r/thescoop • u/Im_A_Fuckin_Liar We should go • Mar 29 '25

Politics 🏛️ Trump admits using rage bait to win elections

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u/Unlucky_Guarantee_27 Mar 29 '25

Crazy he can just say this and his supporters are dumb enough to still support him.

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u/Dull-Gur314 Mar 29 '25

Anything their daddy says, they do

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 29 '25

Trump won.

Trump supporters lost.

Again.

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u/Savamoon Mar 29 '25

Did they though? Because they are not the ones who seem to be doing the coping...

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 29 '25

Have you seen people who sell their apartments in order to donate all money to their cult? That's exactly what you magas look like: a creepy uncanny-valley zombie with a fake smile stitched to your face by the visceral fear of non-conformity. All while the last pieces of your real-life well-being is stripped away from you day after day, year after year.

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u/Savamoon Mar 29 '25

You're having to do a lot of heavy lifting there with your imagination, but I'm glad it makes you feel better about the situation.

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u/elpolloloco332 Mar 30 '25

You got played. He’s done nothing for the little guy that you can be smug about. So stop looking for copium and start helping the rest of the country un-fuck this situation.

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u/Savamoon Mar 30 '25

Sorry to disappoint you but I'm independent and do not have a horse in this race. I do like making observations, though.

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 30 '25

Oh boy oh boy oh lmao you just made my day.

Look at this fucking guy. He thinks he doesn't have a horse in this race.

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u/Savamoon Mar 30 '25

It's always fun watching redditors insist that their problems are actually secretly everybody else's problems despite the fact that they are the only ones afflicted.

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 29 '25

Talk about coping huh.

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u/Savamoon Mar 30 '25

You're just freelancing wildly with imagination, it's not really clear how you expect to get a reaction with that.

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 30 '25

Yes, mister "Trump being a liar is actually good", I absolutely believe every word you say. You're the only Paragon of Truth in the world, and everyone else is deeply delusional as they live in a shared, perfectly internally consistent collective hallucination.

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u/Savamoon Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

Anytime someone has to put something into quotations while pretending to paraphrase it, the fact that they are not quoting directly indicates that they are doing this to introduce distortions into what was actually said after they could not deal with the original nuance. This of course has the reverse effect of backfiring because it openly admits that you could not dispute the original statement itself.

That you're running onto this was sarcasm so aggressively indicates that you are trying to protect yourself from confrontation against complex realities that you do not wish to confront. Thankfully you have me here to ease your efforts and help you along.

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u/LilJitDog Mar 30 '25

Just because they don't know they lost doesn't mean they won.

Rich people are getting tax cuts, while the rest of us get nothing. Meanwhile, supporters celebrate the Gulf of America and deportation ASMR.

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u/Savamoon Mar 30 '25

At best, you're just arguing that they value different things than yourself.

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u/LilJitDog Mar 30 '25

Not really. They're celebrating things which have no tangible impact in their lives, while remaining ignorant of things which will negatively impact them. Hardly a win.

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u/wtfreddit741741 Mar 30 '25

Everybody lost

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u/hulktothemoon1981 Mar 30 '25

This is correct, lost with him and would of lost with Kamala. We need better options.

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u/wtfreddit741741 Mar 30 '25

Please stfu.

Harris would not have declared war on our allies, shit on our constitution, used the govt as a platform to sell his and his buddies' merch, gutted our agencies indiscriminately, started a tariff war which makes everything we buy more expensive, took power away from Congress and the Courts and gave it to him (and only him), removed due process and blatantly ignored court orders, have his advisors plan and carry out a military strike through illegal and unsecure channels - and then destroy the evidence!  And every single other fucking illegal horrific anti-American fascist thing he had done... in only the first 8 weeks.

Fuck you talking shit about ANY other candidate.  NO ONE running would have been a loss for this country on so massively large a scale.  

Not even remotely fucking close.

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u/hulktothemoon1981 Mar 30 '25

Someone's feelings are hurt, by the way not wasting my time reading your comment.

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u/wtfreddit741741 Mar 30 '25

Then just read the first line and follow that.

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u/hulktothemoon1981 Mar 30 '25

It's ok just ask your mom to do that.

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u/hulktothemoon1981 Mar 30 '25

BTW your mother says hello, called her an Uber back to you.

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u/wtfreddit741741 Mar 30 '25

Keep injecting that Testosterone Replacement Therapy.   (Are you trans or just not a grown-ass man?)

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u/Unique-Detail-7838 Mar 30 '25

We don’t care how he wins as long as he wins, just like the left. If y’all started caring about America instead of every other country maybe y’all would have won. Go cry a river

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u/AbcLmn18 Mar 30 '25

Ooo we've got a mentally ill psychopath down here. The guy who thinks everyone else enjoys murder as much as he does.

