nice to see him look so hurt when it happens and would like to see more of it. From a jail cell would be great.
During his first term I watched him cry at a sports match because the whole stadium booed him.
He’s angry he got caught being the piece of shit that he is. To him the problem is that the truth came out
Anything that he doesn’t like is either fake news, artificial intelligence, or both.
Days without Trump being a national embarrassment: 0
Days without Trump doing something stupid for a 5 year old on the playground: 0
Days with meaningful consequences for his actions: 0
He better watch out, one of these days he might get slammed.
Days without Trump doing something that will take decades to fix: 0
Days that the majority of America did anything meaningful to deal with Trump: 0
Canada has a pretty far right bend right now, we’d love advice on how to fix it.
I think we should stop voting in ratchet liberals. And we need NDP to run on a platform of election reform.
Huh, sounds easy. How does one person do that?
How does one person do anything?
What does ONE mosquito do at night in your bedroom that keeps you awake?
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Are guns working for the states?
Canada is using guns to stop their far right? I think they have pretty strict gun laws.
I’d argue there are too many structural issues, all too established to ever fix. Trump is just abusing these with abandon instead of papering over them like often happened in the past.
The only hope at this point is that it’s so broken by the end that no amount of “tweaking” the current plan/formula is worth doing. Would at least be nice if the light at the end of the tunnel is that a whole new modern way of life will be possible to rebuild from the ashes. Even without trump breaking it further, the current plan wasn’t going well, long term. It’s going worse now, but in an unsustainable way. The old plan would have taken much longer to get this much worse.
will be possible to rebuild from the ashes
The problem is that the billionaires are thinking the same thing and their ideas for a "new modern way of life* are a bit different from the rest of the population.
Well, to be fair, I’m assuming a little French Revolution will be part of the current system burning down.
The fact that Trump ‘accused’ anybody of using AI is a joke by itself!
I fucking hate Doug Ford, but this is by far the funniest shit he’s ever pulled. This is more elbows up than our spineless PM has claimed to be and I am here for it.
The thing I hate most about Ford is that he can be genuinely likable and relatable at times. Sort of like George Bush Jr, he’s got a non-threatening “I’d sit down and have a beer and chat with him” charisma. It makes it really hard to imagine that he’ll ever lose an election or face any resistance to his policies, even though he is one of the most corrupt and directly threatening premiers in living memory. He is quietly dismantling and privatizing everything about Canada’s largest province and mortgaging its future to cash out for his cronies while keeping the masses distracted and on his side by relaxing regulations and alcohol policies and performative trade rhetoric.
And it makes me angry how amazingly well it works. We get so excited about the unimportant stuff he does because it’s simple and fits in a tweet, and we don’t have the time or energy or context to try to understand the important stuff where he’s intentionally breaking things and stealing from us because it’s complex and convoluted.
You’re right I would smoke crack with Doug Ford.
Even a fat, disgusting, beady eyed, selfish, worthless excuse for a clock is right twice a day I guess.
There was also the time he swallowed the bee
If only this demented narcissist could feel humility.
This is just to distract from the Epstein Files.
This man is delusional. Remove him.
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The world series should have run the ad for free. National sports can’t survive if nobody can afford to go to the games. Empty stadiums are empty coffers.
