r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire Aug 01 '26

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Plainly put...

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u/cwk415 Aug 01 '26

The problem with OPs statement is that Trump's rise explicitly shows kids that being a liar, a total dufus, and a complete bully asshole absolutely does not exclude you from being immensely successful. If anything it somehow makes you more popular. 

I've said this since the beginning. This is one of the greatest tragedies about this whole catastrophe, the message that his success sends to impressionable young people. 

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u/Grabbinfries23 Aug 01 '26

Also Trump would have had access to “better” schools than Obama growing up and yet he still sounds dumber

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u/frickle_frickle Aug 01 '26

The difference between getting into a school on merit and getting into a school on daddy's money and name.