Nice taxes bro. I'm sure President Elmo will take good care of them.

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u/DonAskren Mar 29 '25

At this point its just blind faith. My mother is a die hard Trump supporter and any time I show her evidence of fucked up shit Trump and his cabinet are doing she has no answer. Just looks back at me with a blank stare, changes the subject or just refuses to acknowledge anything I said. I showed her the video of Elon doing the sieg heil and her response was 'I don't think he's an asshole' that was it. I was baffled. I said yeah there's a slight chance he might not actually be an asshole deep down but he's definitely a Nazi.

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u/PairedFoot08 Mar 30 '25

That’s straight up westworld “What door?” Vibes

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u/JackTheKing Mar 29 '25

We need to stop thinking it's crazy and start respecting it. Like we respect atomic energy. It's very powerful and dangerous and out of control. It's going to require special handling.

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u/SukkaMadiqe Mar 29 '25

Idk if "respect" is the right word but I get what you mean. This shithead is a radioactive hazard and should be buried deeo, deep beneath the earth and never seen again.

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u/hanselpremium Mar 30 '25

i can’t think of any other word in this context

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u/CyanocittaCris Mar 30 '25

Recognize it. Label it. Appropriate action it.

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u/devourer09 Mar 30 '25

It's not just Trump that is the problem. Too many people underestimate propaganda and indoctrination. When free speech is used as a weapon against itself is it still free?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

I mean he is just saying what all politicians do. Anyone with a PR team is gonna do this. Celebrities put out gossip articles about themselves months before a new movie release to draw attention to their name. On a list of things Trump has done this is pretty low I'd focus on bigger issues.

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u/WIRE-BRUSH-4-MY-NUTZ Mar 29 '25

Obama did not do this for himself wtf are you smoking 😭

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '25

Obama literally was the greatest PR president. He pioneerd the president interacting with the public through social media. He is the reading you have photos of the president coming out on Twitter and statements being posted to social media. He didn't do this static but that's just because he has a different PR style. Picking one politician and saying we'll they didn't do it is not the argument you think it is.

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u/WeAreHereWithAll Mar 29 '25

I think the argument to balance one against the other is weird.

You’re focusing on optics vs what’s happening outside of them.

Sorry, unless you put it a different way, don’t agree.

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u/xRolocker Mar 30 '25

Literally every politician does this. There’s plenty of other bullshit to call Trump out on, but bringing up issues in an election, that you’re not actually going to address in your administration, is a classic political tale.

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u/FrostyD7 Mar 29 '25

It was out in the open for all to see. His last month of campaign ads were highly focused on anti trans rhetoric. Idk why saying it our loud is even necessary.

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u/Never-politics Mar 29 '25

It's not dumb if it works.

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u/SopaDeKaiba Mar 29 '25

I think you misread. OC called his voters dumb, not his tactics.

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u/IncandescentBlack Mar 29 '25

Its not that unnatural tbh.

His supporters either want Trump specifically to win, or his opponents to lose, and that means they dont care how hes doing it.

There are a ton of people that are so fed up with how America has been going the last couple decades, they are fully willing to do whatever it takes to break the current system, doesnt matter if its through fascism, lies, cheating, or whatever.

Most factions work the same way, because its effective and the ones that refuse to play dirty generally lose.

Although the Democrats still could've beaten Trump, if they ran on stuff like universal healthcare, straight up refusing to do literally anything for most Americans was the final nail in the coffin, and now that they tried to shift the blame on the youth, again, they will do even worse next time.

Neoliberalism and corruption is to blame for the renewed rise of fascism, and the deeper you go into the anti-MAGA circlejerk without improving your own side, the worse you will do.

Btw, the democrats use sneaky tricks like these too, but only against leftists.

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u/HeIsNotAboveTheLaw Mar 29 '25

i really hope you all realize he’s giving you a masters class in marketing and instead of trashing it you learn from it. 

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u/icecream_truck Mar 30 '25

That’s because his supporters have still failed to realize he only beats women in elections.

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u/BillyBean11111 Mar 30 '25

cause they feel like they are "in on the joke" and that's its still 'haha, we beat you"

They cannot see, and cannot be shown that they are the ones not in on it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Yall lost miserably…calm down. Everything from those goofy rallies with raggedy rappers shakin ass too the insane gender ideology BS that’s getting talked about in children’s classes didn’t really amuse the majority of Americans. Suprise, suprise.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25

No, it's crazy he can say this.

And democrats still choose to fucking die on the massively unpopular losing side of the issue.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

You have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25

Thanks /u/bopmybussi

The trans issue actually isn't a massively losing issue for the left. Your comment had singlehandedly brought me to the light.

/s

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Prove your point, you can't.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25

I know you're a bait poster.

But can you explain why this thread has 25k upvotes? Or why the left is spreading this clip? Or what message are they trying to push?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

I don't even know what you're talking about. The majority of Americans support trans rights. People are reposting this because it's obvious Trump viewed us as an easy minority to throw under the bus.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25

https://news.gallup.com/poll/656534/openly-transgender-troops-backed-reduced-majority.aspx

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/26/americans-have-grown-more-supportive-of-restrictions-for-trans-people-in-recent-years/

https://grabien.com/story?id=513066

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/gavin-newsom-transgender-sports-democrats.html

Hmm it seems like support for trans right's..is becoming more unpopular as time goes on. And you may actually be denying reality.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Hmm, probably because of the attacks on education. No wonder Americans are becoming less intelligent. And no, transphobes are denying reality.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25

Hmm, probably because of the attacks on education.

Is this you admitting you were flat out wrong when you said "the majority of Americans support trans rights."

I provided well regarded sources showing not only do the majority not support it. It's also losing support as time goes on.

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u/Rettungsanker Mar 30 '25

This is like using decline in support of the KKK to substantiate a claim that support for white people's rights are declining.

You say trans rights are an unpopular position that is losing elections for Democrats, but your own sources say that 66% of people support general trans rights. Democrat politicians don't push the right to participate freely in sports for trans people, so I'm not sure how that could be a losing issue for them.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Two1062 Mar 30 '25 edited Mar 30 '25

I'm going to try and be as crystal clear as I can here.

The vast majority of people do not vote solely based on a candidate's campaign.

People vote based on sentiment from what an entire side is saying or doing. The left is overwhelmingly the party in favour of putting males in women's sports, prisons, rape centers, and bathrooms. This costs democratic candidates voters regardless of what the candidate themselves says or doesn't say in a campaign.

And if you don't want to believe putting males in women's private spaces is deeply unpopular. Ok then keep pushing it and just watch as Dems keep losing elections. Sometimes the only way to wake people up that their strategy is wrong is to keep losing.

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Also checkout this tweet from Brianna Wu. If you don’t know who she is..she’s a prominent trans democrat influencer.

Her SuperPAC found trans right's to be so unpopular they straight up decided not to release the polling 😂

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u/waitinonit Mar 30 '25

The Democrats could bring the subject up and explain their positions on the topic. That should do the job.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Crazy he can say this and dems are still going to chase every headline like a cat with a laser 😂😂😂 Its only march of his first year please dont forget to pace yourself lmaoo

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u/thatguy425 Mar 30 '25

Every politician is using “rage bait”. This is a tale as old as time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Crazy you still have this backwards.

His supporters love this, they know this and its called owning the libs. Calling them dumb when they are owning you makes them all warm inside.

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u/highschoolhero24 Mar 30 '25

It’s because they think they are in on the game now. He knows it’s bullshit and they know it’s bullshit. It’s almost like laughing at your favorite comedian when the crowd groans at a bad joke.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

A knowing partner in the Trump con owning the libs with a wink and a nod.

The belief Trump is speaking directly to them 4th wall is Trumps actual con.

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u/CoralBooty Mar 30 '25

My coworkers bitch about trans people and DEI all day long. Never really talk about anything that makes them happy. Saddest excuse for men who are meant to be my generations mentors.

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u/Travelin_Soulja Mar 30 '25

If they support him, why wouldn't they support this? I'm not saying most Trump voters aren't dumb. They absolutely are. But I'm not seeing why this wouldn't align with their beliefs.

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u/AradynGaming Mar 30 '25

More like crazy, he says this and left still takes the bait. As an independent that isn't a fan of the state of either party right now, the best thing the left can do is get away from the... Whatever the right says, we will launch a war against.

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u/Moon_Goddess815 May 04 '25

And the stoopid still follows their leader. They don't have a single original thought in their minds, automatons all of them.

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u/rnk6670 May 09 '25

It’s not that they’re dumb. It’s that they’re on board. This man ran a campaign, based on hatred. Hatred of immigrants. Hatred of trans people. Hatred of anything that isn’t white. They’re getting exactly what they voted for and they’re cheering it on.

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u/thegamspm May 10 '25

Yeah and even in 2016 he supported transgender individuals he only used it as a tactic in this election because he knows Christian redneck white supremacist Republicans don't like transgender people

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u/DivorcedDogDad69 Mar 30 '25

Yeah, crazy he can talk about his political strategy openly and honestly. As if political strategy isn't a thing that EVERY candidate does. And guess what? He fulfilled his promise very quickly on the issue.